1948-09-19 Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor and activist. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has appeared in many West End theatre productions, including the Shakespeare plays The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew and Richard II. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, receiving the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Irons's break-out role came in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1981) and is frequently ranked among the greatest British television dramas as well as greatest literary adaptations. It would earn him a Golden Globe Award nomination. His first major film role came in the romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in dramas, such as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he was praised for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). Irons has won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the accused attempted murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune (1990). Irons had roles in Steven Soderbergh's mystery thriller Kafka (1991), the period drama The House of the Spirits (1993), the romantic drama M. Butterfly (1993), voiced Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994), played Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1997) and Aramis in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). He starred in the action adventure Dungeons & Dragons (2000), played Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (2004), appeared in Being Julia (2004), the historical drama Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the fantasy-adventure Eragon (2006), the Western Appaloosa (2008), and the indie drama Margin Call (2011). In 2016, he appeared in Assassin's Creed and portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). On television, Irons appeared in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, receiving a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From 2011 to 2013, he starred as Pope Alexander VI in the Showtime historical series The Borgias. In 2019, he appeared as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias in HBO's Watchmen. He is one of the few actors who have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting" in the US, winning an Oscar for film, an Emmy for television and a Tony Award for theatre. In October 2011, he was nominated the Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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فلسطين ٣٦ | High Commissioner Wauchope | 2025-10-31 |
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The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl | Self | 2025-02-06 |
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This Ordinary Thing | Self (voice) | 2025-12-05 |
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Quintessentially Irish | Self | 2024-03-12 |
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Alec Guinness: A Class Act | self | 2024-09-03 |
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Transylvanie, un bestiaire fantastique | Narrator | 2024-03-14 |
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The Beekeeper | Wallace Westwyld | 2024-01-08 |
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Uomini e Dei le meraviglie del Museo Egizio | 2024-02-13 | |
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Tom Hanks: The Nomad | Self (archive footage) | 2023-05-20 |
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The Flash | Alfred Pennyworth | 2023-06-13 |
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Once Upon a Studio | Scar (voice) | 2023-09-24 |
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Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion | Traveller (archived audio) | 2023-05-26 |
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تشيللو | Francesco | 2023-09-14 |
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Codice Carla | Self | 2023-11-13 |
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Making The Flash: Worlds Collide | Self - 'Alfred' | 2023-08-29 |
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Eternal Enemies: Revealed | Narrator (voice) | 2022-02-02 |
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Eye of the Leopard: Revealed | Narrator (voice) | 2022-02-02 |
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Relentless Enemies: Revealed | Narrator (voice) | 2022-02-01 |
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Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé | Self (archive footage) | 2022-12-16 |
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Franco Zeffirelli, conformista ribelle | Self | 2022-08-31 |
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Living With Big Cats: Revealed | Narrator | 2022-01-31 |
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The Way of the Cheetah | Narrator (voice) | 2022-01-30 |
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Ultimate Enemies: Revealed | Narrator (voice) | 2022-02-01 |
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Zack Snyder's Justice League | Alfred | 2021-03-18 |
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Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto | Self | 2021-10-15 |
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House of Gucci | Rodolfo Gucci | 2021-11-24 |
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Napoleone - Nel nome dell'arte | 2021-11-08 | |
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Architects of Ancient Arabia | Narrator | 2021-03-31 |
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Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood | Self | 2021-08-02 |
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Munich – The Edge of War | Neville Chamberlain | 2021-12-31 |
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Love, Weddings & Other Disasters | Lawrence Philips | 2020-12-04 |
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Jade Eyed Leopard | Narrator (voice) | 2020-09-07 |
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Il Museo del Prado: la corte delle meraviglie | Self - Host / Narrator (voice) | 2019-04-15 |
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An Actor Prepares | Atticus | 2018-08-31 |
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Red Sparrow | Vladimir Korchnoi | 2018-02-15 |
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Better Start Running | Garrison | 2018-04-28 |
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Justice League | Alfred | 2017-11-15 |
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Ptice kao mi | Mi (voice) | 2017-05-05 |
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Broadway: The Next Generation | Self | 2017-11-16 |
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Their Finest | Secretary of War | 2017-02-19 |
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The Sultan and the Saint | Narrator | 2016-11-12 |
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I Wish For You | Grandfather | 2016-01-01 |
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DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League | Self | 2016-01-19 |
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La corrispondenza | Ed Phoerum | 2016-01-01 |
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Assassin's Creed | Alan Rikkin | 2016-12-21 |
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Race | Avery Brundage | 2016-02-19 |
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La corrispondenza | Ed Phoerum | 2016-01-14 |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Alfred | 2016-03-23 |
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The Man Who Knew Infinity | G. H. Hardy | 2016-04-08 |
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The Genius of George Boole | Narrator (voice) | 2015-09-01 |
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Earthquake On Everest | Narrator (voice) | 2015-06-13 |
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High-Rise | Anthony Royal | 2015-11-22 |
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Emotional Uncertainties | Self | 2015-08-11 |
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Endless Corridor | Narrator | 2014-06-07 |
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The Voysey Inheritance | Edward Voysey | 2014-05-15 |
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The Wind Gods | Narrator (voice) | 2013-04-26 |
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Game of Lions | Narrator (voice) | 2013-12-01 |
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The Sunflower Superjam 2012 | Self | 2013-08-20 |
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Night Train to Lisbon | Raimund | 2013-03-07 |
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Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
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Goodbye Granadaland | Self | 2013-06-15 |
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Beautiful Creatures | Macon Ravenwood | 2013-02-13 |
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Trashed | Himself | 2012-12-13 |
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Another Way Home | Narrator | 2012-11-18 |
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Seeds of Freedom | Narator | 2012-01-01 |
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The Words | The Old Man | 2012-09-07 |
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Margin Call | John Tuld | 2011-09-28 |
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The Last Lions | Narrator | 2011-02-11 |
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The Majestic Plastic Bag | Narrator | 2010-01-01 |
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration | Self | 2010-01-24 |
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The Power of the Powerless | 2009-11-12 | |
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The Pink Panther 2 | Avellaneda | 2009-02-06 |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty | Self (archive footage) | 2009-09-05 |
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Georgia O'Keeffe | Alfred Stieglitz | 2009-09-19 |
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The Chronoscope | Narrator | 2009-07-01 |
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Eden at the End of the World | Narrator | 2008-01-01 |
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Magic in the air, Bantry House Music | Festival audience member | 2008-07-31 |
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1984 | Television Voice | 2008-05-12 |
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Appaloosa | Randall Bragg | 2008-09-19 |
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Lynch 2 | Self | 2007-08-14 |
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J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation | Narrator | 2007-01-01 |
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Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo | Narrator (voice) | 2006-04-19 |
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Eye of the Leopard | Narrator | 2006-10-08 |
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Eragon | Brom | 2006-12-14 |
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The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall | Self | 2006-10-31 |
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Inland Empire | Kingsley Stewart | 2006-12-06 |
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Mathilde | Col. De Petris | 2006-01-01 |
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The Path to Redemption | Self | 2006-05-23 |
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Casanova | Pucci | 2005-12-25 |
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Kingdom of Heaven | Tiberias | 2005-05-03 |
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The Merchant of Venice | Himself | 2005-10-06 |
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Revisiting Brideshead | Self | 2005-10-15 |
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Gelibolu | Narrator | 2005-03-18 |
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The Merchant of Venice | Antonio | 2004-12-03 |
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Being Julia | Michael Gosselyn | 2004-09-03 |
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003-04-03 |
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The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World | Narrator | 2003-05-09 |
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Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions | Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-01 |
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Callas Forever | Larry Kelly | 2002-09-18 |
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Ohio Impromptu | Reader / Listener | 2002-04-02 |
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And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... | Valentin Valentin | 2002-05-29 |
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The Time Machine | Über-Morlock | 2002-03-04 |
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Last Call | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 2002-05-25 |
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The Fourth Angel | Jack Elgin | 2001-08-15 |
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Het korte leven van Anne Frank | Narrator (English version) | 2001-11-01 |
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The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons" | Self | 2001-05-22 |
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Dungeons & Dragons | Profion | 2000-12-08 |
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Longitude | Rupert Gould | 2000-01-02 |
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Faeries | The Shapeshifter (voice) | 1999-01-23 |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | Aramis | 1998-03-12 |
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The Lolita Story | Himself | 1998-01-01 |
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Lolita | Humbert Humbert | 1997-09-27 |
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Chinese Box | John | 1997-11-14 |
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Stealing Beauty | Alex Parrish | 1996-03-29 |
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Self | 1995-06-05 |
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance | Simon | 1995-05-19 |
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A Night to Die For | Self | 1995-05-18 |
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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Self (archive footage) | 1994-05-18 |
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The Making of the Lion King | Self | 1994-06-24 |
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The Lion King | Scar (voice) | 1994-06-15 |
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M. Butterfly | René Gallimard | 1993-10-01 |
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The House of the Spirits | Esteban Trueba | 1993-10-21 |
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Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) | 1992-10-01 |
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Damage | Dr. Stephen Fleming | 1992-12-02 |
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Waterland | Tom Crick | 1992-08-21 |
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Un voyage dans le temps | H.G. Wells | 1992-04-12 |
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Tales from Hollywood | Odon Von Horvath | 1992-10-18 |
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Kafka | Kafka | 1991-11-15 |
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Žebrácká opera | Prisoner | 1991-10-01 |
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'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe | Narrator | 1991-01-01 |
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Reversal of Fortune | Claus von Bülow | 1990-10-19 |
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Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! | Self (archive footage) | 1990-04-30 |
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Danny the Champion of the World | William Smith | 1989-07-28 |
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Australia | Edouard Pierson | 1989-09-13 |
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Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World' | Narrator | 1989-09-01 |
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The Dream | 1989-01-01 | |
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A Chorus of Disapproval | Guy Jones | 1989-08-18 |
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Dead Ringers | Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle | 1988-09-23 |
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The Making of Dead Ringers | Self - Actor | 1988-01-01 |
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Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie | Self | 1988-10-05 |
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Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier | Narrator (voice) | 1986-09-01 |
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Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary | Self | 1986-01-14 |
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The Mission | Father Gabriel | 1986-09-06 |
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The Statue of Liberty | Self (voice) | 1985-10-26 |
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Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 |
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The Wild Duck | Harold | 1984-03-05 |
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Un amour de Swann | Charles Swann | 1984-02-23 |
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Betrayal | Jerry | 1983-02-19 |
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The Captain's Doll | Captain Alexander Hepburn | 1983-02-11 |
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Moonlighting | Nowak | 1982-09-26 |
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The French Lieutenant's Woman | Charles Henry Smithson / Mike | 1981-08-28 |
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Nijinsky | Mikhail Fokine | 1980-03-20 |
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Langrishe, Go Down | Otto Beck | 1978-09-20 |
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The Well of Saint Nobody | William | |
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Highlander | ||
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Encore | Nigel | |
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A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand | ||
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The Crystal Planet | Governor Mordokan (voice) | |
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Water People: The Story of Us | The Ocean (voice) | |
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Rizana: A Caged Bird | Professor Julian Miles | |
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The Beekeeper 2 | Wallace Westwyld |
