Derek Jacobi
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Oct 22, 1938 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
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
Known For
| 2026 | Moss & FreudLucian Freud | |
| 2026 | Broken EnglishThe Narrator | |
| 2025 | Juliet & RomeoThe Friar | |
| 2025 | Tinsel TownAlbert | |
| 2024 | Gladiator IIGracchus | |
| 2024 | Dame Maggie Smith - A CelebrationSelf | |
| 2024 | LudwigMr. Todd | |
| 2023 | AllelujahAmbrose | |
| 2023 | The Martini ShotErrol | |
| 2023 | The Following Events are Based on a Pack of LiesSir Ralph Unwin | |
| 2023 | The American Buffalo(voice) | |
| 2023 | U-Boat WargamersNarrator (voice) | |
| 2022 | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to AqabaSelf | |
| 2022 | Pearl IslandsSelf | |
| 2022 | A Bird Flew InDavid | |
| 2022 | The SandmanErasmus Fry | |
| 2022 | Remembers…Self | |
| 2021 | Say Your PrayersFather Enoch | |
| 2021 | Albert Speer und der Traum von HollywoodSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2021 | The Lost Pirate KingdomNarrator | |
| 2020 | Come AwayMr. Brown | |
| 2020 | The HostDr. Hobson | |
| 2020 | Coronation Street: Queens of the StreetHimself | |
| 2020 | Breaking The Codes | |
| 2019 | TolkienProfessor Joseph Wright | |
| 2019 | Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten RomansClaudius | |
| 2019 | The Warrior Queen of JhansiLord Palmerston | |
| 2019 | MuseThe Lawyer | |
| 2019 | Good OmensThe Metatron | |
| 2019 | Good OmensMetatron | |
| 2019 | Greatest Events of World War II in ColourNarrator | |
| 2018 | Tomb RaiderMr. Yaffe | |
| 2018 | Nothing Is Truer than Truth | |
| 2018 | Les MisérablesBishop Myriel | |
| 2017 | Murder on the Orient ExpressEdward Henry Masterman | |
| 2017 | StrattonRoss | |
| 2017 | A Christmas Carol Goes WrongScrooge | |
| 2017 | Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge | |
| 2016 | Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and JulietMercutio | |
| 2016 | The History of LoveLeopold Gursky | |
| 2016 | The Devil of Christmas | |
| 2016 | The CrownDuke of Windsor | |
| 2015 | The Gospel of LukeNarrator (voice) – King James Version | |
| 2015 | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBCSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2015 | VenomNarrator | |
| 2015 | CinderellaKing | |
| 2014 | Effie GrayTravers Twiss | |
| 2014 | Grace of MonacoCount Fernando D'Aillieres | |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9Webster | |
| 2013 | Muse of FireSelf | |
| 2013 | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on StageClaudius/Spooner | |
| 2013 | Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham GreeneNarrator (voice) | |
| 2013 | YouMan | |
| 2013 | ViciousStuart Bixby | |
| 2012 | Last Will. & TestamentHimself | |
| 2012 | Jail CaesarSulla | |
| 2012 | The Halloween KidNarrator | |
| 2012 | Titanic: Blood and SteelLord Pirrie | |
| 2012 | Last Tango in HalifaxAlan | |
| 2012 | Shakespeare UncoveredHimself | |
| 2011 | AnonymousPrologue | |
| 2011 | There Be DragonsHonorio | |
| 2011 | IroncladCornhill | |
| 2011 | Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)Narrator (voice) | |
| 2011 | National Theatre Live: King LearKing Lear | |
| 2011 | My Week with MarilynSir Owen Morshead | |
| 2011 | The Amazing World of GumballNarrator (voice) | |
| 2011 | The BorgiasCardinal Orsini | |
| 2010 | Joe Maddison's WarMr. Simpson | |
| 2010 | The King's SpeechArchbishop Cosmo Lang | |
| 2010 | HereafterDerek Jacobi | |
| 2009 | DiamondsPiers Denmont | |
| 2009 | EndgameRudolph Agnew | |
| 2009 | MargotFred Ashton | |
| 2009 | Morris: A Life with Bells OnQuentin Neely | |
| 2009 | Charles Dickens's EnglandHimself - Presenter | |
| 2009 | Diamonds | |
| 2009 | Doctor Who Greatest MomentsSelf | |
| 2008 | Adam ResurrectedDr. Nathan Gross | |
| 2008 | A Bunch of AmateursNigel Dewberry | |
| 2008 | Sidney TurtlebaumSidney Turtlebaum | |
| 2008 | One of Those DaysHoward Whittam | |
| 2008 | Pompeii and the Roman VillaNarrator | |
| 2008 | The Ties That Bind UsThe Master (archive footage) | |
| 2007 | The Golden CompassMagisterial Emissary | |
| 2007 | The Old Curiosity ShopGrandfather | |
| 2007 | The RiddleThe Tramp / Charles Dickens | |
| 2007 | AnastezsiBalzer | |
| 2007 | GuantanameroGuido | |
| 2007 | Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in SpacePresident | |
| 2007 | The Art of Francis BaconDerek Jacobi | |
| 2007 | In the Night GardenNarrator (voice) | |
| 2006 | Underworld: EvolutionAlexander Corvinus | |
| 2006 | Pinochet in SuburbiaSenator Augusto Pinochet | |
| 2006 | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog PuppyNarrator (voice) | |
| 2005 | Nanny McPheeMr. Wheen | |
| 2005 | Bye Bye BlackbirdLord Dempsey | |
| 2005 | Strength and Honor: Production PodsSelf | |
| 2005 | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog PuppyNarrator(voice) | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who Confidential | |
| 2005 | Doctor WhoProfessor Yana | |
| 2004 | StringsNezo | |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonOther Voices (voice) | |
| 2004 | Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go OnMr. Operatski (voice) | |
| 2004 | Cloud Cuckoo LandVictor | |
| 2004 | Who Do You Think You Are?Self | |
| 2004 | LondonTacitus | |
| 2004 | The Long FirmLord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby | |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's MarpleColonel Protheroe | |
| 2003 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereSelf | |
| 2003 | Henry VIIINarrator | |
| 2003 | Doctor Who: Scream of the ShalkaThe Master (voice) | |
| 2002 | Revengers TragedyThe Duke | |
| 2002 | The Gathering StormStanley Baldwin | |
| 2002 | Two Men Went To WarMaj. Merton | |
| 2002 | Ultimate Fights from the MoviesGracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage) | |
| 2002 | The Diaries of Vaslav NijinskyNijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi) | |
| 2002 | The Dinosaur HuntersNarrator (voice) | |
| 2002 | InquisitionCardinal Grand Inquisitor | |
| 2002 | I, Claudius: A Television EpicSelf | |
| 2002 | The Making of Gosford ParkSelf | |
| 2002 | The JuryGeorge Cording QC | |
| 2001 | Gosford ParkProbert | |
| 2001 | The BodyFather Lavelle | |
| 2001 | RevelationLibrarian | |
| 2001 | Great Escape: The Untold StoryNarrator | |
| 2001 | David Macaulay: Mill TimesPriam Huntington (voice) | |
| 2000 | GladiatorGracchus | |
| 2000 | The Wyvern MysterySquire Fairfield | |
| 2000 | Up at the VillaLucky Leadbetter | |
| 2000 | WilfredVoice | |
| 2000 | Victoria Wood with All the TrimmingsVarious Characters | |
| 2000 | Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | |
| 2000 | Jason and the ArgonautsPhineas | |
| 1999 | The ChimesNarrator | |
| 1999 | Molokai: The Story of Father DamienFather Leonor Fousnel | |
| 1998 | Animated Epics: BeowulfNarrator ( voice ) | |
| 1998 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis BaconFrancis Bacon | |
| 1998 | BasilFather Frederick | |
| 1996 | HamletKing Claudius | |
| 1996 | Breaking the CodeAlan Turing | |
| 1996 | Witness Against HitlerGeneral | |
| 1996 | Looking for RichardSelf - Interviewee | |
| 1996 | The WestSelf (voice) | |
| 1995 | AchillesNarrator | |
| 1995 | The Virgin in the IceBrother Cadfael | |
| 1994 | The Secret GardenArchibald Craven (voice) | |
| 1994 | AladdinThe Magician (voice) | |
| 1994 | David Macaulay: Roman CityMarcus Fabricius (voice) | |
| 1994 | One Corpse Too ManyBrother Cadfael | |
| 1994 | The Sanctuary SparrowBrother Cadfael | |
| 1994 | The Leper of St. GilesBrother Cadfael | |
| 1994 | Monk's HoodBrother Cadfael | |
| 1994 | The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy FisherJeremy Fisher (voice) | |
| 1994 | CadfaelBrother Cadfael | |
| 1994 | BaseballVarious (voice) | |
| 1994 | Baseball(voice) | |
| 1993 | The Vision ThingGeorge Salisbury | |
| 1993 | Circles of DeceitRandal | |
| 1993 | FrasierJackson Hedley | |
| 1992 | The Velvet ClawNarrator | |
| 1992 | The World of Peter Rabbit and FriendsMr. Jeremy Fisher (voice) | |
| 1991 | Dead AgainFranklyn Madson | |
| 1991 | The Storyteller: Greek MythsDaedalus | |
| 1990 | The FoolMr. Frederick / Sir John | |
| 1990 | Discovering HamletHimself | |
| 1990 | The Civil WarVarious | |
| 1989 | Henry VChorus | |
| 1989 | David Macaulay: PyramidHordedef (voice) | |
| 1989 | The Congress(voice) | |
| 1988 | The Tenth ManThe Imposter | |
| 1987 | Little DorritArthur Clennam | |
| 1987 | The Secret GardenArchibald Craven | |
| 1986 | On Wings of FireSelf | |
| 1986 | Mr. PyeMr. Pye | |
| 1986 | David Macaulay: CathedralPierre (voice) | |
| 1986 | Wedden, dat..?Self | |
| 1986 | Mr PyeMr Pye | |
| 1985 | Cyrano de BergeracCyrano de Bergerac | |
| 1985 | The Statue of LibertySelf (voice) | |
| 1982 | Stranger in TownThe Stranger | |
| 1982 | EnigmaKurt Limmer | |
| 1982 | The Secret of NIMHNicodemus (voice) | |
| 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre DameDom Claude Frollo | |
| 1982 | Inside the Third ReichAdolf Hitler | |
| 1981 | CharlotteDaberlohn | |
| 1980 | The Man Who Went Up in SmokeMartin Beck | |
| 1980 | HamletHamlet | |
| 1979 | The Human FactorArthur Davis | |
| 1979 | Tales of the UnexpectedThe Stranger | |
| 1979 | MinderFreddie Fenton | |
| 1979 | Tales of the UnexpectedDrioli | |
| 1978 | The Medusa TouchTownley - Publisher | |
| 1978 | Richard IIKing Richard II | |
| 1978 | Mysterious Castles of ClayNarrator | |
| 1977 | Philby, Burgess and MacleanGuy Burgess | |
| 1976 | I, ClaudiusClaudius | |
| 1974 | The Odessa FileKlaus Wenzer | |
| 1974 | Blue BloodGregory | |
| 1974 | NOVAVoice of Ernest Shackleton | |
| 1974 | The PallisersLord Fawn | |
| 1973 | The Day of the JackalInspector Caron | |
| 1971 | BudgieHerbert Fletcher | |
| 1971 | The Rivals of Sherlock HolmesWilliam Drew | |
| 1970 | Three SistersAndrei | |
| 1967 | Much Ado About NothingDon John | |
| 1967 | ITV PlayhouseGerry | |
| 1965 | OthelloCassio | |
| 1965 | Olivier Talks About Othello(archive footage) | |
| 1964 | HorizonNarrator | |
| 1962 | The Fishing MatchEric | |
| 1956 | Armchair TheatreEric | |
| 1956 | Tony AwardsSelf - Winner | |
| 1956 | Tony AwardsSelf - Nominee | |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of FameDom Claude | |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of FameArchibald Craven | |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of FameImposter | |
| - | Venom! Nine Ways to DieNarrator | |
| - | The Man Who Tried to Steal an IslandNarrator | |
| - | Lead Heads | |
| - | Frank and Percy |