Derek Jacobi

Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
October 22, 1938

Place of Birth:
Leytonstone, London, England, UK

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Derek Jacobi

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.

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Known For

Filmography

Year Movie Role
2025 Juliet & Romeo The Friar
2025 Tinsel Town
2024 Gladiator II Gracchus
2023 Allelujah Ambrose
2023 The Martini Shot Errol
2022 Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba Self
2022 Pearl Islands Self
2022 A Bird Flew In David
2021 Rhythm of Life Self
2021 Say Your Prayers Father Enoch
2021 Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood Himself (archive footage)
2020 Come Away Mr. Brown
2020 The Host Dr. Hobson
2020 Breaking The Codes
2019 Tolkien Professor Joseph Wright
2019 Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans Claudius
2019 The Warrior Queen of Jhansi Lord Palmerston
2019 Muse The Lawyer
2018 Tomb Raider Mr. Yaffe
2018 Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2017 Murder on the Orient Express Edward Henry Masterman
2017 Stratton Ross
2017 A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong Scrooge
2017 Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2016 Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet Mercutio
2016 The History of Love Leopold Gursky
2015 The Gospel of Luke Narrator (voice) – King James Version
2015 Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC Self (archive footage)
2015 Venom Narrator
2015 Cinderella King
2014 Effie Gray Travers Twiss
2014 Grace of Monaco Count Fernando D'Aillieres
2013 Muse of Fire Self
2013 National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage Claudius/Spooner
2013 Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene Narrator (voice)
2013 You Man
2012 Last Will. & Testament Himself
2012 Jail Caesar
2012 The Halloween Kid Narrator
2011 Anonymous Prologue
2011 There Be Dragons Honorio
2011 Ironclad Cornhill
2011 Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) Narrator (voice)
2011 National Theatre Live: King Lear King Lear
2011 My Week with Marilyn Sir Owen Morshead
2010 Joe Maddison's War Mr. Simpson
2010 The King's Speech Archbishop Cosmo Lang
2010 Hereafter Derek Jacobi
2009 Diamonds Piers Denmont
2009 Endgame Rudolph Agnew
2009 Margot Fred Ashton
2009 Morris: A Life with Bells On Quentin Neely
2009 Charles Dickens's England Himself - Presenter
2008 Adam Resurrected Dr. Nathan Gross
2008 A Bunch of Amateurs Nigel Dewberry
2008 Sidney Turtlebaum Sidney Turtlebaum
2008 One of Those Days Howard Whittam
2008 Pompeii and the Roman Villa Narrator
2008 The Ties That Bind Us The Master (archive footage)
2007 The Golden Compass Magisterial Emissary
2007 The Old Curiosity Shop Grandfather
2007 The Riddle The Tramp / Charles Dickens
2007 Anastezsi Balzer
2007 Guantanamero Guido
2007 Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space President
2007 The Art of Francis Bacon Derek Jacobi
2006 Underworld: Evolution Alexander Corvinus
2006 Pinochet in Suburbia Senator Augusto Pinochet
2006 Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy Narrator
2005 Nanny McPhee Mr. Wheen
2005 Bye Bye Blackbird Lord Dempsey
2005 Strength and Honor: Production Pods Self
2004 Strings Nezo (voice)
2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Other Voices (voice)
2004 Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On Mr. Operatski (voice)
2004 Cloud Cuckoo Land Victor
2003 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Self
2002 Revengers Tragedy The Duke
2002 The Gathering Storm Stanley Baldwin
2002 Two Men Went To War Maj. Merton
2002 Ultimate Fights from the Movies Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
2002 The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
2002 The Dinosaur Hunters Narrator (voice)
2002 Inquisition Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
2002 I, Claudius: A Television Epic Self
2002 The Making of 'Gosford Park' Self
2001 Gosford Park Probert
2001 The Body Father Lavelle
2001 Revelation Librarian
2001 Great Escape: The Untold Story Narrator
2001 David Macaulay: Mill Times Priam Huntington (voice)
2000 Gladiator Gracchus
2000 The Wyvern Mystery Squire Fairfield
2000 Up at the Villa Lucky Leadbetter
2000 Wilfred Voice
2000 Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings Various Characters
1999 The Chimes Narrator
1999 Molokai: The Story of Father Damien Father Leonor Fousnel
1998 Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon
1998 Animated Epics: Beowulf Narrator ( voice )
1998 Basil Father Frederick
1996 Hamlet King Claudius
1996 Breaking the Code Alan Turing
1996 Witness Against Hitler General
1996 Looking for Richard Self - Interviewee
1995 Achilles Narrator
1994 The Secret Garden Archibald Craven (voice)
1994 Aladdin The Magician (voice)
1994 David Macaulay: Roman City Marcus Fabricius (voice)
1993 The Vision Thing George Salisbury
1993 Circle of Deceit Randal
1991 Dead Again Franklyn Madson
1990 The Fool Mr. Frederick / Sir John
1990 Discovering Hamlet Himself
1989 Henry V Chorus
1989 David Macaulay: Pyramid Hordedef (voice)
1989 The Congress (voice)
1988 The Tenth Man The Imposter
1987 Little Dorrit Arthur Clennam
1987 The Secret Garden Archibald Craven
1986 On Wings of Fire Self
1986 Mr. Pye Mr. Pye
1986 David Macaulay: Cathedral Pierre (voice)
1985 Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac
1985 The Statue of Liberty Self (voice)
1982 Stranger in Town The Stranger
1982 Enigma Kurt Limmer
1982 The Secret of NIMH Nicodemus (voice)
1982 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Dom Claude Frollo
1982 Inside the Third Reich Adolf Hitler
1981 Charlotte Daberlohn
1980 The Man Who Went Up in Smoke Martin Beck
1980 Hamlet Hamlet
1979 The Human Factor Arthur Davis
1978 The Medusa Touch Townley - Publisher
1978 Richard II King Richard II
1978 Mysterious Castles of Clay Narrator
1977 Philby, Burgess and Maclean Guy Burgess
1974 The Odessa File Klaus Wenzer
1974 Blue Blood Gregory
1973 The Day of the Jackal Inspector Caron
1970 Three Sisters Andrei
1967 Much Ado About Nothing Don John
1965 Othello Cassio
1965 Olivier Talks About Othello (archive footage)
1962 The Fishing Match Eric
Moss & Freud Lucian Freud
Venom! Nine Ways to Die Narrator
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island Narrator
Lead Heads
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street Himself
Year TV Show Role
2024 Ludwig Mr. Todd
2023 The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies Sir Ralph Unwin
2023 The American Buffalo (voice)
2023 U-Boat Wargamers Narrator (voice)
2022 The Sandman Erasmus Fry
2021 The Lost Pirate Kingdom Narrator
2019 Good Omens The Metatron
2019 Good Omens Metatron
2019 Greatest Events of World War II in Colour Narrator
2018 Les Misérables Bishop Myriel
2016 The Crown Duke of Windsor
2014 Inside No. 9 Webster
2013 Vicious Stuart Bixby
2012 Titanic: Blood and Steel Lord Pirrie
2012 Last Tango in Halifax Alan
2012 Shakespeare Uncovered Himself
2011 The Amazing World of Gumball Narrator (voice)
2009 Diamonds
2009 Doctor Who Greatest Moments Self
2007 In the Night Garden Narrator (voice)
2005 Doctor Who Confidential
2005 Doctor Who Professor Yana
2004 Who Do You Think You Are? Self
2004 London Tacitus
2004 The Long Firm Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
2004 Agatha Christie's Marple Colonel Protheroe
2003 Henry VIII Narrator
2003 Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka The Master (voice)
2002 The Jury George Cording QC
2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000 Jason and the Argonauts Phineas
1996 The West Self (voice)
1994 Cadfael Brother Cadfael
1994 Baseball Various (voice)
1994 Baseball (voice)
1993 Frasier Jackson Hedley
1992 The Velvet Claw Narrator
1992 The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
1991 The Storyteller: Greek Myths Daedalus
1990 The Civil War Various
1986 Mr. Pye Mr. Pye
1986 Wedden, dat..? Self
1979 Tales of the Unexpected The Stranger
1979 Minder Freddie Fenton
1978 The BBC Television Shakespeare King Richard
1978 The BBC Television Shakespeare Hamlet
1976 I, Claudius Claudius
1974 The Pallisers
1974 NOVA Voice of Ernest Shackleton
1972 The Strauss Family
1971 Budgie Herbert Fletcher
1971 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes William Drew
1956 Tony Awards Self - Nominee
1956 Tony Awards Self - Winner
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame Dom Claude
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame Archibald Craven
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame Imposter
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