Acting • AGE 80
Pickup was born in Chester, England, the son of Daisy (née Williams) and Eric Pickup, who was a lecturer.[1] Pickup was educated at The King's School, Chester, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic...


Schadenfreude
The Gambler
2025

End of Term
Damian Self
2021

The Happy Prince
Judge
2018

Darkest Hour
Neville Chamberlain
2017

Stealing Silver
Udo
2017

The Time of Their Lives
Frank
2017

The Crown
Archbishop of Canterbury
2016

The Have-Nots
Bentham
2016

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Norman Cousins
2015

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
Bearded Man
2014

Atlantis
Orpheus
2013

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Norman Cousins
2012

Pramface
2012

Vera
Mr. Kipford
2011

Downton Abbey
Sir Michael Reresby
2010

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
King Sharaman
2010

Theatreland
Self
2009

Dark Floors
Tobias
2008

Lark Rise to Candleford
2008

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
William McDowell
2007

Lewis
Fr Moreno Mancini
2007

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
Cecil Johnson
2005

Supernova
Dr. Malcolm Handey
2005

A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
Monsieur Moitessier
2005

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Monsieur Moitessier
2005

Cherished
Professor Sir Roy Meadow
2005

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Monsieur Moitessier (uncredited)
2004

Evilenko
Aron Richter
2004

Feather Boy
Ernest Sorrel
2004

The Worst Week of My Life
Fraser
2004

Benefit to Mankind
Professor Quentin Tapscott
2004

Hustle
Harry Holmes
2004

Sea of Souls
Alex Galt
2004

Secret Passage
Da Monte
2004

New Tricks
Sir Wilfred Felspar
2004

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Monsieur Moitessier
2003

Cambridge Spies
Colonel Winter
2003

Foyle's War
Sir Giles Messinger
2002

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Sir Stuart Stinhurst
2002

The Jury
Jeffrey Livingstone
2002

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Sir John Starr
2001

Waking the Dead
Charles Sutton
2001

Breathtaking
Dr. Maclaren
2000

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
Don Massaredo
1999

Hornblower
Don Massaredo
1998

Lolita
Young Humbert's Father
1997

Midsomer Murders
Rupert Smythe-Webster
1997

Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis
Percy Stone
1997

Ivanhoe
Waldemar Fitzurse
1997

Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
Narrator
1996

Dalziel and Pascoe
Walter Wulfstan
1996

Der Blinde
Dr. Bartnik
1996

Silent Witness
1996

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Lester Rose
1996

Black Hearts in Battersea
Duke Of Battersea
1995

A Very Open Prison
Brian Silcott
1995

Milner
Jocelyn Fry
1994

Scarlett
Whitlock
1994

Message for Posterity
Richard Browning
1994

In The Cold Light Of Day
Morris
1994

The Riff Raff Element
Roger Tundish
1994

The Rector's Wife
Daniel Byrne
1994

Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Alan Coleman
1993

My Friend Walter
Sir Walter Raleigh
1992

A Time to Dance
Andrew Powell
1992

Absolute Hell
Siegfried Shrager
1991

Performance
King Henry IV
1991

A Murder of Quality
Felix D'Arcy
1991

Journey of Honor
Capt. Crawford
1991

The War That Never Ends
Diodotus
1991

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
Aslan (voice)
1990

Not with a Bang
Brian Appleyard
1990

Jekyll & Hyde
Jeffrey Utterson, Esquire
1990

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Aslan (voice)
1989

A Dry White Season
Louw
1989

Danny the Champion of the World
Captain Lancaster
1989

Behaving Badly
1989

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Aslan (voice)
1988

The Chronicles of Narnia
Aslan (voice)
1988

Testimony
Marshall Tukhachevsky
1988

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Barrymore
1988

Fortunes of War
Prince Yakimov
1987

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Chief Inspector Moore
1987

The Fourth Protocol
Wynne-Evans
1987

Inspector Morse
Ian Matthews
1987

Ladies' Night
James Tripp
1986

Unnatural Causes
James Tripp
1986

The Mission
Hontar
1986

Casualty
Martin / Reginald Freeborn
1986

Matlock
Sir Alec Moore
1986

Lovejoy
Edwin Felt
1986

Eleni
Spiro
1985

Moving
1985

Screen Two
Brian Silcott
1985

Camille
Jean
1984

Sherlock Holmes
Barrymore
1984

Pope John Paul II
Jan Tyranowski
1984

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
1984

Puccini
Giulio Ricordi
1984

The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
George Orwell
1983

Never Say Never Again
Elliott
1983

Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
1982

The Letter
Howard Joyce
1982

Ivanhoe
Prince John
1982

Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
1982

Bergerac
Sir Antony Villiers
1981

Nijinsky
Igor Stravinsky
1980

In England's Green and Pleasant Land
Norman Reynolds
1979

Zulu Dawn
Lt. Harford
1979

Henry VIII
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
1979

The BBC Television Shakespeare
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
1978

The Thirty Nine Steps
Bayliss
1978

For Tea on Sunday
Ian
1978

BBC2 Play of the Week
Ian
1977

Ghost Trio
1977

...but the clouds...
1977

Joseph Andrews
Mr. Wilson
1977

King Lear
Edgar
1975

The Fight Against Slavery
William Pitt
1975

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Lord Randolph Churchill
1974

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Randolph Churchill
1974

Father Brown
Kalon
1974

Mahler
Nick
1974

All Good Men
1974

The Day of the Jackal
The Forger
1973

Long Day's Journey Into Night
Edmund Tyrone
1973

Play for Today
Richard Massingham
1970

Three Sisters
Baron Tusenbach
1970

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Edmund Tyrone
1969

ITV Playhouse
Graham
1967

Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio
1967

Much Ado About Nothing
Don Pedro
1967

BBC Play of the Month
Mercutio
1965

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
Physician
1964

Doctor Who
Physician
1963

Hallmark Hall of Fame
Jean
1951