character - Charles Dickens (voice)

character - Abijah Fowler (voice)

character - Hercule Poirot

character - Niels Bohr

character - Self

character - Self

character - Boris Johnson

character - Self - Director (archive footage)

character - Hercule Poirot

character - Shawn Nolan (voice)

character - Self

character - Sator

character - William Shakespeare

character - Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)

character - Hercule Poirot

character - Commander Bolton

character - Archie Rice

character - Himself

character - Colin/The Stranger

character - Leontes

character - Self

character - Self

character - Self

character - Viktor Cherevin

character - Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, general in the King's army

character - Mark Snow

character - Isambard Kingdom Brunel

character - Hercules Poirot (archive footage)

character - Sir Laurence Olivier

character - Hamlet (archive footage)

character - Self

character - Self

character - Mark Snow

character - Self

character - Self

character - Self

character - Narrator (voice)

character - Dormandy

character - Henning von Tresckow

character - Kurt Wallander

character - Colonel Tim Collins

character - Steven Chesterman

character - Other Man on T.V.

character - Self

character - Himself

character - Self

character - Self - Guest

character - Self

character - Self (voice)

character - Narrator (voice)

character - Narrator (voice)

character - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

character - Self

character - Uncle Albert

character - Self

character - Narrator (voice)

character - Self

character - Narrator

character - Himself / Narrator

character - Self

character - Gilderoy Lockhart

character - Peter McGowan

character - Narrator (voice)

character - A. O. Neville

character - Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

character - Narrator (voice)

character - Narrator (voice)

character - Narrator

character - Reinhard Heydrich

character - Joseph Barnett

character - Narrator

character - Self / Narrator

character - Kenneth Branagh

character - Miguel (voice)

character - Berowne

character - Narrator

character - Self

character - Himself

character - Himself

character - Periwig-maker (voice)

character - Narrator

character - Narrator (voice)

character - Dr. Arliss Loveless

character - Self

character - Richard

character - Colonel Evans

character - Narrator

character - Lee Simon

character - Father Michael McKinnon

character - Rick Magruder

character - Self

character - Self

character - Self

character - Prince Hamlet

character - Self - Interviewee

character - Iago

character - Donal Davoren

character - Narration (voice)

character - Victor Frankenstein

character - Self

character - Self - Guest

character - Benedick

character - Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)

character - Andrew Benson

character - Roman Strauss / Mike Church

character - Donal Davoren

character - Himself / Hamlet

character - Jimmy Porter

character - Henry V

character - Self

character - Narrator (voice)

character - Gordon Evans

character - Narrator

character - Guy Pringle

character - James Soon

character - Rick

character - Oswald Alving

character - Billy Martin

character - Thomas Mendip

character - D.H. Lawrence

character - Oswald Alving

character - Billy Martin

character - Jack Grant

character - Billy Martin

character - Charles Tansley

character - Student

character - Self

character - Billy Martin

character - Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)

character - Self

character - Self

character - Self

character - Self

character - Self - Nominee