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