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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Heartstopper Forever | 2026-07-16 | |
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Broken English | The Narrator | 2026-01-22 |
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Moss & Freud | Lucian Freud | 2026-05-29 |
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Juliet & Romeo | The Friar | 2025-05-09 |
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Tinsel Town | Albert | 2025-11-28 |
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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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Allelujah | Ambrose | 2023-03-17 |
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The Martini Shot | Errol | 2023-07-13 |
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A Bird Flew In | David | 2022-09-30 |
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | 2022-11-26 |
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Pearl Islands | Self | 2022-09-10 |
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Say Your Prayers | Father Enoch | 2021-04-02 |
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Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2021-05-03 |
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Coronation Street: Queens of the Street | Himself | 2020-12-09 |
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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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Muse | The Lawyer | 2019-10-18 |
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Tolkien | Professor Joseph Wright | 2019-05-03 |
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Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans | Claudius | 2019-07-26 |
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The Warrior Queen of Jhansi | Lord Palmerston | 2019-11-15 |
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2018: A Year in the Life of a Year | 2018-12-27 | |
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Tomb Raider | Mr. Yaffe | 2018-03-05 |
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Nothing Is Truer than Truth | 2018-04-29 | |
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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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Murder on the Orient Express | Edward Henry Masterman | 2017-11-03 |
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Stratton | Ross | 2017-07-06 |
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Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | 2016-07-07 |
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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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Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
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The Gospel of Luke | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2015-01-01 |
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Venom | Narrator | 2015-08-04 |
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Cinderella | King | 2015-03-06 |
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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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Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene | Narrator (voice) | 2013-01-01 |
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The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island | Narrator | 2013-10-05 |
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You | Man | 2013-12-03 |
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Claudius/Spooner | 2013-11-02 |
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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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National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear | 2011-02-03 |
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Ironclad | Cornhill | 2011-03-03 |
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There Be Dragons | Honorio | 2011-03-25 |
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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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My Week with Marilyn | Sir Owen Morshead | 2011-11-23 |
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Anonymous | Prologue | 2011-10-21 |
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The King's Speech | Archbishop Cosmo Lang | 2010-11-26 |
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Joe Maddison's War | Mr. Simpson | 2010-09-19 |
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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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Margot | Fred Ashton | 2009-11-30 |
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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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Pompeii and the Roman Villa | Narrator | 2008-10-19 |
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Adam Resurrected | Dr. Nathan Gross | 2008-08-08 |
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The Ties That Bind Us | The Master (archive footage) | 2008-03-03 |
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Sidney Turtlebaum | Sidney Turtlebaum | 2008-11-03 |
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A Bunch of Amateurs | Nigel Dewberry | 2008-11-17 |
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One of Those Days | Howard Whittam | 2008-01-01 |
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The Golden Compass | Magisterial Emissary | 2007-12-04 |
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Anastezsi | Balzer | 2007-03-16 |
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The Riddle | The Tramp / Charles Dickens | 2007-10-14 |
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The Old Curiosity Shop | Grandfather | 2007-12-26 |
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The Art of Francis Bacon | Derek Jacobi | 2007-01-01 |
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Arritmia | Guido | 2007-11-23 |
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Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space | President | 2007-08-20 |
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Underworld: Evolution | Alexander Corvinus | 2006-01-12 |
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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 (voice) | 2006-08-04 |
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Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator(voice) | 2005-12-25 |
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Bye Bye Blackbird | Lord Dempsey | 2005-10-14 |
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Nanny McPhee | Mr. Wheen | 2005-10-21 |
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Strength and Honor: Production Pods | Self | 2005-08-23 |
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
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Cloud Cuckoo Land | Victor | 2004-01-01 |
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Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On | Mr. Operatski (voice) | 2004-11-30 |
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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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The Making of Gosford Park | Self | 2002-06-18 |
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I, Claudius: A Television Epic | Self | 2002-09-30 |
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Inquisition | Cardinal Grand Inquisitor | 2002-12-22 |
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The Dinosaur Hunters | Narrator (voice) | 2002-12-30 |
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The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi) | 2002-04-25 |
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Revengers Tragedy | The Duke | 2002-08-06 |
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Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
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The Gathering Storm | Stanley Baldwin | 2002-04-22 |
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Two Men Went To War | Maj. Merton | 2002-11-01 |
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David Macaulay: Mill Times | Priam Huntington (voice) | 2001-05-06 |
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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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The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream | Theseus (voice) | 2001-06-22 |
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Gosford Park | Probert | 2001-12-26 |
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters | 2000-12-25 |
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Up at the Villa | Lucky Leadbetter | 2000-04-14 |
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Wilfred | Voice | 2000-06-03 |
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Gladiator | Gracchus | 2000-05-04 |
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The Wyvern Mystery | Squire Fairfield | 2000-10-12 |
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The Chimes | Narrator | 1999-04-19 |
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Father Leonor Fousnel | 1999-03-17 |
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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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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Francis Bacon | 1998-09-16 |
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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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Achilles | Narrator | 1995-08-31 |
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The Virgin in the Ice | Brother Cadfael | 1995-12-26 |
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The Sanctuary Sparrow | Brother Cadfael | 1994-06-05 |
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Monk's Hood | Brother Cadfael | 1994-06-19 |
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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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The Leper of St. Giles | Brother Cadfael | 1994-06-12 |
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One Corpse Too Many | Brother Cadfael | 1994-05-29 |
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The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven (voice) | 1994-11-05 |
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David Macaulay: Roman City | Marcus Fabricius (voice) | 1994-02-15 |
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The Vision Thing | George Salisbury | 1993-10-06 |
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Circles of Deceit | Randal | 1993-10-16 |
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Aladdin | The Magician (voice) | 1992-11-16 |
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Dead Again | Franklyn Madson | 1991-08-23 |
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The Fool | Mr. Frederick / Sir John | 1990-12-07 |
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Discovering Hamlet | Himself | 1990-01-07 |
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David Macaulay: Pyramid | Hordedef (voice) | 1989-01-04 |
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Henry V | Chorus | 1989-10-05 |
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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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Mr. Pye | Mr. Pye | 1986-03-02 |
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David Macaulay: Cathedral | Pierre (voice) | 1986-04-30 |
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Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1985-07-26 |
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The Statue of Liberty | Self (voice) | 1985-10-26 |
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The Secret of NIMH | Nicodemus (voice) | 1982-06-17 |
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Stranger in Town | The Stranger | 1982-05-23 |
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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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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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Blue Blood | Gregory | 1974-11-01 |
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The Odessa File | Klaus Wenzer | 1974-10-17 |
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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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Venom! Nine Ways to Die | Narrator | |
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Lead Heads | ||
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Frank and Percy |