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 (132)
Gladiator
Gracchus
Cinderella
King
Gladiator II
Gracchus
Murder on the Orient Express
Edward Henry Masterman
The King's Speech
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Heartstopper Forever
Pete
Tomb Raider
Mr. Yaffe
The Golden Compass
Magisterial Emissary
Nanny McPhee
Mr. Wheen
The Day of the Jackal
Inspector Caron
Underworld: Evolution
Alexander Corvinus
The Secret of NIMH
Nicodemus (voice)
Hereafter
Derek Jacobi
Gosford Park
Probert
My Week with Marilyn
Sir Owen Morshead
Tolkien
Professor Joseph Wright
Ironclad
Cornhill
Anonymous
Prologue
Dead Again
Franklyn Madson
Come Away
Mr. Brown
The Body
Father Lavelle
The Odessa File
Klaus Wenzer
Grace of Monaco
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
Hamlet
King Claudius
The Medusa Touch
Townley - Publisher
Effie Gray
Travers Twiss
The History of Love
Leopold Gursky
Adam Resurrected
Dr. Nathan Gross
Juliet & Romeo
The Friar
Henry V
Chorus
Stratton
Ross
Moss & Freud
Lucian Freud
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Claudius
The Tenth Man
The Imposter
Up at the Villa
Lucky Leadbetter
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dom Claude Frollo
The Gathering Storm
Stanley Baldwin
Endgame
Rudolph Agnew
Tinsel Town
Albert
A Bird Flew In
David
Broken English
The Narrator
Guantanamero
Guido
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
There Be Dragons
Honorio
Little Dorrit
Arthur Clennam
The Human Factor
Arthur Davis
Allelujah
Ambrose
Charlotte
Daberlohn
The Martini Shot
Errol
Revengers Tragedy
The Duke
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Hordedef (voice)
Enigma
Kurt Limmer
The Host
Dr. Hobson
Strings
Nezo
The Secret Garden
Archibald Craven
Venom
Narrator
Animated Epics: Beowulf
Narrator ( voice )
Basil
Father Frederick
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Claudius/Spooner
Aladdin
The Magician (voice)
Two Men Went To War
Maj. Merton
Much Ado About Nothing
Don John
The Secret Garden
Archibald Craven (voice)
Othello
Cassio
A Bunch of Amateurs
Nigel Dewberry
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Quentin Neely
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Father Leonor Fousnel
Joe Maddison's War
Mr. Simpson
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Narrator(voice)
Three Sisters
Andrei
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio
The Chimes
Narrator
The Devil of Christmas
2016
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Lord Palmerston
The Old Curiosity Shop
Grandfather
Achilles
Narrator
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Various Characters
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Revelation
Librarian
The Wyvern Mystery
Squire Fairfield
Muse
The Lawyer
Diamonds
Piers Denmont
Pinochet in Suburbia
Senator Augusto Pinochet
Sidney Turtlebaum
Sidney Turtlebaum
Richard II
King Richard II
The Ties That Bind Us
The Master (archive footage)
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Mr. Operatski (voice)
The Vision Thing
George Salisbury
The Riddle
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
David Macaulay: Cathedral
Pierre (voice)
Blue Blood
Gregory
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Narrator
Breaking the Code
Alan Turing
The Gospel of Luke
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
The Sanctuary Sparrow
Brother Cadfael
One Corpse Too Many
Brother Cadfael
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Martin Beck
Monk's Hood
Brother Cadfael
Bye Bye Blackbird
Lord Dempsey
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Guy Burgess
The Congress
(voice)
Witness Against Hitler
General
Breaking The Codes
2020
David Macaulay: Roman City
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
The Dinosaur Hunters
Narrator (voice)
National Theatre Live: King Lear
King Lear
Margot
Fred Ashton
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Narrator (voice)
Hamlet
Hamlet
Jail Caesar
Sulla
The Halloween Kid
Narrator
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Narrator (voice)
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus (voice)
Say Your Prayers
Father Enoch
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Scrooge
One of Those Days
Howard Whittam
The Virgin in the Ice
Brother Cadfael
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
President
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
Inquisition
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Narrator (voice)
Stranger in Town
The Stranger
The Leper of St. Giles
Brother Cadfael
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
The Art of Francis Bacon
Derek Jacobi
David Macaulay: Mill Times
Priam Huntington (voice)
Great Escape: The Untold Story
Narrator
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
Narrator
You
Man
TV Shows (54)
Jason and the Argonauts
Phineas · 2 eps
Frasier
Jackson Hedley · 1 eps
Doctor Who
Professor Yana · 1 eps
NOVA
Voice of Ernest Shackleton · 1 eps
The Sandman
Erasmus Fry · 1 eps
The Crown
Duke of Windsor · 1 eps
Horizon
Narrator · 1 eps
The Amazing World of Gumball
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
Colonel Protheroe · 1 eps
Minder
Freddie Fenton · 1 eps
Ludwig
Mr. Todd · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Gerry · 1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
The Stranger · 1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
Drioli · 1 eps
Inside No. 9
Webster · 1 eps
The Borgias
Cardinal Orsini · 2 eps
Good Omens
The Metatron · 2 eps
Good Omens
Metatron · 1 eps
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Richard II · 1 eps
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Hamlet · 1 eps
Doctor Who Confidential
1 eps
ScreenPlay
George Salisbury · 1 eps
Cadfael
Brother Cadfael · 13 eps
Les Misérables
Bishop Myriel · 1 eps
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
William Drew · 1 eps
In the Night Garden
Narrator (voice) · 100 eps
I, Claudius
Claudius · 12 eps
Baseball
Various (voice)
Baseball
(voice) · 1 eps
The Civil War
William Russell / Various (voice) · 9 eps
Budgie
Herbert Fletcher · 1 eps
Vicious
Stuart Bixby · 12 eps
The Pallisers
Lord Fawn · 8 eps
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Lord Pirrie · 12 eps
Last Tango in Halifax
Alan · 24 eps
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
The Master (voice) · 5 eps
Inside the Third Reich
Adolf Hitler · 2 eps
The Jury
George Cording QC · 6 eps
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
Narrator · 6 eps
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice) · 1 eps
The American Buffalo
(voice) · 2 eps
Affairs of the Heart
Bertram Braddle · 1 eps
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
Narrator · 10 eps
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Daedalus · 1 eps
Henry VIII
Narrator · 2 eps
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
Sir Ralph Unwin · 5 eps
The Long Firm
Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby · 4 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dom Claude · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Archibald Craven · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Imposter · 1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Eric · 1 eps
U-Boat Wargamers
Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
Mr Pye
Mr Pye · 4 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
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
The West
Self (voice) · 1 eps
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Self · 1 eps
Shakespeare Uncovered
Himself · 1 eps
Muse of Fire
Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Self
Last Will. & Testament
Himself
The Statue of Liberty
Self (voice)
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Discovering Hamlet
Himself
The Making of Gosford Park
Self
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Self
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Charles Dickens's England
Himself - Presenter
On Wings of Fire
Self
Pearl Islands
Self