1938-10-22 Leytonstone, London, England, UK
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
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Juliet & Romeo | The Friar | 2025-05-09 |
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Moss & Freud | Lucian Freud | 2025-10-10 |
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Tinsel Town | Albert | 2025-11-28 |
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Broken English | The Narrator | 2025-08-29 |
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Gladiator II | Gracchus | 2024-11-13 |
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Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration | Self | 2024-12-14 |
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The Martini Shot | Errol | 2023-09-27 |
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Allelujah | Ambrose | 2023-03-17 |
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A Bird Flew In | David | 2022-09-30 |
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Pearl Islands | Self | 2022-09-10 |
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | 2022-11-26 |
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Rhythm of Life | Self | 2021-07-03 |
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Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2021-05-03 |
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Say Your Prayers | Father Enoch | 2021-04-02 |
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Come Away | Mr. Brown | 2020-11-12 |
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The Host | Dr. Hobson | 2020-01-17 |
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Breaking The Codes | 2020-01-23 | |
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Coronation Street: Queens of the Street | Himself | 2020-12-09 |
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Tolkien | Professor Joseph Wright | 2019-05-03 |
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The Warrior Queen of Jhansi | Lord Palmerston | 2019-11-15 |
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Muse | The Lawyer | 2019-10-18 |
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Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans | Claudius | 2019-07-26 |
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Nothing Is Truer than Truth | 2018-04-29 | |
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Tomb Raider | Mr. Yaffe | 2018-03-05 |
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Murder on the Orient Express | Edward Henry Masterman | 2017-11-03 |
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Stratton | Ross | 2017-07-06 |
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Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge | 2017-10-31 | |
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A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Scrooge | 2017-12-30 |
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The Devil of Christmas | 2016-12-27 | |
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The History of Love | Leopold Gursky | 2016-11-09 |
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Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | 2016-07-07 |
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Cinderella | King | 2015-03-06 |
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Venom | Narrator | 2015-08-04 |
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The Gospel of Luke | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2015-01-01 |
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Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
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Effie Gray | Travers Twiss | 2014-03-08 |
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Grace of Monaco | Count Fernando D'Aillieres | 2014-04-22 |
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Claudius/Spooner | 2013-11-02 |
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Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene | Narrator (voice) | 2013-01-01 |
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You | Man | 2013-12-03 |
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Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
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Last Will. & Testament | Himself | 2012-10-23 |
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The Halloween Kid | Narrator | 2012-07-29 |
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Jail Caesar | Sulla | 2012-06-28 |
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Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) | Narrator (voice) | 2011-09-24 |
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Ironclad | Cornhill | 2011-03-03 |
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My Week with Marilyn | Sir Owen Morshead | 2011-11-23 |
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National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear | 2011-02-03 |
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There Be Dragons | Honorio | 2011-03-25 |
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Anonymous | Prologue | 2011-10-21 |
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Joe Maddison's War | Mr. Simpson | 2010-09-19 |
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The King's Speech | Archbishop Cosmo Lang | 2010-11-26 |
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Hereafter | Derek Jacobi | 2010-10-22 |
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Charles Dickens's England | Himself - Presenter | 2009-07-24 |
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Diamonds | Piers Denmont | 2009-04-04 |
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Endgame | Rudolph Agnew | 2009-01-18 |
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Morris: A Life with Bells On | Quentin Neely | 2009-01-09 |
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Margot | Fred Ashton | 2009-11-30 |
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The Ties That Bind Us | The Master (archive footage) | 2008-03-03 |
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Adam Resurrected | Dr. Nathan Gross | 2008-08-08 |
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A Bunch of Amateurs | Nigel Dewberry | 2008-11-17 |
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Sidney Turtlebaum | Sidney Turtlebaum | 2008-11-03 |
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One of Those Days | Howard Whittam | 2008-01-01 |
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Pompeii and the Roman Villa | Narrator | 2008-10-19 |
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The Old Curiosity Shop | Grandfather | 2007-12-26 |
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The Riddle | The Tramp / Charles Dickens | 2007-10-14 |
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Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space | President | 2007-08-20 |
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Arritmia | Guido | 2007-11-23 |
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The Golden Compass | Magisterial Emissary | 2007-12-04 |
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The Art of Francis Bacon | Derek Jacobi | 2007-01-01 |
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Anastezsi | Balzer | 2007-03-16 |
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Pinochet in Suburbia | Senator Augusto Pinochet | 2006-03-26 |
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Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator | 2006-08-04 |
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Underworld: Evolution | Alexander Corvinus | 2006-01-12 |
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Nanny McPhee | Mr. Wheen | 2005-10-21 |
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Bye Bye Blackbird | Lord Dempsey | 2005-10-14 |
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Mist: The Story of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator(voice) | 2005-12-25 |
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Strength and Honor: Production Pods | Self | 2005-08-23 |
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Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On | Mr. Operatski (voice) | 2004-11-30 |
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Cloud Cuckoo Land | Victor | 2004-01-01 |
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
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Strings | Nezo | 2004-10-24 |
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003-04-03 |
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Revengers Tragedy | The Duke | 2002-08-06 |
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I, Claudius: A Television Epic | Self | 2002-09-30 |
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The Gathering Storm | Stanley Baldwin | 2002-04-22 |
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The Making of Gosford Park | Self | 2002-06-18 |
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Two Men Went To War | Maj. Merton | 2002-11-01 |
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Inquisition | Cardinal Grand Inquisitor | 2002-12-22 |
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The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi) | 2002-04-25 |
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Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
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The Dinosaur Hunters | Narrator (voice) | 2002-12-30 |
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Revelation | Librarian | 2001-04-12 |
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The Body | Father Lavelle | 2001-04-13 |
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Great Escape: The Untold Story | Narrator | 2001-01-01 |
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Gosford Park | Probert | 2001-12-26 |
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David Macaulay: Mill Times | Priam Huntington (voice) | 2001-05-06 |
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Wilfred | Voice | 2000-06-03 |
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The Wyvern Mystery | Squire Fairfield | 2000-10-12 |
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters | 2000-12-25 |
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Gladiator | Gracchus | 2000-05-04 |
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Up at the Villa | Lucky Leadbetter | 2000-04-14 |
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Father Leonor Fousnel | 1999-03-17 |
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The Chimes | Narrator | 1999-04-19 |
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Francis Bacon | 1998-09-16 |
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Basil | Father Frederick | 1998-07-22 |
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Animated Epics: Beowulf | Narrator ( voice ) | 1998-01-01 |
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Breaking the Code | Alan Turing | 1996-09-17 |
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Witness Against Hitler | General | 1996-03-10 |
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Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | 1996-10-11 |
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Hamlet | King Claudius | 1996-12-25 |
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The Virgin in the Ice | Brother Cadfael | 1995-12-26 |
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Achilles | Narrator | 1995-08-31 |
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The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven (voice) | 1994-11-05 |
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The Sanctuary Sparrow | Brother Cadfael | 1994-06-05 |
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Aladdin | The Magician (voice) | 1994-01-01 |
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One Corpse Too Many | Brother Cadfael | 1994-05-29 |
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The Leper of St. Giles | Brother Cadfael | 1994-06-12 |
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David Macaulay: Roman City | Marcus Fabricius (voice) | 1994-02-15 |
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher | Jeremy Fisher (voice) | 1994-04-01 |
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Monk's Hood | Brother Cadfael | 1994-06-19 |
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The Vision Thing | George Salisbury | 1993-10-06 |
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Circle of Deceit | Randal | 1993-10-16 |
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Dead Again | Franklyn Madson | 1991-08-23 |
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Discovering Hamlet | Himself | 1990-01-07 |
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The Fool | Mr. Frederick / Sir John | 1990-12-07 |
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Henry V | Chorus | 1989-10-05 |
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David Macaulay: Pyramid | Hordedef (voice) | 1989-01-04 |
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The Congress | (voice) | 1989-03-19 |
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The Tenth Man | The Imposter | 1988-12-04 |
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The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven | 1987-11-30 |
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Little Dorrit | Arthur Clennam | 1987-12-11 |
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On Wings of Fire | Self | 1986-06-01 |
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David Macaulay: Cathedral | Pierre (voice) | 1986-04-30 |
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Mr. Pye | Mr. Pye | 1986-03-02 |
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The Statue of Liberty | Self (voice) | 1985-10-26 |
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Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1985-07-26 |
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Enigma | Kurt Limmer | 1982-10-15 |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Dom Claude Frollo | 1982-02-02 |
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Stranger in Town | The Stranger | 1982-05-23 |
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The Secret of NIMH | Nicodemus (voice) | 1982-06-17 |
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Charlotte | Daberlohn | 1981-02-26 |
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Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste | Martin Beck | 1980-12-25 |
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Hamlet | Hamlet | 1980-05-25 |
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The Human Factor | Arthur Davis | 1979-12-18 |
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Richard II | King Richard II | 1978-12-10 |
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Mysterious Castles of Clay | Narrator | 1978-01-01 |
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The Medusa Touch | Townley - Publisher | 1978-04-13 |
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Philby, Burgess and Maclean | Guy Burgess | 1977-05-31 |
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The Odessa File | Klaus Wenzer | 1974-10-17 |
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Blue Blood | Gregory | 1974-11-01 |
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The Day of the Jackal | Inspector Caron | 1973-05-16 |
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Three Sisters | Andrei | 1970-04-01 |
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Much Ado About Nothing | Don John | 1967-02-05 |
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Othello | Cassio | 1965-12-15 |
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Olivier Talks About Othello | (archive footage) | 1965-01-01 |
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The Fishing Match | Eric | 1962-08-19 |
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The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island | Narrator | |
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Venom! Nine Ways to Die | Narrator | |
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Lead Heads | ||
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Frank and Percy |