Derek Jacobi
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
Born: 22 October 1938
Played In
Movie
Jul 2026
Heartstopper Forever
Movie
May 2026
Moss & Freud
Lucian Freud
Movie
Jan 2026
Broken English
The Narrator
Movie
Nov 2025
Tinsel Town
Albert
Movie
May 2025
Juliet & Romeo
The Friar
Movie
Dec 2024
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Self
Movie
Nov 2024
Gladiator II
Gracchus
TV Show
Sep 2024
Ludwig
Mr. Todd
TV Show
Oct 2023
The American Buffalo
(voice)
TV Show
Aug 2023
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
Sir Ralph Unwin
Movie
Jul 2023
The Martini Shot
Errol
Movie
Mar 2023
Allelujah
Ambrose
TV Show
Feb 2023
U-Boat Wargamers
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Nov 2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Movie
Sep 2022
A Bird Flew In
David
Movie
Sep 2022
Pearl Islands
Self
TV Show
Aug 2022
The Sandman
Erasmus Fry
TV Show
Jun 2022
Remembers…
Self
Movie
May 2021
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Movie
Apr 2021
Say Your Prayers
Father Enoch
TV Show
Mar 2021
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
Narrator
Movie
Dec 2020
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Himself
Movie
Nov 2020
Come Away
Mr. Brown
Movie
Jan 2020
Breaking The Codes
Movie
Jan 2020
The Host
Dr. Hobson
Movie
Nov 2019
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Lord Palmerston
Movie
Oct 2019
Muse
The Lawyer
Movie
Jul 2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Claudius
TV Show
Jul 2019
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
Narrator
TV Show
May 2019
Good Omens
The Metatron
TV Show
May 2019
Good Omens
Metatron
Movie
May 2019
Tolkien
Professor Joseph Wright
TV Show
Dec 2018
Les Misérables
Bishop Myriel
Movie
Dec 2018
2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
Movie
Apr 2018
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
Movie
Mar 2018
Tomb Raider
Mr. Yaffe
Movie
Dec 2017
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Scrooge
Movie
Nov 2017
Murder on the Orient Express
Edward Henry Masterman
Movie
Oct 2017
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
Movie
Jul 2017
Stratton
Ross
Movie
Dec 2016
The Devil of Christmas
Movie
Nov 2016
The History of Love
Leopold Gursky
TV Show
Nov 2016
The Crown
Duke of Windsor
Movie
Jul 2016
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio
Movie
Nov 2015
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
Movie
Aug 2015
Venom
Narrator
Movie
Mar 2015
Cinderella
King
Movie
Jan 2015
The Gospel of Luke
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Movie
Apr 2014
Grace of Monaco
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
Movie
Mar 2014
Effie Gray
Travers Twiss
TV Show
Feb 2014
Inside No. 9
Webster
Movie
Dec 2013
You
Man
Movie
Nov 2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Claudius/Spooner
Movie
Oct 2013
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
Narrator
Movie
Sep 2013
Muse of Fire
Self
TV Show
Apr 2013
Vicious
Stuart Bixby
Movie
Jan 2013
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Narrator (voice)
TV Show
Nov 2012
Last Tango in Halifax
Alan
Movie
Oct 2012
Last Will. & Testament
Himself
Movie
Jul 2012
The Halloween Kid
Narrator
Movie
Jun 2012
Jail Caesar
Sulla
TV Show
Jun 2012
Shakespeare Uncovered
Himself
TV Show
May 2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Lord Pirrie
Movie
Nov 2011
My Week with Marilyn
Sir Owen Morshead
Movie
Oct 2011
Anonymous
Prologue
Movie
Sep 2011
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Narrator (voice)
TV Show
May 2011
The Amazing World of Gumball
Narrator (voice)
TV Show
Apr 2011
The Borgias
Cardinal Orsini
Movie
Mar 2011
There Be Dragons
Honorio
Movie
Mar 2011
Ironclad
Cornhill
Movie
Feb 2011
National Theatre Live: King Lear
King Lear
Movie
Nov 2010
The King's Speech
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Movie
Oct 2010
Hereafter
Derek Jacobi
Movie
Sep 2010
Joe Maddison's War
Mr. Simpson
Movie
Nov 2009
Margot
Fred Ashton
TV Show
Aug 2009
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Self
Movie
Jul 2009
Charles Dickens's England
Himself - Presenter
TV Show
Apr 2009
Diamonds
Movie
Apr 2009
Diamonds
Piers Denmont
Movie
Jan 2009
Endgame
Rudolph Agnew
Movie
Jan 2009
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Quentin Neely
Movie
Nov 2008
A Bunch of Amateurs
Nigel Dewberry
Movie
Nov 2008
Sidney Turtlebaum
Sidney Turtlebaum
Movie
Oct 2008
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
Narrator
Movie
Aug 2008
Adam Resurrected
Dr. Nathan Gross
Movie
Mar 2008
The Ties That Bind Us
The Master (archive footage)
Movie
Jan 2008
One of Those Days
Howard Whittam
Movie
Dec 2007
The Old Curiosity Shop
Grandfather
Movie
Dec 2007
The Golden Compass
Magisterial Emissary
Movie
Nov 2007
Guantanamero
Guido
Movie
Oct 2007
The Riddle
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Movie
Aug 2007
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
President
TV Show
Mar 2007
In the Night Garden
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Mar 2007
Anastezsi
Balzer
Movie
Jan 2007
The Art of Francis Bacon
Derek Jacobi
Movie
Aug 2006
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Mar 2006
Pinochet in Suburbia
Senator Augusto Pinochet
Movie
Jan 2006
Underworld: Evolution
Alexander Corvinus
Movie
Dec 2005
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Narrator(voice)
Movie
Oct 2005
Nanny McPhee
Mr. Wheen
Movie
Oct 2005
Bye Bye Blackbird
Lord Dempsey
Movie
Aug 2005
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Self
TV Show
Mar 2005
Doctor Who Confidential
TV Show
Mar 2005
Doctor Who
Professor Yana
TV Show
Dec 2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
Colonel Protheroe
Movie
Nov 2004
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Mr. Operatski (voice)
Movie
Oct 2004
Strings
Nezo
TV Show
Oct 2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
Movie
Sep 2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
TV Show
Jul 2004
The Long Firm
Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
TV Show
May 2004
London
Tacitus
Movie
Jan 2004
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Victor
TV Show
Nov 2003
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
The Master (voice)
TV Show
Oct 2003
Henry VIII
Narrator
Movie
Apr 2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
Movie
Dec 2002
The Dinosaur Hunters
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Dec 2002
Inquisition
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Movie
Nov 2002
Two Men Went To War
Maj. Merton
Movie
Sep 2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Self
Movie
Aug 2002
Revengers Tragedy
The Duke
Movie
Jun 2002
The Making of Gosford Park
Self
Movie
Apr 2002
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
Movie
Apr 2002
The Gathering Storm
Stanley Baldwin
Movie
Apr 2002
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
TV Show
Feb 2002
The Jury
George Cording QC
Movie
Dec 2001
Gosford Park
Probert
Movie
Jun 2001
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus (voice)
Movie
May 2001
David Macaulay: Mill Times
Priam Huntington (voice)
Movie
Apr 2001
The Body
Father Lavelle
Movie
Apr 2001
Revelation
Librarian
Movie
Jan 2001
Great Escape: The Untold Story
Narrator
Movie
Dec 2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Various Characters
Movie
Oct 2000
The Wyvern Mystery
Squire Fairfield
Movie
Jun 2000
Wilfred
Voice
TV Show
May 2000
Jason and the Argonauts
Phineas
Movie
May 2000
Gladiator
Gracchus
Movie
Apr 2000
Up at the Villa
Lucky Leadbetter
TV Show
Mar 2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Movie
Apr 1999
The Chimes
Narrator
Movie
Mar 1999
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Father Leonor Fousnel
Movie
Sep 1998
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Movie
Jul 1998
Basil
Father Frederick
Movie
Jan 1998
Animated Epics: Beowulf
Narrator ( voice )
Movie
Dec 1996
Hamlet
King Claudius
Movie
Oct 1996
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
Movie
Sep 1996
Breaking the Code
Alan Turing
TV Show
Sep 1996
The West
Self (voice)
Movie
Mar 1996
Witness Against Hitler
General
Movie
Dec 1995
The Virgin in the Ice
Brother Cadfael
Movie
Aug 1995
Achilles
Narrator
Movie
Nov 1994
The Secret Garden
Archibald Craven (voice)
TV Show
Sep 1994
Baseball
Various (voice)
TV Show
Sep 1994
Baseball
(voice)
Movie
Jun 1994
Monk's Hood
Brother Cadfael
Movie
Jun 1994
The Leper of St. Giles
Brother Cadfael
Movie
Jun 1994
The Sanctuary Sparrow
Brother Cadfael
Movie
May 1994
One Corpse Too Many
Brother Cadfael
TV Show
May 1994
Cadfael
Brother Cadfael
Movie
Apr 1994
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Movie
Feb 1994
David Macaulay: Roman City
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
Movie
Oct 1993
Circles of Deceit
Randal
Movie
Oct 1993
The Vision Thing
George Salisbury
TV Show
Sep 1993
Frasier
Jackson Hedley
TV Show
Dec 1992
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Movie
Nov 1992
Aladdin
The Magician (voice)
TV Show
Sep 1992
The Velvet Claw
Narrator
TV Show
Dec 1991
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Daedalus
Movie
Aug 1991
Dead Again
Franklyn Madson
Movie
Dec 1990
The Fool
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
TV Show
Sep 1990
The Civil War
William Russell / Various (voice)
Movie
Jan 1990
Discovering Hamlet
Himself
Movie
Oct 1989
Henry V
Chorus
Movie
Mar 1989
The Congress
(voice)
Movie
Jan 1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Hordedef (voice)
Movie
Dec 1988
The Tenth Man
The Imposter
Movie
Dec 1987
Little Dorrit
Arthur Clennam
Movie
Nov 1987
The Secret Garden
Archibald Craven
TV Show
Jul 1986
ScreenPlay
George Salisbury
Movie
Jun 1986
On Wings of Fire
Self
Movie
Apr 1986
David Macaulay: Cathedral
Pierre (voice)
Movie
Mar 1986
Mr. Pye
Mr. Pye
TV Show
Mar 1986
Mr Pye
Mr Pye
TV Show
Jan 1986
Wedden, dat..?
Self
Movie
Oct 1985
The Statue of Liberty
Self (voice)
Movie
Jul 1985
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie
Oct 1982
Enigma
Kurt Limmer
Movie
Jun 1982
The Secret of NIMH
Nicodemus (voice)
Movie
May 1982
Stranger in Town
The Stranger
TV Show
May 1982
Inside the Third Reich
Adolf Hitler
Movie
Feb 1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dom Claude Frollo
Movie
Feb 1981
Charlotte
Daberlohn
Movie
Dec 1980
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Martin Beck
Movie
May 1980
Hamlet
Hamlet
Movie
Dec 1979
The Human Factor
Arthur Davis
TV Show
Oct 1979
Minder
Freddie Fenton
TV Show
Mar 1979
Tales of the Unexpected
The Stranger
TV Show
Mar 1979
Tales of the Unexpected
Drioli
Movie
Dec 1978
Richard II
King Richard II
TV Show
Dec 1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Richard II
TV Show
Dec 1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Hamlet
Movie
Apr 1978
The Medusa Touch
Townley - Publisher
Movie
Jan 1978
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Narrator
Movie
May 1977
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Guy Burgess
TV Show
Sep 1976
I, Claudius
Claudius
Movie
Nov 1974
Blue Blood
Gregory
Movie
Oct 1974
The Odessa File
Klaus Wenzer
TV Show
Sep 1974
Affairs of the Heart
Bertram Braddle
TV Show
Mar 1974
NOVA
Voice of Ernest Shackleton
TV Show
Jan 1974
The Pallisers
Lord Fawn
Movie
May 1973
The Day of the Jackal
Inspector Caron
TV Show
Sep 1971
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
William Drew
TV Show
Apr 1971
Budgie
Herbert Fletcher
Movie
Apr 1970
Three Sisters
Andrei
TV Show
Sep 1967
ITV Playhouse
Gerry
Movie
Feb 1967
Much Ado About Nothing
Don John
Movie
Dec 1965
Othello
Cassio
Movie
Jan 1965
Olivier Talks About Othello
(archive footage)
TV Show
Feb 1964
Horizon
Narrator
Movie
Aug 1962
The Fishing Match
Eric
TV Show
Jul 1956
Armchair Theatre
Eric
TV Show
Apr 1956
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
TV Show
Apr 1956
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
TV Show
Dec 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dom Claude
TV Show
Dec 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Archibald Craven
TV Show
Dec 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Imposter
Movie
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
Narrator
Movie
Lead Heads
Movie
Frank and Percy