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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Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
209
Gender
Male
Birthday
1938-10-22 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Acting
2025
Juliet & Romeo as The Friar2025
Tinsel Town as Not available2024
Gladiator II as Gracchus2024
Ludwig as Mr. Todd2024
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration as Self2023
The American Buffalo as (voice)2023
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies as Sir Ralph Unwin2023
U-Boat Wargamers as Narrator (voice)2023
Allelujah as Ambrose2022
The Sandman as Erasmus Fry2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self2021
The Lost Pirate Kingdom as Narrator2021
Say Your Prayers as Father Enoch2021
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood as Himself (archive footage)2021
Rhythm of Life as Self2020
Come Away as Mr. Brown2020
The Host as Dr. Hobson2019
Good Omens as The Metatron2019
Good Omens as Metatron2019
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour as Narrator2019
Tolkien as Professor Joseph Wright2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans as Claudius2019
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi as Lord Palmerston2019
Muse as The Lawyer2018
Les Misérables as Bishop Myriel2018
Tomb Raider as Mr. Yaffe2017
Murder on the Orient Express as Edward Henry Masterman2017
Stratton as Ross2017
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Scrooge2016
The Crown as Duke of Windsor2016
The History of Love as Leopold Gursky2016
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio2015
Cinderella as King2015
The Gospel of Luke as Narrator (voice) – King James Version2015
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)2015
Venom as Narrator2014
Inside No. 9 as Webster2014
Grace of Monaco as Count Fernando D'Aillieres2014
Effie Gray as Travers Twiss2013
Vicious as Stuart Bixby2013
Muse of Fire as Self2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Claudius/Spooner2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel as Lord Pirrie2012
Last Tango in Halifax as Alan2012
Shakespeare Uncovered as Himself2012
Jail Caesar as Sulla2011
The Amazing World of Gumball as Narrator (voice)2011
Ironclad as Cornhill2011
My Week with Marilyn as Sir Owen Morshead2011
Anonymous as Prologue2011
There Be Dragons as Honorio2011
National Theatre Live: King Lear as King Lear2011
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 Lang2010
Hereafter as Derek Jacobi2009
Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self2009
Diamonds as Not available2009
Margot as Fred Ashton2009
Endgame as Rudolph Agnew2009
Morris: A Life with Bells On as Quentin Neely2008
Adam Resurrected as Dr. Nathan Gross2008
The Ties That Bind Us as The Master (archive footage)2008
A Bunch of Amateurs as Nigel Dewberry2007
In the Night Garden as Narrator (voice)2007
The Golden Compass as Magisterial Emissary2007
The Old Curiosity Shop as Grandfather2007
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as President2006
Underworld: Evolution as Alexander Corvinus2006
Pinochet in Suburbia as Senator Augusto Pinochet2006
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator2005
Doctor Who as Professor Yana2005
Doctor Who Confidential as Not available2005
Nanny McPhee as Mr. Wheen2005
Strength and Honor: Production Pods as Self2004
Who Do You Think You Are? as Self2004
Agatha Christie's Marple as Colonel Protheroe2004
London as Tacitus2004
The Long Firm as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)2004
Strings as Nezo (voice)2003
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka as The Master (voice)2003
Henry VIII as Narrator2002
The Jury as George Cording QC2002
Two Men Went To War as Maj. Merton2002
The Gathering Storm as Stanley Baldwin2002
Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)2002
The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self2001
Gosford Park as Probert2001
The Body as Father Lavelle2001
Revelation as Librarian2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) as Not available2000
Gladiator as Gracchus2000
Jason and the Argonauts as Phineas2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters2000
Up at the Villa as Lucky Leadbetter1999
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as Father Leonor Fousnel1999
The Chimes as Narrator1998
Basil as Father Frederick1998
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon as Francis Bacon1996
The West as Self (voice)1996
Hamlet as King Claudius1996
Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee1996
Breaking the Code as Alan Turing1995
Achilles as Narrator1994
Baseball as Various (voice)1994
Baseball as (voice)1994
Cadfael as Brother Cadfael1994
The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven (voice)1993
Frasier as Jackson Hedley1992
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)1992
The Velvet Claw as Narrator1991
The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Daedalus1991
Dead Again as Franklyn Madson1990
The Civil War as Various1990
The Fool as Mr. Frederick / Sir John1990
Discovering Hamlet as Himself1989
Henry V as Chorus1989
The Congress as (voice)1988
The Tenth Man as The Imposter1987
The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven1987
Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam1986
Wedden, dat..? as Self1986
Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye1986
On Wings of Fire as Self1986
David Macaulay: Cathedral as Pierre (voice)1985
The Statue of Liberty as Self (voice)1985
Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac1982
The Secret of NIMH as Nicodemus (voice)1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Dom Claude Frollo1982
Enigma as Kurt Limmer1982
Inside the Third Reich as Adolf Hitler1980
Hamlet as Hamlet1979
Tales of the Unexpected as The Stranger1979
Minder as Freddie Fenton1979
The Human Factor as Arthur Davis1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare as King Richard1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare as Hamlet1978
The Medusa Touch as Townley - Publisher1978
Richard II as King Richard II1976
I, Claudius as Claudius1974
NOVA as Voice of Ernest Shackleton1974
The Pallisers as Not available1974
The Odessa File as Klaus Wenzer1974
Blue Blood as Gregory1973
The Day of the Jackal as Inspector Caron1972
The Strauss Family as Not available1971
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as William Drew1971
Budgie as Herbert Fletcher1970
Three Sisters as Andrei1967
Much Ado About Nothing as Don John1965
Othello as Cassio1956
Tony Awards as Self - Nominee1956
Tony Awards as Self - Winner1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dom Claude1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Archibald CravenNaN
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street as HimselfNaN
Lead Heads as Not available2023
The Martini Shot as Errol2022
A Bird Flew In as David2022
Pearl Islands as Self2020
Breaking The Codes as Not available2018
Nothing Is Truer than Truth as Not available2017
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge as Not available2013
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene as Narrator (voice)2013
You as Man2012
The Halloween Kid as Narrator2012
Last Will. & Testament as Himself2010
Joe Maddison's War as Mr. Simpson2009
Diamonds as Piers Denmont2009
Charles Dickens's England as Himself - Presenter2008
One of Those Days as Howard Whittam2008
Sidney Turtlebaum as Sidney Turtlebaum2008
Pompeii and the Roman Villa as Narrator2007
The Riddle as The Tramp / Charles Dickens2007
The Art of Francis Bacon as Derek Jacobi2007
Anastezsi as Balzer2007
Guantanamero as Guido2005
Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey2004
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On as Mr. Operatski (voice)2004
Cloud Cuckoo Land as Victor2002
The Dinosaur Hunters as Narrator (voice)2002
Inquisition as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor2002
Revengers Tragedy as The Duke2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self2002
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)2001
David Macaulay: Mill Times as Priam Huntington (voice)2001
Great Escape: The Untold Story as Narrator2000
The Wyvern Mystery as Squire Fairfield2000
Wilfred as Voice1998
Animated Epics: Beowulf as Narrator ( voice )1996
Witness Against Hitler as General1994
Aladdin as The Magician (voice)1994
David Macaulay: Roman City as Marcus Fabricius (voice)1993
The Vision Thing as George Salisbury1993
Circle of Deceit as Randal1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid as Hordedef (voice)1986
Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye1982
Stranger in Town as The Stranger1981
Charlotte as Daberlohn1980
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke as Martin Beck1978
Mysterious Castles of Clay as Narrator1977
Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Guy Burgess1965
Olivier Talks About Othello as (archive footage)NaN
Moss & Freud as Lucian FreudNaN
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island as Narrator1962
The Fishing Match as Eric1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as ImposterNaN
Venom! Nine Ways to Die as Narrator