6.6Acting
Derek Jacobi
- Born
- 1938-10-22
- Birthplace
- Leytonstone, London, England, UK
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
Known For
Filmography
224 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits
Broken English
2026 · Movie
The Narrator
Frank and Percy
2026 · Movie
Cast
Heartstopper Forever
2026 · Movie
Pete
Moss & Freud
2026 · Movie
Lucian Freud
Juliet & Romeo
2025 · Movie
The Friar
Tinsel Town
2025 · Movie
Albert
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024 · Movie
Self
Gladiator II
2024 · Movie
Gracchus
Ludwig
2024 · TV Show
Mr. Todd
Allelujah
2023 · Movie
Ambrose
The American Buffalo
2023 · TV Show
(voice)
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023 · TV Show
Sir Ralph Unwin
The Martini Shot
2023 · Movie
Errol
U-Boat Wargamers
2023 · TV Show
Narrator (voice)
A Bird Flew In
2022 · Movie
David
Pearl Islands
2022 · Movie
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022 · Movie
Self
Remembers…
2022 · TV Show
Self
The Sandman
2022 · TV Show
Erasmus Fry
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021 · Movie
Self (archive footage)
Say Your Prayers
2021 · Movie
Father Enoch
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
2021 · TV Show
Narrator
Breaking The Codes
2020 · Movie
Cast
Come Away
2020 · Movie
Mr. Brown
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
2020 · Movie
Himself
The Host
2020 · Movie
Dr. Hobson
Good Omens
2019 · TV Show
The Metatron · Metatron
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
2019 · TV Show
Narrator
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019 · Movie
Claudius
Muse
2019 · Movie
The Lawyer
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019 · Movie
Lord Palmerston
Tolkien
2019 · Movie
Professor Joseph Wright
2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
2018 · Movie
Cast
Les Misérables
2018 · TV Show
Bishop Myriel
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018 · Movie
Cast
Tomb Raider
2018 · Movie
Mr. Yaffe
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017 · Movie
Scrooge
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017 · Movie
Cast
Murder on the Orient Express
2017 · Movie
Edward Henry Masterman
Stratton
2017 · Movie
Ross
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016 · Movie
Mercutio
The Crown
2016 · TV Show
Duke of Windsor
The Devil of Christmas
2016 · Movie
Cast
The History of Love
2016 · Movie
Leopold Gursky
Cinderella
2015 · Movie
King
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015 · Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Gospel of Luke
2015 · Movie
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Venom
2015 · Movie
Narrator
Effie Gray
2014 · Movie
Travers Twiss
Grace of Monaco
2014 · Movie
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
Inside No. 9
2014 · TV Show
Webster
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Muse of Fire
2013 · Movie
Self
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · Movie
Claudius/Spooner
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
2013 · Movie
Narrator
Vicious
2013 · TV Show
Stuart Bixby
You
2013 · Movie
Man
Jail Caesar
2012 · Movie
Sulla
Last Tango in Halifax
2012 · TV Show
Alan
Last Will. & Testament
2012 · Movie
Himself
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012 · TV Show
Himself
The Halloween Kid
2012 · Movie
Narrator
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012 · TV Show
Lord Pirrie
Anonymous
2011 · Movie
Prologue
Ironclad
2011 · Movie
Cornhill
My Week with Marilyn
2011 · Movie
Sir Owen Morshead
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2011 · Movie
King Lear
The Amazing World of Gumball
2011 · TV Show
Narrator (voice)
The Borgias
2011 · TV Show
Cardinal Orsini
There Be Dragons
2011 · Movie
Honorio
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Hereafter
2010 · Movie
Derek Jacobi
Joe Maddison's War
2010 · Movie
Mr. Simpson
The King's Speech
2010 · Movie
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Charles Dickens's England
2009 · Movie
Himself - Presenter
Diamonds
2009 · Movie
Piers Denmont
Diamonds
2009 · TV Show
Cast
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009 · TV Show
Self
Endgame
2009 · Movie
Rudolph Agnew
Margot
2009 · Movie
Fred Ashton
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009 · Movie
Quentin Neely
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008 · Movie
Nigel Dewberry
Adam Resurrected
2008 · Movie
Dr. Nathan Gross
One of Those Days
2008 · Movie
Howard Whittam
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
2008 · Movie
Narrator
Sidney Turtlebaum
2008 · Movie
Sidney Turtlebaum
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Movie
The Master (archive footage)
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007 · Movie
President
Anastezsi
2007 · Movie
Balzer
Guantanamero
2007 · Movie
Guido
In the Night Garden
2007 · TV Show
Narrator (voice)
Mist: Sheepdog Tales
2007 · TV Show
Narrator
The Art of Francis Bacon
2007 · Movie
Derek Jacobi
The Golden Compass
2007 · Movie
Magisterial Emissary
The Old Curiosity Shop
2007 · Movie
Grandfather
The Riddle
2007 · Movie
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Pinochet in Suburbia
2006 · Movie
Senator Augusto Pinochet
Underworld: Evolution
2006 · Movie
Alexander Corvinus
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005 · Movie
Lord Dempsey
Doctor Who
2005 · TV Show
Professor Yana
Doctor Who Confidential
2005 · TV Show
Cast
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2005 · Movie
Narrator(voice)
Nanny McPhee
2005 · Movie
Mr. Wheen
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005 · Movie
Self
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV Show
Colonel Protheroe
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004 · Movie
Mr. Operatski (voice)
Cloud Cuckoo Land
2004 · Movie
Victor
London
2004 · TV Show
Tacitus
Strings
2004 · Movie
Nezo
The Long Firm
2004 · TV Show
Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Movie
Other Voices (voice)
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · TV Show
Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · Movie
Self
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003 · TV Show
The Master (voice)
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002 · Movie
Self
Inquisition
2002 · Movie
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Revengers Tragedy
2002 · Movie
The Duke
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002 · Movie
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Gathering Storm
2002 · Movie
Stanley Baldwin
The Jury
2002 · TV Show
George Cording QC
The Making of Gosford Park
2002 · Movie
Self
Two Men Went To War
2002 · Movie
Maj. Merton
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002 · Movie
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
David Macaulay: Mill Times
2001 · Movie
Priam Huntington (voice)
Gosford Park
2001 · Movie
Probert
Great Escape: The Untold Story
2001 · Movie
Narrator
Revelation
2001 · Movie
Librarian
The Body
2001 · Movie
Father Lavelle
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001 · Movie
Theseus (voice) · Thanks
Gladiator
2000 · Movie
Gracchus
Jason and the Argonauts
2000 · TV Show
Phineas
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000 · TV Show
Cast
The Wyvern Mystery
2000 · Movie
Squire Fairfield
Up at the Villa
2000 · Movie
Lucky Leadbetter
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Movie
Various Characters
Wilfred
2000 · Movie
Voice
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999 · Movie
Father Leonor Fousnel
The Chimes
1999 · Movie
Narrator
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998 · Movie
Narrator ( voice )
Basil
1998 · Movie
Father Frederick
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998 · Movie
Francis Bacon
Breaking the Code
1996 · Movie
Alan Turing
Hamlet
1996 · Movie
King Claudius
Looking for Richard
1996 · Movie
Self - Interviewee
The West
1996 · TV Show
Self (voice)
Witness Against Hitler
1996 · Movie
General
Achilles
1995 · Movie
Narrator
The Virgin in the Ice
1995 · Movie
Brother Cadfael
Baseball
1994 · TV Show
Various (voice) · (voice)
Cadfael
1994 · TV Show
Brother Cadfael
David Macaulay: Roman City
1994 · Movie
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
Monk's Hood
1994 · Movie
Brother Cadfael
One Corpse Too Many
1994 · Movie
Brother Cadfael
The Leper of St. Giles
1994 · Movie
Brother Cadfael
The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994 · Movie
Brother Cadfael
The Secret Garden
1994 · Movie
Archibald Craven (voice)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994 · Movie
Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Circles of Deceit
1993 · Movie
Randal
Frasier
1993 · TV Show
Jackson Hedley
The Vision Thing
1993 · Movie
George Salisbury
Aladdin
1992 · Movie
The Magician (voice)
The Velvet Claw
1992 · TV Show
Narrator
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992 · TV Show
Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Dead Again
1991 · Movie
Franklyn Madson
In My Defence
1991 · TV Show
Emile Zola
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991 · TV Show
Daedalus
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Daedalus & Icarus
1991 · Movie
Daedalus
Discovering Hamlet
1990 · Movie
Himself
The Civil War
1990 · TV Show
William Russell / Various (voice)
The Fool
1990 · Movie
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989 · Movie
Hordedef (voice)
Henry V
1989 · Movie
Chorus
The Congress
1989 · Movie
(voice)
The Tenth Man
1988 · Movie
The Imposter
Little Dorrit
1987 · Movie
Arthur Clennam
The Secret Garden
1987 · Movie
Archibald Craven
David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986 · Movie
Pierre (voice)
Mr Pye
1986 · TV Show
Mr Pye
Mr. Pye
1986 · Movie
Mr. Pye
On Wings of Fire
1986 · Movie
Self
ScreenPlay
1986 · TV Show
George Salisbury
Wedden, dat..?
1986 · TV Show
Self
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985 · Movie
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Statue of Liberty
1985 · Movie
Self (voice)
Enigma
1982 · Movie
Kurt Limmer
Inside the Third Reich
1982 · TV Show
Adolf Hitler
Stranger in Town
1982 · Movie
The Stranger
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982 · Movie
Dom Claude Frollo
The Secret of NIMH
1982 · Movie
Nicodemus (voice)
Charlotte
1981 · Movie
Daberlohn
Hamlet
1980 · Movie
Hamlet
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1980 · Movie
Martin Beck
Minder
1979 · TV Show
Freddie Fenton
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · TV Show
The Stranger · Drioli
The Human Factor
1979 · Movie
Arthur Davis
Mysterious Castles of Clay
1978 · Movie
Narrator
Richard II
1978 · Movie
King Richard II
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · TV Show
Richard II · Hamlet
The Medusa Touch
1978 · Movie
Townley - Publisher
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977 · Movie
Guy Burgess
I, Claudius
1976 · TV Show
Claudius
Affairs of the Heart
1974 · TV Show
Bertram Braddle
Blue Blood
1974 · Movie
Gregory
NOVA
1974 · TV Show
Voice of Ernest Shackleton
The Odessa File
1974 · Movie
Klaus Wenzer
The Pallisers
1974 · TV Show
Lord Fawn
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Movie
Inspector Caron
Man of Straw
1972 · TV Show
Diederich Hessling
Budgie
1971 · TV Show
Herbert Fletcher
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · TV Show
William Drew
Three Sisters
1970 · Movie
Andrei
ITV Playhouse
1967 · TV Show
Gerry
Much Ado About Nothing
1967 · Movie
Don John
Othello
1965 · Movie
Cassio
Horizon
1964 · TV Show
Narrator
The Fishing Match
1962 · Movie
Eric
Armchair Theatre
1956 · TV Show
Eric
Tony Awards
1956 · TV Show
Self - Winner · Self - Nominee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV Show
Dom Claude · Archibald Craven · Imposter
Lead Heads
Date unknown · Movie
Cast
The Vampyre: Blood & Ink
Date unknown · Movie
Cast
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
Date unknown · Movie
Narrator