El premio Primetime Emmy al mejor actor principal en una miniserie o telefilme (Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie) es uno de los galardones Primetime Emmy.

Ganadores

• 1952: Thomas Mitchell ("Mejor actor")
• 1953: premio no entregado
• 1954: Robert Cummings - 12 Angry Men
• 1955: Lloyd Nolan - Caine Mutiny Court Marshal
• 1956: Jack Palance - Requiem for a Heavyweight
• 1957: Peter Ustinov - The Life of Samuel Johnson
• 1958: premio no entregado
• 1959: Fred Astaire - An Evening With Fred Astaire
• 1960: Laurence Olivier - The Moon and the Sixpence
• 1961: Maurice Evans - Macbeth
• 1962: Peter Falk - The Price of Tomatoes
• 1963: Trevor Howard - The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
• 1964: Jack Klugman - The Blacklist
• 1965: Alfred Lunt - The Magnificent Yankee
• 1966: Cliff Robertson - The Game
• 1967: Peter Ustinov - Barefoot in Athens
• 1968: Melvyn Douglas - Do Not Go Gentle Into the Night
• 1969: Paul Scofield - Male of the Species
• 1970: Peter Ustinov - A Storm in Summer
• 1971: George C. Scott - The Price
• 1972: Keith Michell - The Six Wives of Henry VIII
• 1973: Laurence Olivier - Long Day's Journey Into Night (telefilme)
• 1973: Anthony Murphy - Tom Brown's School Days (miniserie)
• 1974: Hal Holbrook - Pueblo (telefilme)
• 1974: William Holden - The Blue Knight (miniserie)
• 1975: Laurence Olivier - Love Among the Ruins
• 1975: Peter Falk - Columbo (miniserie)
• 1976: Anthony Hopkins - The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (telefilme)
• 1976: Hal Holbrook - Sandburg's Lincoln (miniserie)
• 1977: Ed Flanders - Harry S. Truman Plain Speaking (telefilme)
• 1977: Christopher Plummer - The Moneychangers (miniseries
• 1978: Fred Astaire - A Family Upside Down (telefilme)
• 1978: Michael Moriarty - Holocaust (miniserie)
• 1979: Peter Strauss - The Jericho Mile
• 1980: Powers Boothe - Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
• 1981: Anthony Hopkins - The Bunker
• 1982: Mickey Rooney - Bill
• 1983: Tommy Lee Jones - The Executioner's Song
• 1984: Laurence Olivier - King Lear
• 1985: Richard Crenna - The Rape of Richard Breck
• 1986: Dustin Hoffman - Death of a Salesman
• 1987: James Woods - Promise
• 1988: Jason Robards - Inherit the Wind
• 1989: James Woods - My Name is Bill W
• 1990: Hume Cronyn - Age-Old Friends
• 1991: John Gielgud - Summer's Lease
• 1992: Beau Bridges - Without Warning: The James Brady Story
• 1993: Robert Morse - Tru
• 1994: Hume Cronyn - To Dance With the White Dog
• 1995: Raúl Juliá - The Burning Season
• 1996: Alan Rickman - Rasputin
• 1997: Armand Assante - Gotti
• 1998: Gary Sinise - George Wallace
• 1999: Stanley Tucci - Winchell
• 2000: Jack Lemmon - Tuesdays with Morrie
• 2001: Kenneth Branagh - Conspiracy
• 2002: Albert Finney - The Gathering Storm
• 2003: William H. Macy - Door to Door
• 2004: Al Pacino - Angels in America
• 2005: Geoffrey Rush - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
• 2006: Andre Braugher, Thief
• 2007: Robert Duvall - Broken Trail
• 2008: Paul Giamatti – John Adams