
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 · Tinsel Town as
- 2025 · Juliet & Romeo as The Friar
- 2024 · Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration as Self
- 2023 · The American Buffalo as (voice)
- 2022 · A Bird Flew In as David
- 2021 · The Lost Pirate Kingdom as Narrator
- 2020 · Breaking The Codes as
- 2020 · The Host as Dr. Hobson
- 2019 · Greatest Events of World War II in Colour as Narrator
- 2018 · Nothing Is Truer than Truth as
- 2017 · A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Scrooge
- 2017 · Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge as
- 2016 · The History of Love as Leopold Gursky
- 2016 · Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio
- 2015 · The Gospel of Luke as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
- 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
- 2012 · Jail Caesar as Sulla
- 2012 · Shakespeare Uncovered as Himself
- 2011 · There Be Dragons as Honorio
- 2011 · National Theatre Live: King Lear as King Lear
- 2010 · Joe Maddison's War as Mr. Simpson
- 2009 · Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
- 2009 · Morris: A Life with Bells On as Quentin Neely
- 2007 · Guantanamero as Guido
- 2007 · The Art of Francis Bacon as Derek Jacobi
- 2005 · Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey
- 2004 · Strings as Nezo (voice)
- 2004 · The Long Firm as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
- 2004 · London as Tacitus
- 2003 · Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- 2002 · The Dinosaur Hunters as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Inquisition as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
- 2002 · Two Men Went To War as Maj. Merton
- 2002 · Revengers Tragedy as The Duke
- 2002 · The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
- 2000 · Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) as
- 1996 · Witness Against Hitler as General
- 1995 · Achilles as Narrator
- 1993 · The Vision Thing as George Salisbury
- 1992 · The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
- 1991 · The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Daedalus
- 1990 · Discovering Hamlet as Himself
- 1988 · The Tenth Man as The Imposter
- 1985 · Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
- 1982 · Stranger in Town as The Stranger
- 1982 · The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Dom Claude Frollo
- 1980 · The Man Who Went Up in Smoke as Martin Beck
- 1979 · The Human Factor as Arthur Davis
- 1978 · Richard II as King Richard II
- 1978 · The Medusa Touch as Townley - Publisher
- 1974 · The Pallisers as
- Future · Coronation Street: Queens of the Street as Himself
- 2025 · Moss & Freud as Lucian Freud
- 2024 · Gladiator II as Gracchus
- 2024 · Ludwig as Mr. Todd
- 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 · Pearl Islands 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
- 2020 · Come Away as Mr. Brown
- 2019 · The Warrior Queen of Jhansi as Lord Palmerston
- 2019 · Muse as The Lawyer
- 2019 · Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans as Claudius
- 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 · Murder on the Orient Express as Edward Henry Masterman
- 2017 · Stratton as Ross
- 2016 · The Crown as Duke of Windsor
- 2015 · Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Venom as Narrator
- 2015 · Cinderella as King
- 2014 · Grace of Monaco as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
- 2014 · Effie Gray as Travers Twiss
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Webster
- 2013 · You as Man
- 2013 · National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Claudius/Spooner
- 2013 · Vicious as Stuart Bixby
- 2013 · Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Last Tango in Halifax as Alan
- 2012 · Last Will. & Testament as Himself
- 2012 · The Halloween Kid as Narrator
- 2012 · Titanic: Blood and Steel as Lord Pirrie
- 2011 · My Week with Marilyn as Sir Owen Morshead
- 2011 · Anonymous as Prologue
- 2011 · Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · The Amazing World of Gumball as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · Ironclad as Cornhill
- 2010 · The King's Speech as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
- 2010 · Hereafter as Derek Jacobi
- 2009 · Margot as Fred Ashton
- 2009 · Charles Dickens's England as Himself - Presenter
- 2009 · Diamonds as
- 2009 · Diamonds as Piers Denmont
- 2009 · Endgame as Rudolph Agnew
- 2008 · A Bunch of Amateurs as Nigel Dewberry
- 2008 · Sidney Turtlebaum as Sidney Turtlebaum
- 2008 · Pompeii and the Roman Villa as Narrator
- 2008 · Adam Resurrected as Dr. Nathan Gross
- 2008 · The Ties That Bind Us as The Master (archive footage)
- 2008 · One of Those Days as Howard Whittam
- 2007 · The Old Curiosity Shop as Grandfather
- 2007 · The Golden Compass as Magisterial Emissary
- 2007 · The Riddle as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
- 2007 · Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as President
- 2007 · In the Night Garden as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · Anastezsi as Balzer
- 2006 · Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator
- 2006 · Pinochet in Suburbia as Senator Augusto Pinochet
- 2006 · Underworld: Evolution as Alexander Corvinus
- 2005 · Nanny McPhee as Mr. Wheen
- 2005 · Strength and Honor: Production Pods as Self
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Professor Yana
- 2005 · Doctor Who Confidential as
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Colonel Protheroe
- 2004 · Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On as Mr. Operatski (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 · Cloud Cuckoo Land as Victor
- 2003 · Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka as The Master (voice)
- 2003 · Henry VIII as Narrator
- 2002 · I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self
- 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 · David Macaulay: Mill Times as Priam Huntington (voice)
- 2001 · The Body as Father Lavelle
- 2001 · Revelation as Librarian
- 2001 · Great Escape: The Untold Story as Narrator
- 2000 · Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters
- 2000 · The Wyvern Mystery as Squire Fairfield
- 2000 · Wilfred as Voice
- 2000 · Jason and the Argonauts as Phineas
- 2000 · Gladiator as Gracchus
- 2000 · Up at the Villa as Lucky Leadbetter
- 1999 · The Chimes as Narrator
- 1999 · Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as Father Leonor Fousnel
- 1998 · Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon as Francis Bacon
- 1998 · Basil as Father Frederick
- 1994 · The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven (voice)
- 1994 · Aladdin as The Magician (voice)
- 1993 · Circle of Deceit as Randal
- Future · Lead Heads as
- 1998 · Animated Epics: Beowulf as Narrator ( voice )
- 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)
- 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
- 1991 · Dead Again as Franklyn Madson
- 1990 · The Fool as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
- 1990 · The Civil War as Various
- 1989 · Henry V as Chorus
- 1989 · The Congress as (voice)
- 1989 · David Macaulay: Pyramid as Hordedef (voice)
- 1987 · Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam
- 1987 · The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven
- 1986 · On Wings of Fire as Self
- 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
- 1981 · Charlotte as Daberlohn
- 1980 · Hamlet as Hamlet
- 1979 · Minder as Freddie Fenton
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as The Stranger
- 1978 · Mysterious Castles of Clay as Narrator
- 1977 · Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Guy Burgess
- 1976 · I, Claudius as Claudius
- 1974 · Blue Blood as Gregory
- 1974 · The Odessa File as Klaus Wenzer
- 1974 · NOVA as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
- 1973 · The Day of the Jackal as Inspector Caron
- 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
- 1965 · Olivier Talks About Othello as (archive footage)
- 1962 · The Fishing Match as Eric
- 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
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Imposter
- Future · The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island as Narrator
- Future · Venom! Nine Ways to Die as Narrator