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Background[]
Biography[]
Personal Life[]
Filmography[]
- Panic in the Parlor (1956)
- Hell in Korea (1956)
- The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956) 1 episode
- The Crime of the Century (1956) 1 episode
- BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1956-58) 4 episodes
- Blood Money (1957)
- How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957)
- The Steel Bayonet (1957)
- Escape (1957) 1 episode
- Mister Charlesworth (1957) 1 episode
- Dixon of Dock Green (1957-59) 3 episodes
- Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
- The Vise (1958) 1 episode
- A Woman of Mystery (1958)
- The Key (1958)
- Blind Spot (1958)
- The Two-Headed Spy (1958)
- Room 43 (1958)
- William Tell (1958-59) 2 episodes
- Television Playwright (1959) 1 episode
- Breakout (1959)
- Knight Errant Limited (1960) 1 episode
- Deadline Midnight (1960) 1 episode
- Golden Girl (1960) 1 episode
- No Wreath for the General (1960) 1 episode
- Foxhole in Cairo (1960)
- The Bulldog Breed (1960)
- Walk a Crooked Mile (1961)
- Armchair Theatre (1961) 1 episode
- The Compartment (1961)
- Storyboard (1961) 1 episode
- The Younger Generation (1961) 1 episode
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
- BBC Sunday-Night Play (1961-62) 2 episodes
- ITV Play of the Week (1961-64) 3 episodes
- Solo for Sparrow (1962)
- The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1962) 1 episode
- Drama 61-67 (1962) 1 episode
- The Arthur Haynes Show (1962) 1 episode
- The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
- First Night (1963) 2 episodes
- Zulu (1964)
- Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
- The Ipcress File (1965)
- Alfie (1966)
- The Wrong Box (1966)
- Gambit (1966)
- Funeral in Berlin (1966)
- Hurry Sundown (1967)
- Woman Times Seven (1967)
- Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
- Deadfall (1968)
- The Magus (1968)
- Play Dirty (1969)
- Male of the Species (1969)
- ITV Sunday Night Theatre (1969) 1 episode
- The Italian Job (1969)
- Battle of Britain (1969)
- Too Late the Hero (1970)
- The Last Valley (1971)
- Get Carter (1971)
- Kidnapped (1971)
- X, Y and Zee (1972)
- Pulp (1972)
- Sleuth (1972)
- The Black Windmill (1974)
- The Destructors (1974)
- The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
- The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
- The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
- Peeper (1976)
- Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)
- The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
- Silver Bears (1977)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- The Swarm (1978)
- California Suite (1978)
- Ashanti (1979)
- Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
- The Island (1980)
- Dressed to Kill (1980)
- The Hand (1981)
- Victory (1981)
- Deathtrap (1982)
- The Jigsaw Man (1983)
- Educating Rita (1983)
- Beyond the Limit (1983)
- Blame It on Rio (1984)
- Water (1985)
- The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- Sweet Liberty (1986)
- Mona Lisa (1986)
- Half Moon Street (1986)
- The Whistle Blower (1986)
- The Fourth Protocol (1987)
- Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
- Surrender (1987)
- Jack the Ripper (1988) 2 episodes
- Without a Clue (1988)
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
- Jekyll & Hyde (1990)
- A Shock to the System (1990)
- Mr. Destiny (1990)
- Bullseye! (1990)
- Noises Off... (1992)
- Blue Ice (1992)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
- On Deadly Ground (1994)
- World War II: When Lions Roared (1994)
- Bullet to Beijing (1995)
- Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)
- Blood and Wine (1996)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
- Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
- Shadow Run (1998)
- Little Voice (1998)
- It All Came True (1998)
- The Cider House Rules (1999)
- The Debtors (1999)
- Quills (2000)
- Shiner (2000)
- Get Carter (2000)
- Miss Congeniality (2000)
- Last Orders (2001)
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
- The Quiet American (2002)
- Freedom: A History of Us (2003) 6 episodes
- Quicksand (2003)
- The Actors (2003)
- Secondhand Lions (2003)
- The Statement (2003)
- Around the Bend (2004)
- Batman Begins (2005)
- Bewitched (2005)
- The Weather Man (2005)
- Children of Men (2006)
- The Prestige (2006)
- Sleuth (2007)
- Flawless (2007)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- Is Anybody There? (2008)
- Harry Brown (2009)
- Inception (2010)
- Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
- Cars 2 (2011)
- Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
- Now You See Me (2013)
- Last Love (2013)
- Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
- Interstellar (2014)
- Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
- Youth (2015)
- The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
- Now You See Me 2 (2016)
- Going in Style (2017)
- Coup D'etat (2017)
- Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
- Tenet (2020)
- Come Away (2020)
Trivia[]
- While he was a struggling actor, he was also flatmates with a struggling hairstylist, Vidal Sassoon. He was also briefly flatmates with fellow actor Terrence Stamp.
- Never learned to drive a car until he was over 50 years old. He was too poor to own an automobile or pay for driving lessons as a young man and later after he became a successful actor; the movie studios always provided a courtesy chauffeur.
Quotes[]
- "Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."
- "I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
- "To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing ― considering the alternative."