Derek Jacobi

as Lucian Freud

as The Narrator

as Albert

as The Friar

as Self

as Gracchus

as Mr. Todd

as (voice)

as Sir Ralph Unwin

as Errol

as Ambrose

as Narrator (voice)

as Self

as David

as Self

as Erasmus Fry

as Self

as Self (archive footage)

as Father Enoch

as Narrator

as Himself

as Mr. Brown

as Dr. Hobson

as Lord Palmerston

as The Lawyer

as Claudius

as Narrator

as The Metatron

as Metatron

as Professor Joseph Wright

as Bishop Myriel

as Mr. Yaffe

as Scrooge

as Edward Henry Masterman

as Ross

as Leopold Gursky

as Duke of Windsor

as Mercutio

as Self (archive footage)

as Narrator

as King

as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

as Count Fernando D'Aillieres

as Travers Twiss

as Webster

as Man

as Claudius/Spooner

as Narrator

as Self

as Stuart Bixby

as Narrator (voice)

as Alan

as Himself

as Narrator

as Sulla

as Himself

as Lord Pirrie

as Sir Owen Morshead

as Prologue

as Narrator (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

as Cardinal Orsini

as Honorio

as Cornhill

as King Lear

as Archbishop Cosmo Lang

as Derek Jacobi

as Mr. Simpson

as Fred Ashton

as Self

as Himself - Presenter

as Piers Denmont

as Rudolph Agnew

as Quentin Neely

as Nigel Dewberry

as Sidney Turtlebaum

as Narrator

as Dr. Nathan Gross

as The Master (archive footage)

as Howard Whittam

as Grandfather

as Magisterial Emissary

as Guido

as The Tramp / Charles Dickens

as President

as Narrator (voice)

as Balzer

as Derek Jacobi

as Narrator (voice)

as Senator Augusto Pinochet

as Alexander Corvinus

as Narrator(voice)

as Mr. Wheen

as Lord Dempsey

as Self

as Professor Yana

as Colonel Protheroe

as Mr. Operatski (voice)

as Nezo

as Self

as Other Voices (voice)

as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby

as Tacitus

as Victor

as The Master (voice)

as Narrator

as Self

as Narrator (voice)

as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

as Maj. Merton

as Self

as The Duke

as Self

as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

as Stanley Baldwin

as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

as George Cording QC

as Probert

as Theseus (voice)

as Priam Huntington (voice)

as Father Lavelle

as Librarian

as Narrator

as Various Characters

as Squire Fairfield

as Voice

as Phineas

as Gracchus

as Lucky Leadbetter

as Narrator

as Father Leonor Fousnel

as Francis Bacon

as Father Frederick

as Narrator ( voice )

as King Claudius

as Self - Interviewee

as Alan Turing

as Self (voice)

as General

as Brother Cadfael

as Narrator

as Archibald Craven (voice)

as Various (voice)

as (voice)

as Brother Cadfael

as Brother Cadfael

as Brother Cadfael

as Brother Cadfael

as Brother Cadfael

as Jeremy Fisher (voice)

as Marcus Fabricius (voice)

as Randal

as George Salisbury

as Jackson Hedley

as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)

as The Magician (voice)

as Narrator

as Daedalus

as Franklyn Madson

as Mr. Frederick / Sir John

as William Russell / Various (voice)

as Himself

as Chorus

as (voice)

as Hordedef (voice)

as The Imposter

as Arthur Clennam

as Archibald Craven

as George Salisbury

as Self

as Pierre (voice)

as Mr. Pye

as Mr Pye

as Self

as Self (voice)

as Cyrano de Bergerac

as Kurt Limmer

as Nicodemus (voice)

as The Stranger

as Adolf Hitler

as Dom Claude Frollo

as Daberlohn

as Martin Beck

as Hamlet

as Arthur Davis

as Freddie Fenton

as The Stranger

as Drioli

as King Richard II

as Richard II

as Hamlet

as Townley - Publisher

as Narrator

as Guy Burgess

as Claudius

as Gregory

as Klaus Wenzer

as Bertram Braddle

as Voice of Ernest Shackleton

as Lord Fawn

as Inspector Caron

as William Drew

as Herbert Fletcher

as Andrei

as Gerry

as Don John

as Cassio

as (archive footage)

as Narrator

as Eric

as Eric

as Self - Winner

as Self - Nominee

as Dom Claude

as Archibald Craven

as Imposter

as Narrator