Derek Jacobi
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 22 October 1938 · 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
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- 2026Frank and Percy
- 2026Lead Heads
- 2026Heartstopper Forever as Pete
- 2026Moss & Freud as Lucian Freud
- 2026Venom! Nine Ways to Die as Narrator
- 2026Good Omens Finale as Metatron
- 2026The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island as Narrator
- 2026Good Omens: The Finale as Metatron
- 2026Broken English as The Narrator
- 2025Tinsel Town as Albert
- 20252018: A Year in the Life of a Year
- 2025Juliet & Romeo as The Friar
- 2024Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration as Self
- 2024Gladiator II as Gracchus
- 2023The Martini Shot as Errol
- 2023Allelujah as Ambrose
- 2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2022A Bird Flew In as David
- 2022Pearl Islands as Self
- 2021Rhythm of Life as Self
- 2021Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 2021Say Your Prayers as Father Enoch
- 2020Coronation Street: Queens of the Street as Himself
- 2020Come Away as Mr. Brown
- 2020Breaking The Codes
- 2020The Host as Dr. Hobson
- 2019The Warrior Queen of Jhansi as Lord Palmerston
- 2019Muse as The Lawyer
- 2019Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans as Claudius
- 2019Tolkien as Professor Joseph Wright
- 2018Nothing Is Truer than Truth
- 2018Tomb Raider as Mr. Yaffe
- 2017A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Scrooge
- 2017Murder on the Orient Express as Edward Henry Masterman
- 2017Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
- 2017Stratton as Ross
- 2016The Devil of Christmas
- 2016The History of Love as Leopold Gursky
- 2016Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio
- 2015Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2015Venom as Narrator
- 2015Cinderella as King
- 2015The Gospel of Luke as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
- 2014Grace of Monaco as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
- 2014Effie Gray as Travers Twiss
- 2013You as Man
- 2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Claudius/Spooner
- 2013Muse of Fire as Self
- 2013Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene as Narrator (voice)
- 2012Last Will. & Testament as Himself
- 2012The Halloween Kid as Narrator
- 2012Jail Caesar as Sulla
- 2011My Week with Marilyn as Sir Owen Morshead
- 2011Anonymous as Prologue
- 2011Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) as Narrator (voice)
- 2011There Be Dragons as Honorio
- 2011Ironclad as Cornhill
- 2011National Theatre Live: King Lear as King Lear
- 2010The King's Speech as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
- 2010Hereafter as Derek Jacobi
- 2010Joe Maddison's War as Mr. Simpson
- 2009Margot as Fred Ashton
- 2009Charles Dickens's England as Himself - Presenter
- 2009Diamonds as Piers Denmont
- 2009Endgame as Rudolph Agnew
- 2009Morris: A Life with Bells On as Quentin Neely
- 2008A Bunch of Amateurs as Nigel Dewberry
- 2008Sidney Turtlebaum as Sidney Turtlebaum
- 2008Pompeii and the Roman Villa as Narrator
- 2008Adam Resurrected as Dr. Nathan Gross
- 2008The Ties That Bind Us as The Master (archive footage)
- 2008One of Those Days as Howard Whittam
- 2007The Old Curiosity Shop as Grandfather
- 2007The Golden Compass as Magisterial Emissary
- 2007Guantanamero as Guido
- 2007The Riddle as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
- 2007Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as President
- 2007Anastezsi as Balzer
- 2007The Art of Francis Bacon as Derek Jacobi
- 2006Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator (voice)
- 2006Pinochet in Suburbia as Senator Augusto Pinochet
- 2006Underworld: Evolution as Alexander Corvinus
- 2005Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator(voice)
- 2005Nanny McPhee as Mr. Wheen
- 2005Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey
- 2005Strength and Honor: Production Pods as Self
- 2004Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On as Mr. Operatski (voice)
- 2004Strings as Nezo
- 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- 2004Cloud Cuckoo Land as Victor
- 2003Doctor Who: The Scream of the Shalka as The Master
- 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- 2002The Dinosaur Hunters as Narrator (voice)
- 2002Inquisition as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
- 2002Two Men Went To War as Maj. Merton
- 2002I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self
- 2002Revengers Tragedy as The Duke
- 2002The Making of Gosford Park as Self
- 2002The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
- 2002The Gathering Storm as Stanley Baldwin
- 2002Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
- 2001Gosford Park as Probert
- 2001The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus (voice)
- 2001David Macaulay: Mill Times as Priam Huntington (voice)
- 2001The Body as Father Lavelle
- 2001Revelation as Librarian
- 2001Great Escape: The Untold Story as Narrator
- 2000Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters
- 2000The Wyvern Mystery as Squire Fairfield
- 2000Wilfred as Voice
- 2000Gladiator as Gracchus
- 2000Up at the Villa as Lucky Leadbetter
- 1999The Chimes as Narrator
- 1999Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as Father Leonor Fousnel
- 1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon as Francis Bacon
- 1998Basil as Father Frederick
- 1998Animated Epics: Beowulf as Narrator ( voice )
- 1996Hamlet as King Claudius
- 1996Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
- 1996Breaking the Code as Alan Turing
- 1996Witness Against Hitler as General
- 1995The Virgin in the Ice as Brother Cadfael
- 1995Achilles as Narrator
- 1994The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven (voice)
- 1994Monk's Hood as Brother Cadfael
- 1994The Leper of St. Giles as Brother Cadfael
- 1994The Sanctuary Sparrow as Brother Cadfael
- 1994One Corpse Too Many as Brother Cadfael
- 1994The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher as Jeremy Fisher (voice)
- 1994David Macaulay: Roman City as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
- 1993Circles of Deceit as Randal
- 1993The Vision Thing as George Salisbury
- 1992Aladdin as The Magician (voice)
- 1991The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Daedalus & Icarus as Daedalus
- 1991Dead Again as Franklyn Madson
- 1990The Fool as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
- 1990Discovering Hamlet as Himself
- 1989Henry V as Chorus
- 1989The Congress as (voice)
- 1989David Macaulay: Pyramid as Hordedef (voice)
- 1988The Tenth Man as The Imposter
- 1987Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam
- 1987The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven
- 1986On Wings of Fire as Self
- 1986David Macaulay: Cathedral as Pierre (voice)
- 1986Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
- 1985The Statue of Liberty as Self (voice)
- 1985Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
- 1982Enigma as Kurt Limmer
- 1982The Secret of NIMH as Nicodemus (voice)
- 1982Stranger in Town as The Stranger
- 1982Inside the Third Reich as Adolf Hitler
- 1982The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Dom Claude Frollo
- 1981Charlotte as Daberlohn
- 1980The Man Who Went Up in Smoke as Martin Beck
- 1980Hamlet as Hamlet
- 1979The Human Factor as Arthur Davis
- 1978Richard II as King Richard II
- 1978The Medusa Touch as Townley - Publisher
- 1978Mysterious Castles of Clay as Narrator
- 1977Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Guy Burgess
- 1974Blue Blood as Gregory
- 1974The Odessa File as Klaus Wenzer
- 1973The Day of the Jackal as Inspector Caron
- 1970Three Sisters as Andrei
- 1967Much Ado About Nothing as Don John
- 1965Othello as Cassio
- 1965Olivier Talks About Othello as (archive footage)
- 1962The Fishing Match as Eric
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- 2001The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream · thanks