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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
Tinsel Town
Character:Albert
Release Date:28/11/2025
Moss & Freud
Character:Lucian Freud
Release Date:10/10/2025
Broken English
Character:The Narrator
Release Date:29/08/2025
Juliet & Romeo
Character:The Friar
Release Date:09/05/2025
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Character:Self
Release Date:14/12/2024
Gladiator II
Character:Gracchus
Release Date:13/11/2024
The Martini Shot
Character:Errol
Release Date:27/09/2023
Allelujah
Character:Ambrose
Release Date:17/03/2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Character:Self
Release Date:26/11/2022
A Bird Flew In
Character:David
Release Date:30/09/2022
Pearl Islands
Character:Self
Release Date:10/09/2022
Rhythm of Life
Character:Self
Release Date:03/07/2021
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:03/05/2021
Say Your Prayers
Character:Father Enoch
Release Date:02/04/2021
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Character:Himself
Release Date:09/12/2020
Come Away
Character:Mr. Brown
Release Date:12/11/2020
Breaking The Codes
Character:
Release Date:23/01/2020
The Host
Character:Dr. Hobson
Release Date:17/01/2020
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Character:Lord Palmerston
Release Date:15/11/2019
Muse
Character:The Lawyer
Release Date:18/10/2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Character:Claudius
Release Date:26/07/2019
Tolkien
Character:Professor Joseph Wright
Release Date:03/05/2019
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
Character:
Release Date:29/04/2018
Tomb Raider
Character:Mr. Yaffe
Release Date:05/03/2018
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Character:Scrooge
Release Date:30/12/2017
Murder on the Orient Express
Character:Edward Henry Masterman
Release Date:03/11/2017
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
Character:
Release Date:31/10/2017
Stratton
Character:Ross
Release Date:06/07/2017
The Devil of Christmas
Character:
Release Date:27/12/2016
The History of Love
Character:Leopold Gursky
Release Date:09/11/2016
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Character:Mercutio
Release Date:07/07/2016
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/11/2015
Venom
Character:Narrator
Release Date:04/08/2015
Cinderella
Character:King
Release Date:06/03/2015
The Gospel of Luke
Character:Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Release Date:01/01/2015
Grace of Monaco
Character:Count Fernando D'Aillieres
Release Date:22/04/2014
Effie Gray
Character:Travers Twiss
Release Date:08/03/2014
You
Character:Man
Release Date:03/12/2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Character:Claudius/Spooner
Release Date:02/11/2013
Muse of Fire
Character:Self
Release Date:26/09/2013
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/01/2013
Last Will. & Testament
Character:Himself
Release Date:23/10/2012
The Halloween Kid
Character:Narrator
Release Date:29/07/2012
Jail Caesar
Character:Sulla
Release Date:28/06/2012
My Week with Marilyn
Character:Sir Owen Morshead
Release Date:23/11/2011
Anonymous
Character:Prologue
Release Date:21/10/2011
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:24/09/2011
There Be Dragons
Character:Honorio
Release Date:25/03/2011
Ironclad
Character:Cornhill
Release Date:03/03/2011
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Character:King Lear
Release Date:03/02/2011
The King's Speech
Character:Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Release Date:26/11/2010
Hereafter
Character:Derek Jacobi
Release Date:22/10/2010
Joe Maddison's War
Character:Mr. Simpson
Release Date:19/09/2010
Margot
Character:Fred Ashton
Release Date:30/11/2009
Charles Dickens's England
Character:Himself - Presenter
Release Date:24/07/2009
Diamonds
Character:Piers Denmont
Release Date:04/04/2009
Endgame
Character:Rudolph Agnew
Release Date:18/01/2009
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Character:Quentin Neely
Release Date:09/01/2009
A Bunch of Amateurs
Character:Nigel Dewberry
Release Date:17/11/2008
Sidney Turtlebaum
Character:Sidney Turtlebaum
Release Date:03/11/2008
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
Character:Narrator
Release Date:19/10/2008
Adam Resurrected
Character:Dr. Nathan Gross
Release Date:08/08/2008
The Ties That Bind Us
Character:The Master (archive footage)
Release Date:03/03/2008
One of Those Days
Character:Howard Whittam
Release Date:01/01/2008
The Old Curiosity Shop
Character:Grandfather
Release Date:26/12/2007
The Golden Compass
Character:Magisterial Emissary
Release Date:04/12/2007
Guantanamero
Character:Guido
Release Date:23/11/2007
The Riddle
Character:The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Release Date:14/10/2007
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
Character:President
Release Date:20/08/2007
Anastezsi
Character:Balzer
Release Date:16/03/2007
The Art of Francis Bacon
Character:Derek Jacobi
Release Date:01/01/2007
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Character:Narrator
Release Date:04/08/2006
Pinochet in Suburbia
Character:Senator Augusto Pinochet
Release Date:26/03/2006
Underworld: Evolution
Character:Alexander Corvinus
Release Date:12/01/2006
Mist: The Story of a Sheepdog Puppy
Character:Narrator(voice)
Release Date:25/12/2005
Nanny McPhee
Character:Mr. Wheen
Release Date:21/10/2005
Bye Bye Blackbird
Character:Lord Dempsey
Release Date:14/10/2005
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Character:Self
Release Date:23/08/2005
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Character:Mr. Operatski (voice)
Release Date:30/11/2004
Strings
Character:Nezo
Release Date:24/10/2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Character:Other Voices (voice)
Release Date:04/09/2004
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Character:Victor
Release Date:01/01/2004
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Character:Self
Release Date:03/04/2003
The Dinosaur Hunters
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:30/12/2002
Inquisition
Character:Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Release Date:22/12/2002
Two Men Went To War
Character:Maj. Merton
Release Date:01/11/2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Character:Self
Release Date:30/09/2002
Revengers Tragedy
Character:The Duke
Release Date:06/08/2002
The Making of Gosford Park
Character:Self
Release Date:18/06/2002
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Character:Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
Release Date:25/04/2002
The Gathering Storm
Character:Stanley Baldwin
Release Date:22/04/2002
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Character:Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
Release Date:16/04/2002
Gosford Park
Character:Probert
Release Date:26/12/2001
David Macaulay: Mill Times
Character:Priam Huntington (voice)
Release Date:06/05/2001
The Body
Character:Father Lavelle
Release Date:13/04/2001
Revelation
Character:Librarian
Release Date:12/04/2001
Great Escape: The Untold Story
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/2001
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Character:Various Characters
Release Date:25/12/2000
The Wyvern Mystery
Character:Squire Fairfield
Release Date:12/10/2000
Wilfred
Character:Voice
Release Date:03/06/2000
Gladiator
Character:Gracchus
Release Date:04/05/2000
Up at the Villa
Character:Lucky Leadbetter
Release Date:14/04/2000
The Chimes
Character:Narrator
Release Date:19/04/1999
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Character:Father Leonor Fousnel
Release Date:17/03/1999
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Character:Francis Bacon
Release Date:16/09/1998
Basil
Character:Father Frederick
Release Date:22/07/1998
Animated Epics: Beowulf
Character:Narrator ( voice )
Release Date:01/01/1998
Hamlet
Character:King Claudius
Release Date:25/12/1996
Looking for Richard
Character:Self - Interviewee
Release Date:11/10/1996
Breaking the Code
Character:Alan Turing
Release Date:17/09/1996
Witness Against Hitler
Character:General
Release Date:10/03/1996
The Virgin in the Ice
Character:Brother Cadfael
Release Date:26/12/1995
Achilles
Character:Narrator
Release Date:31/08/1995
The Secret Garden
Character:Archibald Craven (voice)
Release Date:05/11/1994
Monk's Hood
Character:Brother Cadfael
Release Date:19/06/1994
The Leper of St. Giles
Character:Brother Cadfael
Release Date:12/06/1994
The Sanctuary Sparrow
Character:Brother Cadfael
Release Date:05/06/1994
One Corpse Too Many
Character:Brother Cadfael
Release Date:29/05/1994
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Character:Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Release Date:01/04/1994
David Macaulay: Roman City
Character:Marcus Fabricius (voice)
Release Date:15/02/1994
Aladdin
Character:The Magician (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1994
Circle of Deceit
Character:Randal
Release Date:16/10/1993
The Vision Thing
Character:George Salisbury
Release Date:06/10/1993
Dead Again
Character:Franklyn Madson
Release Date:23/08/1991
The Fool
Character:Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Release Date:07/12/1990
Discovering Hamlet
Character:Himself
Release Date:07/01/1990
Henry V
Character:Chorus
Release Date:05/10/1989
The Congress
Character:(voice)
Release Date:19/03/1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Character:Hordedef (voice)
Release Date:04/01/1989
The Tenth Man
Character:The Imposter
Release Date:04/12/1988
Little Dorrit
Character:Arthur Clennam
Release Date:11/12/1987
The Secret Garden
Character:Archibald Craven
Release Date:30/11/1987
On Wings of Fire
Character:Self
Release Date:01/06/1986
David Macaulay: Cathedral
Character:Pierre (voice)
Release Date:30/04/1986
Mr. Pye
Character:Mr. Pye
Release Date:02/03/1986
The Statue of Liberty
Character:Self (voice)
Release Date:26/10/1985
Cyrano de Bergerac
Character:Cyrano de Bergerac
Release Date:26/07/1985
Enigma
Character:Kurt Limmer
Release Date:15/10/1982
The Secret of NIMH
Character:Nicodemus (voice)
Release Date:17/06/1982
Stranger in Town
Character:The Stranger
Release Date:23/05/1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character:Dom Claude Frollo
Release Date:02/02/1982
Charlotte
Character:Daberlohn
Release Date:26/02/1981
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Character:Martin Beck
Release Date:25/12/1980
Hamlet
Character:Hamlet
Release Date:25/05/1980
The Human Factor
Character:Arthur Davis
Release Date:18/12/1979
Richard II
Character:King Richard II
Release Date:10/12/1978
The Medusa Touch
Character:Townley - Publisher
Release Date:13/04/1978
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/1978
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Character:Guy Burgess
Release Date:31/05/1977
Blue Blood
Character:Gregory
Release Date:01/11/1974
The Odessa File
Character:Klaus Wenzer
Release Date:17/10/1974
The Day of the Jackal
Character:Inspector Caron
Release Date:16/05/1973
Three Sisters
Character:Andrei
Release Date:01/04/1970
Much Ado About Nothing
Character:Don John
Release Date:05/02/1967
Othello
Character:Cassio
Release Date:15/12/1965
Olivier Talks About Othello
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1965
The Fishing Match
Character:Eric
Release Date:19/08/1962
Television Appearances
Ludwig
Character:Mr. Todd
The American Buffalo
Character:(voice)
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies
Character:Sir Ralph Unwin
U-Boat Wargamers
Character:Narrator (voice)
The Sandman
Character:Erasmus Fry
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
Character:Narrator
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
Character:Narrator
Good Omens
Character:The Metatron
Good Omens
Character:Metatron
Les Misérables
Character:Bishop Myriel
The Crown
Character:Duke of Windsor
Inside No. 9
Character:Webster
Vicious
Character:Stuart Bixby
Last Tango in Halifax
Character:Alan
Shakespeare Uncovered
Character:Himself
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Character:Lord Pirrie
The Amazing World of Gumball
Character:Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Character:Self
Diamonds
Character:
In the Night Garden
Character:Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who Confidential
Character:
Doctor Who
Character:Professor Yana
Agatha Christie's Marple
Character:Colonel Protheroe
Who Do You Think You Are?
Character:Self
The Long Firm
Character:Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
London
Character:Tacitus
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
Character:The Master (voice)
Henry VIII
Character:Narrator
The Jury
Character:George Cording QC
Jason and the Argonauts
Character:Phineas
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Character:
The West
Character:Self (voice)
Baseball
Character:Various (voice)
Baseball
Character:(voice)
Cadfael
Character:Brother Cadfael
Frasier
Character:Jackson Hedley
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Character:Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
The Velvet Claw
Character:Narrator
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Character:Daedalus
The Civil War
Character:Various
Mr. Pye
Character:Mr. Pye
Wedden, dat..?
Character:Self
Inside the Third Reich
Character:Adolf Hitler
Minder
Character:Freddie Fenton
Tales of the Unexpected
Character:The Stranger
I, Claudius
Character:Claudius
NOVA
Character:Voice of Ernest Shackleton
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character:William Drew
Budgie
Character:Herbert Fletcher
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Winner
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Dom Claude
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Archibald Craven
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Imposter
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