| The Time War | 2017 | Narrator (voice) | Movie |
| The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | 2014 | Saruman | Movie |
| Angels in Notting Hill | 2014 | Mr. President (voice), The Boss | Movie |
| Night Train to Lisbon | 2013 | Father Bartolomeu | Movie |
| The Girl from Nagasaki | 2013 | Old Officer Pinkerton | Movie |
| Extraordinary Tales | 2013 | Narrator (segment “The Fall of the House of Usher”) (voice, as Sir Christopher Lee) | Movie |
| Dark Shadows | 2012 | Clarney | Movie |
| The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | Saruman | Movie |
| The Hunting of the Snark | 2012 | Narrator (voice) | Short Film |
| The Wicker Tree | 2011 | Old Gentleman | Movie |
| Hugo | 2011 | Monsieur Labisse | Movie |
| Season of the Witch | 2011 | Cardinal D'Ambroise | Movie |
| The Resident | 2011 | August | Movie |
| Alice in Wonderland | 2010 | Jabberwocky (voice) | Movie |
| Burke and Hare | 2010 | Old Joseph | Movie |
| Boogie Woogie | 2009 | Mr. Alfred Rhinegold | Movie |
| The Heavy | 2009 | Mr. Mason | Movie |
| Triage | 2009 | Joaquín Morales | Movie |
| Glorious 39 | 2009 | Walter | Movie |
| Star Wars: The Clone Wars | 2008 | Count Dooku (voice) | Movie |
| The Color of Magic | 2008 | Death | TV Show |
| The Golden Compass | 2007 | First High Councilor | Movie |
| Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs | 2007 | Narrator | Movie |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | Dr. Wonka | Movie |
| Corpse Bride | 2005 | Pastor Galswells (voice) | Movie |
| The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby | 2005 | The Lord Provost | Movie |
| Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | Count Dooku | Movie |
| Pope John Paul II | 2005 | Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski | TV Show |
| Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse | 2004 | Heinrich von Garten | Movie |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Saruman (extended edition) | Movie |
| Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | 2002 | Count Dooku, Darth Tyranus | Movie |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Saruman | Movie |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Saruman | Movie |
| Les redoutables | 2001 | La mort | TV Show |
| Gormenghast | 2000 | Flay | TV Show |
| In the Beginning | 2000 | Rameses I | TV Show |
| Ghost Stories for Christmas | 2000 | M. R. James | TV Show |
| Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Burgomaster | Movie |
| Jinnah | 1998 | Mohammed Ali Jinnah | Movie |
| Tale of the Mummy | 1998 | Sir Richard Turkel | Movie |
| Ivanhoe | 1997 | Lucas de Beaumanoir | TV Show |
| The Odyssey | 1997 | Tiresias | TV Show |
| Wyrd Sisters | 1997 | Death | TV Show |
| The New Adventures of Robin Hood | 1997 | Olwyn | TV Show |
| Soul Music | 1997 | Death | TV Show |
| The Stupids | 1996 | Evil Sender | Movie |
| Welcome to the Discworld | 1996 | Death | Short Film |
| Sorellina e il principe del sogno | 1996 | Azaret | TV Show |
| Moses | 1995 | Ramses | TV Show |
| Tales of Mystery and Imagination | 1995 | Host, Prince Prospero, The Host | TV Show |
| A Feast at Midnight | 1994 | Raptor | Movie |
| Funny Man | 1994 | Callum Chance | Movie |
| Police Academy: Mission to Moscow | 1994 | Commandant Rakov | Movie |
| Street Gear | 1994 | Nick Dupont | TV Show |
| Detonator | 1993 | General Benin | TV Movie |
| Cyber Eden | 1992 | Cedric | Movie |
| Double Vision | 1992 | Mr. Bernard | TV Movie |
| The Tomorrow People | 1992 | Sam Rees | TV Show |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | 1992 | Count Ottokar Graf Czerin | TV Show |
| Curse III: Blood Sacrifice | 1991 | Dr. Pearson | Movie |
| Journey of Honor | 1991 | King Philip | Movie |
| Incident at Victoria Falls | 1991 | Sherlock Holmes | TV Movie |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady | 1991 | Sherlock Holmes | TV Movie |
| L'avaro | 1990 | Cardinale Spinosi | Movie |
| Gremlins 2: The New Batch | 1990 | Doctor Catheter | Movie |
| The Rainbow Thief | 1990 | Uncle Rudolf | Movie |
| Treasure Island | 1990 | Blind Pew | TV Movie |
| The Care of Time | 1990 | Karlis Zander | TV Movie |
| Fall of the Eagles | 1989 | Walter Strauss | Movie |
| Murder Story | 1989 | Willard Hope | Movie |
| La révolution française | 1989 | Sanson (segment “Années Terribles, Les”) | Movie |
| The Return of the Musketeers | 1989 | Rochefort | Movie |
| Around the World in 80 Days | 1989 | Stuart | TV Show |
| Dark Mission: Evil Flowers | 1988 | Luis Morel | Movie |
| Mask of Murder | 1988 | Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich | Movie |
| Olympus Force: The Key | 1988 | Filly | Movie |
| Mio min Mio | 1987 | Kato | Movie |
| The Girl | 1987 | Peter Storm | Movie |
| Jocks | 1986 | President White | Movie |
| Shaka Zulu | 1986 | Lord Bathurst | TV Show |
| The Disputation | 1986 | King James of Aragon | TV Movie |
| Un métier du seigneur | 1986 | Fog | TV Movie |
| Howling II: … Your Sister Is a Werewolf | 1985 | Stefan | Movie |
| The Rosebud Beach Hotel | 1984 | King | Movie |
| The Far Pavilions | 1984 | Kaka-ji Rao | TV Show |
| The Bengal Lancers! | 1984 | Sir James Hunter | Movie |
| House of the Long Shadows | 1983 | Corrigan | Movie |
| The Return of Captain Invincible | 1983 | Mr. Midnight | Movie |
| Safari 3000 | 1982 | Count Borgia | Movie |
| The Last Unicorn | 1982 | King Haggard (English, German version, voice) | Movie |
| Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story | 1982 | Prince Philip | TV Movie |
| Faerie Tale Theatre | 1982 | King Vladimir V | TV Show |
| Massarati and the Brain | 1982 | Victor Leopold | TV Movie |
| An Eye for an Eye | 1981 | Morgan Canfield | Movie |
| Steigler and Steigler | 1981 | Dr. Carl Boxer | Movie |
| The Salamander | 1981 | Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence | Movie |
| Goliath Awaits | 1981 | John McKenzie | TV Show |
| Tales of the Haunted | 1981 | Host | TV Movie |
| Serial | 1980 | Luckman Skull | Movie |
| Once Upon a Spy | 1980 | Marcus Valorium | TV Movie |
| 1941 | 1979 | Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt | Movie |
| Arabian Adventure | 1979 | Alquazar | Movie |
| Bear Island | 1979 | Lechinski | Movie |
| Jaguar Lives! | 1979 | Adam Caine | Movie |
| Nutcracker Fantasy | 1979 | … (voice), Street Singer, The Puppeteer, Uncle Drosselmeyer | Movie |
| The Passage | 1979 | The Gypsy | Movie |
| Captain America II: Death Too Soon | 1979 | Miguel | TV Movie |
| Caravans | 1978 | Sardar Khan | Movie |
| Circle of Iron | 1978 | Zetan | Movie |
| Return from Witch Mountain | 1978 | Victor | Movie |
| The Pirate | 1978 | Samir Al Fay | TV Movie |
| Airport '77 | 1977 | Martin Wallace | Movie |
| End of the World | 1977 | Father Pergado, Zindar | Movie |
| Meatcleaver Massacre | 1977 | On-Screen Narrator | Movie |
| Starship Invasions | 1977 | Capt. Rameses | Movie |
| Dracula and Son | 1976 | Dracula | Movie |
| Killer Force | 1976 | Maj. Chilton | Movie |
| The Keeper | 1976 | The Keeper | Movie |
| The Night of the Askari | 1976 | Bill | Movie |
| To the Devil a Daughter | 1976 | Father Michael Raynor | Movie |
| How the West Was Won | 1976 | The Grand Duke | TV Show |
| Charlie's Angels | 1976 | Dale Woodman | TV Show |
| Diagnosis: Murder | 1975 | Dr. Stephen Hayward | Movie |
| Space: 1999 | 1975 | Captain Zantor | TV Show |
| The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan | 1975 | Satanus, Van Krig | Movie |
| The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge | 1974 | Rochefort | Movie |
| The Man with the Golden Gun | 1974 | Scaramanga | Movie |
| The Satanic Rites of Dracula | 1973 | Count Dracula | Movie |
| Dark Places | 1973 | Dr. Ian Mandeville | Movie |
| Nothing But the Night | 1973 | Colonel Bingham | Movie |
| The Creeping Flesh | 1973 | James Hildern | Movie |
| The Three Musketeers | 1973 | Rochefort | Movie |
| The Wicker Man | 1973 | Lord Summerisle | Movie |
| Great Mysteries | 1973 | Arnaud | TV Show |
| Poor Devil | 1973 | Lucifer | TV Movie |
| Dracula A.D. 1972 | 1972 | Count Dracula | Movie |
| Horror Express | 1972 | Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton | Movie |
| Raw Meat | 1972 | Stratton-Villiers, MI5 | Movie |
| Hannie Caulder | 1971 | Bailey | Movie |
| I, Monster | 1971 | Blake, Marlowe | Movie |
| The House That Dripped Blood | 1971 | Reid (segment “Sweets to the Sweet”) | Movie |
| Count Dracula | 1970 | Count Dracula | Movie |
| Eugenie… the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion | 1970 | Dolmance | Movie |
| Julius Caesar | 1970 | Artemidorus | Movie |
| The Bloody Judge | 1970 | Judge Jeffries | Movie |
| One More Time | 1970 | Dracula (uncredited) | Movie |
| Scars of Dracula | 1970 | Dracula | Movie |
| Scream and Scream Again | 1970 | Fremont | Movie |
| Taste the Blood of Dracula | 1970 | Dracula | Movie |
| The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | 1970 | Mycroft Holmes | Movie |
| Umbracle | 1970 | The Man | Movie |
| Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu | 1969 | Fu Manchu | Movie |
| The Magic Christian | 1969 | Ship's Vampire | Movie |
| The Oblong Box | 1969 | Dr. J. Neuhartt | Movie |
| Dracula Has Risen from the Grave | 1968 | Dracula | Movie |
| Eve | 1968 | Colonel Stuart | Movie |
| Kiss and Kill | 1968 | Fu Manchu | Movie |
| Curse of the Crimson Altar | 1968 | Morley | Movie |
| The Devil Rides Out | 1968 | Duc de Richleau | Movie |
| Theatre of Death | 1967 | Philippe Darvas | Movie |
| Island of the Burning Damned | 1967 | Godfrey Hanson | Movie |
| The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism | 1967 | Count Frederic Regula, Graf von Andomai | Movie |
| The Vengeance of Fu Manchu | 1967 | Fu Manchu | Movie |
| Five Golden Dragons | 1967 | Dragon #4 | Movie |
| Dracula: Prince of Darkness | 1966 | Dracula | Movie |
| Psycho-Circus | 1966 | Gregor | Movie |
| Rasputin: The Mad Monk | 1966 | Grigori Rasputin | Movie |
| The Brides of Fu Manchu | 1966 | Fu Manchu | Movie |
| Ten Little Indians | 1965 | Mr. U. N. Owen (voice, uncredited) | Movie |
| Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | 1965 | Franklyn Marsh (segment “Disembodied Hand”) | Movie |
| She | 1965 | Billali | Movie |
| The Face of Fu Manchu | 1965 | Fu Manchu | Movie |
| The Skull | 1965 | Sir Matthew Phillips | Movie |
| Castle of the Living Dead | 1964 | Count Drago | Movie |
| Crypt of the Vampire | 1964 | Count Ludwig Karnstein | Movie |
| The Devil-Ship Pirates | 1964 | Captain Robeles | Movie |
| The Gorgon | 1964 | Prof. Karl Meister | Movie |
| Horror Castle | 1963 | Erich (as Cristopher Lee) | Movie |
| The Whip and the Body | 1963 | Kurt Menliff | Movie |
| Katarsis | 1963 | Mephistoles | Movie |
| The Pirates of Blood River | 1962 | Capt. LaRoche | Movie |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace | 1962 | Sherlock Holmes | Movie |
| Secret of the Red Orchid | 1962 | Captain Allerman | Movie |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | 1962 | Karl Jorla | TV Show |
| Stranglehold | 1962 | | Movie |
| The Devil's Agent | 1962 | Baron Ferdi von Staub | Movie |
| Hercules in the Haunted World | 1961 | Lico | Movie |
| Scream of Fear | 1961 | Dr. Pierre Gerrard | Movie |
| The Terror of the Tongs | 1961 | Chung King | Movie |
| The Avengers | 1961 | Colonel Mannering, Professor Stone | TV Show |
| The Devil's Daffodil | 1961 | Ling Chu | Movie |
| The City of the Dead | 1960 | Alan Driscoll | Movie |
| The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll | 1960 | Paul Allen | Movie |
| Too Hot to Handle | 1960 | Novak | Movie |
| The Hands of Orlac | 1960 | Nero the Magician | Movie |
| Tempi duri per i vampiri | 1959 | Baron Roderico da Frankurten | Movie |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1959 | Sir Henry | Movie |
| The Man Who Could Cheat Death | 1959 | Dr. Pierre Gerrard | Movie |
| The Mummy | 1959 | Kharis, The Mummy | Movie |
| Wild for Kicks | 1959 | Kenny | Movie |
| One Step Beyond | 1959 | Wilhelm Reitlinger | TV Show |
| Tales of the Vikings | 1959 | Lord Roderick | TV Show |
| Hot Money Girl | 1959 | Jaeger | Movie |
| A Tale of Two Cities | 1958 | Marquis St. Evremonde | Movie |
| Corridors of Blood | 1958 | Resurrection Joe | Movie |
| Horror of Dracula | 1958 | Count Dracula, Dracula | Movie |
| Ivanhoe | 1958 | Sir Otto from the Rhine | TV Show |
| William Tell | 1958 | Prince Erik | TV Show |
| Missiles from Hell | 1958 | Brunner | Movie |
| White Hunter | 1958 | Mark Caldwell | TV Show |
| Bitter Victory | 1957 | Sergeant Barney | Movie |
| Night Ambush | 1957 | German officer at dentist' | Movie |
| She Played with Fire | 1957 | Charles Highbury | Movie |
| The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | The Creature | Movie |
| Stowaway Girl | 1957 | Voice (voice, uncredited) | Movie |
| The Accursed | 1957 | Doctor Neumann | Movie |
| The Truth About Women | 1957 | Francois Thiers | Movie |
| O.S.S. | 1957 | Dessinger | TV Show |
| The Gay Cavalier | 1957 | Colonel Jeffries | TV Show |
| Alexander the Great | 1956 | Nectenabus (voice, uncredited) | Movie |
| Beyond Mombasa | 1956 | Gil Rossi | Movie |
| Private's Progress | 1956 | Major Schultz (uncredited) | Movie |
| Pursuit of the Graf Spee | 1956 | Manolo | Movie |
| Colonel March of Scotland Yard | 1956 | Jeanpierre | TV Show |
| Port Afrique | 1956 | Franz Vermes | Movie |
| Assignment Foreign Legion | 1956 | El Abba, Rodin the Gardener | TV Show |
| Aggie | 1956 | Inspector John Hollis | TV Show |
| The Errol Flynn Theatre | 1956 | Compte de Merret, Maurice Gabet, The Visitant | TV Show |
| Chevron Hall of Stars | 1956 | Governor | TV Show |
| Storm Over the Nile | 1955 | Karaga Pasha | Movie |
| That Lady | 1955 | Captain | Movie |
| The Cockleshell Heroes | 1955 | Commander Dick Raikes – Submarine Commander | Movie |
| The Dark Avenger | 1955 | French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited) | Movie |
| Moby Dick Rehearsed | 1955 | A Stage Manager, Flask | TV Movie |
| Sailor of Fortune | 1955 | Carnot, Yusif | TV Show |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1955 | Louis | TV Show |
| Alias John Preston | 1955 | John Preston | Movie |
| Police Dog | 1955 | Johnny, a constable | Movie |
| Contraband Spain | 1955 | Narrator (uncredited) | Movie |
| Crossroads | 1955 | Harry Cooper | Short Film |
| Tales of Hans Anderson | 1955 | Old man, Olle, Student | TV Show |
| The Vise | 1954 | Edgar Brookes, Larry Spence, Richard Martell | TV Show |
| Destination Milan | 1954 | Svenson | Movie |
| The Mirror and Markheim | 1954 | Visitant | Short Film |
| Innocents in Paris | 1953 | Lieutenant Whitlock (uncredited) | Movie |
| Rheingold Theatre | 1953 | Felipe Nagy, Luis, Makarenko | TV Show |
| Babes in Bagdad | 1952 | Slave dealer | Movie |
| Moulin Rouge | 1952 | Georges Seurat (uncredited) | Movie |
| The Crimson Pirate | 1952 | Joseph – Military Attaché | Movie |
| Bombay Waterfront | 1952 | Sir Felix Raybourne | Movie |
| Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow | 1952 | Russian Agent (uncredited) | Movie |
| Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales | 1952 | | Short Film |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | 1951 | Spanish Captain | Movie |
| Valley of the Eagles | 1951 | Det. Holt | Movie |
| Kaleidoscope | 1951 | | TV Show |
| They Were Not Divided | 1950 | Chris Lewis | Movie |
| Prelude to Fame | 1950 | Newsman | Movie |
| The Gay Lady | 1949 | Hon. Bongo Icklesham | Movie |
| Corridor of Mirrors | 1948 | Charles | Movie |
| Hamlet | 1948 | Palace Guard (uncredited) | Movie |
| Scott of the Antarctic | 1948 | Bernard Day | Movie |
| A Song for Tomorrow | 1948 | Auguste | Movie |
| One Night with You | 1948 | Pirelli's Assistant | Movie |
| Penny and the Pownall Case | 1948 | Jonathan Blair | Movie |
