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Derek Jacobi

Acting 87 years old Leytonstone, London, England, UK ★ 1.8
Born: October 22, 1938

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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Known For

Gladiator
Gladiator Gracchus 2000
Cinderella
Cinderella King 2015
Gladiator II
Gladiator II Gracchus 2024
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider Mr. Yaffe 2018
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express Edward Henry Masterman 2017

Filmography

Acting Credits (217)

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

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