
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
- 2024 · Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration as Self
- 2023 · The American Buffalo as (voice)
- 2022 · A Bird Flew In as David
- 2021 · Rhythm of Life as Self
- 2021 · The Lost Pirate Kingdom as Narrator
- 2020 · The Host as Dr. Hobson
- 2018 · Nothing Is Truer than Truth as
- 2017 · A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Scrooge
- 2012 · Jail Caesar as Sulla
- 2012 · Shakespeare Uncovered as Himself
- 2010 · Joe Maddison's War as Mr. Simpson
- 2009 · Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
- 2009 · Endgame as Rudolph Agnew
- 2008 · Adam Resurrected as Dr. Nathan Gross
- 2008 · The Ties That Bind Us as The Master (archive footage)
- 2007 · Guantanamero as Guido
- 2007 · Anastezsi as Balzer
- 2007 · The Art of Francis Bacon as Derek Jacobi
- 2005 · Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey
- 2004 · Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On as Mr. Operatski (voice)
- 2004 · The Long Firm as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
- 2004 · London as Tacitus
- 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 Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self
- 2002 · Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
- 2000 · Up at the Villa as Lucky Leadbetter
- 1996 · Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
- 1996 · The West as Self (voice)
- 1996 · Witness Against Hitler as General
- 1994 · David Macaulay: Roman City as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
- 1991 · The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Daedalus
- 1991 · Dead Again as Franklyn Madson
- 1990 · The Fool as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
- 1989 · The Congress as (voice)
- 1986 · On Wings of Fire as Self
- 1986 · David Macaulay: Cathedral as Pierre (voice)
- 1986 · Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
- 1985 · The Statue of Liberty as Self (voice)
- 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
- 1978 · Richard II as King Richard II
- 1977 · Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Guy Burgess
- 1974 · The Odessa File as Klaus Wenzer
- 1974 · The Pallisers as
- 1967 · Much Ado About Nothing as Don John
- Future · Coronation Street: Queens of the Street as Himself
- 2025 · Moss & Freud as Lucian Freud
- 2025 · Juliet & Romeo as The Friar
- 2024 · Gladiator II as Gracchus
- 2024 · Family Guy: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater as Rupert (voice)
- 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 · Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood as Himself (archive footage)
- 2021 · Say Your Prayers as Father Enoch
- 2020 · Come Away as Mr. Brown
- 2020 · Breaking The Codes as
- 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 · Murder on the Orient Express as Edward Henry Masterman
- 2017 · Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge as
- 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 · Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 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
- 2013 · You as Man
- 2013 · National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Claudius/Spooner
- 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
- 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 · There Be Dragons as Honorio
- 2011 · Ironclad as Cornhill
- 2011 · National Theatre Live: King Lear as King Lear
- 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 · Morris: A Life with Bells On as Quentin Neely
- 2008 · A Bunch of Amateurs as Nigel Dewberry
- 2008 · Sidney Turtlebaum as Sidney Turtlebaum
- 2008 · Pompeii and the Roman Villa as Narrator
- 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)
- 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 · Strings as Nezo
- 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
- 2003 · Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- 2002 · I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self
- 2002 · The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
- 2002 · The Gathering Storm as Stanley Baldwin
- 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 · Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) as
- 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
- 1998 · Animated Epics: Beowulf as Narrator ( voice )
- 1996 · Hamlet as King Claudius
- 1996 · Breaking the Code as Alan Turing
- 1995 · Achilles as Narrator
- 1994 · The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven (voice)
- 1994 · Baseball as Various (voice)
- 1994 · Baseball as (voice)
- 1994 · Cadfael as Brother Cadfael
- 1994 · Aladdin as The Magician (voice)
- 1993 · Circle of Deceit as Randal
- 1993 · The Vision Thing as George Salisbury
- 1993 · Frasier as Jackson Hedley
- 1992 · The Velvet Claw as Narrator
- 1992 · The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
- 1990 · The Civil War as Various
- 1990 · Discovering Hamlet as Himself
- 1989 · Henry V as Chorus
- 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 · Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
- 1986 · Wedden, dat..? as Self
- 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 · The Man Who Went Up in Smoke as Martin Beck
- 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 · The Medusa Touch as Townley - Publisher
- 1978 · Mysterious Castles of Clay as Narrator
- 1976 · I, Claudius as Claudius
- 1974 · Blue Blood as Gregory
- 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
- 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 · Lead Heads as
- Future · The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island as Narrator
- Future · Venom! Nine Ways to Die as Narrator