Derek Jacobi
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 22, 1938 (age 87)
- Place of birth
- Leytonstone, London, England, UK
- Credits
- 223
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.
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Known for
Gladiator
2000Movie
Gracchus
Murder on the Orient Express
2017Movie
Edward Henry Masterman
The King's Speech
2010Movie
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Tomb Raider
2018Movie
Mr. Yaffe
Cinderella
2015Movie
King
The Golden Compass
2007Movie
Magisterial Emissary
Filmography
Frank and Percy
2026Movie
Heartstopper Forever
2026Movie
Pete
Moss & Freud
2026Movie
Lucian Freud
Broken English
2026Movie
The Narrator
Tinsel Town
2025Movie
Albert
Juliet & Romeo
2025Movie
The Friar
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024Movie
Self
Gladiator II
2024Movie
Gracchus
Ludwig
2024TV
Mr. Todd
The American Buffalo
2023TV
(voice)
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023TV
Sir Ralph Unwin
The Martini Shot
2023Movie
Errol
Allelujah
2023Movie
Ambrose
U-Boat Wargamers
2023TV
Narrator (voice)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022Movie
Self
A Bird Flew In
2022Movie
David
Pearl Islands
2022Movie
Self
The Sandman
2022TV
Erasmus Fry
Remembers…
2022TV
Self
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Say Your Prayers
2021Movie
Father Enoch
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
2021TV
Narrator
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
2020Movie
Himself
Come Away
2020Movie
Mr. Brown
Breaking The Codes
2020Movie
The Host
2020Movie
Dr. Hobson
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019Movie
Lord Palmerston
Muse
2019Movie
The Lawyer
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019Movie
Claudius
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
2019TV
Narrator
Good Omens
2019TV
The Metatron, Metatron
Tolkien
2019Movie
Professor Joseph Wright
Les Misérables
2018TV
Bishop Myriel
2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
2018Movie
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018Movie
Tomb Raider
2018Movie
Mr. Yaffe
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017Movie
Scrooge
Murder on the Orient Express
2017Movie
Edward Henry Masterman
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017Movie
Stratton
2017Movie
Ross
The Devil of Christmas
2016Movie
The History of Love
2016Movie
Leopold Gursky
The Crown
2016TV
Duke of Windsor
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016Movie
Mercutio
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015Movie
Self (archive footage)
Venom
2015Movie
Narrator
Cinderella
2015Movie
King
The Gospel of Luke
2015Movie
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Grace of Monaco
2014Movie
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
Effie Gray
2014Movie
Travers Twiss
Inside No. 9
2014TV
Webster
You
2013Movie
Man
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013Movie
Claudius/Spooner
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
2013Movie
Narrator
Muse of Fire
2013Movie
Self
Vicious
2013TV
Stuart Bixby
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013Movie
Narrator (voice)
Last Tango in Halifax
2012TV
Alan
Last Will. & Testament
2012Movie
Himself
The Halloween Kid
2012Movie
Narrator
Jail Caesar
2012Movie
Sulla
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012TV
Himself
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012TV
Lord Pirrie
My Week with Marilyn
2011Movie
Sir Owen Morshead
Anonymous
2011Movie
Prologue
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Amazing World of Gumball
2011TV
Narrator (voice)
The Borgias
2011TV
Cardinal Orsini
There Be Dragons
2011Movie
Honorio
Ironclad
2011Movie
Cornhill
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2011Movie
King Lear
The King's Speech
2010Movie
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Hereafter
2010Movie
Derek Jacobi
Joe Maddison's War
2010Movie
Mr. Simpson
Margot
2009Movie
Fred Ashton
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009TV
Self
Charles Dickens's England
2009Movie
Himself - Presenter
Diamonds
2009TV
Diamonds
2009Movie
Piers Denmont
Endgame
2009Movie
Rudolph Agnew
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009Movie
Quentin Neely
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008Movie
Nigel Dewberry
Sidney Turtlebaum
2008Movie
Sidney Turtlebaum
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
2008Movie
Narrator
Adam Resurrected
2008Movie
Dr. Nathan Gross
The Ties That Bind Us
2008Movie
The Master (archive footage)
One of Those Days
2008Movie
Howard Whittam
The Old Curiosity Shop
2007Movie
Grandfather
The Golden Compass
2007Movie
Magisterial Emissary
Guantanamero
2007Movie
Guido
The Riddle
2007Movie
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007Movie
President
Mist: Sheepdog Tales
2007TV
Narrator
In the Night Garden
2007TV
Narrator (voice)
Anastezsi
2007Movie
Balzer
The Art of Francis Bacon
2007Movie
Derek Jacobi
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006Movie
Narrator (voice)
Pinochet in Suburbia
2006Movie
Senator Augusto Pinochet
Underworld: Evolution
2006Movie
Alexander Corvinus
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2005Movie
Narrator(voice)
Nanny McPhee
2005Movie
Mr. Wheen
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005Movie
Lord Dempsey
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005Movie
Self
Doctor Who Confidential
2005TV
Doctor Who
2005TV
Professor Yana
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004TV
Colonel Protheroe
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004Movie
Mr. Operatski (voice)
Strings
2004Movie
Nezo
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004TV
Self
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004Movie
Other Voices (voice)
The Long Firm
2004TV
Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
London
2004TV
Tacitus
Cloud Cuckoo Land
2004Movie
Victor
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003TV
The Master (voice)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003Movie
Self
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002Movie
Narrator (voice)
Inquisition
2002Movie
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Two Men Went To War
2002Movie
Maj. Merton
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002Movie
Self
Revengers Tragedy
2002Movie
The Duke
The Making of Gosford Park
2002Movie
Self
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002Movie
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
The Gathering Storm
2002Movie
Stanley Baldwin
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002Movie
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
The Jury
2002TV
George Cording QC
Gosford Park
2001Movie
Probert
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001Movie
Theseus (voice)
David Macaulay: Mill Times
2001Movie
Priam Huntington (voice)
The Body
2001Movie
Father Lavelle
Revelation
2001Movie
Librarian
Great Escape: The Untold Story
2001Movie
Narrator
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000Movie
Various Characters
The Wyvern Mystery
2000Movie
Squire Fairfield
Wilfred
2000Movie
Voice
Jason and the Argonauts
2000TV
Phineas
Gladiator
2000Movie
Gracchus
Up at the Villa
2000Movie
Lucky Leadbetter
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000TV
The Chimes
1999Movie
Narrator
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999Movie
Father Leonor Fousnel
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998Movie
Francis Bacon
Basil
1998Movie
Father Frederick
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998Movie
Narrator ( voice )
Hamlet
1996Movie
King Claudius
Looking for Richard
1996Movie
Self - Interviewee
Breaking the Code
1996Movie
Alan Turing
The West
1996TV
Self (voice)
Witness Against Hitler
1996Movie
General
The Virgin in the Ice
1995Movie
Brother Cadfael
Achilles
1995Movie
Narrator
The Secret Garden
1994Movie
Archibald Craven (voice)
Baseball
1994TV
Various (voice), (voice)
Monk's Hood
1994Movie
Brother Cadfael
The Leper of St. Giles
1994Movie
Brother Cadfael
The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994Movie
Brother Cadfael
One Corpse Too Many
1994Movie
Brother Cadfael
Cadfael
1994TV
Brother Cadfael
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994Movie
Jeremy Fisher (voice)
David Macaulay: Roman City
1994Movie
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
Circles of Deceit
1993Movie
Randal
The Vision Thing
1993Movie
George Salisbury
Frasier
1993TV
Jackson Hedley
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992TV
Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Aladdin
1992Movie
The Magician (voice)
The Velvet Claw
1992TV
Narrator
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Daedalus & Icarus
1991Movie
Daedalus
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991TV
Daedalus
Dead Again
1991Movie
Franklyn Madson
In My Defence
1991TV
Emile Zola
The Fool
1990Movie
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
The Civil War
1990TV
William Russell / Various (voice)
Discovering Hamlet
1990Movie
Himself
Henry V
1989Movie
Chorus
The Congress
1989Movie
(voice)
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989Movie
Hordedef (voice)
The Tenth Man
1988Movie
The Imposter
Little Dorrit
1987Movie
Arthur Clennam
The Secret Garden
1987Movie
Archibald Craven
ScreenPlay
1986TV
George Salisbury
On Wings of Fire
1986Movie
Self
David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986Movie
Pierre (voice)
Mr. Pye
1986Movie
Mr. Pye
Mr Pye
1986TV
Mr Pye
Wedden, dat..?
1986TV
Self
The Statue of Liberty
1985Movie
Self (voice)
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985Movie
Cyrano de Bergerac
Enigma
1982Movie
Kurt Limmer
The Secret of NIMH
1982Movie
Nicodemus (voice)
Stranger in Town
1982Movie
The Stranger
Inside the Third Reich
1982TV
Adolf Hitler
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982Movie
Dom Claude Frollo
Charlotte
1981Movie
Daberlohn
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1980Movie
Martin Beck
Hamlet
1980Movie
Hamlet
The Human Factor
1979Movie
Arthur Davis
Minder
1979TV
Freddie Fenton
Tales of the Unexpected
1979TV
The Stranger, Drioli
Richard II
1978Movie
King Richard II
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978TV
Richard II, Hamlet
The Medusa Touch
1978Movie
Townley - Publisher
Mysterious Castles of Clay
1978Movie
Narrator
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977Movie
Guy Burgess
I, Claudius
1976TV
Claudius
Blue Blood
1974Movie
Gregory
The Odessa File
1974Movie
Klaus Wenzer
Affairs of the Heart
1974TV
Bertram Braddle
NOVA
1974TV
Voice of Ernest Shackleton
The Pallisers
1974TV
Lord Fawn
The Day of the Jackal
1973Movie
Inspector Caron
Man of Straw
1972TV
Diederich Hessling
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971TV
William Drew
Budgie
1971TV
Herbert Fletcher
Three Sisters
1970Movie
Andrei
ITV Playhouse
1967TV
Gerry
Much Ado About Nothing
1967Movie
Don John
Othello
1965Movie
Cassio
Horizon
1964TV
Narrator
The Fishing Match
1962Movie
Eric
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Eric
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Winner, Self - Nominee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Dom Claude, Archibald Craven, Imposter
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
Movie
Narrator
Lead Heads
Movie