Derek Jacobi
Acting
Born: October 22, 1938 (age 87) · Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Highest Rated
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
Gladiator
2000
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
The King's Speech
2010
Tomb Raider
2018
Cinderella
2015
The Golden Compass
2007
Gladiator II
2024
Underworld: Evolution
2006
Doctor Who
2005
Nanny McPhee
2005
The Sandman
2022
The Crown
2016
Photos (2)
Movies (135)
Gladiator
Gracchus
Gladiator II
Gracchus
Cinderella
King
The King's Speech
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
The Golden Compass
Magisterial Emissary
Tomb Raider
Mr. Yaffe
Nanny McPhee
Mr. Wheen
Underworld: Evolution
Alexander Corvinus
Murder on the Orient Express
Edward Henry Masterman
Heartstopper Forever
Pete
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Claudius
My Week with Marilyn
Sir Owen Morshead
Hereafter
Derek Jacobi
Hamlet
King Claudius
The Odessa File
Klaus Wenzer
Juliet & Romeo
The Friar
Anonymous
Prologue
Adam Resurrected
Dr. Nathan Gross
The Day of the Jackal
Inspector Caron
Tolkien
Professor Joseph Wright
The Secret of NIMH
Nicodemus (voice)
Gosford Park
Probert
The Host
Dr. Hobson
Come Away
Mr. Brown
Grace of Monaco
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
The Body
Father Lavelle
Ironclad
Cornhill
The Medusa Touch
Townley - Publisher
Dead Again
Franklyn Madson
Allelujah
Ambrose
Effie Gray
Travers Twiss
Broken English
The Narrator
Tinsel Town
Albert
The History of Love
Leopold Gursky
Henry V
Chorus
There Be Dragons
Honorio
Stratton
Ross
The Gathering Storm
Stanley Baldwin
Strings
Nezo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dom Claude Frollo
Basil
Father Frederick
Moss & Freud
Lucian Freud
The Human Factor
Arthur Davis
Guantanamero
Guido
Breaking the Code
Alan Turing
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
Margot
Fred Ashton
A Bunch of Amateurs
Nigel Dewberry
Enigma
Kurt Limmer
Frank and Percy
2026
Two Men Went To War
Maj. Merton
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio
The Tenth Man
The Imposter
Up at the Villa
Lucky Leadbetter
Animated Epics: Beowulf
Narrator ( voice )
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Daedalus & Icarus
Daedalus
Little Dorrit
Arthur Clennam
The Old Curiosity Shop
Grandfather
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Lord Palmerston
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Claudius/Spooner
The Secret Garden
Archibald Craven
Joe Maddison's War
Mr. Simpson
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Revengers Tragedy
The Duke
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Quentin Neely
Venom
Narrator
The Ties That Bind Us
The Master (archive footage)
The Martini Shot
Errol
Witness Against Hitler
General
The Chimes
Narrator
Richard II
King Richard II
A Bird Flew In
David
The Secret Garden
Archibald Craven (voice)
Revelation
Librarian
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Father Leonor Fousnel
National Theatre Live: King Lear
King Lear
Endgame
Rudolph Agnew
Hamlet
Hamlet
The Congress
(voice)
Achilles
Narrator
The Gospel of Luke
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Scrooge
David Macaulay: Roman City
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
The Dinosaur Hunters
Narrator (voice)
Pinochet in Suburbia
Senator Augusto Pinochet
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Martin Beck
Say Your Prayers
Father Enoch
Muse
The Lawyer
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
President
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Guy Burgess
Breaking The Codes
2020
Othello
Cassio
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Various Characters
Blue Blood
Gregory
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Hordedef (voice)
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Mr. Operatski (voice)
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Narrator(voice)
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus (voice)
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
The Wyvern Mystery
Squire Fairfield
Three Sisters
Andrei
Aladdin
The Magician (voice)
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Narrator
David Macaulay: Mill Times
Priam Huntington (voice)
One of Those Days
Howard Whittam
Charlotte
Daberlohn
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Narrator (voice)
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
Much Ado About Nothing
Don John
David Macaulay: Cathedral
Pierre (voice)
The Devil of Christmas
2016
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
Sidney Turtlebaum
Sidney Turtlebaum
The Leper of St. Giles
Brother Cadfael
Great Escape: The Untold Story
Narrator
One Corpse Too Many
Brother Cadfael
Mr. Pye
Mr. Pye
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Narrator (voice)
The Sanctuary Sparrow
Brother Cadfael
The Riddle
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Bye Bye Blackbird
Lord Dempsey
The Virgin in the Ice
Brother Cadfael
The Art of Francis Bacon
Derek Jacobi
Diamonds
Piers Denmont
Monk's Hood
Brother Cadfael
Inquisition
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
The Vision Thing
George Salisbury
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Narrator (voice)
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
Narrator
The Halloween Kid
Narrator
Jail Caesar
Sulla
Stranger in Town
The Stranger
You
Man
TV Shows (54)
Doctor Who
Professor Yana · 1 eps
Frasier
Jackson Hedley · 1 eps
The Crown
Duke of Windsor · 1 eps
Jason and the Argonauts
Phineas · 2 eps
NOVA
Voice of Ernest Shackleton · 1 eps
The Amazing World of Gumball
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
Horizon
Narrator · 1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
The Stranger · 1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
Drioli · 1 eps
Good Omens
The Metatron · 2 eps
Good Omens
Metatron · 1 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
Colonel Protheroe · 1 eps
The Sandman
Erasmus Fry · 1 eps
Minder
Freddie Fenton · 1 eps
Inside No. 9
Webster · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Gerry · 1 eps
Ludwig
Mr. Todd · 1 eps
The Borgias
Cardinal Orsini · 2 eps
Doctor Who Confidential
1 eps
ScreenPlay
George Salisbury · 1 eps
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Richard II · 1 eps
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Hamlet · 1 eps
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
William Drew · 1 eps
Les Misérables
Bishop Myriel · 1 eps
I, Claudius
Claudius · 12 eps
Cadfael
Brother Cadfael · 13 eps
In the Night Garden
Narrator (voice) · 100 eps
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Lord Pirrie · 12 eps
Budgie
Herbert Fletcher · 1 eps
Baseball
Various (voice)
Baseball
(voice) · 1 eps
The Civil War
William Russell / Various (voice) · 9 eps
Last Tango in Halifax
Alan · 24 eps
The Jury
George Cording QC · 6 eps
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
Narrator · 6 eps
Vicious
Stuart Bixby · 12 eps
Affairs of the Heart
Bertram Braddle · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dom Claude · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Archibald Craven · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Imposter · 1 eps
The Pallisers
Lord Fawn · 8 eps
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Daedalus · 1 eps
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice) · 1 eps
The Long Firm
Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby · 4 eps
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
Narrator · 10 eps
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
The Master (voice) · 5 eps
The American Buffalo
(voice) · 2 eps
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
Sir Ralph Unwin · 5 eps
Inside the Third Reich
Adolf Hitler · 2 eps
Armchair Theatre
Eric · 1 eps
Mr Pye
Mr Pye · 4 eps
U-Boat Wargamers
Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
Diamonds
2 eps
Man of Straw
Diederich Hessling · 6 eps
Self / Appearances (23)
Tony Awards
Self - Winner · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self · 1 eps
Remembers…
Self · 2 eps
Shakespeare Uncovered
Himself · 1 eps
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
The West
Self (voice) · 1 eps
Muse of Fire
Self
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Self · 1 eps
The Statue of Liberty
Self (voice)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
The Making of Gosford Park
Self
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Self
On Wings of Fire
Self
Last Will. & Testament
Himself
Charles Dickens's England
Himself - Presenter
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Self
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet
Himself
Pearl Islands
Self