Derek Jacobi

Born: 1938-10-22 in 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

Filmography

2026

Heartstopper Forever as Pete
Moss & Freud as Lucian Freud
Broken English as The Narrator

2025

Juliet & Romeo as The Friar
Tinsel Town as Albert

2018

2017

Murder on the Orient Express as Edward Henry Masterman
Stratton as Ross
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Scrooge
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge

2016

The Crown as Duke of Windsor
The History of Love as Leopold Gursky
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio
The Devil of Christmas

2015

Cinderella as King
Venom as Narrator
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
The Gospel of Luke as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

2014

Inside No. 9 as Webster
Grace of Monaco as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
Effie Gray as Travers Twiss

2013

Vicious as Stuart Bixby
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Claudius/Spooner
Muse of Fire as Self
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene as Narrator (voice)
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island as Narrator
You as Man

2012

Titanic: Blood and Steel as Lord Pirrie
Last Tango in Halifax as Alan
Shakespeare Uncovered as Himself
The Halloween Kid as Narrator
Last Will. & Testament as Himself
Jail Caesar as Sulla

2011

The Amazing World of Gumball as Narrator (voice)
The Borgias as Cardinal Orsini
My Week with Marilyn as Sir Owen Morshead
Ironclad as Cornhill
Anonymous as Prologue
There Be Dragons as Honorio
National Theatre Live: King Lear as King Lear
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) as Narrator (voice)

2010

The King's Speech as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Hereafter as Derek Jacobi
Joe Maddison's War as Mr. Simpson

2009

Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
Endgame as Rudolph Agnew
Diamonds
Margot as Fred Ashton
Morris: A Life with Bells On as Quentin Neely
Diamonds as Piers Denmont
Charles Dickens's England as Himself - Presenter

2008

Adam Resurrected as Dr. Nathan Gross
A Bunch of Amateurs as Nigel Dewberry
Sidney Turtlebaum as Sidney Turtlebaum
The Ties That Bind Us as The Master (archive footage)
One of Those Days as Howard Whittam
Pompeii and the Roman Villa as Narrator

2007

In the Night Garden as Narrator (voice)
The Golden Compass as Magisterial Emissary
Mist: Sheepdog Tales as Narrator
Guantanamero as Guido
The Old Curiosity Shop as Grandfather
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as President
The Riddle as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
The Art of Francis Bacon as Derek Jacobi
Anastezsi as Balzer

2006

Underworld: Evolution as Alexander Corvinus
Pinochet in Suburbia as Senator Augusto Pinochet
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator (voice)

2005

Doctor Who as Professor Yana
Doctor Who Confidential
Nanny McPhee as Mr. Wheen
Strength and Honor: Production Pods as Self
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator(voice)
Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey

2004

Agatha Christie's Marple as Colonel Protheroe
Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
The Long Firm as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
London as Tacitus
Strings as Nezo
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On as Mr. Operatski (voice)
Cloud Cuckoo Land as Victor

2003

Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka as The Master (voice)
Henry VIII as Narrator
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self

2002

The Jury as George Cording QC
The Gathering Storm as Stanley Baldwin
Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
The Making of Gosford Park as Self
Revengers Tragedy as The Duke
Two Men Went To War as Maj. Merton
I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self
The Dinosaur Hunters as Narrator (voice)
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
Inquisition as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

2001

Gosford Park as Probert
The Body as Father Lavelle
Revelation as Librarian
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus (voice)
Great Escape: The Untold Story as Narrator
David Macaulay: Mill Times as Priam Huntington (voice)

2000

Gladiator as Gracchus
Jason and the Argonauts as Phineas
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Up at the Villa as Lucky Leadbetter
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters
The Wyvern Mystery as Squire Fairfield
Wilfred as Voice

1999

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as Father Leonor Fousnel
The Chimes as Narrator

1998

Basil as Father Frederick
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon as Francis Bacon
Animated Epics: Beowulf as Narrator ( voice )

1996

The West as Self (voice)
Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
Hamlet as King Claudius
Breaking the Code as Alan Turing
Witness Against Hitler as General

1995

Achilles as Narrator
The Virgin in the Ice as Brother Cadfael

1994

Cadfael as Brother Cadfael
Baseball as Various (voice)
The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven (voice)
The Sanctuary Sparrow as Brother Cadfael
One Corpse Too Many as Brother Cadfael
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher as Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Monk's Hood as Brother Cadfael
David Macaulay: Roman City as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
The Leper of St. Giles as Brother Cadfael

1993

Frasier as Jackson Hedley
Circles of Deceit as Randal
The Vision Thing as George Salisbury

1992

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Aladdin as The Magician (voice)
The Velvet Claw as Narrator

1991

Dead Again as Franklyn Madson
The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Daedalus
In My Defence as Emile Zola

1990

The Civil War as William Russell / Various (voice)
The Fool as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Discovering Hamlet as Himself

1989

Henry V as Chorus
David Macaulay: Pyramid as Hordedef (voice)
The Congress as (voice)

1988

The Tenth Man as The Imposter

1987

Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam
The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven

1986

ScreenPlay as George Salisbury
Mr Pye as Mr Pye
Wedden, dat..? as Self
David Macaulay: Cathedral as Pierre (voice)
Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
On Wings of Fire as Self

1985

The Statue of Liberty as Self (voice)
Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac

1982

The Secret of NIMH as Nicodemus (voice)
Inside the Third Reich as Adolf Hitler
The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Dom Claude Frollo
Enigma as Kurt Limmer
Stranger in Town as The Stranger

1981

Charlotte as Daberlohn

1980

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke as Martin Beck
Hamlet as Hamlet

1979

Minder as Freddie Fenton
Tales of the Unexpected as The Stranger
The Human Factor as Arthur Davis

1978

The BBC Television Shakespeare as Richard II
The Medusa Touch as Townley - Publisher
Richard II as King Richard II
Mysterious Castles of Clay as Narrator

1977

Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Guy Burgess

1976

I, Claudius as Claudius

1974

NOVA as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
The Pallisers as Lord Fawn
The Odessa File as Klaus Wenzer
Affairs of the Heart as Bertram Braddle
Blue Blood as Gregory

1973

The Day of the Jackal as Inspector Caron

1972

Man of Straw as Diederich Hessling

1971

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as William Drew
Budgie as Herbert Fletcher

1970

Three Sisters as Andrei

1967

ITV Playhouse as Gerry
Much Ado About Nothing as Don John

1965

Othello as Cassio

1964

Horizon as Narrator

1962

The Fishing Match as Eric

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Winner
Armchair Theatre as Eric

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dom Claude