Brilliant actor, though I sometimes fear his best work may now be behind him. He's always been excellent whether in big, mainstream films, or smaller and more eccentric things, such as his offbeat personification of Cambridge spy Anthony Burgess in the seldom-seen UK telefilm Blunt:The Fourth Man ; I'd have given a lot to see him onstage--his portrayal of Titus Andronicus in the Julie Taymore film was so incredible I can only imagine what seeing him in live performance in such a role might have been like.