Simon Russell Beale: movies and TV shows
Simon Russell Beale has 75 credits in the archive: 58 films and 17 TV series, from 1985 to 2026. Highest rated: De Gaulle: Liberté (9.0/10).
Career timeline
1985 – 2026 · busiest year: 2011 (7 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | De Gaulle: Résistance | Winston Churchill | Film | 7.9 | 65 |
| 2026 | De Gaulle: Liberté | Winston Churchill | Film | 9.0 | 65 |
| 2026 | The Magic Faraway Tree | Know All | Film | 6.2 | 65 |
| 2026 | Prima Facie | Film | — | 65 | |
| 2025 | The Choral | Sir Edward Elgar | Film | 6.4 | 64 |
| 2025 | Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale | Sir Hector Moreland | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 2024 | Mary & George | Sir George Villiers | TV | 7.1 | 63 |
| 2024 | Home! Home! | Narrator (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 63 |
| 2024 | Douglas Is Cancelled | Bently | TV | 7.2 | 63 |
| 2024 | Firebrand | Stephen Gardiner | Film | 6.3 | 63 |
| 2022 | House of the Dragon | Ser Simon Strong | TV | 8.4 | 61 |
| 2022 | Thor: Love and Thunder | Dionysus | Film | 6.4 | 61 |
| 2022 | The Outfit | Roy Boyle | Film | 7.1 | 61 |
| 2022 | Remembers… | Self | TV | 7.0 | 61 |
| 2022 | Operation Mincemeat | Winston Churchill | Film | 6.5 | 61 |
| 2021 | Benediction | Robbie Ross | Film | 6.2 | 60 |
| 2020 | Radioactive | Professor Lippmann | Film | 6.6 | 59 |
| 2020 | A Christmas Carol | Scrooge's voice (voice) | Film | 7.5 | 59 |
| 2020 | The Hour | Himself | Film | — | 59 |
| 2019 | National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy | Henry Lehman | Film | 8.2 | 58 |
| 2019 | National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second | Richard II | Film | 10.0 | 58 |
| 2018 | Mary Queen of Scots | Robert Beale | Film | 6.6 | 57 |
| 2018 | Operation Finale | David Ben-Gurion | Film | 6.7 | 57 |
| 2018 | Vanity Fair | John Sedley | TV | 7.2 | 57 |
| 2018 | Museo | Frank Graves | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 2017 | The Death of Stalin | Lavrenti Beria | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 2017 | My Cousin Rachel | Couch | Film | 5.7 | 56 |
| 2017 | RSC Live: The Tempest | Prospero | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 2016 | The Legend of Tarzan | Mr. Frum | Film | 5.9 | 55 |
| 2016 | Cunk on Shakespeare | Self - Actor | Film | 7.5 | 55 |
| 2016 | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Richard II | Film | 7.2 | 55 |
| 2015 | Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers | presenter | Film | — | 54 |
| 2014 | Penny Dreadful | Ferdinand Lyle | TV | 7.8 | 53 |
| 2014 | Into the Woods | Baker's Father | Film | 5.8 | 53 |
| 2014 | National Theatre Live: King Lear | Lear, King of Britain | Film | 7.1 | 53 |
| 2014 | The Mysterious Mr Webster | Self - Interviewee | Film | 6.0 | 53 |
| 2013 | Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii | Narrator | Film | — | 52 |
| 2013 | Muse of Fire | Self | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 2013 | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Hamlet | Film | 6.2 | 52 |
| 2013 | Legacy | Hookey | Film | 5.2 | 52 |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Falstaff | TV | 7.4 | 51 |
| 2012 | Shakespeare's Sonnets | Film | — | 51 | |
| 2012 | Simon Schama's Shakespeare | TV | 10.0 | 51 | |
| 2012 | National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens | Timon | Film | — | 51 |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Cotes-Preedy | Film | 6.7 | 50 |
| 2011 | The Deep Blue Sea | Sir William Collyer | Film | 5.9 | 50 |
| 2011 | Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The Duchess / Introduced by | Film | 7.7 | 50 |
| 2011 | Symphony | TV | 8.0 | 50 | |
| 2011 | National Theatre Live: Collaborators | Joseph Stalin | Film | — | 50 |
| 2011 | A Musical Nativity with John Rutter | Film | — | 50 | |
| 2011 | Sacred Music: God's Composer | Presenter | Film | — | 50 |
| 2010 | BBC Proms: Sondheim's 80th Birthday | Himself - Performer | Film | 10.0 | 49 |
| 2010 | National Theatre Live: London Assurance | Sir Harcourt Courtly | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 2010 | Sacred Music: A Christmas History | Presenter | Film | — | 49 |
| 2008 | An Easter Celebration | presenter | Film | — | 47 |
| 2008 | Sacred Music | Presenter | TV | — | 47 |
| 2006 | Deep Water | Donald Crowhurst (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 45 |
| 2004 | Dunkirk | Winston Churchill | TV | 6.4 | 43 |
| 2003 | The Young Visiters | Prince of Wales | Film | 5.3 | 42 |
| 2003 | The Gathering | Luke Fraser | Film | 5.6 | 42 |
| 2002 | Spooks | William Towers | TV | 7.7 | 41 |
| 2002 | Spooks | Home Secretary | TV | 7.7 | 41 |
| 1999 | Blackadder: Back & Forth | Wellington | Film | 7.0 | 38 |
| 1999 | Alice in Wonderland | King Cedric of Hearts | Film | 6.2 | 38 |
| 1999 | An Ideal Husband | Sir Edward | Film | 6.5 | 38 |
| 1997 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Widmerpool | TV | 5.7 | 36 |
| 1997 | The Temptation of Franz Schubert | Franz Schubert | Film | 9.0 | 36 |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Second Gravedigger | Film | 7.3 | 35 |
| 1995 | Persuasion | Charles Musgrove | Film | 7.2 | 34 |
| 1993 | The Mushroom Picker | Anthony | TV | 4.0 | 32 |
| 1992 | Orlando | Earl of Moray | Film | 6.9 | 31 |
| 1988 | American Experience | John Adams (voice) | TV | 6.5 | 27 |
| 1986 | A Very Peculiar Practice | Mark Stibbs | TV | 8.2 | 25 |
| 1985 | Time and the Conways | Party Guest | Film | 8.0 | 24 |
| This Is Your Five Minute Call | Malcolm | Film | — | — |