Derek Jacobi
Birthdate
October 22, 1938 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Details
Birthdate
October 22, 1938 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Known For
Acting
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.
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Derek Jacobi's LGBTQ+ Titles
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Acting (200)
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island as Narrator
Lead Heads
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street as Himself
Moss & Freud as Lucian Freud
Venom! Nine Ways to Die as Narrator
2025
Verona's Romeo & Juliet as The Friar
2024
Gladiator II as Gracchus
2024
Ludwig as Mr. Todd (1 episode)
2023
The American Buffalo as (voice) (2 episodes)
2023
The Martini Shot as Errol
2023
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies as Sir Ralph Unwin (5 episodes)
2023
Allelujah as Ambrose
2023
U-Boat Wargamers as Narrator (voice) (6 episodes)
2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
2022
A Bird Flew In as David
2022
Pearl Islands as Self
2022
The Sandman as Erasmus Fry (1 episode)
2021
Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Name
2021
Rhythm of Life as Self
2021
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood as Himself (archive footage)
2021
Say Your Prayers as Father Enoch
2021
The Lost Pirate Kingdom as Narrator (6 episodes)
2020
Come Away as Mr. Brown
2020
The Host as Dr. Hobson
2019
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi as Lord Palmerston
2019
Muse as The Lawyer
2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans as Claudius
2019
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour as Narrator (10 episodes)
2019
Good Omens as Metatron (1 episode)
2019
Good Omens as The Metatron (1 episode)
2019
Tolkien as Professor Joseph Wright
2018
Les Misérables as Bishop Myriel (1 episode)
2018
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
Tomb Raider as Mr. Yaffe
2017
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Scrooge
2017
Murder on the Orient Express as Edward Masterman
2017
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
Stratton as Ross
2016
The History of Love as Leopold Gursky
2016
The Crown as Duke of Windsor (1 episode)
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio
2015
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
2015
Venom as Narrator
2015
Cinderella as King
2015
The Gospel of Luke as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
2014
Grace of Monaco as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
2014
Effie Gray as Travers Twiss
2014
Inside No. 9 as Dennis Fulcher (voice) (1 episode)
2014
Inside No. 9 as Webster (1 episode)
2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Claudius/Spooner
2013
Muse of Fire as Self
2013
Vicious as Stuart Bixby (12 episodes)
2013
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene as Narrator (voice)
2012
Last Tango in Halifax as Alan (24 episodes)
2012
Last Will. & Testament as Himself
2012
The Halloween Kid as Narrator
2012
Jail Caesar
2012
Shakespeare Uncovered as Himself (1 episode)
2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel as Lord Pirrie (12 episodes)
2011
My Week with Marilyn as Sir Owen Morshead
2011
Anonymous as Prologue
2011
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) as Narrator (voice)
2011
The Amazing World of Gumball as Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
2011
There Be Dragons as Honorio
2011
Ironclad as Cornhill
2011
National Theatre Live: King Lear as King Lear
2010
The King's Speech as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
2010
Hereafter as Derek Jacobi
2010
Joe Maddison's War as Mr. Simpson
2009
Margot as Fred Ashton
2009
Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Himself (2 episodes)
2009
Charles Dickens's England as Himself - Presenter
2009
Diamonds (2 episodes)
2009
Diamonds as Piers Denmont
2009
Endgame as Rudolph Agnew
2009
Morris: A Life with Bells On as Quentin Neely
2008
A Bunch of Amateurs as Nigel Dewberry
2008
Sidney Turtlebaum as Sidney Turtlebaum
2008
Pompeii and the Roman Villa as Narrator
2008
Adam Resurrected as Dr. Nathan Gross
2008
One of Those Days as Howard Whittam
2007
The Old Curiosity Shop as Grandfather
2007
The Golden Compass as Magisterial Emissary
2007
Guantanamero as Guido
2007
The Riddle as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
2007
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as President
2007
In the Night Garden (100 episodes)
2007
Anastezsi as Balzer
2007
The Art of Francis Bacon as Derek Jacobi
2006
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator
2006
Pinochet in Suburbia as Senator Augusto Pinochet
2006
Underworld: Evolution as Alexander Corvinus
2005
Nanny McPhee as Mr. Wheen
2005
Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey
2005
Doctor Who Confidential (1 episode)
2005
Doctor Who as Professor Yana (1 episode)
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple as Colonel Protheroe (1 episode)
2004
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On as Mr. Operatski (voice)
2004
Strings as Nezo (voice)
2004
Who Do You Think You Are? as Self (1 episode)
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2004
The Long Firm as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby (4 episodes)
2004
London as Tacitus (3 episodes)
2003
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka as The Master (voice) (6 episodes)
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2002
The Dinosaur Hunters as Narrator (voice)
2002
Inquisition as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
2002
Two Men Went To War as Maj. Merton
2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self
2002
Revengers Tragedy as The Duke
2002
The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self
2002
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
2002
The Gathering Storm as Stanley Baldwin
2002
Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
2002
The Jury as George Cording QC (6 episodes)
2001
Gosford Park as Probert
2001
David Macaulay: Mill Times as Priam Huntington (voice)
2001
The Body as Father Lavelle
2001
Revelation as Librarian
2001
Great Escape: The Untold Story as Narrator
2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters
2000
The Wyvern Mystery as Squire Fairfield
2000
Wilfred as Voice
2000
Jason and the Argonauts as Phineas (2 episodes)
2000
Gladiator as Gracchus
2000
Up at the Villa as Lucky Leadbetter
2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (1 episode)
1999
The Chimes as Narrator
1999
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as Father Leonor Fousnel
1999
Family Guy as Rupert (voice) (1 episode)
1998
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon as Francis Bacon
1998
Basil as Father Frederick
1998
Animated Epics: Beowulf as Narrator ( voice )
1996
Hamlet as King Claudius
1996
Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
1996
Breaking the Code as Alan Turing
1996
The West as Self (voice) (1 episode)
1996
Witness Against Hitler as General
1995
Achilles as Narrator
1994
The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven (voice)
1994
Baseball as Various (voice) (9 episodes)
1994
Cadfael as Brother Cadfael (13 episodes)
1994
David Macaulay: Roman City as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
1994
Aladdin as The Magician (voice)
1993
Circle of Deceit as Randal
1993
The Vision Thing as George Salisbury
1993
Frasier as Jackson Hedley (1 episode)
1992
The Velvet Claw as Narrator (7 episodes)
1991
Dead Again as Franklyn Madson
1990
The Fool as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
1990
The Civil War as Various (9 episodes)
1990
Discovering Hamlet as Himself
1989
Henry V as Chorus
1989
The Congress as (voice)
1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid as Hordedef (voice)
1988
The Tenth Man as The Imposter
1987
Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam
1987
The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven
1986
On Wings of Fire as Self
1986
David Macaulay: Cathedral as Pierre (voice)
1986
Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye (4 episodes)
1986
Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
1986
Wedden, dat..? as Self (1 episode)
1985
The Statue of Liberty as Self (voice)
1985
Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
1982
Enigma as Kurt Limmer
1982
The Secret of NIMH as Nicodemus (voice)
1982
Stranger in Town as The Stranger
1982
Inside the Third Reich as Adolf Hitler
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Dom Claude Frollo
1981
Charlotte as Daberlohn
1980
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke as Martin Beck
1980
Hamlet as Hamlet
1979
The Human Factor as Arthur Davis
1979
Minder as Freddie Fenton (1 episode)
1979
Tales of the Unexpected as The Stranger (2 episodes)
1978
Richard II as King Richard II
1978
BBC Television Shakespeare as King Richard II (2 episodes)
1978
The Medusa Touch as Townley - Publisher
1978
Mysterious Castles of Clay as Narrator
1977
Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Guy Burgess
1976
I, Claudius as Claudius (12 episodes)
1976
I, Claudius as Self (1 episode)
1974
Blue Blood as Gregory
1974
The Odessa File as Klaus Wenzer
1974
NOVA as Voice of Ernest Shackleton (1 episode)
1974
The Pallisers (26 episodes)
1973
The Day of the Jackal as Inspector Caron
1972
The Strauss Family (8 episodes)
1971
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as William Drew (1 episode)
1971
Budgie (1 episode)
1970
Three Sisters as Andrei
1967
Much Ado About Nothing as Don John
1965
Othello as Cassio
1965
Olivier Talks About Othello as (archive footage)
1962
The Fishing Match as Eric
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Nominee (1 episode)
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Archibald Craven (1 episode)
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dom Claude (1 episode)
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Imposter (1 episode)