YEAR
TITLE
PART
OTHER CAST MEMBERS
1987
The Fortunes of War
(episodes 5,7)
Miss Marple
Sleeping Murder
Leverage
Mr Galbraith
Kenneth Branagh
Emma Thompson
Joan Hickson
1985
Blott On The Landscape
episodes 1,2,3
The Debt Collectors
Sir Francis Puckerington
Paul Hanson
David Suchet
George Cole
Not known
1984
The Invisible Man
Certain First Principles
King Lear
Blind Man
Old Man
Pip Donaghy, Donald Bisset
Laurence Olivier, Diana Rigg
Leo McKern, Robert Lindsay
1983
My Cousin Rachel
Sam Bates
Geraldine Chapman
1982
A Voyage Around My Father
I Remember Nelson
episode - Love
Fame Is The Spur
episode 1
Judge
Elderly Guest
Old Etchells
Laurence Olivier
Kenneth Colley, Geraldine James,
Anna Massey
Tim Pigott-Smith, Joanna David
1981
Troilus and Cressida
Anthony and Cleopatra
The Borgias
episode 8
Priam
Lepidus
Cardinal Gian
Battista Orsini
Charles Gray, Kenneth Haig
Jane Lapotaire, Colin Blakely
Adolfo Celi, Alfred Burke
1980
Drake's Venture
John Dee
John Thaw
1979
The Archer's Tale
To Live Again
Adaptation of his one-man theatre show
Narrator
None
Not known
1978
Rebecca
part 4
Return of The Saint
episode 1.15 - The Debt Collectors
(broadcast 17th December 1978)
Romeo and Juliet
Kilvert's Diary
The Old Soldier
The Coroner
Paul Hanson
Old Capulet
The Old Soldier
Jeremy Brett, Joanna David
Ian Ogilvy
Not Known
Timothy Davies, Susan Richards
1977
1990
Voice From The Past - episode 1.5
(broadcast 10th October 1977)
Supernatural
episode 1.6, Dorabella / Viktoria
(broadcast 16th July 1977)
Mitchell
Sir Charles
Edward Woodward
Billie Whitelaw, Edward Hardwick,
Ian Henry
1976
"I, Claudius"
part 2 - Waiting in the Wings
The Man In The Iron Mask
Domitius
Armand
Derek Jacobi, Sian Phillips
Richard Chamberlain, Jenny Agutter
1975
Shades of Greene
Dream of a Strange Land
Quiller
episode 1.8 - The Thin Red Line
(broadcast 24th October 1975)
Ballet Shoes
part 6
The General
General Pickford
GUM
(Great Uncle Matthew)
John Hurt
Michael Jayston
Angela Thorne, Joanna David,
Mary Morris
1974
A Fall of Eagles
Bedtime Stories
episode 1.3 - Sleeping Beauty
(broadcast 17th March 1974)
New Scotland Yard
episode 4.3 - Death By Misadventure
(broadcast 27th April 1974)
Russian General
Camp Announcer
General Travers
Barry Foster, Marius Goring,
Nora Swinburne
Dennis Price, Flora Robson
John Woodvine
1973
Softly Softly
episode 9.12 - Trial
(broadcast 28th November 1973)
Wessex Tales
episode 1.1 - The Withered Arm
(broadcast 7th November 1973)
Arthur of the Britons
episode 1.9 - Enemies and Lovers
(broadcast 31st January 1973)
Mr Justice Ruddy
Conjuror Trendle
Athel
Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor
Billie Whitelaw, Edward Hardwick
Oliver Tobias, Brian Blessed,
Michael Gothard
1972
Spy Trap
episodes 3 and 6
Man of Straw
Public Eye
Many a Slip
Not known
Not known
Dr Stowe
Not known
Derek Jacobi
Alfred Burke
1971
Elizabeth R
episode 2 - The Marriage Game
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
The Affair of the Tortoise
Stage 2
She Stoops To Conquer
Cousin Bette
parts 1,2,3,4
Thirty Minute Theatre
Faith
Bishop de Quadra
Captain Cutler
Sir Charles Marlow
Marshal Hulot
Cast member
Glenda Jackson
Peter Barkworth
Ralph Richardson, Juliet Mills
Margaret Tyzack, Helen Mirren
John Franklyn-Robbins
1969
Detective
Mr Guppy's Tale
The Troubleshooters
A Dirty Old Man and a Rare Bird
The Champions
The Silent Enemy
W. Somerset Maugham
A Casual Affair
Z Cars
The Soft Touch
(episode in 2 parts)
Dr Who
The Space Pirates
season 6 - story 49
Ernest Guppy
Foss
Minister
Sir Montague Trafford
Albert Wallace
Dom Issigri
Rupert Davies
Geoffrey Keen, Ray Barrett
Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo,
William Gaunt
Norman Bird, Hildegard Neil
James Ellis
Patrick Troughton
1968
Play of the Month
The Parachute
Detective
Lesson in Anatomy
Cast member
Albert
Alan Badel, Jill Bennett, John Osborne, Lindsay Anderson
Rupert Davies
1967
The Gamblers
The Glory Llewellyn Smiley
The Rat Catchers
The Seven Pillars of Hercules
Lord Raingo
part one - The Offer
General Schneidel
Not known
Sid Jenkin
Not known
Not known
Kenneth More, Janet Suzman
1966
The Spies
There's Only One End For Traitors
King of the River
It's An Ill Wind
General Loren
Antoine Louvois
Dinsdale Landen, Peter Arne
Bernard Lee
1965
Armchair Theatre
The Last Reunion
Gideon's Way
Subway to Revenge
The Third Man
The Trial of Harry Lime
Blood And Thunder
The Changeling
Not Known
Robson
Theodore Ratteau
Vermandero
Nora Swinburne, Jeremy Kemp
John Gregson, Bryan Pringle
Michael Rennie
Not known
1964
Detective
The Hungry Spider
The Midnight Men
Promise to Kill
The King's Business
The Proxy
Time of Danger
The King Shall Die
The Man From Miditz
Crime and Punishment
Marmeladov
The Protectors
Who Killed Lazoryck?
Dr Finlay's Casebook
The White Hunter
Festival
Lysostrata
Murder In The Cathedral
Commodore Rupert Gill
Colonel Vymer
Not known
Pearce Kettner
Colonel Grahame
Chorus (Lysistrata)
Tempter / Knight (Murder In The Cathedral)
Peter Barkworth, Rupert Davies
Andrew Keir, Eva Bartok
Not known
Andrew Faulds
Bill Simpson, Andrew Cruickshank
Not known
1963
Television Playhouse
To Bury Caesar
Picardy Affair
The Sunday Night Play
She's a Free Country
The Queen And The Rebels
Springwood
(Sleazy Welsh Journalist)
Cast member
Harold P. Jackman
General Biante
Jack Hawkins, Pamela Brown
Not known
Not known
Matheson Lang. Mary Dibley
1962
Ghosts
The Saint
The Covetous Headsman
Fighting Men
The Fifteenth Century
Engstrang
Antoine Louvois
Fluellyn
(scene from Henry V 1944)
Prunella Scales
Roger Moore, Barbara Shelley,
Carole Gray
Not known (Michael Shipley, John Laurie, Niall MacGinnis?)
1961
The Knights Errant
The Colonel's Ghost
Danger Man
episode 20 - Vacation
A For Andromeda
episode 2 - The Machine
episode 4 - The Monster
The Last Mystery
Not known
Arthur Baron
Professor Reinhardt
Not known
Not known
Patrick Magoohan
Julie Christie, Mary Morris
Not known
1960
Deadline Midnight
1st series - episode 6
An Age of Kings
episode 11 - The Rabble of Kent
David and Broccoli
Barnaby Rudge
episodes 8,9,10,11,12,13
Not known
Jack Cade
Broccoli
Dennis the Hangman
Not known
Not known
Not known
John Wood, Joan Hickson
1959
Our Mutual Friend
episodes 3,4,8
Armchair Theatre
Girl On The Beach
Television World Theatre
Volpone
The Silver Box
Interpol Calling
The Sleeping Giant
(broadcast 5th Oct 1959)
Next To No Wife
(broadcast November 1959)
The Hill
The Invisible Man
Flight Into Darkness
Silas Wegg
Cast member
Corvino (The Crow)
John Baerthwick MP
General Von Schreiber
Archibald Brodie
Pontius Pilate
Wilson
Not known
Not known
Not known
John Crawford,
Martin Wyldeck
Not known
Not known
Michael Shepley, Deborah Watling, Michael Goodliffe, Joanna Dunham, Geoffrey Keen.
1958
Television Playright
Afternoon For Antigone -
(broadcast June 1958)
Television World Theatre
The Clandestine Marriage
My Pal Bob
episode 3
O.S.S.
Operation Firefly
The Lower Depths
James Olroyd
Cast member
Not known
Emil
Bubnov
(A capmaker)
Not known
Rosalind Knight
Not known
Ron Randell, Lionel Murton
Wilfrid Lawson, Leo McKern,
Miriam Karlin
1957
O.S.S.
Operation Dagger
This Is Your Life
Television Playhouse
Naughty Mr Punch
Nicholas Nickleby
episodes 1,2,5,6,9,10
General Latour
Himself (as the subject of the show)
Dr Halbert
Wackford Squeers
Not known
Rosalind Knight, Nora Swinburne
Not known
Rosalind Knight
1956/7
Sailor of Fortune
Stranger In Danger
The Crete Story
Diamond Chips
Death At Sunset
El Kafir (Stranger In Danger)
Bishop (The Crete Story)
Oberon (Diamond Chips)
Lorne Green
1956
The Count of Monte Cristo
Lichtenburg
The Adventures of Aggie
Cobalt Blue
Gustav
Marcel Fleur
George Dolenz, Nick Cravat
Not known
1953
The Firebrand
Broadway Television Theatre,
(broadcast 2nd March 1953)
Cast member
Sylvia Sidney
1949
Macbeth
Banquo
Patrick Macnee, Stephen Murray
1946
Saint Joan
second of 2 episodes
(June 1946)
The Inquisitor
Ann Casson, Michael Goodliffe,
Eric Porter
1939
Twelvth Night
First Stop North
Rake's progress
(2nd May broadcast only)
Mary Rose
Orsino
Terence Donnelly
John Wilkes
Harry and Simon Blake
Michael Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft
The Wilson Barrett Company (including Wilson Barrett, Judith Furse)
Dame May Witty
Dame May Witty, John Laurie
1938
Derby Day
Will Shakespeare
Bert Bones
Kit Marlowe
Muriel George
Henry Oscar, Nancy Price
1937
Night Must Fall
Van Gogh
Danny
Vincent Van Gogh
Vivienne Bennett
Wilson Barrett
Not known
The Lower Depths
Not known
Not known
Radio Credits
1974
Our King Went Forth to Normandy
(shortened version of Esmond's one man show 'Agincourt - The Archer's Tale')
An Archer
(One man show)
1953
A Life of Bliss
Robert Batton
George Cole, Petula Clark, Nora Swinburne
1952
Desert Island Discs
As himself
Roy Plomley
1942
Henry at Agincourt
Make and Mend
Henry V
Himself - narrating naval stories
Marius Goring
Not known
1941
BBC
Himself - interview about his life
None
1931
Meet The Prince
musical comedy
(broadcast 1st & 2nd Jan 1931)
John Maude
Not known
1929
The Prisoner of Zenda
Sound Effects
Denis Freeman