Derek Jacobi

male

Born on October 22, 1938 (86 years old)

From Leytonstone, London, England, UK

Known for Acting

Biography

Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor. Jacobi is known for his work at the Royal National Theatre and for his film and television roles. He has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, two Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. He was given a knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994. Description above from the Wikipedia article Derek Jacobi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Cast Credits

2024
- Gladiator II
  as
  Gracchus
  2024
- Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
  as
  Self
  2024
- Ludwig
  as
  Mr. Todd
  2024
2023
- Allelujah
  as
  Ambrose
  2023
- The Martini Shot
  as
  Errol
  2023
- The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies
  as
  Sir Ralph Unwin
  2023
- The American Buffalo
  as
  (voice)
  2023
- U-Boat Wargamers
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2023
2014
- Effie Gray
  as
  Travers Twiss
  2014
- Grace of Monaco
  as
  Count Fernando D'Aillieres
  2014
- Inside No. 9
  as
  Webster
  2014
2012
- Last Will. & Testament
  as
  Himself
  2012
- Jail Caesar
  as
  Sulla
  2012
- The Halloween Kid
  as
  Narrator
  2012
- Titanic: Blood and Steel
  as
  Lord Pirrie
  2012
- Last Tango in Halifax
  as
  Alan
  2012
- Shakespeare Uncovered
  as
  Himself
  2012
2011
- Anonymous
  as
  Prologue
  2011
- There Be Dragons
  as
  Honorio
  2011
- Ironclad
  as
  Cornhill
  2011
- Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2011
- National Theatre Live: King Lear
  as
  King Lear
  2011
- My Week with Marilyn
  as
  Sir Owen Morshead
  2011
- The Amazing World of Gumball
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2011
2010
- Joe Maddison's War
  as
  Mr. Simpson
  2010
- The King's Speech
  as
  Archbishop Cosmo Lang
  2010
- Hereafter
  as
  Derek Jacobi
  2010
2008
- Adam Resurrected
  as
  Dr. Nathan Gross
  2008
- A Bunch of Amateurs
  as
  Nigel Dewberry
  2008
- Sidney Turtlebaum
  as
  Sidney Turtlebaum
  2008
- One of Those Days
  as
  Howard Whittam
  2008
- Pompeii and the Roman Villa
  as
  Narrator
  2008
- The Ties That Bind Us
  as
  The Master (archive footage)
  2008
2007
- The Golden Compass
  as
  Magisterial Emissary
  2007
- The Old Curiosity Shop
  as
  Grandfather
  2007
- The Riddle
  as
  The Tramp / Charles Dickens
  2007
- no image
  Anastezsi
  as
  Balzer
  2007
- Guantanamero
  as
  Guido
  2007
- Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
  as
  President
  2007
- The Art of Francis Bacon
  as
  Derek Jacobi
  2007
- In the Night Garden
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2007
2006
- Underworld: Evolution
  as
  Alexander Corvinus
  2006
- Pinochet in Suburbia
  as
  Senator Augusto Pinochet
  2006
- Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
  as
  Narrator
  2006
2005
- Nanny McPhee
  as
  Mr. Wheen
  2005
- Bye Bye Blackbird
  as
  Lord Dempsey
  2005
- Strength and Honor: Production Pods
  as
  Self
  2005
- Doctor Who Confidential
  2005
- Doctor Who
  as
  Professor Yana
  2005
2004
- Strings
  as
  Nezo (voice)
  2004
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  as
  Other Voices (voice)
  2004
- Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
  as
  Mr. Operatski (voice)
  2004
- no image
  Cloud Cuckoo Land
  as
  Victor
  2004
- Who Do You Think You Are?
  as
  Self
  2004
- no image
  London
  as
  Tacitus
  2004
- The Long Firm
  as
  Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
  2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple
  as
  Colonel Protheroe
  2004
2003
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
  as
  Self
  2003
- Henry VIII
  as
  Narrator
  2003
- Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
  as
  The Master (voice)
  2003
2002
- Revengers Tragedy
  as
  The Duke
  2002
- The Gathering Storm
  as
  Stanley Baldwin
  2002
- Two Men Went To War
  as
  Maj. Merton
  2002
- Ultimate Fights from the Movies
  as
  Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
  2002
- The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
  as
  Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
  2002
- The Dinosaur Hunters
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2002
- Inquisition
  as
  Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
  2002
- I, Claudius: A Television Epic
  as
  Self
  2002
- The Making of 'Gosford Park'
  as
  Self
  2002
- The Jury
  as
  George Cording QC
  2002
2001
- Gosford Park
  as
  Probert
  2001
- The Body
  as
  Father Lavelle
  2001
- Revelation
  as
  Librarian
  2001
- Great Escape: The Untold Story
  as
  Narrator
  2001
- David Macaulay: Mill Times
  as
  Priam Huntington (voice)
  2001
2000
- Gladiator
  as
  Gracchus
  2000
- The Wyvern Mystery
  as
  Squire Fairfield
  2000
- Up at the Villa
  as
  Lucky Leadbetter
  2000
- no image
  Wilfred
  as
  Voice
  2000
- Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
  as
  Various Characters
  2000
- Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
  2000
- Jason and the Argonauts
  as
  Phineas
  2000
1998
- Animated Epics: Beowulf
  as
  Narrator ( voice )
  1998
- Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
  as
  Francis Bacon
  1998
- Basil
  as
  Father Frederick
  1998
1996
- Hamlet
  as
  King Claudius
  1996
- Breaking the Code
  as
  Alan Turing
  1996
- Witness Against Hitler
  as
  General
  1996
- Looking for Richard
  as
  Self - Interviewee
  1996
- The West
  as
  Self (voice)
  1996
1995
- Achilles
  as
  Narrator
  1995
1993
- The Vision Thing
  as
  George Salisbury
  1993
- no image
  Circle of Deceit
  as
  Randal
  1993
- Frasier
  as
  Jackson Hedley
  1993
1991
- Dead Again
  as
  Franklyn Madson
  1991
- The Storyteller: Greek Myths
  as
  Daedalus
  1991
1989
- Henry V
  as
  Chorus
  1989
- David Macaulay: Pyramid
  as
  Hordedef (voice)
  1989
- The Congress
  as
  (voice)
  1989
1988
- The Tenth Man
  as
  The Imposter
  1988
1987
- Little Dorrit
  as
  Arthur Clennam
  1987
- The Secret Garden
  as
  Archibald Craven
  1987
1986
- On Wings of Fire
  as
  Self
  1986
- no image
  Mr. Pye
  as
  Mr. Pye
  1986
- David Macaulay: Cathedral
  as
  Pierre (voice)
  1986
- Mr. Pye
  as
  Mr. Pye
  1986
- no image
  Wedden, dat..?
  as
  Self
  1986
1985
- no image
  Cyrano de Bergerac
  as
  Cyrano de Bergerac
  1985
- The Statue of Liberty
  as
  Self (voice)
  1985
1982
- Stranger in Town
  as
  The Stranger
  1982
- Enigma
  as
  Kurt Limmer
  1982
- The Secret of NIMH
  as
  Nicodemus (voice)
  1982
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  as
  Dom Claude Frollo
  1982
- Inside the Third Reich
  as
  Adolf Hitler
  1982
1979
- The Human Factor
  as
  Arthur Davis
  1979
- Tales of the Unexpected
  as
  The Stranger
  1979
- Minder
  as
  Freddie Fenton
  1979
1978
- The Medusa Touch
  as
  Townley - Publisher
  1978
- Richard II
  as
  King Richard II
  1978
- Mysterious Castles of Clay
  as
  Narrator
  1978
- The BBC Television Shakespeare
  as
  King Richard
  1978
- The BBC Television Shakespeare
  as
  Hamlet
  1978
1977
- Philby, Burgess and Maclean
  as
  Guy Burgess
  1977
1974
- The Odessa File
  as
  Klaus Wenzer
  1974
- Blue Blood
  as
  Gregory
  1974
- The Pallisers
  1974
- NOVA
  as
  Voice of Ernest Shackleton
  1974
1973
- The Day of the Jackal
  as
  Inspector Caron
  1973
1965
- Othello
  as
  Cassio
  1965
- no image
  Olivier Talks About Othello
  as
  (archive footage)
  1965
2025
- Juliet & Romeo
  as
  The Friar
  2025
- no image
  Tinsel Town
  2025
2022
- Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
  as
  Self
  2022
- no image
  Pearl Islands
  as
  Self
  2022
- A Bird Flew In
  as
  David
  2022
- The Sandman
  as
  Erasmus Fry
  2022
2021
- Rhythm of Life
  as
  Self
  2021
- Say Your Prayers
  as
  Father Enoch
  2021
- Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
  as
  Himself (archive footage)
  2021
- The Lost Pirate Kingdom
  as
  Narrator
  2021
2017
- Murder on the Orient Express
  as
  Edward Henry Masterman
  2017
- Stratton
  as
  Ross
  2017
- A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
  as
  Scrooge
  2017
- Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
  2017
2016
- Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
  as
  Mercutio
  2016
- The History of Love
  as
  Leopold Gursky
  2016
- The Crown
  as
  Duke of Windsor
  2016
2015
- The Gospel of Luke
  as
  Narrator (voice) – King James Version
  2015
- Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
  as
  Self (archive footage)
  2015
- Venom
  as
  Narrator
  2015
- Cinderella
  as
  King
  2015
2013
- Muse of Fire
  as
  Self
  2013
- National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
  as
  Claudius/Spooner
  2013
- Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2013
- You
  as
  Man
  2013
- Vicious
  as
  Stuart Bixby
  2013
2009
- no image
  Diamonds
  as
  Piers Denmont
  2009
- Endgame
  as
  Rudolph Agnew
  2009
- Margot
  as
  Fred Ashton
  2009
- Morris: A Life with Bells On
  as
  Quentin Neely
  2009
- Charles Dickens's England
  as
  Himself - Presenter
  2009
- no image
  Diamonds
  2009
- Doctor Who Greatest Moments
  as
  Self
  2009
1999
- The Chimes
  as
  Narrator
  1999
- Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
  as
  Father Leonor Fousnel
  1999
1994
- The Secret Garden
  as
  Archibald Craven (voice)
  1994
- Aladdin
  as
  The Magician (voice)
  1994
- David Macaulay: Roman City
  as
  Marcus Fabricius (voice)
  1994
- Cadfael
  as
  Brother Cadfael
  1994
- Baseball
  as
  Various (voice)
  1994
- Baseball
  as
  (voice)
  1994
1990
- no image
  The Fool
  as
  Mr. Frederick / Sir John
  1990
- Discovering Hamlet
  as
  Himself
  1990
- The Civil War
  as
  Various
  1990
1980
- The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
  as
  Martin Beck
  1980
- Hamlet
  as
  Hamlet
  1980
1970
- Three Sisters
  as
  Andrei
  1970
1967
- Much Ado About Nothing
  as
  Don John
  1967
1962
- no image
  The Fishing Match
  as
  Eric
  1962
2020
- Come Away
  as
  Mr. Brown
  2020
- The Host
  as
  Dr. Hobson
  2020
- Breaking The Codes
  2020
2019
- Tolkien
  as
  Professor Joseph Wright
  2019
- Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
  as
  Claudius
  2019
- The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
  as
  Lord Palmerston
  2019
- Muse
  as
  The Lawyer
  2019
- Good Omens
  as
  The Metatron
  2019
- Good Omens
  as
  Metatron
  2019
- Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
  as
  Narrator
  2019
2018
- Tomb Raider
  as
  Mr. Yaffe
  2018
- Nothing Is Truer than Truth
  2018
- Les Misérables
  as
  Bishop Myriel
  2018
1981
- Charlotte
  as
  Daberlohn
  1981
1992
- no image
  The Velvet Claw
  as
  Narrator
  1992
- The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
  as
  Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
  1992
1976
- I, Claudius
  as
  Claudius
  1976
1972
- The Strauss Family
  1972
1971
- Budgie
  as
  Herbert Fletcher
  1971
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
  as
  William Drew
  1971
1956
- Tony Awards
  as
  Self - Nominee
  1956
- Tony Awards
  as
  Self - Winner
  1956
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
  as
  Dom Claude
  1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
  as
  Archibald Craven
  1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
  as
  Imposter
  1951

Derek Jacobi

Biography

Cast Credits

Gladiator II

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

Ludwig

Allelujah

The Martini Shot

The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies

The American Buffalo

U-Boat Wargamers

Effie Gray

Grace of Monaco

Inside No. 9

Last Will. & Testament

Jail Caesar

The Halloween Kid

Titanic: Blood and Steel

Last Tango in Halifax

Shakespeare Uncovered

Anonymous

There Be Dragons

Ironclad

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

National Theatre Live: King Lear

My Week with Marilyn

The Amazing World of Gumball

Joe Maddison's War

The King's Speech

Hereafter

Adam Resurrected

A Bunch of Amateurs

Sidney Turtlebaum

One of Those Days

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

The Ties That Bind Us

The Golden Compass

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Riddle

Anastezsi

Guantanamero

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space

The Art of Francis Bacon

In the Night Garden

Underworld: Evolution

Pinochet in Suburbia

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

Nanny McPhee

Bye Bye Blackbird

Strength and Honor: Production Pods

Doctor Who Confidential

Doctor Who

Strings

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Who Do You Think You Are?

London

The Long Firm

Agatha Christie's Marple

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Henry VIII

Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka

Revengers Tragedy

The Gathering Storm

Two Men Went To War

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

The Dinosaur Hunters

Inquisition

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

The Making of 'Gosford Park'

The Jury

Gosford Park

The Body

Revelation

Great Escape: The Untold Story

David Macaulay: Mill Times

Gladiator

The Wyvern Mystery