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
- Moss & Freud as Lucian Freud
- Heartstopper Forever
- Broken English as The Narrator
2025
- Juliet & Romeo as The Friar
- Tinsel Town as Albert
2024
- Gladiator II as Gracchus
- Ludwig as Mr. Todd
- Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration as Self
2023
- The American Buffalo as (voice)
- The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies as Sir Ralph Unwin
- Allelujah as Ambrose
- U-Boat Wargamers as Narrator (voice)
- The Martini Shot as Errol
2022
- The Sandman as Erasmus Fry
- Remembers… as Self
- Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- A Bird Flew In as David
- Pearl Islands as Self
2021
- The Lost Pirate Kingdom as Narrator
- Say Your Prayers as Father Enoch
- Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Come Away as Mr. Brown
- The Host as Dr. Hobson
- Coronation Street: Queens of the Street as Himself
- Breaking The Codes
2019
- Good Omens as The Metatron
- Tolkien as Professor Joseph Wright
- Greatest Events of World War II in Colour as Narrator
- Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans as Claudius
- The Warrior Queen of Jhansi as Lord Palmerston
- Muse as The Lawyer
2018
- Tomb Raider as Mr. Yaffe
- Les Misérables as Bishop Myriel
- Nothing Is Truer than Truth
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
- Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- The Gospel of Luke as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
- Venom as Narrator
2014
- Inside No. 9 as Webster
- Effie Gray as Travers Twiss
- Grace of Monaco as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
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)
- You as Man
2012
- Titanic: Blood and Steel as Lord Pirrie
- Last Tango in Halifax as Alan
- Shakespeare Uncovered as Himself
- Last Will. & Testament as Himself
- Jail Caesar as Sulla
- The Halloween Kid as Narrator
2011
- The Amazing World of Gumball as Narrator (voice)
- The Borgias as Cardinal Orsini
- Ironclad as Cornhill
- Anonymous as Prologue
- My Week with Marilyn as Sir Owen Morshead
- 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
- Morris: A Life with Bells On as Quentin Neely
- Margot as Fred Ashton
- Diamonds as Piers Denmont
- Charles Dickens's England as Himself - Presenter
2008
- Adam Resurrected as Dr. Nathan Gross
- The Ties That Bind Us as The Master (archive footage)
- A Bunch of Amateurs as Nigel Dewberry
- One of Those Days as Howard Whittam
- Pompeii and the Roman Villa as Narrator
- Sidney Turtlebaum as Sidney Turtlebaum
2007
- In the Night Garden as Narrator (voice)
- The Golden Compass as Magisterial Emissary
- The Riddle as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
- The Old Curiosity Shop as Grandfather
- Guantanamero as Guido
- Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as President
- 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
- Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey
- Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator(voice)
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
- Henry VIII as Narrator
- Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka as The Master (voice)
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2002
- The Jury as George Cording QC
- Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
- The Gathering Storm as Stanley Baldwin
- The Making of Gosford Park as Self
- Revengers Tragedy as The Duke
- Two Men Went To War as Maj. Merton
- The Dinosaur Hunters as Narrator (voice)
- The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
- Inquisition as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
- I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self
2001
- Gosford Park as Probert
- The Body as Father Lavelle
- Revelation as Librarian
- Great Escape: The Untold Story as Narrator
- David Macaulay: Mill Times as Priam Huntington (voice)
- The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus (voice)
2000
- Gladiator as Gracchus
- Jason and the Argonauts as Phineas
- Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
- Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters
- Up at the Villa as Lucky Leadbetter
- 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
- Baseball as Various (voice)
- Cadfael as Brother Cadfael
- The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven (voice)
- David Macaulay: Roman City as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
- The Leper of St. Giles as Brother Cadfael
- The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher as Jeremy Fisher (voice)
- The Sanctuary Sparrow as Brother Cadfael
- Monk's Hood as Brother Cadfael
- One Corpse Too Many as Brother Cadfael
1993
- Frasier as Jackson Hedley
- The Vision Thing as George Salisbury
- Circles of Deceit as Randal
1992
- The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
- Aladdin as The Magician (voice)
- The Velvet Claw as Narrator
1991
- The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Daedalus
- Dead Again as Franklyn Madson
1990
- The Civil War as Various
- The Fool as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
- Discovering Hamlet as Himself
1989
- Henry V as Chorus
- The Congress as (voice)
- David Macaulay: Pyramid as Hordedef (voice)
1988
- The Tenth Man as The Imposter
1987
- The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven
- Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam
1986
- Wedden, dat..? as Self
- Mr Pye as Mr Pye
- David Macaulay: Cathedral as Pierre (voice)
- On Wings of Fire as Self
- Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
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
- Hamlet as Hamlet
- The Man Who Went Up in Smoke as Martin Beck
1979
- Minder as Freddie Fenton
- Tales of the Unexpected as The Stranger
- The Human Factor as Arthur Davis
1978
- 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
- Blue Blood as Gregory
1973
- The Day of the Jackal as Inspector Caron
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
- Olivier Talks About Othello as (archive footage)
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