
Derek Jacobi
October 22, 1938 (86 years old) in Leytonstone, London, England, UK
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
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Juliet & Romeo as The Friar
- 2024 · Gladiator II as Gracchus
- 2024 · Ludwig as Mr. Todd
- 2023 · The American Buffalo as (voice)
- 2023 · The Martini Shot as Errol
- 2023 · The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies as Sir Ralph Unwin
- 2023 · Allelujah as Ambrose
- 2023 · U-Boat Wargamers as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2022 · The Sandman as Erasmus Fry
- 2021 · Rhythm of Life as Self
- 2021 · Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood as Himself (archive footage)
- 2021 · Say Your Prayers as Father Enoch
- 2021 · The Lost Pirate Kingdom as Narrator
- 2020 · Come Away as Mr. Brown
- 2020 · The Host as Dr. Hobson
- 2019 · The Warrior Queen of Jhansi as Lord Palmerston
- 2019 · Muse as The Lawyer
- 2019 · Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans as Claudius
- 2019 · Greatest Events of World War II in Colour as Narrator
- 2019 · Good Omens as The Metatron
- 2019 · Good Omens as Metatron
- 2019 · Tolkien as Professor Joseph Wright
- 2018 · Les Misérables as Bishop Myriel
- 2018 · Tomb Raider as Mr. Yaffe
- 2017 · A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Scrooge
- 2017 · Murder on the Orient Express as Edward Henry Masterman
- 2017 · Stratton as Ross
- 2016 · The History of Love as Leopold Gursky
- 2016 · The Crown as Duke of Windsor
- 2016 · Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio
- 2015 · Venom as Narrator
- 2015 · Cinderella as King
- 2015 · The Gospel of Luke as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
- 2014 · Grace of Monaco as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
- 2014 · Effie Gray as Travers Twiss
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Webster
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Dennis Fulcher (voice)
- 2013 · National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Claudius/Spooner
- 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
- 2013 · Vicious as Stuart Bixby
- 2012 · Last Tango in Halifax as Alan
- 2012 · Jail Caesar as
- 2012 · Shakespeare Uncovered as Himself
- 2012 · Titanic: Blood and Steel as Lord Pirrie
- 2011 · My Week with Marilyn as Sir Owen Morshead
- 2011 · Anonymous as Prologue
- 2011 · The Amazing World of Gumball as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · There Be Dragons as Honorio
- 2011 · Ironclad as Cornhill
- 2010 · The King's Speech as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
- 2010 · Hereafter as Derek Jacobi
- 2010 · Joe Maddison's War as Mr. Simpson
- 2009 · Margot as Fred Ashton
- 2009 · Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
- 2009 · Diamonds as
- 2009 · Endgame as Rudolph Agnew
- 2009 · Morris: A Life with Bells On as Quentin Neely
- 2008 · A Bunch of Amateurs as Nigel Dewberry
- 2008 · Adam Resurrected as Dr. Nathan Gross
- 2008 · The Ties That Bind Us as The Master (archive footage)
- 2007 · The Old Curiosity Shop as Grandfather
- 2007 · The Golden Compass as Magisterial Emissary
- 2007 · The Riddle as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
- 2007 · In the Night Garden as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Pinochet in Suburbia as Senator Augusto Pinochet
- 2006 · Underworld: Evolution as Alexander Corvinus
- 2005 · Nanny McPhee as Mr. Wheen
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Professor Yana
- 2005 · Doctor Who Confidential as
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Colonel Protheroe
- 2004 · Strings as Nezo (voice)
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2004 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- 2004 · The Long Firm as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
- 2004 · London as Tacitus
- 2003 · Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka as The Master (voice)
- 2003 · Henry VIII as Narrator
- 2003 · Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- 2002 · Two Men Went To War as Maj. Merton
- 2002 · Revengers Tragedy as The Duke
- 2002 · The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self
- 2002 · The Gathering Storm as Stanley Baldwin
- 2002 · Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
- 2002 · The Jury as George Cording QC
- 2001 · Gosford Park as Probert
- 2001 · The Body as Father Lavelle
- 2001 · Revelation as Librarian
- 2000 · Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters
- 2000 · Jason and the Argonauts as Phineas
- 2000 · Gladiator as Gracchus
- 2000 · Up at the Villa as Lucky Leadbetter
- 2000 · Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) as
- 1999 · Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as Father Leonor Fousnel
- 1999 · Family Guy as Rupert (voice)
- 1998 · Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon as Francis Bacon
- 1998 · Basil as Father Frederick
- 1996 · Hamlet as King Claudius
- 1996 · Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
- 1996 · Breaking the Code as Alan Turing
- 1996 · The West as Self (voice)
- 1996 · Witness Against Hitler as General
- 1995 · Achilles as Narrator
- 1994 · Baseball as Various (voice)
- 1994 · Baseball as (voice)
- 1994 · Cadfael as Brother Cadfael
- 1994 · David Macaulay: Roman City as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
- 1993 · Frasier as Jackson Hedley
- 1992 · The Velvet Claw as Narrator
- 1992 · The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
- 1991 · The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Daedalus
- 1991 · Dead Again as Franklyn Madson
- 1990 · The Fool as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
- 1990 · The Civil War as Various
- 1990 · Discovering Hamlet as Himself
- 1989 · Henry V as Chorus
- 1989 · The Congress as (voice)
- 1989 · David Macaulay: Pyramid as Hordedef (voice)
- 1988 · The Tenth Man as The Imposter
- 1987 · Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam
- 1987 · The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven
- 1986 · David Macaulay: Cathedral as Pierre (voice)
- 1986 · Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
- 1986 · Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
- 1986 · Wedden, dat..? as Self
- 1985 · The Statue of Liberty as Self (voice)
- 1982 · Enigma as Kurt Limmer
- 1982 · The Secret of NIMH as Nicodemus (voice)
- 1982 · Inside the Third Reich as Adolf Hitler
- 1982 · The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Dom Claude Frollo
- 1981 · Charlotte as Daberlohn
- 1980 · Hamlet as Hamlet
- 1979 · The Human Factor as Arthur Davis
- 1979 · Minder as Freddie Fenton
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as The Stranger
- 1978 · Richard II as King Richard II
- 1978 · The BBC Television Shakespeare as King Richard
- 1978 · The BBC Television Shakespeare as Hamlet
- 1978 · The Medusa Touch as Townley - Publisher
- 1976 · I, Claudius as Claudius
- 1976 · I, Claudius as Self
- 1974 · Blue Blood as Gregory
- 1974 · The Odessa File as Klaus Wenzer
- 1974 · NOVA as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
- 1974 · The Pallisers as
- 1973 · The Day of the Jackal as Inspector Caron
- 1972 · The Strauss Family as
- 1971 · The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as William Drew
- 1971 · Budgie as Herbert Fletcher
- 1970 · Three Sisters as Andrei
- 1967 · Much Ado About Nothing as Don John
- 1965 · Othello as Cassio
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dom Claude
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Archibald Craven
- Future · Tinsel Town as
- 2022 · A Bird Flew In as David
- 2022 · Pearl Islands as Self
- 2020 · Breaking The Codes as
- 2018 · Nothing Is Truer than Truth as
- 2017 · Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge as
- 2016 · The Devil of Christmas as Dennis Fulcher (Voice)
- 2015 · Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · You as Man
- 2013 · Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Last Will. & Testament as Himself
- 2012 · The Halloween Kid as Narrator
- 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
- 2009 · Charles Dickens's England as Himself - Presenter
- 2009 · Diamonds as Piers Denmont
- 2008 · Sidney Turtlebaum as Sidney Turtlebaum
- 2008 · Pompeii and the Roman Villa as Narrator
- 2008 · One of Those Days as Howard Whittam
- 2007 · Guantanamero as Guido
- 2007 · Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as President
- 2007 · Anastezsi as Balzer
- 2007 · The Art of Francis Bacon as Derek Jacobi
- 2006 · Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator
- 2005 · Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey
- 2004 · Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On as Mr. Operatski (voice)
- 2002 · The Dinosaur Hunters as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Inquisition as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
- 2002 · I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self
- 2002 · The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
- 2001 · David Macaulay: Mill Times as Priam Huntington (voice)
- 2001 · Great Escape: The Untold Story as Narrator
- 2000 · The Wyvern Mystery as Squire Fairfield
- 2000 · Wilfred as Voice
- 1999 · The Chimes as Narrator
- 1998 · Animated Epics: Beowulf as Narrator ( voice )
- 1994 · The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven (voice)
- 1994 · Aladdin as The Magician (voice)
- 1993 · Circle of Deceit as Randal
- 1986 · On Wings of Fire as Self
- 1985 · Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
- 1980 · The Man Who Went Up in Smoke as Martin Beck
- Future · Moss & Freud as Lucian Freud
- Future · Coronation Street: Queens of the Street as Himself
- 1993 · The Vision Thing as George Salisbury
- 1982 · Stranger in Town as The Stranger
- 1978 · Mysterious Castles of Clay as Narrator
- 1977 · Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Guy Burgess
- 1965 · Olivier Talks About Othello as (archive footage)
- Future · The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island as Narrator
- Future · Lead Heads as
- Future · Venom! Nine Ways to Die as Narrator
- 1962 · The Fishing Match as Eric
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Imposter