Derek Jacobi

as Gracchus

as Edward Henry Masterman

as Archbishop Cosmo Lang

as Mr. Yaffe

as King

as Magisterial Emissary

as Gracchus

as Alexander Corvinus

as Professor Yana

as Mr. Wheen

as Erasmus Fry

as The Metatron

as Duke of Windsor

as Derek Jacobi

as Narrator (voice)

as Professor Joseph Wright

as Sir Owen Morshead

as Probert

as Nicodemus (voice)

as Jackson Hedley

as Cornhill

as Prologue

as Inspector Caron

as Count Fernando D'Aillieres

as Cardinal Orsini

as King Claudius

as Franklyn Madson

as Chorus

as Mr. Brown

as Webster

as Pete

as Father Lavelle

as Ross

as Klaus Wenzer

as Townley - Publisher

as Travers Twiss

as Self - Interviewee

as Colonel Protheroe

as Mr. Todd

as Honorio

as Claudius

as Voice of Ernest Shackleton

as Bishop Myriel

as William Russell / Various (voice)

as Narrator

as Stuart Bixby

as Dr. Nathan Gross

as Daedalus

as Leopold Gursky

as Nezo

as Claudius

as Stanley Baldwin

as Narrator

as Phineas

as Francis Bacon

as Alan

as The Stranger

as Rudolph Agnew

as Archibald Craven

as Various (voice)

as Kurt Limmer

as Albert

as Lucky Leadbetter

as Brother Cadfael

as Narrator

as Dom Claude Frollo

as Ambrose

as Arthur Davis

as Father Frederick

as Scrooge

as Freddie Fenton

as Lord Pirrie

as Cassio

as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

as The Imposter

as Librarian

as Other Voices (voice)

as Self

as The Tramp / Charles Dickens

as Nigel Dewberry

as Mercutio

as Archibald Craven (voice)

as Father Leonor Fousnel

as Narrator

as Alan Turing

as Dr. Hobson

as Self (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)

as Hamlet

as The Magician (voice)

as Self (voice)

as The Duke

as Arthur Clennam

as Gregory

as The Friar

as (voice)

as Grandfather

as Maj. Merton

as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby

as Andrei

as Fred Ashton

as Lord Palmerston

as Lord Dempsey

as William Drew

as George Cording QC

as The Master (voice)

as Squire Fairfield

as Father Enoch

as Sir Ralph Unwin

as Self

as Guy Burgess

as Narrator (voice)

as Dom Claude

as Self

as Guido

as Self

as Himself

as Various Characters

as Narrator ( voice )

as Senator Augusto Pinochet

as Errol

as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

as Self

as Herbert Fletcher

as Eric

as Richard II

as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

as (voice)

as Narrator

as The Narrator

as Lord Fawn

as Mr. Simpson

as Claudius/Spooner

as Quentin Neely

as Narrator (voice)

as Mr Pye

as The Stranger

as Himself

as Piers Denmont

as King Richard II

as Don John

as Sidney Turtlebaum

as Sulla

as Howard Whittam

as Himself

as Gerry

as Lucian Freud

as Self

as General

as Self

as Narrator (voice)

as King Lear

as Narrator

as Narrator (voice)

as Marcus Fabricius (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

as Narrator

as Self

as Theseus (voice)

as Adolf Hitler

as Self

as George Salisbury

as President

as Martin Beck

as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

as Narrator

as Daberlohn

as Self

as Mr. Operatski (voice)

as Bertram Braddle

as George Salisbury

as Mr. Pye

as Self

as Self (archive footage)

as Narrator

as Pierre (voice)

as Priam Huntington (voice)

as Hordedef (voice)

as Derek Jacobi

as The Lawyer

as David

as Himself - Presenter

as Narrator

as Self (archive footage)

as Man

as The Master (archive footage)

as Self

as Brother Cadfael

as Brother Cadfael

as Brother Cadfael

as Brother Cadfael

as Brother Cadfael

as Jeremy Fisher (voice)

as Narrator(voice)

as Daedalus

as Self - Winner

as Diederich Hessling