I Claudius (1976) (TV)
- Starring as Sejanus
- The show was a thirteen part BBC adaptation of Robert Graves' books. Historically correct in most aspects, all the major characters are real. Claudius in old age reminisces about his life and family. He is writing a secret history, to be hidden when he is finished and found by us some nineteen hundred years later.
- Sejanus was the ambitious Commander of the Praetorian Guard. Sejanus and Tiberius team up to overthrow the Emperor, while Livilla poisons her current husband, Castor so she and Sejanus can plot to take the thrown together. Tiberius refuses to allow their marriage, so Livilla urges Sejanus to assassinate him. Tiberius forcibly retires Sejanus and arrests him, where he is murdered in his cell by a guard.

Fall of Eagles (1974) (TV Mini-series)
- Starring as Lenin
- Stretched out over 13 parts, this BBC drama series focuses on the Hapsburgs of Austria-Hungary, the Romanovs of Russia, and the Hohenzollerns of Germany. All three families ruled Europe in the second half of the 19th century, but none of them prevailed.
- Lenin struggles to build the future Communist Party during the 1903 congress that will lead to the split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.