Vogel made his television debut in 1968 in the BBC play The Year of the Sex Olympics as the protagonist. His film credits include Richard Attenborough's Oh! What a Lovely War (1969, as a German soldier), Franco Zefferelli's Jesus of Nazareth, The Human Factor, Final Conflict (sequel to The Omen, as a monk), Raiders of the Lost Ark (as the tall Nazi captain), Mission: Impossible (as the MI5 representative),the 1998 version of Les Misérables, and The Emperor's New Clothes (with Ian Holm).