Derek Jacobi

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1938-10-22 (Age: 88)

Place of Birth

Leytonstone, London, England, UK

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

Filmography (158)

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Heartstopper Forever

⭐ 0 Role: Lucian Freud

Moss & Freud

⭐ 7.0 Role: The Narrator

Broken English

⭐ 5.8 Role: Albert

Tinsel Town

⭐ 6.1 Role: The Friar

Juliet & Romeo

⭐ 4.5 Role: Self

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

⭐ 6.6 Role: Gracchus

Gladiator II

⭐ 6.5 Role: Errol

The Martini Shot

⭐ 5.2 Role: Ambrose

Allelujah

⭐ 7.8 Role: Self

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

⭐ 0 Role: David

A Bird Flew In

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Pearl Islands

⭐ 0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

⭐ 7.3 Role: Father Enoch

Say Your Prayers

⭐ 0 Role: Himself

Coronation Street: Queens of the Street

⭐ 5.8 Role: Mr. Brown

Come Away

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Breaking The Codes

⭐ 5.6 Role: Dr. Hobson

The Host

⭐ 6.4 Role: Lord Palmerston

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

⭐ 0 Role: The Lawyer

Muse

⭐ 5.2 Role: Claudius

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans

⭐ 6.9 Role: Professor Joseph Wright

Tolkien

⭐ 3.5 Role: Unknown

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

⭐ 6.4 Role: Mr. Yaffe

Tomb Raider

⭐ 7.6 Role: Scrooge

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

⭐ 6.7 Role: Edward Henry Masterman

Murder on the Orient Express

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge

⭐ 5.0 Role: Ross

Stratton

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

The Devil of Christmas

⭐ 6.4 Role: Leopold Gursky

The History of Love

⭐ 8.0 Role: Mercutio

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

⭐ 0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

⭐ 10.0 Role: Narrator

Venom

⭐ 6.8 Role: King

Cinderella

⭐ 8.2 Role: Narrator (voice) – King James Version

The Gospel of Luke

⭐ 6.0 Role: Count Fernando D'Aillieres

Grace of Monaco

⭐ 5.9 Role: Travers Twiss

Effie Gray

⭐ 0 Role: Man

You

⭐ 6.2 Role: Claudius/Spooner

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

⭐ 6.5 Role: Self

Muse of Fire

⭐ 1.0 Role: Narrator (voice)

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

⭐ 7.0 Role: Himself

Last Will. & Testament

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

The Halloween Kid

⭐ 6.3 Role: Sulla

Jail Caesar

⭐ 6.7 Role: Sir Owen Morshead

My Week with Marilyn

⭐ 6.4 Role: Prologue

Anonymous

⭐ 6.4 Role: Narrator (voice)

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

⭐ 5.1 Role: Honorio

There Be Dragons

⭐ 6.1 Role: Cornhill

Ironclad

⭐ 7.0 Role: King Lear

National Theatre Live: King Lear

⭐ 7.7 Role: Archbishop Cosmo Lang

The King's Speech

⭐ 6.1 Role: Derek Jacobi

Hereafter

⭐ 4.2 Role: Mr. Simpson

Joe Maddison's War

⭐ 5.5 Role: Fred Ashton

Margot

⭐ 0 Role: Himself - Presenter

Charles Dickens's England

⭐ 4.7 Role: Piers Denmont

Diamonds

⭐ 5.9 Role: Rudolph Agnew

Endgame

⭐ 6.5 Role: Quentin Neely

Morris: A Life with Bells On

⭐ 5.7 Role: Nigel Dewberry

A Bunch of Amateurs

⭐ 3.3 Role: Sidney Turtlebaum

Sidney Turtlebaum

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

⭐ 6.1 Role: Dr. Nathan Gross

Adam Resurrected

⭐ 0 Role: The Master (archive footage)

The Ties That Bind Us

⭐ 7.3 Role: Howard Whittam

One of Those Days

⭐ 5.0 Role: Grandfather

The Old Curiosity Shop

⭐ 6.1 Role: Magisterial Emissary

The Golden Compass

⭐ 4.0 Role: Guido

Guantanamero

⭐ 4.8 Role: The Tramp / Charles Dickens

The Riddle

⭐ 0 Role: President

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space

⭐ 7.0 Role: Balzer

Anastezsi

⭐ 0 Role: Derek Jacobi

The Art of Francis Bacon

⭐ 7.0 Role: Narrator (voice)

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

⭐ 5.3 Role: Senator Augusto Pinochet

Pinochet in Suburbia

⭐ 6.6 Role: Alexander Corvinus

Underworld: Evolution

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator(voice)

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

⭐ 6.7 Role: Mr. Wheen

Nanny McPhee

⭐ 5.3 Role: Lord Dempsey

Bye Bye Blackbird

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Strength and Honor: Production Pods

⭐ 7.0 Role: Mr. Operatski (voice)

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

⭐ 6.7 Role: Nezo

Strings

⭐ 7.2 Role: Other Voices (voice)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

⭐ 7.0 Role: Victor

Cloud Cuckoo Land

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

⭐ 6.5 Role: Narrator (voice)

The Dinosaur Hunters

⭐ 7.0 Role: Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

Inquisition

⭐ 6.7 Role: Maj. Merton

Two Men Went To War

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

⭐ 5.8 Role: The Duke

Revengers Tragedy

⭐ 5.3 Role: Self

The Making of Gosford Park

⭐ 4.5 Role: Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

⭐ 6.7 Role: Stanley Baldwin

The Gathering Storm

⭐ 5.1 Role: Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

⭐ 6.8 Role: Probert

Gosford Park

⭐ 6.0 Role: Theseus (voice)

The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream

⭐ 0 Role: Priam Huntington (voice)

David Macaulay: Mill Times

⭐ 5.5 Role: Father Lavelle

The Body

⭐ 5.1 Role: Librarian

Revelation

⭐ 7.5 Role: Narrator

Great Escape: The Untold Story

⭐ 7.0 Role: Various Characters

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

⭐ 5.2 Role: Squire Fairfield

The Wyvern Mystery

⭐ 9.0 Role: Voice

Wilfred

⭐ 8.2 Role: Gracchus

Gladiator

⭐ 5.3 Role: Lucky Leadbetter

Up at the Villa

⭐ 7.0 Role: Narrator

The Chimes

⭐ 6.2 Role: Father Leonor Fousnel

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

⭐ 6.0 Role: Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

⭐ 5.4 Role: Father Frederick

Basil

⭐ 5.5 Role: Narrator ( voice )

Animated Epics: Beowulf

⭐ 7.3 Role: King Claudius

Hamlet

⭐ 6.8 Role: Self - Interviewee

Looking for Richard

⭐ 5.5 Role: Alan Turing

Breaking the Code

⭐ 8.0 Role: General

Witness Against Hitler

⭐ 0 Role: Brother Cadfael

The Virgin in the Ice

⭐ 5.6 Role: Narrator

Achilles

⭐ 5.9 Role: Archibald Craven (voice)

The Secret Garden

⭐ 0 Role: Brother Cadfael

Monk's Hood

⭐ 0 Role: Brother Cadfael

The Leper of St. Giles

⭐ 0 Role: Brother Cadfael

The Sanctuary Sparrow

⭐ 0 Role: Brother Cadfael

One Corpse Too Many

⭐ 0 Role: Jeremy Fisher (voice)

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher

⭐ 9.0 Role: Marcus Fabricius (voice)

David Macaulay: Roman City

⭐ 7.8 Role: Randal

Circles of Deceit

⭐ 0 Role: George Salisbury

The Vision Thing

⭐ 5.6 Role: The Magician (voice)

Aladdin

⭐ 6.4 Role: Franklyn Madson

Dead Again

⭐ 8.0 Role: Mr. Frederick / Sir John

The Fool

⭐ 5.9 Role: Himself

Discovering Hamlet

⭐ 7.1 Role: Chorus

Henry V

⭐ 7.6 Role: (voice)

The Congress

⭐ 0 Role: Hordedef (voice)

David Macaulay: Pyramid

⭐ 6.7 Role: The Imposter

The Tenth Man

⭐ 6.4 Role: Arthur Clennam

Little Dorrit

⭐ 7.7 Role: Archibald Craven

The Secret Garden

⭐ 8.8 Role: Self

On Wings of Fire

⭐ 0 Role: Pierre (voice)

David Macaulay: Cathedral

⭐ 0 Role: Mr. Pye

Mr. Pye

⭐ 6.9 Role: Self (voice)

The Statue of Liberty

⭐ 6.6 Role: Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

⭐ 5.6 Role: Kurt Limmer

Enigma

⭐ 7.5 Role: Nicodemus (voice)

The Secret of NIMH

⭐ 7.7 Role: The Stranger

Stranger in Town

⭐ 5.8 Role: Dom Claude Frollo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

⭐ 8.0 Role: Daberlohn

Charlotte

⭐ 9.0 Role: Martin Beck

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

⭐ 6.2 Role: Hamlet

Hamlet

⭐ 5.8 Role: Arthur Davis

The Human Factor

⭐ 8.0 Role: King Richard II

Richard II

⭐ 6.8 Role: Townley - Publisher

The Medusa Touch

⭐ 6.4 Role: Narrator

Mysterious Castles of Clay

⭐ 5.4 Role: Guy Burgess

Philby, Burgess and Maclean

⭐ 4.3 Role: Gregory

Blue Blood

⭐ 6.6 Role: Klaus Wenzer

The Odessa File

⭐ 7.5 Role: Inspector Caron

The Day of the Jackal

⭐ 4.1 Role: Andrei

Three Sisters

⭐ 6.3 Role: Don John

Much Ado About Nothing

⭐ 6.4 Role: Cassio

Othello

⭐ 0 Role: (archive footage)

Olivier Talks About Othello

⭐ 0 Role: Eric

The Fishing Match