He performed in many movies, including "The Day of the Jackal" (1973), "The Black Windmill" (1974), Richard Loncraine's 1995 version of "Richard III", "The Scarlet Letter" (1995), "Shadowlands" (1993), "Elizabeth" (1998), "Enigma" (2001), "The Gathering Storm" (2002), "Love Actually" (2003), and Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" (2005).