Ronald Pickup: movies and TV shows
Ronald Pickup has 154 credits in the archive: 85 films and 69 TV series, from 1951 to 2025. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1951 – 2025 · busiest year: 2004 (9 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Schadenfreude | The Gambler | Film | — | 85 |
| 2021 | End of Term | Damian Self | Film | — | 81 |
| 2018 | The Happy Prince | Judge | Film | 6.2 | 78 |
| 2017 | Darkest Hour | Neville Chamberlain | Film | 7.4 | 77 |
| 2017 | The Time of Their Lives | Frank | Film | 5.0 | 77 |
| 2017 | Stealing Silver | Udo | Film | 7.2 | 77 |
| 2016 | The Crown | Archbishop of Canterbury | TV | 8.2 | 76 |
| 2016 | The Have-Nots | Bentham | Film | 5.1 | 76 |
| 2015 | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Norman Cousins | Film | 6.4 | 75 |
| 2014 | A Little Place Off the Edgware Road | Bearded Man | Film | — | 74 |
| 2013 | Atlantis | Orpheus | TV | 6.4 | 73 |
| 2012 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Norman Cousins | Film | 7.0 | 72 |
| 2012 | Pramface | TV | 6.9 | 72 | |
| 2011 | Vera | Mr. Kipford | TV | 7.4 | 71 |
| 2010 | Downton Abbey | Sir Michael Reresby | TV | 8.1 | 70 |
| 2010 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | King Sharaman | Film | 6.3 | 70 |
| 2009 | Theatreland | Self | Film | — | 69 |
| 2008 | Lark Rise to Candleford | TV | 8.4 | 68 | |
| 2008 | Dark Floors | Tobias | Film | 4.9 | 68 |
| 2007 | Lewis | Fr Moreno Mancini | TV | 7.6 | 67 |
| 2007 | The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey | William McDowell | Film | 5.8 | 67 |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby | Cecil Johnson | Film | 5.6 | 65 |
| 2005 | A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper | Monsieur Moitessier | Film | 5.8 | 65 |
| 2005 | Cherished | Professor Sir Roy Meadow | Film | 8.0 | 65 |
| 2005 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish | Monsieur Moitessier | Film | 5.0 | 65 |
| 2005 | Supernova | Dr. Malcolm Handey | Film | 4.3 | 65 |
| 2004 | New Tricks | Sir Wilfred Felspar | TV | 7.3 | 64 |
| 2004 | Hustle | Harry Holmes | TV | 7.7 | 64 |
| 2004 | Sea of Souls | Alex Galt | TV | 8.0 | 64 |
| 2004 | The Worst Week of My Life | Fraser Cook | TV | 8.2 | 64 |
| 2004 | Evilenko | Aron Richter | Film | 5.8 | 64 |
| 2004 | Feather Boy | Ernest Sorrel | TV | 8.0 | 64 |
| 2004 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea | Monsieur Moitessier (uncredited) | Film | 4.9 | 64 |
| 2004 | Benefit to Mankind | Professor Quentin Tapscott | Film | — | 64 |
| 2004 | Secret Passage | Da Monte | Film | 4.7 | 64 |
| 2003 | Cambridge Spies | Colonel Winter | TV | 6.4 | 63 |
| 2003 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story | Monsieur Moitessier | Film | 5.2 | 63 |
| 2002 | Foyle's War | Sir Giles Messinger | TV | 7.9 | 62 |
| 2002 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Sir Stuart Stinhurst | TV | 7.3 | 62 |
| 2002 | The Jury | Jeffrey Livingstone | TV | 7.3 | 62 |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | Charles Sutton | TV | 7.2 | 61 |
| 2001 | Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes | Sir John Starr | TV | 7.9 | 61 |
| 2000 | Breathtaking | Dr. Maclaren | Film | 3.6 | 60 |
| 1999 | Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil | Don Massaredo | Film | 7.2 | 59 |
| 1998 | Hornblower | Don Massaredo | TV | 7.8 | 58 |
| 1998 | The Untitled | Robert Kennings | Film | — | 58 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Rupert Smythe-Webster | TV | 7.5 | 57 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Ernest Balliol | TV | 7.5 | 57 |
| 1997 | Lolita | Young Humbert's Father | Film | 7.1 | 57 |
| 1997 | Ivanhoe | Waldemar Fitzurse | TV | 7.1 | 57 |
| 1997 | Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis | Percy Stone | Film | 4.6 | 57 |
| 1996 | Silent Witness | TV | 7.6 | 56 | |
| 1996 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Walter Wulfstan | TV | 6.4 | 56 |
| 1996 | Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Lester Rose | TV | 7.3 | 56 |
| 1996 | Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told | Narrator | Film | — | 56 |
| 1996 | Der Blinde | Dr. Bartnik | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1995 | A Very Open Prison | Brian Silcott | Film | 8.5 | 55 |
| 1995 | Black Hearts in Battersea | Duke Of Battersea | TV | — | 55 |
| 1995 | Henry IV | Henry IV | Film | 8.5 | 55 |
| 1994 | Scarlett | Whitlock | TV | 6.6 | 54 |
| 1994 | The Riff Raff Element | Roger Tundish | TV | 5.6 | 54 |
| 1994 | Milner | Jocelyn Fry | Film | 8.0 | 54 |
| 1994 | The Rector's Wife | Daniel Byrne | TV | 9.0 | 54 |
| 1994 | In The Cold Light Of Day | Morris | Film | — | 54 |
| 1994 | Message for Posterity | Richard Browning | Film | 8.0 | 54 |
| 1993 | Bethune: The Making of a Hero | Alan Coleman | Film | 5.2 | 53 |
| 1992 | A Time to Dance | Andrew Powell | TV | 3.8 | 52 |
| 1992 | My Friend Walter | Sir Walter Raleigh | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1992 | The Golden Years | Film | 10.0 | 52 | |
| 1991 | Performance | King Henry IV | TV | 6.3 | 51 |
| 1991 | Performance | Siegfried Shrager | TV | 6.3 | 51 |
| 1991 | Performance | Richard Browning | TV | 6.3 | 51 |
| 1991 | Absolute Hell | Siegfried Shrager | Film | 6.0 | 51 |
| 1991 | A Murder of Quality | Felix D'Arcy | Film | 5.6 | 51 |
| 1991 | The War That Never Ends | Diodotus | Film | 5.0 | 51 |
| 1991 | Journey of Honor | Capt. Crawford | Film | 5.1 | 51 |
| 1990 | El C.I.D. | Jack | TV | 10.0 | 50 |
| 1990 | Jekyll & Hyde | Jeffrey Utterson, Esquire | Film | 5.9 | 50 |
| 1990 | Not with a Bang | Brian Appleyard | TV | 6.0 | 50 |
| 1990 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair | Aslan (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 50 |
| 1989 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Aslan (voice) | Film | 6.1 | 49 |
| 1989 | Danny the Champion of the World | Captain Lancaster | Film | 6.2 | 49 |
| 1989 | A Dry White Season | Louw | Film | 6.7 | 49 |
| 1989 | Behaving Badly | TV | 4.3 | 49 | |
| 1988 | The Chronicles of Narnia | Aslan (voice) | TV | 7.5 | 48 |
| 1988 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Barrymore | Film | 7.3 | 48 |
| 1988 | Chekhov in Yalta | Konstantin Stanislavski | Film | — | 48 |
| 1988 | Testimony | Marshall Tukhachevsky | Film | 5.6 | 48 |
| 1988 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe | Aslan (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 48 |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | Ian Matthews | TV | 7.9 | 47 |
| 1987 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Chief Inspector Moore | TV | 6.6 | 47 |
| 1987 | Fortunes of War | Prince Yakimov | TV | 6.3 | 47 |
| 1987 | The Fourth Protocol | Wynne-Evans | Film | 6.3 | 47 |
| 1986 | Casualty | Martin / Reginald Freeborn | TV | 6.2 | 46 |
| 1986 | Matlock | Sir Alec Moore | TV | 7.1 | 46 |
| 1986 | Lovejoy | Edwin Felt | TV | 7.4 | 46 |
| 1986 | Unnatural Causes | James Tripp | TV | 6.3 | 46 |
| 1986 | The Mission | Hontar | Film | 7.4 | 46 |
| 1986 | Ladies' Night | James Tripp | Film | — | 46 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Brian Silcott | TV | 7.1 | 45 |
| 1985 | Eleni | Spiro | Film | 5.8 | 45 |
| 1985 | Moving | TV | 8.5 | 45 | |
| 1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Barrymore | TV | 8.2 | 44 |
| 1984 | Sharing Time | Philip | TV | — | 44 |
| 1984 | Albert Einstein | Albert Einstein | TV | — | 44 |
| 1984 | Pope John Paul II | Jan Tyranowski | Film | 7.5 | 44 |
| 1984 | Camille | Jean | Film | 5.5 | 44 |
| 1984 | Puccini | Giulio Ricordi | Film | 3.7 | 44 |
| 1983 | Never Say Never Again | Elliott | Film | 6.1 | 43 |
| 1983 | Waters of the Moon | Julius Winterhalter | Film | — | 43 |
| 1983 | The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura | George Orwell | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1982 | Ivanhoe | Prince John | Film | 6.4 | 42 |
| 1982 | Verdi | Giuseppe Verdi | TV | 5.0 | 42 |
| 1982 | The Letter | Howard Joyce | Film | 4.7 | 42 |
| 1982 | Verdi | Giuseppe Verdi | Film | 10.0 | 42 |
| 1981 | Bergerac | Sir Antony Villiers | TV | 6.7 | 41 |
| 1980 | Nijinsky | Igor Stravinsky | Film | 4.9 | 40 |
| 1979 | Zulu Dawn | Lt. Harford | Film | 6.1 | 39 |
| 1979 | Henry VIII | Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury | Film | 6.6 | 39 |
| 1979 | In England's Green and Pleasant Land | Norman Reynolds | Film | — | 39 |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury | TV | 6.0 | 38 |
| 1978 | The Thirty Nine Steps | Bayliss | Film | 6.8 | 38 |
| 1978 | For Tea on Sunday | Ian | Film | — | 38 |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Ian | TV | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Norman Reynolds | TV | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1977 | Romance | Rory Balneath | TV | — | 37 |
| 1977 | Joseph Andrews | Mr. Wilson | Film | 5.2 | 37 |
| 1977 | ...but the clouds... | Film | 9.0 | 37 | |
| 1977 | Ghost Trio | Film | — | 37 | |
| 1976 | The Lively Arts | Self | TV | — | 36 |
| 1975 | King Lear | Edgar | Film | 10.0 | 35 |
| 1975 | The Fight Against Slavery | William Pitt | TV | 9.0 | 35 |
| 1975 | The Philanthropist | Philip | Film | 8.0 | 35 |
| 1974 | Father Brown | Kalon | TV | 6.8 | 34 |
| 1974 | Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | Randolph Churchill | TV | 7.3 | 34 |
| 1974 | Mahler | Nick | Film | 6.8 | 34 |
| 1974 | Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | Lord Randolph Churchill | Film | 8.0 | 34 |
| 1974 | All Good Men | Film | — | 34 | |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | The Forger | Film | 7.5 | 33 |
| 1973 | The Dragon's Opponent | Charles "Mad Jack" Howard | TV | — | 33 |
| 1973 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Edmund Tyrone | Film | 7.0 | 33 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Richard Massingham | TV | 6.6 | 30 |
| 1970 | Three Sisters | Baron Tusenbach | Film | 4.3 | 30 |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre | Edmund Tyrone | TV | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse | Graham | TV | 7.0 | 27 |
| 1967 | Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | Film | — | 27 |
| 1967 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don Pedro | Film | 6.3 | 27 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Mercutio | TV | 5.3 | 25 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Ariel | TV | 5.3 | 25 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Brother Martin Ladvenu | TV | 5.3 | 25 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Edgar | TV | 5.3 | 25 |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror | Physician | Film | 6.3 | 24 |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | Physician | TV | 7.9 | 23 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Jean | TV | 8.8 | 11 |