| Film | Year | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| There Goes the Bride | 1932 | Bit Role | Uncredited |
| Eyes of Fate | 1933 | Man at Race Course | Uncredited |
| Cleopatra | 1934 | Slave | Uncredited |
| All the Winners | 1934 | Uncredited | |
| Without Regret | 1935 | Bill Gage | |
| Barbary Coast | 1935 | Cockney sailor | Uncredited |
| A Feather in Her Hat | 1935 | Leo Cartwright | |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Able-Bodied Seaman | Uncredited |
| Splendor | 1935 | Clancey Lorrimore | |
| Rose Marie | 1936 | Teddy | |
| Palm Springs | 1936 | George Brittel | |
| Dodsworth | 1936 | Captain Clyde Lockert | |
| Thank You, Jeeves! | 1936 | Bertie Wooster | |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Captain James Randall | |
| Beloved Enemy | 1936 | Gerald Preston | |
| We Have Our Moments | 1937 | Joe Gilling | |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | 1937 | Count Fritz von Tarlenheim | |
| Dinner at the Ritz | 1937 | Paul de Brack | |
| Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife | 1938 | Albert de Regnier | |
| Four Men and a Prayer | 1938 | Chris | |
| Three Blind Mice | 1938 | Steve Harrington | |
| The Dawn Patrol | 1938 | Lt. Scott | |
| Wuthering Heights | 1939 | Edgar Linton | |
| Bachelor Mother | 1939 | David Merlin | |
| The Real Glory | 1939 | Lt Terrence McCool | |
| Eternally Yours | 1939 | Tony “The Great Arturo” Halstead | |
| Raffles | 1939 | A.J. Raffles | |
| The First of the Few | 1942 | Geoffrey Crisp | |
| The Way Ahead | 1944 | Lt Jim Perry | |
| Magnificent Doll | 1946 | Aaron Burr | |
| A Matter of Life and Death | 1946 | Peter David Carter | |
| The Perfect Marriage | 1947 | Dale Williams | |
| The Other Love | 1947 | Dr Anthony Stanton | |
| The Bishop’s Wife | 1947 | Henry Brougham | |
| Bonnie Prince Charlie | 1948 | Prince Charles Edward Stuart | |
| Enchantment | 1948 | General Sir Roland Dane | |
| A Kiss in the Dark | 1949 | Eric Phillips | |
| A Kiss for Corliss | 1949 | Kenneth Marquis | |
| The Toast of New Orleans | 1950 | Jacques Riboudeaux | |
| The Elusive Pimpernel | 1950 | Sir Percy Blakeney | |
| Happy Go Lovely | 1951 | B.G. Bruno | |
| Soldiers Three | 1951 | Captain Pindenny | |
| Appointment with Venus | 1951 | Major Valentine Morland | |
| The Lady Says No | 1952 | Bill Shelby | |
| The Moon Is Blue | 1953 | David Slater | Winner, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor at the 11th Golden Globe Awards |
| The Love Lottery | 1954 | Rex Allerton | |
| Happy Ever After | 1954 | Jasper O’Leary | |
| Carrington V.C. | 1955 | Major “Copper” Carrington, V.C. | Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best British Actor at the 8th British Academy Film Awards |
| The King’s Thief | 1955 | Duke of Brampton | |
| The Birds and the Bees | 1956 | Colonel Harris | |
| The Silken Affair | 1956 | Roger Tweakham | |
| Around the World in 80 Days | 1956 | Phileas Fogg | |
| Oh, Men! Oh, Women! | 1957 | Dr. Alan Coles | |
| The Little Hut | 1957 | Henry Brittingham-Brett | |
| My Man Godfrey | 1957 | Godfrey Smith | Nominated, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor at the 15th Golden Globe Awards |
| Bonjour Tristesse | 1958 | Raymond | |
| Separate Tables | 1958 | Major David Angus Pollock | Winner, Academy Award for Best Actor at the 31st Academy Awards Golden Globe Award for Best Actor at the 16th Golden Globe Awards New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor at the 1958 Awards |
| Ask Any Girl | 1959 | Miles Doughton | |
| Happy Anniversary | 1959 | Chris Walters | |
| Please Don’t Eat the Daisies | 1960 | Larry Mackay | |
| The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | Corporal Miller | |
| The Best of Enemies | 1961 | Major Richardson | Originally titled I Due Nemici |
| The Road to Hong Kong | 1962 | Lady Chatterley’s Lover lama | Uncredited |
| Guns of Darkness | 1962 | Tom Jordan | |
| The Captive City | 1962 | Major Peter Whitfield | Originally titled La Città Prigioniera |
| Il giorno più cortos | 1963 | Released internationally as The Shortest Day | |
| 55 Days at Peking | 1963 | Sir Arthur Robertson | |
| The Pink Panther | 1963 | Sir Charles Litton | |
| Bedtime Story | 1964 | Lawrence Jamison | |
| Lady L | 1965 | Lord Lendale | |
| Where the Spies Are | 1965 | Dr Love | |
| Eye of the Devil | 1966 | Philippe de Montfaucon | |
| Casino Royale | 1967 | Sir James Bond | |
| Prudence and the Pill | 1968 | Gerald Hardcastle | |
| The Impossible Years | 1968 | Jonathan Kingsley | |
| The Extraordinary Seaman | 1969 | Lt. Commander Finchhaven | |
| The Brain | 1969 | Col. Carol Matthews | Originally titled Le Cerveau |
| Before Winter Comes | 1969 | Major Giles Burnside | |
| The Statue | 1971 | Alex Bolt | |
| King, Queen, Knave | 1972 | Charles Dreyer | Originally titled Herzbube |
| The Canterville Ghost | 1974 | Ghost | |
| Vampira | 1974 | Count Dracula | |
| The Remarkable Rocket | 1975 | Narrator | |
| Paper Tiger | 1975 | Walter Bradbury | |
| No Deposit, No Return | 1976 | J. W. Osborne | |
| Murder by Death | 1976 | Dick Charleston | |
| Candleshoe | 1977 | Priory | |
| Death on the Nile | 1978 | Colonel Race | |
| Escape to Athena | 1979 | Professor Blake | |
| A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square | 1979 | Ivan/General Bernard Drew | |
| Rough Cut | 1980 | Chief Inspector Cyril Willis | |
| The Sea Wolves | 1980 | Colonel Bill Grice | |
| Trail of the Pink Panther | 1982 | Sir Charles Litton | Voice dubbed by Rich Little |
| Better Late Than Never | 1982 | Nicholas Cartland | |
| Curse of the Pink Panther | 1983 | Sir Charles Litton |
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