Mark Gatiss: movies and TV shows
Mark Gatiss has 238 credits in the archive: 151 films and 87 TV series, from 1971 to 2025. Highest rated: Game of Thrones (8.5/10).
Career timeline
1971 – 2025 · busiest year: 2005 (18 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning | Angstrom | Film | 7.2 | 58 |
| 2025 | The Fantastic 4: First Steps | Ted Gilbert | Film | 6.9 | 58 |
| 2025 | Bookish | Gabriel Book | TV | 6.2 | 58 |
| 2025 | Bookish | TV | 6.2 | 58 | |
| 2025 | Bookish | TV | 6.2 | 58 | |
| 2025 | Being Stanley Baxter | Self | Film | — | 58 |
| 2025 | Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere | Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 58 |
| 2025 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower | Film | 7.5 | 58 | |
| 2025 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower | Film | 7.5 | 58 | |
| 2024 | 3 Body Problem | Isaac Newton | TV | 7.5 | 57 |
| 2024 | Time Bandits | Earl of Sandwich | TV | 6.2 | 57 |
| 2024 | Time Bandits | Earl of Sandwich (voice) | TV | 6.2 | 57 |
| 2024 | Moonflower Murders | Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin | TV | 7.4 | 57 |
| 2024 | A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone | Film | — | 57 | |
| 2024 | A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone | Film | — | 57 | |
| 2024 | Inside No. 9: The Party's Over | Self | Film | 6.2 | 57 |
| 2024 | National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue | Sir John Gielgud | Film | 7.5 | 57 |
| 2023 | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | NSA | Film | 7.5 | 56 |
| 2023 | Juice | George | TV | 6.4 | 56 |
| 2023 | Nolly | Larry Grayson | TV | 6.3 | 56 |
| 2023 | Hammer A.D. 2023 | Self | Film | 7.5 | 56 |
| 2023 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 | Film | 5.9 | 56 | |
| 2023 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 | Film | 5.9 | 56 | |
| 2023 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sherlock Holmes | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 2022 | Operation Mincemeat | Ivor Montazac | Film | 6.5 | 55 |
| 2022 | Inside Classical | Sherlock Holmes | TV | — | 55 |
| 2022 | The Road Dance | Doctor MacLean | Film | 6.7 | 55 |
| 2022 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus | Film | 5.2 | 55 | |
| 2022 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus | Film | 5.2 | 55 | |
| 2022 | A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story | Jacob Marley | Film | 8.7 | 55 |
| 2022 | A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story | Film | 8.7 | 55 | |
| 2022 | Peter Davison: Uncut! | Self | Film | — | 55 |
| 2021 | The Sparks Brothers | Self | Film | 7.4 | 54 |
| 2021 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden | Mr. Wickens | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 2021 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden | Film | 6.3 | 54 | |
| 2021 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden | Film | 6.3 | 54 | |
| 2021 | Locked Down | Donald | Film | 5.2 | 54 |
| 2021 | A Silent Imprisonment | Mr Murphy | Film | — | 54 |
| 2021 | Memento Mori | Henry Huxley | Film | — | 54 |
| 2021 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint | Film | 6.9 | 54 | |
| 2021 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint | Film | 6.9 | 54 | |
| 2020 | Dracula | Frank Renfield | TV | 7.0 | 53 |
| 2020 | Dracula | TV | 7.0 | 53 | |
| 2020 | Dracula | TV | 7.0 | 53 | |
| 2020 | Dracula | TV | 7.0 | 53 | |
| 2020 | The Father | The Man | Film | 8.1 | 53 |
| 2020 | Tales of the Uncanny | Self | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 2020 | In Search of Dracula | Himself - Presenter | Film | 8.4 | 53 |
| 2020 | Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World | Self | Film | — | 53 |
| 2020 | Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley | Self | Film | — | 53 |
| 2019 | Good Omens | Mr. Harmony | TV | 8.0 | 52 |
| 2019 | Brexit: The Uncivil War | Peter Mandelson (voice) | Film | 6.6 | 52 |
| 2019 | Martin's Close | Film | 5.6 | 52 | |
| 2019 | Martin's Close | Film | 5.6 | 52 | |
| 2019 | Martin's Close | Film | 5.6 | 52 | |
| 2019 | Doctor Who and the Third Man | Himself | Film | — | 52 |
| 2018 | The Favourite | Lord Marlborough | Film | 7.5 | 51 |
| 2018 | Christopher Robin | Giles Winslow | Film | 7.3 | 51 |
| 2018 | Sally4Ever | Doctor | TV | 4.8 | 51 |
| 2018 | The Mercy | Ronald Hall | Film | 5.9 | 51 |
| 2018 | The Dead Room | Radio Announcer (voice) | Film | 5.7 | 51 |
| 2018 | The Dead Room | Film | 5.7 | 51 | |
| 2018 | The Dead Room | Film | 5.7 | 51 | |
| 2018 | The Dead Room | Film | 5.7 | 51 | |
| 2018 | National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III | George III | Film | 6.3 | 51 |
| 2018 | Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art | Himself - Presenter | Film | — | 51 |
| 2017 | Taboo | Prince Regent | TV | 7.9 | 50 |
| 2017 | Gunpowder | Sir Robert Cecil | TV | 6.8 | 50 |
| 2017 | Queers. | TV | 5.6 | 50 | |
| 2017 | Queers. | TV | 5.6 | 50 | |
| 2017 | Queers. | TV | 5.6 | 50 | |
| 2017 | Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time | The Captain | Film | 8.0 | 50 |
| 2017 | Against the Law | Dr. Landers | Film | 6.8 | 50 |
| 2017 | Mars: a Traveller's Guide | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 50 |
| 2016 | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Mycroft Holmes | Film | 7.8 | 49 |
| 2016 | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Film | 7.8 | 49 | |
| 2016 | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Film | 7.8 | 49 | |
| 2016 | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Film | 7.8 | 49 | |
| 2016 | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Joel | Film | 5.3 | 49 |
| 2016 | Our Kind of Traitor | Billy Matlock | Film | 6.0 | 49 |
| 2016 | Denial | Professor Robert Jan van Pelt | Film | 6.8 | 49 |
| 2016 | Dad's Army | Colonel Theakes | Film | 5.0 | 49 |
| 2016 | Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock | Himself | Film | 7.3 | 49 |
| 2015 | Thunderbirds Are Go! | Dr. Quentin Questa (voice) | TV | 6.2 | 48 |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall | Stephen Gardiner | TV | 7.5 | 48 |
| 2015 | London Spy | Rich | TV | 7.0 | 48 |
| 2015 | Victor Frankenstein | Dettweiler | Film | 6.0 | 48 |
| 2015 | Doctor Who: The Fan Show | TV | — | 48 | |
| 2015 | The Vote | Steven Crosswell | Film | 8.4 | 48 |
| 2015 | Coalition | Peter Mandelson | Film | 7.0 | 48 |
| 2015 | Release the Hound! | Self | Film | — | 48 |
| 2015 | Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet | Himself | Film | 8.0 | 48 |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 | Callum | TV | 8.1 | 47 |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 | Self | TV | 8.1 | 47 |
| 2014 | Doctor Who Extra | Self | TV | — | 47 |
| 2014 | The Real History of Science Fiction | Himself - Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.0 | 47 |
| 2014 | Unlocking Sherlock | Himself / Mark Gatiss | Film | 7.9 | 47 |
| 2014 | Mapp and Lucia | Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint | TV | 6.3 | 47 |
| 2014 | 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy | Self | Film | 8.0 | 47 |
| 2014 | National Theatre Live: Coriolanus | Menenius Agrippa | Film | 8.1 | 47 |
| 2014 | How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective | Self | Film | — | 47 |
| 2013 | Psychobitches | Joan Crawford | TV | 6.8 | 46 |
| 2013 | An Adventure in Space and Time | Film | 7.7 | 46 | |
| 2013 | An Adventure in Space and Time | Film | 7.7 | 46 | |
| 2013 | The Tractate Middoth | Film | 7.1 | 46 | |
| 2013 | The Tractate Middoth | Film | 7.1 | 46 | |
| 2013 | Dr. Forever! | Himself | TV | 8.0 | 46 |
| 2013 | Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor | Self | Film | 5.0 | 46 |
| 2013 | Sherlock: Many Happy Returns | Film | 8.0 | 46 | |
| 2013 | M.R. James: Ghost Writer | Presenter | Film | 8.7 | 46 |
| 2013 | M.R. James: Ghost Writer | Film | 8.7 | 46 | |
| 2013 | The Celestial Toyroom | Film | — | 46 | |
| 2012 | Playhouse Presents | Joan Crawford | TV | 6.0 | 45 |
| 2012 | The Real Sherlock Holmes | Self | Film | 4.0 | 45 |
| 2012 | Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss | Self - Host | Film | 7.4 | 45 |
| 2012 | Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss | Film | 7.4 | 45 | |
| 2012 | Doctor Who: The Great Detective | Narrator | Film | 7.8 | 45 |
| 2012 | Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness | Self - Actor and Writer | Film | 8.0 | 45 |
| 2011 | Game of Thrones | Tycho Nestoris | TV | 8.5 | 44 |
| 2011 | The Crimson Petal and the White | Henry Rackham Junior | TV | 7.0 | 44 |
| 2011 | Cleaning Up | Mr Jackson | Film | 9.0 | 44 |
| 2010 | Sherlock | Mycroft Holmes | TV | 8.5 | 43 |
| 2010 | Sherlock | TV | 8.5 | 43 | |
| 2010 | Sherlock | TV | 8.5 | 43 | |
| 2010 | Sherlock | TV | 8.5 | 43 | |
| 2010 | Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge | TV | 7.3 | 43 | |
| 2010 | A History of Horror | Self - Presenter | TV | 7.1 | 43 |
| 2010 | A History of Horror | TV | 7.1 | 43 | |
| 2010 | Worried About the Boy | Malcolm McLaren | Film | 6.3 | 43 |
| 2010 | The First Men in the Moon | Cavor | Film | 5.9 | 43 |
| 2010 | The First Men in the Moon | Film | 5.9 | 43 | |
| 2010 | Unlocking Sherlock | Himself | Film | 6.5 | 43 |
| 2009 | Horrible Histories | TV | 8.0 | 42 | |
| 2009 | Being Human | Mr. Snow | TV | 7.1 | 42 |
| 2009 | Doctor Who Greatest Moments | Self | TV | 7.0 | 42 |
| 2009 | Ghosts in the Machine | Himself | Film | — | 42 |
| 2009 | Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen | Ernest Dunks | Film | 7.3 | 42 |
| 2009 | New Town | Duff Purves | Film | — | 42 |
| 2008 | Sense and Sensibility | John Dashwood | TV | 7.5 | 41 |
| 2008 | Crooked House | The Curator | TV | 6.8 | 41 |
| 2008 | Crooked House | TV | 6.8 | 41 | |
| 2008 | Crooked House | TV | 6.8 | 41 | |
| 2008 | Crooked House | TV | 6.8 | 41 | |
| 2008 | Clone | Colonel Black | TV | 6.5 | 41 |
| 2007 | Grindhouse | (segment "Don't") (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 2007 | Jekyll | Robert Louis Stevenson | TV | 7.5 | 40 |
| 2007 | British Film Forever | TV | 5.5 | 40 | |
| 2007 | Derren Brown: Trick or Treat | Himself | TV | 8.1 | 40 |
| 2007 | A New Body at Last | Film | — | 40 | |
| 2007 | Consenting Adults | PC Butcher | Film | 5.0 | 40 |
| 2007 | The Worst Journey in the World | Apsley Cherry-Garrard | Film | 6.5 | 40 |
| 2007 | The Worst Journey in the World | Film | 6.5 | 40 | |
| 2007 | The Worst Journey in the World | Film | 6.5 | 40 | |
| 2006 | Starter for 10 | Bamber Gascoigne | Film | 6.4 | 39 |
| 2006 | The Wind in the Willows | Rat | Film | 5.8 | 39 |
| 2006 | Fear of Fanny | Johnnie Cradock | Film | 7.1 | 39 |
| 2006 | The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You | Hilary Briss / Mickey Michaels / Val Denton / Les McQueen / Lance Longthorne / Alvin Steele / Phil Proctor / Mrs Beasley / Mick McNamara / Neds / Lotte Lipp / Brian Morgan / Dr Chinnery / Iris Krell / Bobbin | Film | 7.6 | 39 |
| 2006 | The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You | Film | 7.6 | 39 | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | Gantok | TV | 7.6 | 38 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | Richard Lazarus | TV | 7.6 | 38 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | TV | 7.6 | 38 | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who Confidential | TV | 8.1 | 38 | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who Confidential | Narrator | TV | 8.1 | 38 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who Confidential | Self | TV | 8.1 | 38 |
| 2005 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Miss Blight (voice) | Film | 7.1 | 38 |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Additional Vogon Voices | Film | 6.7 | 38 |
| 2005 | Match Point | Ping-Pong Player | Film | 7.4 | 38 |
| 2005 | Funland | Ambrose Chapfel | TV | 6.3 | 38 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who: A New Dimension | Self | Film | 9.0 | 38 |
| 2005 | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | Various Characters | Film | 6.2 | 38 |
| 2005 | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | Film | 6.2 | 38 | |
| 2005 | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | Film | 6.2 | 38 | |
| 2005 | The Quatermass Experiment | John Paterson | Film | 5.6 | 38 |
| 2005 | Return of the Goodies | Himself | Film | 6.9 | 38 |
| 2005 | Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' | Self - The League of Gentlemen | Film | — | 38 |
| 2005 | Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment' | Film | 7.0 | 38 | |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Ronald Hawes | TV | 7.8 | 37 |
| 2004 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | TV | 7.0 | 37 |
| 2004 | Shaun of the Dead | Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 7.5 | 37 |
| 2004 | Nighty Night | Glenn Bulb | TV | 7.7 | 37 |
| 2004 | Spaced: Skip to the End | Self | Film | 6.3 | 37 |
| 2004 | Sex Lives of the Potato Men | Jeremy | Film | 4.5 | 37 |
| 2004 | Catterick | Peter | TV | 7.2 | 37 |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures | Kenyon | Film | 8.0 | 37 |
| 2004 | Global Conspiracy? | Terry Scanlon | Film | 7.0 | 37 |
| 2004 | Global Conspiracy? | Film | 7.0 | 37 | |
| 2004 | Global Conspiracy? | Film | 7.0 | 37 | |
| 2003 | QI | Self | TV | 7.9 | 36 |
| 2003 | Little Britain | TV | 7.0 | 36 | |
| 2003 | Bright Young Things | House Agent | Film | 6.3 | 36 |
| 2003 | The Kneale Tapes | Self | Film | — | 36 |
| 2002 | Footballers' Wives | Teddy - Agent | TV | 5.3 | 35 |
| 2002 | Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe | Viking (voice) | Film | 5.4 | 35 |
| 2002 | Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali | Louis Aragon | Film | 5.8 | 35 |
| 2002 | Tales from Behind the Crypt | Self | Film | — | 35 |
| 2002 | The Cicerones | John Trant | Film | 5.8 | 35 |
| 2001 | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | Self | TV | 6.1 | 34 |
| 2001 | Dr Terrible's House of Horrible | Hang Man Chang | TV | 7.0 | 34 |
| 2001 | Birthday Girl | Porter | Film | 5.9 | 34 |
| 2001 | The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane | various | Film | 7.8 | 34 |
| 2001 | The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane | Film | 7.8 | 34 | |
| 2000 | Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | TV | 6.8 | 33 | |
| 2000 | Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | TV | 6.8 | 33 | |
| 1999 | Spaced | Agent | TV | 7.9 | 32 |
| 1999 | The League of Gentlemen | Various | TV | 7.7 | 32 |
| 1999 | The League of Gentlemen | TV | 7.7 | 32 | |
| 1999 | The League of Gentlemen | TV | 7.7 | 32 | |
| 1999 | The Web of Caves | The Doctor | Film | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1999 | The Web of Caves | Film | 7.0 | 32 | |
| 1999 | The Pitch of Fear | Mr. Borusa | Film | 8.0 | 32 |
| 1999 | The Pitch of Fear | Film | 8.0 | 32 | |
| 1999 | The Kidnappers | Mark | Film | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1999 | The Kidnappers | Film | 7.0 | 32 | |
| 1998 | This Morning with Richard Not Judy | TV | 7.0 | 31 | |
| 1998 | In the Red | Junior Detective | TV | 6.1 | 31 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Rev Giles Shawcross | TV | 7.5 | 30 |
| 1997 | Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up | Film | — | 30 | |
| 1996 | PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne | Film | 5.9 | 29 | |
| 1996 | PROBE: Unnatural Selection | Mr. Emerson | Film | 7.4 | 29 |
| 1996 | PROBE: Unnatural Selection | Film | 7.4 | 29 | |
| 1996 | Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | Self - Interviewer | Film | 7.5 | 29 |
| 1995 | Highgate House of Horror | Mr Banham | Film | 8.0 | 28 |
| 1995 | Highgate House of Horror | Film | 8.0 | 28 | |
| 1995 | PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne | Georgie | Film | 8.4 | 28 |
| 1995 | PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne | Film | 8.4 | 28 | |
| 1995 | Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen | Film | 7.0 | 28 | |
| 1994 | PROBE: The Zero Imperative | Dr. William Bruffin | Film | 7.2 | 27 |
| 1994 | PROBE: The Zero Imperative | Film | 7.2 | 27 | |
| 1994 | The Dwelling Place | Bowmer | TV | 7.0 | 27 |
| 1993 | Harry | Diner Manager | TV | 5.3 | 26 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Leonard Boynton | TV | 8.2 | 22 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | TV | 8.2 | 22 | |
| 1971 | A Ghost Story for Christmas | Radio Presenter (Voice) | TV | 7.4 | 4 |
| 1971 | A Ghost Story for Christmas | TV | 7.4 | 4 | |
| 1971 | A Ghost Story for Christmas | TV | 7.4 | 4 | |
| Bunker | Film | — | — | ||
| The Painting & The Statue | Old Lord/Butler 'Smith'/Dancing Man/Old Lord 'Johnny' | Film | — | — | |
| Doctor Who | TV | — | — |