Derek Jacobi
Acting
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
TV Shows(55)
Ludwig
Mr. Todd
2024
The American Buffalo
(voice)
2023
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
Sir Ralph Unwin
2023
U-Boat Wargamers
Narrator (voice)
2023
The Sandman
Erasmus Fry
2022
Remembers…
Self
2022
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
Narrator
2021
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
Narrator
2019
Good Omens
The Metatron
2019
Les Misérables
Bishop Myriel
2018
The Crown
Duke of Windsor
2016
Inside No. 9
Webster
2014
Vicious
Stuart Bixby
2013
Last Tango in Halifax
Alan
2012
Shakespeare Uncovered
Himself
2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Lord Pirrie
2012
The Amazing World of Gumball
Narrator (voice)
2011
The Borgias
Cardinal Orsini
2011
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Self
2009
Diamonds
2009
In the Night Garden
Narrator (voice)
2007
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Doctor Who
Professor Yana
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
Colonel Protheroe
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2004
The Long Firm
Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
2004
London
Tacitus
2004
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
The Master (voice)
2003
Henry VIII
Narrator
2003
The Jury
George Cording QC
2002
Jason and the Argonauts
Phineas
2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
The West
Self (voice)
1996
Baseball
Various (voice)
1994
Cadfael
Brother Cadfael
1994
Frasier
Jackson Hedley
1993
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
1992
The Velvet Claw
Narrator
1992
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Daedalus
1991
The Civil War
Various
1990
Mr Pye
Mr Pye
1986
Wedden, dat..?
Self
1986
Inside the Third Reich
Adolf Hitler
1982
Minder
Freddie Fenton
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
The Stranger
1979
I, Claudius
Claudius
1976
NOVA
Voice of Ernest Shackleton
1974
The Pallisers
Lord Fawn
1974
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
William Drew
1971
Budgie
Herbert Fletcher
1971
ITV Playhouse
Gerry
1967
Horizon
Narrator
1964
Armchair Theatre
Eric
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
1956
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dom Claude
1951
Movies(162)
Heartstopper Forever
2026
Moss & Freud
Lucian Freud
2026
Broken English
The Narrator
2026
Tinsel Town
Albert
2025
Juliet & Romeo
The Friar
2025
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Self
2024
Gladiator II
Gracchus
2024
Family Guy: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater
Rupert (voice)
2024
The Martini Shot
Errol
2023
Allelujah
Ambrose
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
2022
A Bird Flew In
David
2022
Pearl Islands
Self
2022
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2021
Say Your Prayers
Father Enoch
2021
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Himself
2020
Come Away
Mr. Brown
2020
Breaking The Codes
2020
The Host
Dr. Hobson
2020
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Lord Palmerston
2019
Muse
The Lawyer
2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Claudius
2019
Tolkien
Professor Joseph Wright
2019
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
Tomb Raider
Mr. Yaffe
2018
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Scrooge
2017
Murder on the Orient Express
Edward Henry Masterman
2017
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
Stratton
Ross
2017
The Devil of Christmas
2016
The History of Love
Leopold Gursky
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio
2016
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2015
Venom
Narrator
2015
Cinderella
King
2015
The Gospel of Luke
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
2015
Grace of Monaco
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
2014
Effie Gray
Travers Twiss
2014
You
Man
2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Claudius/Spooner
2013
Muse of Fire
Self
2013
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Narrator (voice)
2013
Last Will. & Testament
Himself
2012
The Halloween Kid
Narrator
2012
Jail Caesar
Sulla
2012
My Week with Marilyn
Sir Owen Morshead
2011
Anonymous
Prologue
2011
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Narrator (voice)
2011
There Be Dragons
Honorio
2011
Ironclad
Cornhill
2011
National Theatre Live: King Lear
King Lear
2011
The King's Speech
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
2010
Hereafter
Derek Jacobi
2010
Joe Maddison's War
Mr. Simpson
2010
Margot
Fred Ashton
2009
Charles Dickens's England
Himself - Presenter
2009
Diamonds
Piers Denmont
2009
Endgame
Rudolph Agnew
2009
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Quentin Neely
2009
A Bunch of Amateurs
Nigel Dewberry
2008
Sidney Turtlebaum
Sidney Turtlebaum
2008
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
Narrator
2008
Adam Resurrected
Dr. Nathan Gross
2008
The Ties That Bind Us
The Master (archive footage)
2008
One of Those Days
Howard Whittam
2008
The Old Curiosity Shop
Grandfather
2007
The Golden Compass
Magisterial Emissary
2007
Guantanamero
Guido
2007
The Riddle
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
2007
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
President
2007
Anastezsi
Balzer
2007
The Art of Francis Bacon
Derek Jacobi
2007
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Narrator (voice)
2006
Pinochet in Suburbia
Senator Augusto Pinochet
2006
Underworld: Evolution
Alexander Corvinus
2006
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Narrator(voice)
2005
Nanny McPhee
Mr. Wheen
2005
Bye Bye Blackbird
Lord Dempsey
2005
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Self
2005
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Mr. Operatski (voice)
2004
Strings
Nezo
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
2004
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Victor
2004
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
2003
The Dinosaur Hunters
Narrator (voice)
2002
Inquisition
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
2002
Two Men Went To War
Maj. Merton
2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Self
2002
Revengers Tragedy
The Duke
2002
The Making of Gosford Park
Self
2002
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
2002
The Gathering Storm
Stanley Baldwin
2002
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
2002
Gosford Park
Probert
2001
David Macaulay: Mill Times
Priam Huntington (voice)
2001
The Body
Father Lavelle
2001
Revelation
Librarian
2001
Great Escape: The Untold Story
Narrator
2001
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Various Characters
2000
The Wyvern Mystery
Squire Fairfield
2000
Wilfred
Voice
2000
Gladiator
Gracchus
2000
Up at the Villa
Lucky Leadbetter
2000
The Chimes
Narrator
1999
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Father Leonor Fousnel
1999
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
1998
Basil
Father Frederick
1998
Animated Epics: Beowulf
Narrator ( voice )
1998
Hamlet
King Claudius
1996
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
1996
Breaking the Code
Alan Turing
1996
Witness Against Hitler
General
1996
The Virgin in the Ice
Brother Cadfael
1995
Achilles
Narrator
1995
The Secret Garden
Archibald Craven (voice)
1994
Monk's Hood
Brother Cadfael
1994
The Leper of St. Giles
Brother Cadfael
1994
The Sanctuary Sparrow
Brother Cadfael
1994
One Corpse Too Many
Brother Cadfael
1994
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Jeremy Fisher (voice)
1994
David Macaulay: Roman City
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
1994
Circles of Deceit
Randal
1993
The Vision Thing
George Salisbury
1993
Aladdin
The Magician (voice)
1992
Dead Again
Franklyn Madson
1991
The Fool
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
1990
Discovering Hamlet
Himself
1990
Henry V
Chorus
1989
The Congress
(voice)
1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Hordedef (voice)
1989
The Tenth Man
The Imposter
1988
Little Dorrit
Arthur Clennam
1987
The Secret Garden
Archibald Craven
1987
On Wings of Fire
Self
1986
David Macaulay: Cathedral
Pierre (voice)
1986
Mr. Pye
Mr. Pye
1986
The Statue of Liberty
Self (voice)
1985
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
Enigma
Kurt Limmer
1982
The Secret of NIMH
Nicodemus (voice)
1982
Stranger in Town
The Stranger
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dom Claude Frollo
1982
Charlotte
Daberlohn
1981
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Martin Beck
1980
Hamlet
Hamlet
1980
The Human Factor
Arthur Davis
1979
Richard II
King Richard II
1978
The Medusa Touch
Townley - Publisher
1978
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Narrator
1978
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Guy Burgess
1977
Blue Blood
Gregory
1974
The Odessa File
Klaus Wenzer
1974
The Day of the Jackal
Inspector Caron
1973
Three Sisters
Andrei
1970
Much Ado About Nothing
Don John
1967
Othello
Cassio
1965
Olivier Talks About Othello
(archive footage)
1965
The Fishing Match
Eric
1962
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
Narrator
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
Narrator
Lead Heads
Frank and Percy