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

YearTitleRoleNotes
1967'BrechtianShort film
1968'Richard
1969HamletClaudius
1970'Avery
1971When Eight Bells Toll
1972Young Winston
1973'
1974'Kostya
1974Juggernaut
1977'
1977Audrey Rose
1978MagicCorky / Voice of Fats
1978International Velvet
1980'
1980'
1984'
1985'
198784 Charing Cross Road
1988'
1989'
1990Desperate Hours
1990Dylan Thomas: Return JourneyIntroducerAlso director
1991'
1992Freejack
1992Spotswood
1992Howards End
1992Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992Chaplin
1993'
1993'
1993'
1993Shadowlands
1994'
1994Legends of the Fall
1995Nixon
1996AugustAlso director
1996Surviving Picasso
1997'
1997Amistad
1998'
1998Meet Joe Black
1999Instinct
1999Siegfried & Roy: The Magic BoxNarrator
1999Titus
2000Mission: Impossible 2Uncredited cameo
2000How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2001Hannibal
2001Hearts in Atlantis
2002Bad Company
2002Red Dragon
2003'
2004AlexanderPtolemy I Soter
2005ProofRobert
2005'
2006BobbyJohnAlso executive producer
2006All the King's Men
2007Shortcut to Happiness
2007SlipstreamAlso director and writer
2007Fracture
2007BeowulfHrothgarMotion capture
2008Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun StoryNarrator Documentary
2008Immutable Dream of Snow LionShort film
2009'
2010'
2010'Short film
2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2011'Father Lucas
2011ThorOdin
2011360John
2012Hitchcock
2013Red 2
2013Thor: The Dark WorldOdin
2014NoahMethuselah
2015Kidnapping Freddy Heineken
2015SolaceAlso executive producer
2015BlackwayLesterAlso producer
2016Misconduct
2016Collide
2017Transformers: The Last Knight
2017Thor: RagnarokOdin
2019'Pope Benedict XVI
2019Where Are YouThomas Yorke
2020'
2020ElyseAlso producer and composer
2021'
2021Zero Contact
2022Armageddon Time
2022
2023One Life
2023Freud's Last Session
2023Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of FireJimmy
2024Rebel Moon – Part Two: The ScargiverJimmy
2024MaryKing Herod
2025LockedWilliam
2026Wife & DogPost-production
TBAEyes in the TreesDr. AddisPost-production
TBAMaserati: The BrothersLuca AntonelliFilming

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1965'Episode: "A Minor Operation"
1967'Television film
1969Department SEpisode: "A Small War of Nerves"
1969ITV Sunday Night DramaArnoldEpisode: "A Walk Through the Forest"
1970'Television film
1970DantonTelevision film
1970Play of the MonthAstrovEpisode: "Uncle Vanya"
1970, 1974Play for TodayBob / Alexander Tashkov2 episodes
1971Great PerformancesEpisode: "The Arcata Promise"
1972–1973War and Peace17 episodes
1972Poet GameTelevision film
1973The EdwardiansTelevision miniseries; episode "Lloyd George"
1973Black and BlueHiEpisode: "The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family"
1974QB VII3 episodes
1974PossessionsDandoTelevision film
1975All Creatures Great and SmallTelevision film
1976Dark VictoryTelevision film
1976'Television film
1976Victory at EntebbeTelevision film
1979Mayflower: The Pilgrims' AdventureTelevision film
1981'Television film
1981Peter and PaulPaul of TarsusTelevision film
1981OthelloOthelloTelevision film
1982'QuasimodoTelevision film
1983'4 episodes
1984Strangers and Brothers2 episodes
1984Arch of TriumphTelevision film
1985Hollywood Wives3 episodes
1985Guilty ConscienceTelevision film
1985Mussolini and ICount Television film
1987, 1993Screen Two / Unnamed role2 episodes
1988Across the LakeTelevision film
1988'Television film
1989HeartlandJackThe Play on One BBC series episode
1989Great Expectations4 episodes
1991One Man's WarTelevision film
1991To Be the BestTelevision film
1993Selected ExitsTelevision film
2007American MastersNarrator Episode: "Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends"
2015SirTelevision film
2016–2018Westworld17 episodes
2018King LearLearTelevision film
2021Mythic QuestNarrator Episode: "Everlight"
2024Those About to DieVespasian7 episodes