he is known for his roles as King Phillip II of France in the 1968 Academy-award winning  The Lion In Winter ,  Emily Brontë ’s  Wuthering Heights  (1970),  Charlotte Brontë 's  Jane Eyre (1983),  Prince Barin  in  Flash Gordon  (1980),  Shakespearean  films and plays such as  Romeo and Juliet ,  King Lear