
Derek Jacobi
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 22, 1938 (age 88)
- Birthplace
- Leytonstone, London, England, UK
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
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Filmography
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
Movie · as Narrator
Lead Heads
Movie
The Vampyre: Blood & Ink
Movie

Good Omens T3: El final
Movie

Moss & Freud
Movie · as Lucian Freud

Frank and Percy
Movie

Broken English
Movie · as The Narrator

Heartstopper Forever
Movie · as Pete

Juliet & Romeo
Movie · as The Friar

Tinsel Town
Movie · as Albert

Gladiator II
Movie · as Gracchus

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Movie · as Self

Ludwig
TV · as Mr. Todd · 1 ep

Allelujah
Movie · as Ambrose

The Martini Shot
Movie · as Errol

The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
TV · as Sir Ralph Unwin · 5 eps

The American Buffalo
TV · as (voice) · 2 eps

U-Boat Wargamers
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 6 eps

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Movie · as Self

Pearl Islands
Movie · as Self

A Bird Flew In
Movie · as David

The Sandman
TV · as Erasmus Fry · 1 ep

Remembers…
TV · as Self · 2 eps

Say Your Prayers
Movie · as Father Enoch

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

The Lost Pirate Kingdom
TV · as Narrator · 6 eps

Come Away
Movie · as Mr. Brown

The Host
Movie · as Dr. Hobson
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Movie · as Himself

Breaking The Codes
Movie

Tolkien
Movie · as Professor Joseph Wright

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Movie · as Claudius

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Movie · as Lord Palmerston

Muse
Movie · as The Lawyer

Good Omens
TV · as The Metatron · 2 eps

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
TV · as Narrator · 10 eps

Tomb Raider
Movie · as Mr. Yaffe

Nothing Is Truer than Truth
Movie
2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
Movie

Les Misérables
TV · as Bishop Myriel · 1 ep

Murder on the Orient Express
Movie · as Edward Henry Masterman

Stratton
Movie · as Ross

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Movie · as Scrooge

Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
Movie

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Movie · as Mercutio

The History of Love
Movie · as Leopold Gursky

The Devil of Christmas
Movie

The Crown
TV · as Duke of Windsor · 1 ep

The Gospel of Luke
Movie · as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Venom
Movie · as Narrator

Cinderella
Movie · as King

Effie Gray
Movie · as Travers Twiss

Grace of Monaco
Movie · as Fernando D'Aillieres

Inside No. 9
TV · as Webster · 1 ep

Muse of Fire
Movie · as Self
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
Movie · as Narrator

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Movie · as Claudius/Spooner

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

You
Movie · as Man

Vicious
TV · as Stuart Bixby · 12 eps

Last Will. & Testament
Movie · as Himself

Jail Caesar
Movie · as Sulla

The Halloween Kid
Movie · as Narrator

Titanic: Blood and Steel
TV · as Lord Pirrie · 12 eps

Last Tango in Halifax
TV · as Alan · 24 eps

Shakespeare Uncovered
TV · as Himself · 1 ep

Anonymous
Movie · as Prologue

There Be Dragons
Movie · as Honorio

Ironclad
Movie · as Cornhill

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

National Theatre Live: King Lear
Movie · as King Lear

My Week with Marilyn
Movie · as Sir Owen Morshead

The Amazing World of Gumball
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 2 eps

The Borgias
TV · as Cardinal Orsini · 2 eps

Joe Maddison's War
Movie · as Mr. Simpson

The King's Speech
Movie · as Archbishop Cosmo Lang

Hereafter
Movie · as Derek Jacobi

Diamonds
Movie · as Piers Denmont

Endgame
Movie · as Rudolph Agnew

Margot
Movie · as Fred Ashton

Morris: A Life with Bells On
Movie · as Quentin Neely

Charles Dickens's England
Movie · as Himself - Presenter

Diamonds
TV · 2 eps

Doctor Who Greatest Moments
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Adam Resurrected
Movie · as Dr. Nathan Gross

A Bunch of Amateurs
Movie · as Nigel Dewberry

Sidney Turtlebaum
Movie · as Sidney Turtlebaum

One of Those Days
Movie · as Howard Whittam

Pompeii and the Roman Villa
Movie · as Narrator

The Ties That Bind Us
Movie · as The Master (archive footage)

The Golden Compass
Movie · as Magisterial Emissary

The Old Curiosity Shop
Movie · as Grandfather

The Riddle
Movie · as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Anastezsi
Movie · as Balzer

Guantanamero
Movie · as Guido

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
Movie · as President

The Art of Francis Bacon
Movie · as Derek Jacobi

In the Night Garden
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 100 eps
Mist: Sheepdog Tales
TV · as Narrator · 39 eps

Underworld: Evolution
Movie · as Alexander Corvinus

Pinochet in Suburbia
Movie · as Senator Augusto Pinochet

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Nanny McPhee
Movie · as Mr. Wheen

Bye Bye Blackbird
Movie · as Lord Dempsey

Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Movie · as Self

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Movie · as Narrator(voice)

Doctor Who Confidential
TV · 1 ep

Doctor Who
TV · as Professor Yana · 1 ep

Strings
Movie · as Nezo

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Movie · as Other Voices (voice)

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Movie · as Mr. Operatski (voice)
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Movie · as Victor

Who Do You Think You Are?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
London
TV · as Tacitus · 3 eps

The Long Firm
TV · as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby · 4 eps

Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · as Colonel Protheroe · 1 ep

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie · as Self

Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
TV · as The Master (voice) · 5 eps

Revengers Tragedy
Movie · as The Duke

The Gathering Storm
Movie · as Stanley Baldwin

Two Men Went To War
Movie · as Maj. Merton

Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Movie · as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Movie · as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

The Dinosaur Hunters
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Inquisition
Movie · as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Movie · as Self

The Making of Gosford Park
Movie · as Self

The Jury
TV · as George Cording QC · 6 eps

Gosford Park
Movie · as Probert

The Body
Movie · as Father Lavelle

Revelation
Movie · as Librarian

Great Escape: The Untold Story
Movie · as Narrator

David Macaulay: Mill Times
Movie · as Priam Huntington (voice)

The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie · as Theseus (voice)

Gladiator
Movie · as Gracchus

The Wyvern Mystery
Movie · as Squire Fairfield

Up at the Villa
Movie · as Lucky Leadbetter
Wilfred
Movie · as Voice

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Movie · as Various Characters
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
TV · 1 ep

Jason and the Argonauts
TV · as Phineas · 2 eps

The Chimes
Movie · as Narrator

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Movie · as Father Leonor Fousnel

Animated Epics: Beowulf
Movie · as Narrator ( voice )

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Movie · as Francis Bacon

Basil
Movie · as Father Frederick

Hamlet
Movie · as King Claudius

Breaking the Code
Movie · as Alan Turing

Witness Against Hitler
Movie · as General

Looking for Richard
Movie · as Self - Interviewee

The West
TV · as Self (voice) · 1 ep

Achilles
Movie · as Narrator

The Virgin in the Ice
Movie · as Brother Cadfael

The Secret Garden
Movie · as Archibald Craven (voice)

David Macaulay: Roman City
Movie · as Marcus Fabricius (voice)

One Corpse Too Many
Movie · as Brother Cadfael

The Sanctuary Sparrow
Movie · as Brother Cadfael

The Leper of St. Giles
Movie · as Brother Cadfael

Monk's Hood
Movie · as Brother Cadfael

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Movie · as Jeremy Fisher (voice)

Cadfael
TV · as Brother Cadfael · 13 eps

Baseball
TV · as Various (voice)

The Vision Thing
Movie · as George Salisbury
Circles of Deceit
Movie · as Randal

Frasier
TV · as Jackson Hedley · 1 ep

Aladdin
Movie · as The Magician (voice)
The Velvet Claw
TV · as Narrator · 7 eps

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
TV · as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice) · 1 ep

Dead Again
Movie · as Franklyn Madson

The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Daedalus & Icarus
Movie · as Daedalus

The Storyteller: Greek Myths
TV · as Daedalus · 1 ep
In My Defence
TV · as Emile Zola · 1 ep
The Fool
Movie · as Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Discovering Hamlet
Movie · as Himself

The Civil War
TV · as William Russell / Various (voice) · 9 eps

Henry V
Movie · as Chorus

David Macaulay: Pyramid
Movie · as Hordedef (voice)

The Congress
Movie · as (voice)

The Tenth Man
Movie · as The Imposter

Little Dorrit
Movie · as Arthur Clennam

The Secret Garden
Movie · as Archibald Craven

On Wings of Fire
Movie · as Self

Mr. Pye
Movie · as Mr. Pye

David Macaulay: Cathedral
Movie · as Pierre (voice)
Wedden, dat..?
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Mr Pye
TV · as Mr Pye · 4 eps

ScreenPlay
TV · as George Salisbury · 1 ep
Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie · as Cyrano de Bergerac

The Statue of Liberty
Movie · as Self (voice)

Stranger in Town
Movie · as The Stranger

Enigma
Movie · as Kurt Limmer

The Secret of NIMH
Movie · as Nicodemus (voice)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie · as Dom Claude Frollo

Inside the Third Reich
TV · as Adolf Hitler · 2 eps

Charlotte
Movie · as Daberlohn

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Movie · as Martin Beck

Hamlet
Movie · as Hamlet

The Human Factor
Movie · as Arthur Davis

Tales of the Unexpected
TV · as The Stranger, Drioli · 1 ep

Minder
TV · as Freddie Fenton · 1 ep

The Medusa Touch
Movie · as Townley - Publisher

Richard II
Movie · as King Richard II

Mysterious Castles of Clay
Movie · as Narrator

The BBC Television Shakespeare
TV · as Richard II, Hamlet · 1 ep

Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Movie · as Guy Burgess

I, Claudius
TV · as Claudius · 12 eps

The Odessa File
Movie · as Klaus Wenzer

Blue Blood
Movie · as Gregory

NOVA
TV · as Voice of Ernest Shackleton · 1 ep

The Pallisers
TV · as Lord Fawn · 8 eps

Affairs of the Heart
TV · as Bertram Braddle · 1 ep

The Day of the Jackal
Movie · as Inspector Caron

Man of Straw
TV · as Diederich Hessling · 6 eps

Budgie
TV · as Herbert Fletcher · 1 ep

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV · as William Drew · 1 ep

Three Sisters
Movie · as Andrei

Much Ado About Nothing
Movie · as Don John

ITV Playhouse
TV · as Gerry · 1 ep

Othello
Movie · as Cassio

Horizon
TV · as Narrator · 1 ep
The Fishing Match
Movie · as Eric

Armchair Theatre
TV · as Eric · 1 ep

Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Winner, Self - Nominee · 1 ep

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Dom Claude, Archibald Craven, Imposter · 1 ep

