Derek Jacobi
Acting • Born 1938-10-22
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
Filmography
217 credits
Gladiator
Movie • 2000
Gracchus
Underworld: Evolution
Movie • 2006
Alexander Corvinus
The Golden Compass
Movie • 2007
Magisterial Emissary
Hamlet
Movie • 1996
King Claudius
Henry V
Movie • 1989
Chorus
Stranger in Town
Movie • 1982
The Stranger
Enigma
Movie • 1982
Kurt Limmer
The Day of the Jackal
Movie • 1973
Inspector Caron
Gosford Park
Movie • 2001
Probert
Animated Epics: Beowulf
Movie • 1998
Narrator ( voice )
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Movie • 1998
Francis Bacon
Strings
Movie • 2004
Nezo
The Odessa File
Movie • 1974
Klaus Wenzer
Nanny McPhee
Movie • 2005
Mr. Wheen
The Secret of NIMH
Movie • 1982
Nicodemus (voice)
Moss & Freud
Movie • 2025
Lucian Freud
The Medusa Touch
Movie • 1978
Townley - Publisher
Dead Again
Movie • 1991
Franklyn Madson
Revengers Tragedy
Movie • 2002
The Duke
Allelujah
Movie • 2023
Ambrose
The Old Curiosity Shop
Movie • 2007
Grandfather
The Body
Movie • 2001
Father Lavelle
The Gathering Storm
Movie • 2002
Stanley Baldwin
The Wyvern Mystery
Movie • 2000
Squire Fairfield
Bye Bye Blackbird
Movie • 2005
Lord Dempsey
Anonymous
Movie • 2011
Prologue
The Vision Thing
Movie • 1993
George Salisbury
Othello
Movie • 1965
Cassio
There Be Dragons
Movie • 2011
Honorio
The Riddle
Movie • 2007
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Achilles
Movie • 1995
Narrator
Ironclad
Movie • 2011
Cornhill
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Movie • 1977
Guy Burgess
Little Dorrit
Movie • 1987
Arthur Clennam
The Human Factor
Movie • 1979
Arthur Davis
Two Men Went To War
Movie • 2002
Maj. Merton
Adam Resurrected
Movie • 2008
Dr. Nathan Gross
A Bunch of Amateurs
Movie • 2008
Nigel Dewberry
Up at the Villa
Movie • 2000
Lucky Leadbetter
The Secret Garden
Movie • 1987
Archibald Craven
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Movie • 2002
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1982
Dom Claude Frollo
Gladiator II
Movie • 2024
Gracchus
Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie • 1985
Cyrano de Bergerac
Joe Maddison's War
Movie • 2010
Mr. Simpson
Anastezsi
Movie • 2007
Balzer
Breaking the Code
Movie • 1996
Alan Turing
On Wings of Fire
Movie • 1986
Self
Pinochet in Suburbia
Movie • 2006
Senator Augusto Pinochet
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie • 2003
Self
The Tenth Man
Movie • 1988
The Imposter
Last Will. & Testament
Movie • 2012
Himself
Effie Gray
Movie • 2014
Travers Twiss
Guantanamero
Movie • 2007
Guido
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
Movie
Narrator
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Movie • 2022
Self
Witness Against Hitler
Movie • 1996
General
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
Grace of Monaco
Movie • 2014
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
The Secret Garden
Movie • 1994
Archibald Craven (voice)
Muse of Fire
Movie • 2013
Self
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
Movie • 2007
President
Diamonds
Movie • 2009
Piers Denmont
The Martini Shot
Movie • 2023
Errol
The King's Speech
Movie • 2010
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Richard II
Movie • 1978
King Richard II
The Fool
Movie • 1990
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Blue Blood
Movie • 1974
Gregory
Discovering Hamlet
Movie • 1990
Himself
Looking for Richard
Movie • 1996
Self - Interviewee
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Movie • 2002
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
Juliet & Romeo
Movie • 2025
The Friar
Mr. Pye
Movie • 1986
Mr. Pye
Three Sisters
Movie • 1970
Andrei
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Movie • 1980
Martin Beck
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie • 1967
Don John
Pearl Islands
Movie • 2022
Self
The Gospel of Luke
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Wilfred
Movie • 2000
Voice
The Dinosaur Hunters
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
The Fishing Match
Movie • 1962
Eric
Revelation
Movie • 2001
Librarian
Hamlet
Movie • 1980
Hamlet
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Movie • 2000
Various Characters
Endgame
Movie • 2009
Rudolph Agnew
Sidney Turtlebaum
Movie • 2008
Sidney Turtlebaum
Aladdin
Movie • 1994
The Magician (voice)
Jail Caesar
Movie • 2012
Sulla
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Movie • 2011
King Lear
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
Movie
Narrator
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 2016
Mercutio
The History of Love
Movie • 2016
Leopold Gursky
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie • 2017
Edward Henry Masterman
Great Escape: The Untold Story
Movie • 2001
Narrator
Margot
Movie • 2009
Fred Ashton
Inquisition
Movie • 2002
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Movie • 2013
Claudius/Spooner
Hereafter
Movie • 2010
Derek Jacobi
Stratton
Movie • 2017
Ross
One of Those Days
Movie • 2008
Howard Whittam
The Halloween Kid
Movie • 2012
Narrator
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Movie • 2017
Scrooge
The Chimes
Movie • 1999
Narrator
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Movie • 2006
Narrator
David Macaulay: Cathedral
Movie • 1986
Pierre (voice)
Tolkien
Movie • 2019
Professor Joseph Wright
Tomb Raider
Movie • 2018
Mr. Yaffe
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Movie • 1999
Father Leonor Fousnel
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
Movie • 2018
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Movie • 2019
Claudius
David Macaulay: Roman City
Movie • 1994
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Movie • 1989
Hordedef (voice)
David Macaulay: Mill Times
Movie • 2001
Priam Huntington (voice)
Come Away
Movie • 2020
Mr. Brown
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Movie • 2009
Quentin Neely
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Movie • 2013
Narrator (voice)
Charlotte
Movie • 1981
Daberlohn
The Congress
Movie • 1989
(voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Movie • 2004
Other Voices (voice)
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Movie • 2019
Lord Palmerston
Circles of Deceit
Movie • 1993
Randal
The Art of Francis Bacon
Movie • 2007
Derek Jacobi
The Host
Movie • 2020
Dr. Hobson
Muse
Movie • 2019
The Lawyer
Olivier Talks About Othello
Movie • 1965
(archive footage)
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Movie • 2002
Self
The Statue of Liberty
Movie • 1985
Self (voice)
A Bird Flew In
Movie • 2022
David
Charles Dickens's England
Movie • 2009
Himself - Presenter
Say Your Prayers
Movie • 2021
Father Enoch
Lead Heads
Movie
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Movie • 2020
Himself
The Making of Gosford Park
Movie • 2002
Self
Basil
Movie • 1998
Father Frederick
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
Movie • 2008
Narrator
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
Movie • 2017
Venom
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Movie • 1978
Narrator
My Week with Marilyn
Movie • 2011
Sir Owen Morshead
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Movie • 2004
Mr. Operatski (voice)
Cinderella
Movie • 2015
King
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
You
Movie • 2013
Man
Breaking The Codes
Movie • 2020
Tinsel Town
Movie • 2025
Albert
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie • 2008
The Master (archive footage)
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Movie • 2004
Victor
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Movie • 2005
Self
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Movie • 2024
Self
One Corpse Too Many
Movie • 1994
Brother Cadfael
The Sanctuary Sparrow
Movie • 1994
Brother Cadfael
The Leper of St. Giles
Movie • 1994
Brother Cadfael
Monk's Hood
Movie • 1994
Brother Cadfael
The Virgin in the Ice
Movie • 1995
Brother Cadfael
Frank and Percy
Movie
Broken English
Movie • 2026
The Narrator
The Devil of Christmas
Movie • 2016
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Movie • 1994
Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Mist: The Story of a Sheepdog Puppy
Movie • 2005
Narrator(voice)
Budgie
TV • 1971
Herbert Fletcher
Doctor Who Confidential
TV • 2005
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
The Stranger
Frasier
TV • 1993
Jackson Hedley
Minder
TV • 1979
Freddie Fenton
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
TV • 2000
In the Night Garden
TV • 2007
Narrator (voice)
I, Claudius
TV • 1976
Claudius
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Dom Claude
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
TV • 2021
Narrator
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
William Drew
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Webster
The Velvet Claw
TV • 1992
Narrator
Diamonds
TV • 2009
Cadfael
TV • 1994
Brother Cadfael
Titanic: Blood and Steel
TV • 2012
Lord Pirrie
Last Tango in Halifax
TV • 2012
Alan
NOVA
TV • 1974
Voice of Ernest Shackleton
Shakespeare Uncovered
TV • 2012
Himself
Vicious
TV • 2013
Stuart Bixby
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2004
Self
London
TV • 2004
Tacitus
The Jury
TV • 2002
George Cording QC
Good Omens
TV • 2019
The Metatron
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies
TV • 2023
Sir Ralph Unwin
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Professor Yana
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
TV • 2009
Self
The Amazing World of Gumball
TV • 2011
Narrator (voice)
Jason and the Argonauts
TV • 2000
Phineas
The Long Firm
TV • 2004
Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
The Civil War
TV • 1990
Various
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Archibald Craven
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Imposter
Baseball
TV • 1994
Various (voice)
The American Buffalo
TV • 2023
(voice)
Les Misérables
TV • 2018
Bishop Myriel
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Colonel Protheroe
The Sandman
TV • 2022
Erasmus Fry
The West
TV • 1996
Self (voice)
Good Omens
TV • 2019
Metatron
U-Boat Wargamers
TV • 2023
Narrator (voice)
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
TV • 2019
Narrator
Wedden, dat..?
TV • 1986
Self
The Crown
TV • 2016
Duke of Windsor
Ludwig
TV • 2024
Mr. Todd
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
TV • 1992
Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Baseball
TV • 1994
(voice)
Henry VIII
TV • 2003
Narrator
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
TV • 1991
Daedalus
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
TV • 2003
The Master (voice)
Inside the Third Reich
TV • 1982
Adolf Hitler
The Pallisers
TV • 1974
Lord Fawn
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Drioli
Mr Pye
TV • 1986
Mr Pye
Remembers…
TV • 2022
Self
Horizon
TV • 1964
Narrator
The Borgias
TV • 2011
Cardinal Orsini