| Worked as a stage hand with Lincoln Repertory |
1953 | Stage debut in a school production of "The Bluebird" |
1961 | Made TV debut in "Mourtzanos" |
1962 | Film acting debut, "The Wild and the Willing"; directed and produced by Ralph Thomas |
1962 | Professional stage debut in the London production, "Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger" |
1963 | Won the Variety Club Award as Most Promising Newcomer for his stage performance in "The Dwarfs"; first collaboration with playwright Harold Pinter |
1966 | Portrayed Richard Rich in the film version of "A Man for All Seasons" |
1969 | Played the title role of a 19th-century Scottish highwayman in John Huston's uninspired "Sinful Davey" |
1970 | Portrayed the inarticulate Timothy Evans in "10 Rillington Place" |
1972 | Performed in Harold Pinter's London stage revival of "The Caretaker" |
1973 | Essayed the role of Ben in Pinter's London revival of "The Dumb Waiter" |
1974 | Portrayed Tristran Tzara in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties" |
1975 | Shot to fame as Quentin Crisp in the TV play, "The Naked Civil Servant" |
1976 | First non-British film, the Italian-made "La Linea del Fiume/Stream Line" |
1976 | Offered a brilliant turn as Roman emperor Caligula in the BBC adaptation of "I, Claudius" |
1977 | First U.S. TV-movie, "Spectre" (NBC) |
1978 | Earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role as a drugged-out hippie in Alan Parker's "Midnight Express" |
1978 | First U.S. feature, voiced Aragorn in Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings" |
1979 | Essayed the role of Kane, the memorable first victim of the title creature in Ridley Scott's "Alien" |
1980 | Acted in Michael Cimino's colossal bomb "Heaven's Gate" as the lost, embittered alcoholic Billy Irvine |
1980 | Portrayed the title character in David Lynch's adaption of the Joseph Merrick biography "The Elephant Man"; garnered a Best Actor Academy Award nomination |
1981 | Played Jesus in Mel Brooks' "History of the World, Part I" |
1982 | Starred as the Fool opposite Laurence Olivier's King in BBC production of "King Lear" |
1983 | Appeared in Sam Peckinpah's critically panned but hugely successful final film "The Osterman Weekend" |
1984 | Acted the part of the brooding assassin in Stephen Frears' sinister "The Hit" |
1984 | Played the stubbornly nonconformist Winston Smith in Michael Radford's adaptation of the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" |
1987 | Played the title role of the narrator on the NBC children's fantasy series "The Storyteller" |
1987 | Provided the voice of the artist for the documentary "Vincent - The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh" |
1987 | Re-teamed with director Mel Brooks for the disappointing "Star Wars" spoof "Spaceballs" |
1989 | Offered an excellent turn as Dr. Stephen Ward, a sexual provocateur in Michael Caton-Jones' directorial debut "Scandal" |
1989 | Portrayed the Storyteller on NBC variety anthology summer series "The Jim Henson Hour" |
1990 | Appeared as himself in the documentary feature "Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp in New York" |
1995 | Cast in the John Boorman directed "Two Nudes Bathing" segment of Showtime's "Picture Windows" |
1995 | Re-teamed with Caton-Jones for "Rob Roy" |
1995 | Starred with Helen Mirren in an award-winning West End production of Turgenev's "A Month in the Country" |
1997 | Earned acclaim for his performance in Richard Kwietniowski's feature directorial debut, "Love and Death on Long Island" |
1997 | Narrated The Discovery Channel's "True Story of the Elephant Man" |
1998 | Starred opposite Christian Bale in Jeremy Thomas' directorial debut "All the Little Animals" |
2000 | Acted in a film version of "Krapp's Last Tape" |
2000 | Played a priest in Janusz Kiminski's feature directorial debut "Lost Souls" |
2001 | Played Mr. Ollivander, the wand-maker in the first Harry Potter film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" |
2003 | Re-teamed with director Richard Kwietniowski for "Owning Mahowny" |
2004 | Cast as Professor Bruttenholm in the feature adaption of the popular comic book series "Hellboy" |
2004 | Reprised role of Mr. Ollivander for "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" |
2005 | Starred opposite Kate Hudson in the supernatural thriller "Skeleton Key" |
2006 | Cast as the villainous Bishop Lilliman in the Wachowski brothers' "V for Vendetta" |
2008 | Appeared in Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" as Harold Oxley |
2010 | Reprised role of Mr. Ollivander for the seventh and final installment of the series directed by David Yates, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"; film released in two parts, "Part 1" in November 2010 and "Part 2" in July 2011 |
2011 | Appeared as an old man in "Immortals" |
2011 | Cast in Lars Von Trier's apocalyptic drama "Melancholia" |
2011 | Joined ensemble cast of thriller "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" |
