
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
- 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 · A Bird Flew In as David
- 2022 · The Sandman as Erasmus Fry
- 2021 · Rhythm of Life as Self
- 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 Sulla
- 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 · 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 · Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
- 2009 · Diamonds as Piers Denmont
- 2009 · Endgame as Rudolph Agnew
- 2009 · Morris: A Life with Bells On as Quentin Neely
- 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 Golden Compass as Magisterial Emissary
- 2007 · Guantanamero as Guido
- 2007 · The Riddle as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
- 2007 · In the Night Garden as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · The Art of Francis Bacon as Derek Jacobi
- 2006 · Pinochet in Suburbia as Senator Augusto Pinochet
- 2006 · Underworld: Evolution as Alexander Corvinus
- 2005 · Nanny McPhee as Mr. Wheen
- 2005 · Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey
- 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 · 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 · The Dinosaur Hunters as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Two Men Went To War as Maj. Merton
- 2002 · I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self
- 2002 · Revengers Tragedy as The Duke
- 2002 · The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self
- 2002 · The Gathering Storm as Stanley Baldwin
- 2002 · The Jury as George Cording QC
- 2001 · Gosford Park as Probert
- 2001 · The Body as Father Lavelle
- 2001 · Revelation as Librarian
- 2000 · The Wyvern Mystery as Squire Fairfield
- 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
- 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 · 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 · The Vision Thing as George Salisbury
- 1993 · Frasier as Jackson Hedley
- 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)
- 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
- 1985 · Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
- 1982 · Enigma as Kurt Limmer
- 1982 · The Secret of NIMH as Nicodemus (voice)
- 1982 · Stranger in Town as The Stranger
- 1982 · Inside the Third Reich as Adolf Hitler
- 1982 · The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Dom Claude Frollo
- 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 · Richard II as King Richard II
- 1978 · The Medusa Touch as Townley - Publisher
- 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
- 1974 · The Pallisers as
- 1973 · The Day of the Jackal as Inspector Caron
- 1971 · The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as William Drew
- 1971 · Budgie as Herbert Fletcher
- 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 · Lead Heads as
- Future · Coronation Street: Queens of the Street as Himself
- 2022 · Pearl Islands as Self
- 2021 · Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood as Himself (archive footage)
- 2020 · Breaking The Codes as
- 2019 · The Warrior Queen of Jhansi as Lord Palmerston
- 2019 · Muse as The Lawyer
- 2018 · Nothing Is Truer than Truth as
- 2017 · A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Scrooge
- 2015 · Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Venom as Narrator
- 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
- 2010 · Joe Maddison's War as Mr. Simpson
- 2009 · Charles Dickens's England as Himself - Presenter
- 2009 · Diamonds as
- 2008 · A Bunch of Amateurs as Nigel Dewberry
- 2008 · Sidney Turtlebaum as Sidney Turtlebaum
- 2008 · Pompeii and the Roman Villa as Narrator
- 2007 · The Old Curiosity Shop as Grandfather
- 2007 · Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as President
- 2007 · Anastezsi as Balzer
- 2006 · Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator
- 2005 · Strength and Honor: Production Pods as Self
- 2004 · Cloud Cuckoo Land as Victor
- 2002 · Inquisition as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
- 2002 · The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
- 2002 · Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
- 2001 · David Macaulay: Mill Times as Priam Huntington (voice)
- 2001 · Great Escape: The Untold Story as Narrator
- 2000 · Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters
- 1999 · The Chimes as Narrator
- 1998 · Animated Epics: Beowulf as Narrator ( voice )
- 1986 · Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
- Future · Moss & Freud as Lucian Freud
- 2000 · Wilfred as Voice
- 1994 · David Macaulay: Roman City as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
- 1993 · Circle of Deceit as Randal
- 1992 · The Velvet Claw as Narrator
- 1989 · David Macaulay: Pyramid as Hordedef (voice)
- 1986 · On Wings of Fire as Self
- 1986 · David Macaulay: Cathedral as Pierre (voice)
- 1985 · The Statue of Liberty as Self (voice)
- 1981 · Charlotte as Daberlohn
- 1978 · Mysterious Castles of Clay as Narrator
- 1970 · Three Sisters as Andrei
- 1965 · Olivier Talks About Othello as (archive footage)
- 1962 · The Fishing Match as Eric
- 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