More recently, he has appeared in the 2001 adaptation of The Lost World as Prof. Leo Summerlee, Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death on the Nile (2004) as Colonel Race and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) playing Mr. Salt, Veruca Salt's father.
In 2010, he filmed Cleanskin, a terrorist thriller directed by Hadi Hajaig,[REF] and in 2011 he played King George V in Madonna's film W.E.[REF] .