About
Derek Jacobi
Overview
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
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| 2025 | Verona's Romeo & Juliet | Actor | The Friar | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Gladiator II | Actor | Gracchus | 62 Fair |
| 2023 | The American Buffalo | Actor | (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2023 | The Martini Shot | Actor | Errol | 59 Average |
| 2023 | The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies | Actor | Sir Ralph Unwin | 69 Fair |
| 2023 | Allelujah | Actor | Ambrose | 58 Average |
| 2023 | U-Boat Wargamers | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2022 | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2022 | A Bird Flew In | Actor | David | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | Pearl Islands | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Name | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2021 | Rhythm of Life | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2021 | How Do You Plead? | Actor | Webster | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood | Actor | Himself (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | Say Your Prayers | Actor | Father Enoch | 59 Average |
| 2021 | The Lost Pirate Kingdom | Actor | Narrator | 71 Good |
| 2020 | Come Away | Actor | Mr. Brown | 58 Average |
| 2020 | The Host | Actor | Dr. Hobson | 59 Average |
| 2019 | The Warrior Queen of Jhansi | Actor | Lord Palmerston | 58 Average |
| 2019 | Muse | Actor | The Lawyer | N/A N/A |
| 2019 | Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans | Actor | Claudius | 58 Average |
| 2019 | Greatest Events of World War II in Colour | Actor | Narrator | 75 Good |
| 2019 | Tolkien | Actor | Professor Joseph Wright | 67 Fair |
| 2018 | Nothing Is Truer than Truth | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 2018 | Tomb Raider | Actor | Mr. Yaffe | 63 Fair |
| 2017 | Mischief at Christmas: Peter Pan Goes Wrong & A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Actor | Scrooge/Himself | 59 Average |
| 2017 | A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Actor | Scrooge | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Murder on the Orient Express | Actor | Edward Masterman | 66 Fair |
| 2017 | Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2017 | Stratton | Actor | Ross | 56 Average |
| 2016 | The Devil of Christmas | Actor | Dennis Fulcher (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2016 | The Devil of Christmas | Actor | Dennis Fulcher (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2016 | The History of Love | Actor | Leopold Gursky | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | Actor | Mercutio | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2015 | Venom | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Cinderella | Actor | King | 67 Fair |
| 2015 | The Gospel of Luke | Actor | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Grace of Monaco | Actor | Count Fernando D'Aillieres | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Effie Gray | Actor | Travers Twiss | 58 Average |
| 2013 | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Actor | Claudius/Spooner | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Muse of Fire | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Vicious | Actor | Stuart Bixby | 72 Good |
| 2013 | Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2012 | Last Tango in Halifax | Actor | Alan | 69 Fair |
| 2012 | Last Will. & Testament | Actor | Himself | 58 Average |
| 2012 | The Halloween Kid | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2012 | Jail Caesar | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2012 | Titanic: Blood and Steel | Actor | Lord Pirrie | 69 Fair |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Actor | Sir Owen Morshead | 64 Fair |
| 2011 | Anonymous | Actor | Prologue | 61 Fair |
| 2011 | Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2011 | There Be Dragons | Actor | Honorio | 57 Average |
| 2011 | Ironclad | Actor | Cornhill | 60 Fair |
| 2011 | National Theatre Live: King Lear | Actor | King Lear | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | Actor | Archbishop Cosmo Lang | 76 Good |
| 2010 | Hereafter | Actor | Derek Jacobi | 60 Fair |
| 2010 | Joe Maddison's War | Actor | Mr. Simpson | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Margot | Actor | Fred Ashton | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Charles Dickens's England | Actor | Himself - Presenter | N/A N/A |
| 2009 | Diamonds | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2009 | Diamonds | Actor | Piers Denmont | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Endgame | Actor | Rudolph Agnew | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Actor | Quentin Neely | 59 Average |
| 2008 | A Bunch of Amateurs | Actor | Nigel Dewberry | 58 Average |
| 2008 | Sidney Turtlebaum | Actor | Sidney Turtlebaum | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Pompeii and the Roman Villa | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2008 | Adam Resurrected | Actor | Dr. Nathan Gross | 59 Average |
| 2008 | One of Those Days | Actor | Howard Whittam | 59 Average |
| 2007 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Actor | Grandfather | 58 Average |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | Actor | Magisterial Emissary | 60 Fair |
| 2007 | Guantanamero | Actor | Guido | 58 Average |
| 2007 | The Riddle | Actor | The Tramp / Charles Dickens | 58 Average |
| 2007 | Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space | Actor | President | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | In the Night Garden | Actor | 68 Fair |
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| 2007 | Anastezsi | Actor | Balzer | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | The Art of Francis Bacon | Actor | Derek Jacobi | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Actor | Narrator | 58 Average |
| 2006 | Pinochet in Suburbia | Actor | Senator Augusto Pinochet | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | Underworld: Evolution | Actor | Alexander Corvinus | 65 Fair |
| 2005 | Nanny McPhee | Actor | Mr. Wheen | 65 Fair |
| 2005 | Bye Bye Blackbird | Actor | Lord Dempsey | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On | Actor | Mr. Operatski (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Strings | Actor | Nezo (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Actor | Other Voices (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | The Long Firm | Actor | Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby | 70 Good |
| 2004 | London | Actor | Tacitus | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka | Actor | The Master (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2003 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2002 | The Dinosaur Hunters | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Inquisition | Actor | Cardinal Grand Inquisitor | N/A N/A |
| 2002 | Two Men Went To War | Actor | Maj. Merton | 59 Average |
| 2002 | I, Claudius: A Television Epic | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Revengers Tragedy | Actor | The Duke | 58 Average |
| 2002 | The Making of 'Gosford Park' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2002 | The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Actor | Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi) | 58 Average |
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm | Actor | Stanley Baldwin | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Actor | Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Gosford Park | Actor | Probert | 65 Fair |
| 2001 | David Macaulay: Mill Times | Actor | Priam Huntington (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2001 | The Body | Actor | Father Lavelle | 57 Average |
| 2001 | Revelation | Actor | Librarian | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Great Escape: The Untold Story | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Actor | Various Characters | 59 Average |
| 2000 | The Wyvern Mystery | Actor | Squire Fairfield | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Wilfred | Actor | Voice | N/A N/A |
| 2000 | Jason and the Argonauts | Actor | Phineas | 64 Fair |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Actor | Gracchus | 81 Very good |
| 2000 | Up at the Villa | Actor | Lucky Leadbetter | 58 Average |
| 1999 | The Chimes | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Actor | Father Leonor Fousnel | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Actor | Francis Bacon | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Basil | Actor | Father Frederick | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Animated Epics: Beowulf | Actor | Narrator ( voice ) | 58 Average |
| 1997 | Cadfael: St. Peter's Fair | Actor | Brother Cadfael | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Actor | King Claudius | 65 Fair |
| 1996 | Looking for Richard | Actor | Self - Interviewee | 60 Fair |
| 1996 | Breaking the Code | Actor | Alan Turing | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Cadfael: A Morbid Taste for Bones | Actor | Brother Cadfael | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | Cadfael: The Devil's Novice | Actor | Brother Cadfael | 61 Fair |
| 1996 | Witness Against Hitler | Actor | General | N/A N/A |
| 1995 | Achilles | Actor | Narrator | 58 Average |
| 1994 | The Secret Garden | Actor | Archibald Craven (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1994 | Baseball | Actor | Various (voice) | 70 Good |
| 1994 | Cadfael | Actor | Brother Cadfael | 71 Good |
| 1994 | David Macaulay: Roman City | Actor | Marcus Fabricius (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1994 | Aladdin | Actor | The Magician (voice) | 58 Average |
| 1993 | Circle of Deceit | Actor | Randal | N/A N/A |
| 1993 | The Vision Thing | Actor | George Salisbury | N/A N/A |
| 1992 | The Velvet Claw | Actor | Narrator | 70 Good |
| 1991 | Dead Again | Actor | Franklyn Madson | 61 Fair |
| 1990 | The Fool | Actor | Mr. Frederick / Sir John | 59 Average |
| 1990 | The Civil War | Actor | Various | 76 Good |
| 1990 | Discovering Hamlet | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Henry V | Actor | Chorus | 64 Fair |
| 1989 | The Congress | Actor | (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1989 | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Actor | Hordedef (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1988 | The Tenth Man | Actor | The Imposter | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Little Dorrit | Actor | Arthur Clennam | 59 Average |
| 1987 | The Secret Garden | Actor | Archibald Craven | 60 Fair |
| 1986 | On Wings of Fire | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1986 | David Macaulay: Cathedral | Actor | Pierre (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1986 | Mr. Pye | Actor | Mr. Pye | N/A N/A |
| 1986 | Mr. Pye | Actor | Mr. Pye | N/A N/A |
| 1985 | The Statue of Liberty | Actor | Self (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Actor | Cyrano de Bergerac | 59 Average |
| 1982 | Enigma | Actor | Kurt Limmer | 58 Average |
| 1982 | The Secret of NIMH | Actor | Nicodemus (voice) | 68 Fair |
| 1982 | Stranger in Town | Actor | The Stranger | 59 Average |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Actor | Adolf Hitler | 59 Average |
| 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Actor | Dom Claude Frollo | 58 Average |
| 1981 | Charlotte | Actor | Daberlohn | N/A N/A |
| 1980 | The Man Who Went Up in Smoke | Actor | Martin Beck | N/A N/A |
| 1980 | Hamlet | Actor | Hamlet | 59 Average |
| 1979 | The Human Factor | Actor | Arthur Davis | 58 Average |
| 1978 | Richard II | Actor | King Richard II | 59 Average |
| 1978 | The Medusa Touch | Actor | Townley - Publisher | 61 Fair |
| 1978 | Mysterious Castles of Clay | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 1977 | Philby, Burgess and Maclean | Actor | Guy Burgess | 58 Average |
| 1976 | I, Claudius | Actor | Claudius | 75 Good |
| 1974 | Blue Blood | Actor | Gregory | 58 Average |
| 1974 | The Odessa File | Actor | Klaus Wenzer | 60 Fair |
| 1974 | The Pallisers | Actor | 69 Fair |
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| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Actor | Inspector Caron | 67 Fair |
| 1972 | The Strauss Family | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1970 | Three Sisters | Actor | Andrei | 58 Average |
| 1967 | Much Ado About Nothing | Actor | Don John | 59 Average |
| 1965 | Othello | Actor | Cassio | 59 Average |
| 1965 | Olivier Talks About Othello | Actor | (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1962 | The Fishing Match | Actor | Eric | N/A N/A |
| Lead Heads | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Moss & Freud | Actor | Lucian Freud | N/A N/A |
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| The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
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| Coronation Street: Queens of the Street | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
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| Venom! Nine Ways to Die | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
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