Derek Jacobi
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.
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Acting History
2025
Tinsel Town as Albert
2025Moss & Freud as Lucian Freud
2025Broken English as The Narrator
2025Juliet & Romeo as The Friar
2024Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration as Self
2024Gladiator II as Gracchus
2024Ludwig as Mr. Todd
2023The American Buffalo as (voice)
2023The Martini Shot as Errol
2023The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies as Sir Ralph Unwin
2023Allelujah as Ambrose
2023U-Boat Wargamers as Narrator (voice)
2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
2022A Bird Flew In as David
2022Pearl Islands as Self
2022The Sandman as Erasmus Fry
2021Rhythm of Life as Self
2021Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood as Himself (archive footage)
2021Say Your Prayers as Father Enoch
2021The Lost Pirate Kingdom as Narrator
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
2019Greatest Events of World War II in Colour as Narrator
2019Good Omens as The Metatron
2019Good Omens as Metatron
2019Tolkien as Professor Joseph Wright
2018Les Misérables as Bishop Myriel
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
2016The Crown as Duke of Windsor
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
2014Inside No. 9 as Webster
2013You as Man
2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Claudius/Spooner
2013Muse of Fire as Self
2013Vicious as Stuart Bixby
2013Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene as Narrator (voice)
2012Last Tango in Halifax as Alan
2012Last Will. & Testament as Himself
2012The Halloween Kid as Narrator
2012Jail Caesar as Sulla
2012Shakespeare Uncovered as Himself
2012Titanic: Blood and Steel as Lord Pirrie
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)
2011The Amazing World of Gumball 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
2009Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
2009Charles Dickens's England as Himself - Presenter
2009Diamonds
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
2007In the Night Garden as Narrator (voice)
2007Anastezsi as Balzer
2007The Art of Francis Bacon as Derek Jacobi
2006Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator
2006Pinochet in Suburbia as Senator Augusto Pinochet
2006Underworld: Evolution as Alexander Corvinus
2005Nanny McPhee as Mr. Wheen
2005Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey
2005Strength and Honor: Production Pods as Self
2005Doctor Who as Professor Yana
2005Doctor Who Confidential
2004Agatha Christie's Marple as Colonel Protheroe
2004Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On as Mr. Operatski (voice)
2004Strings as Nezo
2004Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2004The Long Firm as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
2004London as Tacitus
2004Cloud Cuckoo Land as Victor
2003Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka as The Master (voice)
2003Henry VIII as Narrator
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)
2002The Jury as George Cording QC
2001Gosford Park as Probert
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
2000Jason and the Argonauts as Phineas
2000Gladiator as Gracchus
2000Up at the Villa as Lucky Leadbetter
2000Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
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
1996The West as Self (voice)
1996Witness Against Hitler as General
1995The Virgin in the Ice as Brother Cadfael
1995Achilles as Narrator
1994The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven (voice)
1994Baseball as Various (voice)
1994Baseball as (voice)
1994Monk's Hood as Brother Cadfael
1994The Leper of St. Giles as Brother Cadfael
1994The Sanctuary Sparrow as Brother Cadfael
1994Cadfael as Brother Cadfael
1994One Corpse Too Many as Brother Cadfael
1994David Macaulay: Roman City as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
1994Aladdin as The Magician (voice)
1993Circle of Deceit as Randal
1993The Vision Thing as George Salisbury
1993Frasier as Jackson Hedley
1992The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
1992The Velvet Claw as Narrator
1991The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Daedalus
1991Dead Again as Franklyn Madson
1990The Fool as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
1990The Civil War as Various
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
1986Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
1986Wedden, dat..? as Self
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
1979Minder as Freddie Fenton
1979Tales of the Unexpected as The Stranger
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
1976I, Claudius as Claudius
1974Blue Blood as Gregory
1974The Odessa File as Klaus Wenzer
1974NOVA as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
1973The Day of the Jackal as Inspector Caron
1971The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as William Drew
1971Budgie as Herbert Fletcher
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
1956Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1956Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dom Claude
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Archibald Craven
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Imposter
—Lead Heads
—Venom! Nine Ways to Die as Narrator
—The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island as Narrator
—Frank and Percy