Kenneth Branagh Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Kenneth Branagh filmography covers 52 movie titles and 10 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Kenneth Branagh movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Chariots of Fire (1981) as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
• A Month in the Country (1987) as James Moon
• Henry V (1989) as Henry V
• Dead Again (1991) as Roman Strauss / Mike Church
• Peter's Friends (1992) as Andrew Benson
• Much Ado About Nothing (1993) as Benedick
• Swing Kids (1993) as Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) as Victor Frankenstein
• Anne Frank Remembered (1995) as Narration (voice)
• Othello (1995) as Iago
• Hamlet (1996) as Prince Hamlet
• Looking for Richard (1996) as Self - Interviewee
• Celebrity (1998) as Lee Simon
• The Gingerbread Man (1998) as Rick Magruder
• The Proposition (1998) as Father Michael McKinnon
• Universal Horror (1998) as Narrator
• The Theory of Flight (1999) as Richard
• Wild Wild West (1999) as Dr. Arliss Loveless
• Love's Labour's Lost (2000) as Berowne
• The Road to El Dorado (2000) as Miguel (voice)
• Conspiracy (2001) as Reinhard Heydrich
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) as Gilderoy Lockhart
• How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2002) as Peter McGowan
• Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) as A. O. Neville
• The Tramp and the Dictator (2002) as Narrator (voice)
• Five Children and It (2004) as Uncle Albert
• The Goebbels Experiment (2005) as Narrator (voice)
• Walking with Monsters (2005) as Narrator (voice)
• Warm Springs (2005) as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• As You Like It (2006) as Self (voice)
• Sleuth (2007) as Other Man on T.V.
• Valkyrie (2008) as Henning von Tresckow
• The Boat That Rocked (2009) as Dormandy
• With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (2010) as Self
• Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (2011) as Self
• My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Sir Laurence Olivier
• Thor: From Asgard to Earth (2011) as Self
• London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder (2012) as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) as Viktor Cherevin
• Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe (2014) as Self
• Mindhorn (2016) as Himself
• Dunkirk (2017) as Commander Bolton
• Murder on the Orient Express (2017) as Hercule Poirot
• All Is True (2018) as William Shakespeare
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
• Tenet (2020) as Sator
• Death on the Nile (2022) as Hercule Poirot
• Fireheart (2022) as Shawn Nolan (voice)
• A Haunting in Venice (2023) as Hercule Poirot
• Oppenheimer (2023) as Niels Bohr
• The King of Kings (2025) as Charles Dickens (voice)
• The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) as Stuart

Kenneth Branagh television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Kenneth Branagh; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• American Experience as Narrator (voice)
• Big Al as Narrator
• BLUE EYE SAMURAI as Abijah Fowler (voice)
• Shackleton as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
• The American Revolution as (voice)
• The Oscars as Self
• Walking with Beasts as Narrator
• Walking with Dinosaurs as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Walking with Monsters as Narrator (voice)
• Wallander as Kurt Wallander

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Kenneth Branagh's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.