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==Acting credits== ===Film=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Year!!Title!!Role!!class="unsortable"|Notes |- | rowspan=2 | 1987 || ''[[Withnail and I]]'' || "I" || |- | ''[[Empire of the Sun (film)|Empire of the Sun]]'' || Lt. Price || |- | rowspan=4 | 1989 || ''[[Tree of Hands]]'' || Barry || |- | ''Streets of Yesterday'' || Yosef Raz || |- | ''[[The Rainbow (1989 film)|The Rainbow]]'' || Anton Skrebensky || |- | ''[[Dealers (film)|Dealers]]'' || Daniel Pascoe || |- | rowspan=2 | 1990 || ''[[The Monk (1990 film)|The Monk]]'' || Father Lorenzo Rojas || |- | ''[[Paper Mask]]'' || Matthew Harris || |- | 1991 || ''[[Afraid of the Dark]]'' || Tony Dalton || |- | 1992 || ''[[Alien 3]]'' || Golic || |- | 1993 || ''[[The Three Musketeers (1993 film)|The Three Musketeers]]'' || Girard / Jussac || |- | 1995 || ''[[Catherine the Great (1995 film)|Catherine the Great]]'' || [[Grigory Potyomkin]] || |- | rowspan=2 | 1997 || ''[[FairyTale: A True Story]]'' || Arthur Wright || |- | ''[[Downtime (film)|Downtime]]'' || Rob || |- |1998 |''The Dance of Shiva'' |Capt. Greville |Short film |- | 2001 || ''[[My Kingdom (film)|My Kingdom]]'' || Dean || |- | 2002 || ''[[Queen of the Damned (film)|Queen of the Damned]]'' || [[David Talbot (The Vampire Chronicles)|David Talbot]] || |- | rowspan=2|2003 || ''[[Listening (2003 film)|Listening]]'' || The Man || Short film |- |''[[Y Mabinogi|Otherworld]]'' || King [[Matholwch]] || Voice role |- | 2005 || ''[[Gypo (film)|Gypo]]'' || Paul || |- |2006 |''Poppies'' || Tony Hudson || |- | rowspan="2" |2007 |''Always Crashing in the Same Car'' |Bill Mackinnon |Short film |- | ''Voice from Afar'' || Actor || |- | 2009 || ''[[Lesbian Vampire Killers]]'' || Vicar || |- |2010 || ''Godard & Others'' || Torrence || |- |2011 || ''[[Moving Target (2011 film)|Moving Target]]'' || Mr. Johnson || |- |2012 |''Notes from the Underground'' || Photographer || |- | rowspan="2" |2013 || ''Art Is...''|| Lulu's Dad || |- |''A Little Place Off the Edgware Road'' |James Craven | rowspan="3" |Short film |- | 2014 || ''[[The Minister of Chance]]'' || Ambassador Durian |- |2015 |''Absence'' |Man |- |rowspan=2|2016 || ''Brakes'' || Peter || |- |''[[Letters from Baghdad]]'' || Henry Cadogan || Voice role |- | rowspan="2" |2017 || ''B&B'' || Josh || |- |''Perplexed Music'' |Man | rowspan="2" |Short film |- |2021 |''Swallow Your Dreams'' |James |- | rowspan="2" |2023 |''Mia and the Dragon Princess'' |Walsh |- |[[The Undertaker (2023 British film)|''The Undertaker'']] |Arthur Morel |} ===Television=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Year!!Title!!Role!!class="unsortable"|Notes |- |1982 |''[[Play For Today]]'' || Norman || ''Whistling Wally'' |- |1983 |''Gaskin'' |Graham Gaskin |TV film |- | 1983–1984 ||''[[Give Us a Break (TV series)|Give Us a Break]]'' || Mo Morris || 8 episodes |- | rowspan=2 | 1986 || ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' || [[John Worthing]]||TV film |- | ''[[The Monocled Mutineer]]'' || [[Percy Toplis]] || 4 episodes |- | 1990 || ''[[Screen Two]]'' || Colin || Episode: "Drowning in the Shallow End" |- | 1992 || ''Nice Town'' || Joe Thompson || 3 episodes |- | rowspan="2" |1995 |''[[Catherine the Great (1995 film)|Catherine the Great]]'' |[[Grigory Potyomkin]] |TV film |- | ''[[The Hanging Gale]]'' || Liam Phelan || 4 episodes |- | rowspan="3" |1996 |''[[Doctor Who (film)|Doctor Who]]'' |[[Eighth Doctor]] | rowspan="3" |TV film |- |''[[The One That Got Away (1996 film)|The One That Got Away]]'' |[[Chris Ryan]] |- |''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' |[[Bassanio]] |- | 1998 || ''[[Our Mutual Friend (1998 TV serial)|Our Mutual Friend]]'' || Eugene Wrayburn || 4 episodes |- | 1999 || ''[[Forgotten (TV series)|Forgotten]]'' || Ben Turner || 3 episodes |- | rowspan=2 | 2000 || ''Nature Boy'' || Steve Witton || 4 episodes |- | ''[[Fish (British TV series)|Fish]]'' || Jonathan Vishnevski || 6 episodes |- | rowspan=2 | 2001 || ''Hotel!'' || Ben Carter ||TV film |- | ''[[Sweet Revenge (British TV series)|Sweet Revenge]]'' || Patrick Vine || 2 episodes |- | rowspan=2 | 2002 || ''[[Blood Strangers]]'' || DC David Ingram || 2 episodes |- | ''The Biographer'' || [[Andrew Morton (writer)|Andrew Morton]] ||TV film |- | 2001–2003 ||''[[Hornblower (TV series)|Hornblower]]'' || Lieutenant Bush || 4 episodes |- | 2003 || ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]'' || Dr. Peter Lord || Episode: "Sad Cypress" |- | 2004 || ''[[Lie with Me (2004 TV series)|Lie With Me]]'' || Gerry Henson || 2 episodes |- | 2005 || ''[[Kidnapped (2005 TV series)|Kidnapped]]'' || Colonel MacNab || 2 episodes |- | rowspan=2 | 2005 || ''[[Fables of Forgotten Things]]'' || Clarence ||TV short film |- | ''[[Agatha Christie's Marple]]'' || Dickie Erskine || Episode: "Sleeping Murder" |- | rowspan="3" | 2006 || ''[[Tripping Over]]'' || Jeremy || 6 episodes |- | ''[[Sea of Souls]]'' || Christopher Chambers || Episode: "Rebound" |- |''[[If I Had You (film)|If I Had You]]'' |Philip Andrews |TV film |- | 2007 || ''[[True Dare Kiss]]'' || Nash McKinnon || 6 episodes |- | 2009 || ''[[Collision (TV series)|Collision]]'' || Richard Reeves || 5 episodes |- | 2010 || ''[[Jonathan Creek]]'' || Hugo Doré || Episode: "The Judas Tree" |- | 2010–2011, 2019 ||''[[Luther (TV series)|Luther]]'' || Mark North || 10 episodes |- | rowspan=2 | 2011 || ''[[Waking the Dead (TV series)|Waking the Dead]]'' || ACC Tony Nicholson || Episodes: "Waterloo", Parts 1 & 2 |- | ''[[New Tricks]]'' || DCI James Larson || Episode: "Object of Desire" |- | rowspan="2" |2012 |''[[Titanic|Save Our Souls: The Titanic Inquiry]]'' |[[Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading|Sir Rufus Isaacs]] |TV film |- | ''[[A Mother's Son]]'' || David || 2 episodes |- | rowspan=2 | 2013 || ''[[Ripper Street]]'' || Stanley J. Bone || Episode: "The Good of This City" |- | ''[[Moving On (TV series)|Moving On]]'' || Phil || Episode: "Blood Ties" |- | 2013, 2022 || ''[[Doctor Who]]'' || [[Eighth Doctor]] || Episodes: "[[The Night of the Doctor]]" (minisode) & "[[The Power of the Doctor]]" (cameo) |- | 2013 || ''[[The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]]'' || Self || TV film |- | 2014 || ''[[The Bletchley Circle]]'' || John Richards || Episode: "Blood on Their Hands: Part 1" |- | rowspan="2" |2016 |''Moving On'' |{{N/a|None}} |Directed episodes "Passengers" and "Zero" |- | ''[[The Musketeers]]'' || St. Pierre || Episode: "The Queen's Diamonds" |- | 2017–2018 || ''[[Holby City]]'' || [[John Gaskell]] || 40 episodes |- | 2021, 2023 || ''[[Annika (2021 TV series)|Annika]]'' || Dr. Jake Strathearn || 6 episodes |- | rowspan=2 | 2022 || ''[[Anne (British TV series)|Anne]]'' || Sir [[Malcolm Thornton]] || Episode: #1.2 |- | ''[[McDonald & Dodds]]'' || Archie Addington || Episode: "A Billion Beats" |- | 2024 || ''[[Bookish (TV series)|Bookish]]'' || Mr Kind || 2 episodes |} ===Stage=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |1984-5 |''[[Loot (play)|Loot]]'' |Dennis |[[Ambassadors Theatre (London)|Ambassadors Theatre]] and [[Lyric Theatre, London|Lyric Theatre]] |- |1987 |''[[A Lie of the Mind]]'' |Frankie |[[Royal Court Theatre]] |- |1995 |''Father and Son: Son and Father'' | |New Vic, Bristol |- | 1996 || ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' || [[Dogberry]] || Horseshoe, Basingstoke |- | 1997 || ''[[Loot (play)|Loot]]'' || Dennis || [[Ambassadors Theatre (London)|Ambassadors]] |- | 1998 || ''[[The Seagull]]'' || Constantine || rowspan="2" | [[Royal Court Theatre]] |- | 1999 || ''[[A Lie of the Mind]]'' || Frankie |- | 2003 || '' The Little Black Book'' || Jean-Jaques || [[Riverside Studios]] |- |2003-4 | ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' || Captain Adam Brant || [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] |- | 2005 || ''[[The Gigli Concert]]'' || Jimmy || [[Finborough Theatre]] |- | 2009 || ''[[Helen (play)|Helen]]'' || [[Menelaus]] || [[Shakespeare's Globe]] |- | 2011 || ''[[Butley (play)|Butley]]'' || Reg || [[Duchess Theatre]] |- | 2013 || ''[[Major Barbara]]'' || Undershaft || [[Abbey Theatre]] |- | 2014 || ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'' || Alexander Vershinin || [[Southwark Playhouse]] |- | 2017 || ''Gabriel'' || Von Pfunz || Theatre 6 |- | 2022 || ''The Forest'' || Man 2 || [[Hampstead Theatre]] |- |2024|| ''The River''|| The Man|| Greenwich Theatre |} ===Narration=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Year!!Title!!class="unsortable"|Notes |- | 2004 || ''[[That'll Teach 'Em]]''|| Series 2 (5 episodes) |- | rowspan="2"| 2005 || ''[[Zero Hour (2004 TV series)|Zero Hour]]'' || Series 2 |- | ''Ghosts on the Underground'' || |- |2006–2007 |''[[Real Crime]]'' |Series 5–6 |- | 2011 || ''[[Codebreaker (2011 film)|Britain's Greatest Codebreaker]]'' || |- | rowspan="2"| 2013 || ''Wildest Latin America'' || "Wildest Islands Vancouver Islands: Rivers of Life" |- | ''Extraordinary People: The Boy with the Incredible Brain'' || |- | rowspan="3"| 2014 || ''Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting'' || |- | ''[[List of Natural World episodes#Series 33|France: The Wild Side]]'' || |- | ''Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race'' <ref name="bbc">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lcxms|publisher=bbc.co.uk|title=BBC Four - Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race|access-date=24 November 2016}}</ref> || |- | rowspan="2" | 2015 || ''Shark'' <ref name="bbc2">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02n7s0d|publisher=bbc.co.uk|title=BBC One - Shark|access-date=24 November 2016}}</ref> || |- | ''Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship'' <ref name="Channel 4">{{cite news|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/55b95285af23c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207012317/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/55b95285af23c|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 February 2018|publisher=channel4.com|title=Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship|newspaper=Bfi |access-date=5 February 2018}}</ref> || |- | rowspan="2" | 2016 || ''Wild Sri Lanka'' || Disney+ |- | ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia'' || |- | 2016–2017 ||''[[Eden (2016 TV series)|Eden]]'' <ref name="channel4">{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/eden/on-demand/63315-001|publisher=channel4.com|title=Eden - On Demand - All 4|access-date=24 November 2016}}</ref> || Series 1–2 |- |2020 |''Real Dictators'' <ref>{{Cite web|title=Real Dictators|url=https://www.noiser.com/realdictators|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Noiser Podcasts|language=en-US}}</ref> |Podcast; Series 1 |- |2020 |''[[A Pilgrim's Tale]]'' <ref>{{cite podcast|url=https://open.spotify.com/album/6JmirMVyQ6S6J0IiIjgkTt?si=Gk46lfsCTOuYa1Gxc0xWPQ|title=A Pilgrim's Tale|website=Spotify|publisher=BMG Rights Management|access-date=14 May 2025}}</ref> |Record Album; Narrator<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seth Lakeman announces Mayflower-inspired album ‘A Pilgrim’s Tale’ and Tour|url=https://spiralearth.co.uk/seth-lakeman-announces-mayflower-inspired-album-a-pilgrims-tale-and-tour/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Spiral Earth |date=7 February 2020|language=en-UK}}</ref> |- |2021–2022 |''Short History Of...'' <ref>{{cite podcast|url=https://www.noiser.com/short-history-of|title=The Gladiators|website=Short History Of...|publisher=Noiser|host=Paul McGann|date=|time=1:55|access-date=6 January 2022}}</ref> |Podcast; Series 1–2 (41 episodes)<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Hopkins joins "Short History Of" |url=https://www.noiser.com/news/john-hopkins-joins-noiser |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=Noiser Podcasts |date=10 July 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref> |- | 2021 || ''[[Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World]]'' || |- | 2024 || ''D-Day: The Tide Turns'' <ref>{{cite podcast|url=https://www.noiser.com/d-day-the-tide-turns|title=D-Day: The Tide Turns|website=Noiser Podcasts |publisher=Noiser|host=Paul McGann|date=4 June 2024|access-date=20 May 2025}}</ref> |Podcast |- | 2025 || ''Ancient Civilizations'' <ref>{{cite podcast|url=https://www.noiser.com/ancient-civilisations|title=Ancient Civilizations|website=Noiser Podcasts |publisher=Noiser|host=Paul McGann & John Hopkins|date=31 January 2025|access-date=14 May 2025}}</ref> |Podcast; co-narrator John Hopkins |- | 2025 || ''Titanic: Ship of Dreams'' <ref>{{cite podcast|url=https://www.noiser.com/titanic-ship-of-dreams|title=Titanic: Ship of Dreams|website=Noiser Podcasts |publisher=Noiser|host=Paul McGann|date=7 April 2025|access-date=12 April 2025}}</ref> |Podcast |- |} === Audio === {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Year!!Title!!Role !class="unsortable" style="width:26em"|Notes |- |2001–2021 |''[[Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures]]'' |[[Eighth Doctor]] |36 episodes |- |2003-present |''[[Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' |Eighth Doctor |152 episodes |- |2011–2013 |''[[The Minister of Chance]]'' |Durian |6 episodes |- |2015 |''[[River Song (audio drama series)|River Song]]'' |Eighth Doctor |Episode: "The Rulers of the Universe" |- |2019 |''You're the Boss'' |Bill |Track 5 on "Shuffle" by Jamie Lenman, reading of a scene from "Always Crashing in the Same Car" (2007) |- |2019–2020 |''[[The War Master (audio drama series)|The War Master]]'' | rowspan="4" |Eighth Doctor |Series 3, 5 (4 episodes) |- |2020 |''[[List of Doctor Who spin off audio plays by Big Finish#Susan's War (2020)|Susan's War]]'' |Episode: "The Shoreditch Intervention" |- | rowspan="2" | 2023 | ''[[List of Doctor Who spin off audio plays by Big Finish#The Robots (2019–2023)|The Robots]]'' |Episode: "The Final Hour" |- | ''[[List of Doctor Who spin off audio plays by Big Finish#The Paternoster Gang (2019–present)|The Paternoster Gang]]'' |Episode: "Till Death Us Do Part" |} ===Video games=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes |- | 1997 || ''[[Ceremony of Innocence]]'' || Griffin Moss || rowspan="2" | Voice role |- | rowspan="2" | 2015 || ''[[Anno 2205]]'' || Virgil Drake |- |[[Lego Dimensions]] |[[Eighth Doctor]] |Archive Audio |- |2023 || ''Mia and the Dragon Princess'' || Walsh || |} ===Web=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role !Notes ! class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}} |- |2020||''[[The Doctors Say Thank You]]''|| Himself|| || |}
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