List of Anthony Hopkins performances
Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins has been acting since 1960. Between then and the 1970s, he appeared in the films The Lion in Winter, Hamlet, Young Winston, Audrey Rose and playing Col. Frost in A Bridge Too Far. In the 1980s, he had a starring role in the 1980 film The Elephant Man as Dr. Frederick Treves and in the 1987 film 84 Charing Cross Road.
In 1991, he was cast in the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, a role he played again in both Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable roles he had during the 1990s were Bram Stoker's Dracula, Chaplin, The Remains of the Day, Legends of the Fall with Brad Pitt, The Mask of Zorro with Antonio Banderas, and Meet Joe Black again with Pitt.
The 2000s saw him in the films The World's Fastest Indian, Fracture, The Wolfman, and The Rite. In 2011 he co-starred with Chris Hemsworth as the Norse God Odin in the Marvel Studios film Thor, then again for its 2013 sequel and the third film in 2017. Also in 2017, Hopkins played the role of Sir Edmund Burton, the last living member of the Order of the Witwiccans, in Transformers: The Last Knight.
Hopkins has had numerous roles where he plays real life people including Richard Hauptmann in The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, C. S. "Jack" Lewis in Shadowlands, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville, Richard Nixon in Nixon, Pablo Picasso in Surviving Picasso, John Quincy Adams in Amistad, Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock, and Pope Benedict XVI in The Two Popes. For his roles in Nixon and Amistad he was nominated for an Academy Award.
His television work includes appearances in Department S, QB VII, All Creatures Great and Small, Hollywood Wives, and Great Expectations. In 2015, he starred in the BBC television film The Dresser, and from 2016 to 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld.
Film
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
| 1965 | ' | Episode: "A Minor Operation" | ||
| 1967 | ' | Television film | ||
| 1969 | Department S | Episode: "A Small War of Nerves" | ||
| 1969 | ITV Sunday Night Drama | Arnold | Episode: "A Walk Through the Forest" | |
| 1970 | ' | Television film | ||
| 1970 | Danton | Television film | ||
| 1970 | Play of the Month | Astrov | Episode: "Uncle Vanya" | |
| 1970, 1974 | Play for Today | Bob / Alexander Tashkov | 2 episodes | |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Episode: "The Arcata Promise" | ||
| 1972–1973 | War and Peace | 17 episodes | ||
| 1972 | Poet Game | Television film | ||
| 1973 | The Edwardians | Television miniseries; episode "Lloyd George" | ||
| 1973 | Black and Blue | Hi | Episode: "The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family" | |
| 1974 | QB VII | 3 episodes | ||
| 1974 | Possessions | Dando | Television film | |
| 1975 | All Creatures Great and Small | Television film | ||
| 1976 | Dark Victory | Television film | ||
| 1976 | ' | Television film | ||
| 1976 | Victory at Entebbe | Television film | ||
| 1979 | Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | Television film | ||
| 1981 | ' | Television film | ||
| 1981 | Peter and Paul | Paul of Tarsus | Television film | |
| 1981 | Othello | Othello | Television film | |
| 1982 | ' | Quasimodo | Television film | |
| 1983 | ' | 4 episodes | ||
| 1984 | Strangers and Brothers | 2 episodes | ||
| 1984 | Arch of Triumph | Television film | ||
| 1985 | Hollywood Wives | 3 episodes | ||
| 1985 | Guilty Conscience | Television film | ||
| 1985 | Mussolini and I | Count | Television film | |
| 1987, 1993 | Screen Two | / Unnamed role | 2 episodes | |
| 1988 | Across the Lake | Television film | ||
| 1988 | ' | Television film | ||
| 1989 | Heartland | Jack | The Play on One BBC series episode | |
| 1989 | Great Expectations | 4 episodes | ||
| 1991 | One Man's War | Television film | ||
| 1991 | To Be the Best | Television film | ||
| 1993 | Selected Exits | Television film | ||
| 2007 | American Masters | Narrator | Episode: "Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends" | |
| 2015 | Sir | Television film | ||
| 2016–2018 | Westworld | 17 episodes | ||
| 2018 | King Lear | Lear | Television film | |
| 2021 | Mythic Quest | Narrator | Episode: "Everlight" | |
| 2024 | Those About to Die | Vespasian | 7 episodes |