YEAR
TITLE
PART
OTHER CAST MEMBERS
1987
The Fortunes of War
episodes 5,7
(broadcast posthumously -
8th & 22nd November 1987)
Miss Marple
Sleeping Murder
(broadcast 11th January 1987)
Liversage
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
Derek Martin, Nigel Planer
1984
The Invisible Man
Certain First Principles
Blind Man
Pip Donaghy, Donald Bisset
1983
King Lear
(broadcast 3rd April 1983)
My Cousin Rachel
episode 3
(broadcast 21st March 1983)
Old Man
Sam Bates
Laurence Olivier, Diana Rigg
Leo McKern, Robert Lindsay
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,
Charlotte Cornwell
1979
The Archer's Tale
To Live Again
Rebecca
part 4
Adaptation of his one-man
theatre show
Narrator
The Coroner
John Fowler
Director: Nick Galtress
Jeremy Brett, Joanna David
1978
Return of The Saint
episode 1.15 - The Debt Collectors
(broadcast 17th December 1978)
BBC Television Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
(broadcast 3rd December 1978)
Kilvert's Diary
The Old Soldier
Paul Hanson
Old Capulet
The Old Soldier
Ian Ogilvy
Alan Rickman, Celia Johnson,
John Gielgud
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
Peer Gynt
Shades of Greene
Dream of a Strange Land
(broadcast 3rd February 1976)
Domitius
Armand
The Troll King
(Old Man of the Dovre)
The General
Derek Jacobi, Sian Phillips
Richard Chamberlain,
Jenny Agutter
Patrick Mower, Betty Hardy,
John Hurt
1975
Churchill's People
The Coming of the Cross
(broadcast 13th January 1975)
Quiller
episode 1.8 - The Thin Red Line
(broadcast 24th October 1975)
Ballet Shoes
part 6
(broadcast 9th November 1975)
The Day War Broke Out
(documentary)
Penda's Father
General Pickford
GUM
(Great Uncle Matthew)
As Himself
Richard Johnson, Anna Massey,
Robert Hardy, Colin Blakely
Michael Jayston
Angela Thorne, Joanna David,
Mary Morris
Noël Coward, Jack Warner,
Bing Crosby
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,
Adrienne Corri
John Woodvine, Clive Francis,
Michael Turner, Madoline Thomas
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
series 1 episode 6
Public Eye
Many a Slip
Not known
Lt. Karnauke
Dr Stowe
Paul Daneman, Prentis Hancock
Derek Jacobi, Judy Cornwell
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 1-4)
1. Poor Relations
2. The House of Pleasure
3. Delilah and her Handmaid
4. Bitter Harvest
Thirty Minute Theatre
Faith
(broadcast 18 January 1971)
Battleship Bismarck
(broadcast 25 May 1971)
Bishop de Quadra
Captain Cutler
Sir Charles Marlow
Marshal Hulot
Cast member
Himself
(documentary - 30th anniversary
of the sinking)
Glenda Jackson,
Robert Hardy
Peter Barkworth
Ralph Richardson,
Juliet Mills
Margaret Tyzack,
Helen Mirren
John Franklyn-Robbins,
Robert Lang
Ludovic Kennedy
1969
Detective
Mr Guppy's Tale
(broadcast 1st July 1969)
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)
(broadcast 3rd & 4th March 1969)
Dr Who
The Space Pirates
season 6 - story 49
Ernest Guppy
Foss
Minister
Sir Montague Trafford
Albert Wallace
Dom Issigri
Rupert Davies, Aubrey Morris,
Hamilton Dyce, Bill Fraser
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
(re-broadcast 23 June 1988)
Detective
Lesson in Anatomy
Helmut
Albert
Alan Badel, Jill Bennett,
John Osborne, Lindsay Anderson
Rupert Davies
1967
The Gamblers
The Glory Llewellyn Smiley
(broadcast 28th December 1967)
The Rat Catchers
The Seven Pillars of Hercules
General Schneidel
Not known
Ronald Lacey, Alfred Burke
Gerald Flood, Philip Stone
1966
The Spies
There's Only One End For Traitors
King of the River
It's An Ill Wind
(broadcast 3rd August 1966)
Lord Raingo
two episodes:
The Offer
(broadcast 26th April 1966)
Power
(broadcast 3rd May 1966)
General Loren
Donner
Sid Jenkin
Dinsdale Landen, Peter Arne
Bernard Lee,
Meg Wynn Owen
Kenneth More, Janet Suzman
1965
Armchair Theatre
The Last Reunion
(ITV)
Gideon's Way
Subway to Revenge
The Third Man
The Trial of Harry Lime
ITV Play of the Week
The Changeling
Not Known
(broadcast 6th May 1965)
Robson
Theodore Ratteau
Vermandero
Nora Swinburne, Jeremy Kemp
John Gregson, Bryan Pringle
Michael Rennie
Patrick Troughton, Kika Markham,
Nerys Hughes
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
episode 11 - Who Killed Lazoryck?
Dr Finlay's Casebook
The White Hunter
Festival
LysIstrata
Murder In The Cathedral
(broadcast 16 March 1964
from Canterbury Cathedral)
Commodore Rupert Gill
Colonel Vymer
Not known
Pearce Kettner
Colonel Grahame
Chorus
(Lysistrata)
Tempter / Knight
(Murder In The Cathedral)
Jane Merrow, Peter Barkworth,
Rupert Davies
Andrew Keir, Eva Bartok
Carla Challenor
(as Esmond's daughter)
Andrew Faulds, Ann Morrish
Bill Simpson, Andrew Cruickshank
Cyril Cusack, Steven Merkoff,
June Tobin
1963
Television Playhouse
To Bury (A Second) Caesar
Television Playhouse
Picardy Affair
(broadcast 25th October 1963)
The Sunday Night Play
She's a Free Country
(broadcast 30th June 1963)
The Queen And The Rebels
Springwood
(Sleazy Welsh Journalist)
Longbow Archer
(Battle of Agincourt)
Harold P. Jackman
General Biante
Jack Hawkins, Pamela Brown,
Nigel Davenport, Kenneth Griffith
Robert Hardy
Sandor Eles
Matheson Lang. Mary Dibley
1962
Ghosts
The Saint
The Covetous Headsman
Signpost
Fighting Men -
The Fifteenth Century
Engstrang
Antoine Louvois
Fluellyn
(scene from Henry V 1944)
Prunella Scales
Roger Moore, Barbara Shelley,
Carole Gray
(Michael Shipley, John Laurie,
Niall MacGinnis
1961
Danger Man
episode 20 - Vacation
A For Andromeda
All seven episodes:
1. The Message
2. The Machine
3. The Miracle
4. The Monster
5. The Murderer
6. The Face of the Tiger
7. The Last Mystery
(broadcast between 3rd October
and 14th November 1961)
The Last Mystery
An Age of Kings
(Telecast in USA of 1960 UK production)
Arthur Baron
Professor Reinhardt
Not known
Jack Cade
Patrick Magoohan
Julie Christie, Mary Morris,
Peter Halliday
Not known
Terry Scully, Eileen Atkins,
Mary Morris, Frank Windsor
1960
Knight Errant Limited
The Colonel's Ghost
(broadcast 30th December 1960 + 5th Jan 1961)
Deadline Midnight
1st series - episode 6
An Age of Kings
episode 11 - The Rabble of Kent
(extract of Henry VI Part Two)
David and Broccoli
(broadcast 26 January 1960)
Barnaby Rudge
episodes 8,9,10,11,12,13
(broadcast Nov/Dec 1960)
Arthur Fitzwilliam O'Shaughnessy
Not known
Jack Cade
Broccoli
Dennis the Hangman
Nora Swinburne,
Dinsdale Landen
Not known
Terry Scully, Eileen Atkins,
Mary Morris, Frank Windsor
Peter Sallis, Rita Webb,
Diarmid Cammell
John Wood, Joan Hickson
1959
Our Mutual Friend
episodes 3,4,8,10
Armchair Theatre
Girl On The Beach
(broadcast 24th May 1959)
Television World Theatre
Volpone
The Silver Box
Interpol Calling
The Sleeping Giant
(broadcast 5th Oct 1959)
Next To No Wife
(broadcast 17 November 1959)
The Hill
The Invisible Man
Flight Into Darkness
Silas Wegg
Uncle Karl
Corvino (The Crow)
(Volpone)
John Baerthwick MP
(The Silver Box)
General Von Schreiber
Archibald Brodie
Pontius Pilate
Wilson
Paul Daneman,
Richard Leech,
David McCallum, Rachel Roberts
Maggie Smith,
William Russell
Donald Wolfit
(Volpone)
Joan Hawthorn
(The Silver Box)
John Crawford,
Martin Wyldeck
Joseph Tomelty,
C.B. Pulman
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
(broadcast March 1958)
My Pal Bob
episode 3
(broadcast 25 February 1958)
O.S.S.
Operation Firefly
(broadcast 1st December 1958)
Sunday-Night Theatre
The Lower Depths
(broadcast 15th June 1958)
James Olroyd
Sterling
Himself
Emil
Bubnov
(A capmaker)
Gwen Watford
Geoffrey Bayldon, Hermione Baddeley,
Rosalind Knight
Bob Monkhouse,
Denis Goodwin
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
(broadcast between 18th October
and 20th December 1957)
General Latour
Himself
(as the subject of the show)
Dr Halbert
Wackford Squeers Snr
Not known
Rosalind Knight, Nora Swinburne
Not known
Rosalind Knight, William Russell,
Barry Foster, Douglas Wilmer
1956 - 1958
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
episode 29
The Talleyrand Affair
(broadcast June 1956)
The Adventures of Aggie
Cobalt Blue
(broadcast 22nd September 1956)
Gustav Lichtenburg
Marcel Fleur
George Dolenz, Nick Cravat,
Allan Cuthbertson
Joan Shawlee, Patrick Allen,
Stephen Boyd, Dick Emery,
Gordon Jackson
1953
The Firebrand
Broadway Television Theatre,
(broadcast 2nd March 1953)
Cast member
Sylvia Sidney
1952
Arrow to the Heart
(broadcast live 20th July,
repeated 24th July 1952)
Major Kartuschke, Legal Officer
Robert Harris, Howard Lang,
Donald PLeasence
1950
The Compelled People
(TV movie)
Hugo von Gerhardt
Mary Kerridge, Robert Arden,
Betty Ann Davies
1949
Macbeth
Deep Waters
Banquo
Captain Charles Baxter RN
Patrick Macnee, Stephen Murray
Michael Goodliffe, Ruth Dunning,
Willoughby Gray
1947
The Likes of 'Er
(broadcast 7th September 1947)
George Miles
.
Jack Allen, Maria Charles,
Alec Finter
1946
Saint Joan
second of 2 episodes
(June 1946)
The Inquisitor
.
Ann Casson, Michael Goodliffe,
Eric Porter
.
1939
Twelfth 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
(broadcast 21st October)
Van Gogh
(broadcast 29th September)
Danny
Vincent Van Gogh
Vivienne Bennett
Wilson Barrett
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
None
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