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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Derek Jacobi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

The Crown

Doctor Who

Frasier

NOVA

Horizon

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

Minder

All Movies (163)

• Heartstopper Forever2026
• Moss & Freud2026 · as Lucian Freud
• Broken English2026 · as The Narrator
• Tinsel Town2025 · as Albert
• Juliet & Romeo2025 · as The Friar
• Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration2024 · as Self
• Gladiator II2024 · as Gracchus
• The Martini Shot2023 · as Errol
• Allelujah2023 · as Ambrose
• Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba2022 · as Self
• A Bird Flew In2022 · as David
• Pearl Islands2022 · as Self
• Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Say Your Prayers2021 · as Father Enoch
• Coronation Street: Queens of the Street2020 · as Himself
• Come Away2020 · as Mr. Brown
• Breaking The Codes2020
• The Host2020 · as Dr. Hobson
• The Warrior Queen of Jhansi2019 · as Lord Palmerston
• Muse2019 · as The Lawyer
• Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans2019 · as Claudius
• Tolkien2019 · as Professor Joseph Wright
• 2018: A Year in the Life of a Year2018
• Nothing Is Truer than Truth2018
• Tomb Raider2018 · as Mr. Yaffe
• A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong2017 · as Scrooge
• Murder on the Orient Express2017 · as Edward Henry Masterman
• Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge2017
• Stratton2017 · as Ross
• The Devil of Christmas2016
• The History of Love2016 · as Leopold Gursky
• Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet2016 · as Mercutio
• Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Venom2015 · as Narrator
• Cinderella2015 · as King
• The Gospel of Luke2015 · as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
• Grace of Monaco2014 · as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
• Effie Gray2014 · as Travers Twiss
• You2013 · as Man
• National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage2013 · as Claudius/Spooner
• The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island2013 · as Narrator
• Muse of Fire2013 · as Self
• Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene2013 · as Narrator (voice)
• Last Will. & Testament2012 · as Himself
• The Halloween Kid2012 · as Narrator
• Jail Caesar2012 · as Sulla
• My Week with Marilyn2011 · as Sir Owen Morshead
• Anonymous2011 · as Prologue
• Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)2011 · as Narrator (voice)
• There Be Dragons2011 · as Honorio
• Ironclad2011 · as Cornhill
• National Theatre Live: King Lear2011 · as King Lear
• The King's Speech2010 · as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
• Hereafter2010 · as Derek Jacobi
• Joe Maddison's War2010 · as Mr. Simpson
• Margot2009 · as Fred Ashton
• Charles Dickens's England2009 · as Himself - Presenter
• Diamonds2009 · as Piers Denmont
• Endgame2009 · as Rudolph Agnew
• Morris: A Life with Bells On2009 · as Quentin Neely
• A Bunch of Amateurs2008 · as Nigel Dewberry
• Sidney Turtlebaum2008 · as Sidney Turtlebaum
• Pompeii and the Roman Villa2008 · as Narrator
• Adam Resurrected2008 · as Dr. Nathan Gross
• The Ties That Bind Us2008 · as The Master (archive footage)
• One of Those Days2008 · as Howard Whittam
• The Old Curiosity Shop2007 · as Grandfather
• The Golden Compass2007 · as Magisterial Emissary
• Guantanamero2007 · as Guido
• The Riddle2007 · as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
• Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space2007 · as President
• Anastezsi2007 · as Balzer
• The Art of Francis Bacon2007 · as Derek Jacobi
• Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy2006 · as Narrator (voice)
• Pinochet in Suburbia2006 · as Senator Augusto Pinochet
• Underworld: Evolution2006 · as Alexander Corvinus
• Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy2005 · as Narrator(voice)
• Nanny McPhee2005 · as Mr. Wheen
• Bye Bye Blackbird2005 · as Lord Dempsey
• Strength and Honor: Production Pods2005 · as Self
• Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On2004 · as Mr. Operatski (voice)
• Strings2004 · as Nezo
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson2004 · as Other Voices (voice)
• Cloud Cuckoo Land2004 · as Victor
• Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There2003 · as Self
• The Dinosaur Hunters2002 · as Narrator (voice)
• Inquisition2002 · as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
• Two Men Went To War2002 · as Maj. Merton
• I, Claudius: A Television Epic2002 · as Self
• Revengers Tragedy2002 · as The Duke
• The Making of Gosford Park2002 · as Self
• The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky2002 · as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
• The Gathering Storm2002 · as Stanley Baldwin
• Ultimate Fights from the Movies2002 · as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
• Gosford Park2001 · as Probert
• The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream2001 · as Theseus (voice)
• David Macaulay: Mill Times2001 · as Priam Huntington (voice)
• The Body2001 · as Father Lavelle
• Revelation2001 · as Librarian
• Great Escape: The Untold Story2001 · as Narrator
• Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings2000 · as Various Characters
• The Wyvern Mystery2000 · as Squire Fairfield
• Wilfred2000 · as Voice
• Gladiator2000 · as Gracchus
• Up at the Villa2000 · as Lucky Leadbetter
• The Chimes1999 · as Narrator
• Molokai: The Story of Father Damien1999 · as Father Leonor Fousnel
• Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon1998 · as Francis Bacon
• Basil1998 · as Father Frederick
• Animated Epics: Beowulf1998 · as Narrator ( voice )
• Hamlet1996 · as King Claudius
• Looking for Richard1996 · as Self - Interviewee
• Breaking the Code1996 · as Alan Turing
• Witness Against Hitler1996 · as General
• The Virgin in the Ice1995 · as Brother Cadfael
• Achilles1995 · as Narrator
• The Secret Garden1994 · as Archibald Craven (voice)
• Monk's Hood1994 · as Brother Cadfael
• The Leper of St. Giles1994 · as Brother Cadfael
• The Sanctuary Sparrow1994 · as Brother Cadfael
• One Corpse Too Many1994 · as Brother Cadfael
• The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher1994 · as Jeremy Fisher (voice)
• David Macaulay: Roman City1994 · as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
• Circles of Deceit1993 · as Randal
• The Vision Thing1993 · as George Salisbury
• Aladdin1992 · as The Magician (voice)
• Dead Again1991 · as Franklyn Madson
• The Fool1990 · as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
• Discovering Hamlet1990 · as Himself
• Henry V1989 · as Chorus
• The Congress1989 · as (voice)
• David Macaulay: Pyramid1989 · as Hordedef (voice)
• The Tenth Man1988 · as The Imposter
• Little Dorrit1987 · as Arthur Clennam
• The Secret Garden1987 · as Archibald Craven
• On Wings of Fire1986 · as Self
• David Macaulay: Cathedral1986 · as Pierre (voice)
• Mr. Pye1986 · as Mr. Pye
• The Statue of Liberty1985 · as Self (voice)
• Cyrano de Bergerac1985 · as Cyrano de Bergerac
• Enigma1982 · as Kurt Limmer
• The Secret of NIMH1982 · as Nicodemus (voice)
• Stranger in Town1982 · as The Stranger
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame1982 · as Dom Claude Frollo
• Charlotte1981 · as Daberlohn
• The Man Who Went Up in Smoke1980 · as Martin Beck
• Hamlet1980 · as Hamlet
• The Human Factor1979 · as Arthur Davis
• Richard II1978 · as King Richard II
• The Medusa Touch1978 · as Townley - Publisher
• Mysterious Castles of Clay1978 · as Narrator
• Philby, Burgess and Maclean1977 · as Guy Burgess
• Blue Blood1974 · as Gregory
• The Odessa File1974 · as Klaus Wenzer
• The Day of the Jackal1973 · as Inspector Caron
• Three Sisters1970 · as Andrei
• Much Ado About Nothing1967 · as Don John
• Othello1965 · as Cassio
• Olivier Talks About Othello1965 · as (archive footage)
• The Fishing Match1962 · as Eric
• Venom! Nine Ways to Die— · as Narrator
• Lead Heads—
• Frank and Percy—

All TV Shows (65)

• Ludwig2024 · as Mr. Todd
• The American Buffalo2023 · as (voice)
• The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies2023 · as Sir Ralph Unwin
• U-Boat Wargamers2023 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Sandman2022 · as Erasmus Fry
• Remembers…2022 · as Self
• The Lost Pirate Kingdom2021 · as Narrator
• Greatest Events of World War II in Colour2019 · as Narrator
• Good Omens2019 · as The Metatron
• Good Omens2019 · as Metatron
• Les Misérables2018 · as Bishop Myriel
• The Crown2016 · as Duke of Windsor
• Inside No. 92014 · as Webster
• Vicious2013 · as Stuart Bixby
• Last Tango in Halifax2012 · as Alan
• Shakespeare Uncovered2012 · as Himself
• Titanic: Blood and Steel2012 · as Lord Pirrie
• The Amazing World of Gumball2011 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Borgias2011 · as Cardinal Orsini
• Doctor Who Greatest Moments2009 · as Self
• Diamonds2009
• In the Night Garden2007 · as Narrator (voice)
• Doctor Who Confidential2005
• Doctor Who2005 · as Professor Yana
• Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Colonel Protheroe
• Who Do You Think You Are?2004 · as Self
• The Long Firm2004 · as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
• London2004 · as Tacitus
• Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka2003 · as The Master (voice)
• Henry VIII2003 · as Narrator
• The Jury2002 · as George Cording QC
• Jason and the Argonauts2000 · as Phineas
• Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)2000
• The West1996 · as Self (voice)
• Baseball1994 · as Various (voice)
• Baseball1994 · as (voice)
• Cadfael1994 · as Brother Cadfael
• Frasier1993 · as Jackson Hedley
• The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends1992 · as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
• The Velvet Claw1992 · as Narrator
• The Storyteller: Greek Myths1991 · as Daedalus
• The Civil War1990 · as William Russell / Various (voice)
• ScreenPlay1986 · as George Salisbury
• Mr Pye1986 · as Mr Pye
• Wedden, dat..?1986 · as Self
• Inside the Third Reich1982 · as Adolf Hitler
• Minder1979 · as Freddie Fenton
• Tales of the Unexpected1979 · as The Stranger
• Tales of the Unexpected1979 · as Drioli
• The BBC Television Shakespeare1978 · as Richard II
• The BBC Television Shakespeare1978 · as Hamlet
• I, Claudius1976 · as Claudius
• Affairs of the Heart1974 · as Bertram Braddle
• NOVA1974 · as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
• The Pallisers1974 · as Lord Fawn
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes1971 · as William Drew
• Budgie1971 · as Herbert Fletcher
• ITV Playhouse1967 · as Gerry
• Horizon1964 · as Narrator
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Eric
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Winner
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Nominee
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Dom Claude
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Archibald Craven
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Imposter