Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

Acting

Born October 22, 1938 · 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 accol…

Known for

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

2005

NOVA

NOVA

1974

Horizon

Horizon

1964

Frasier

Frasier

1993

The Amazing World of Gumball

The Amazing World of Gumball

2011

The Crown

The Crown

2016

Minder

Minder

1979

Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

Acting(222)

2026Heartstopper Forever

2026Moss & FreudLucian Freud

2026Broken EnglishThe Narrator

2025Tinsel TownAlbert

2025Juliet & RomeoThe Friar

2024Dame Maggie Smith - A CelebrationSelf

2024Gladiator IIGracchus

2024LudwigMr. Todd

2023The American Buffalo(voice)

2023The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of LiesSir Ralph Unwin

2023The Martini ShotErrol

2023AllelujahAmbrose

2023U-Boat WargamersNarrator (voice)

2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to AqabaSelf

2022A Bird Flew InDavid

2022Pearl IslandsSelf

2022The SandmanErasmus Fry

2022Remembers…Self

2021Albert Speer und der Traum von HollywoodSelf (archive footage)

2021Say Your PrayersFather Enoch

2021The Lost Pirate KingdomNarrator

2020Coronation Street: Queens of the StreetHimself

2020Come AwayMr. Brown

2020Breaking The Codes

2020The HostDr. Hobson

2019The Warrior Queen of JhansiLord Palmerston

2019MuseThe Lawyer

2019Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten RomansClaudius

2019Greatest Events of World War II in ColourNarrator

2019Good OmensThe Metatron

2019TolkienProfessor Joseph Wright

2018Les MisérablesBishop Myriel

20182018: A Year in the Life of a Year

2018Nothing Is Truer than Truth

2018Tomb RaiderMr. Yaffe

2017A Christmas Carol Goes WrongScrooge

2017Murder on the Orient ExpressEdward Henry Masterman

2017Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge

2017StrattonRoss

2016The Devil of Christmas

2016The History of LoveLeopold Gursky

2016The CrownDuke of Windsor

2016Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and JulietMercutio

2015Knights of Classic Drama at the BBCSelf (archive footage)

2015VenomNarrator

2015CinderellaKing

2015The Gospel of LukeNarrator (voice) – King James Version

2014Grace of MonacoCount Fernando D'Aillieres

2014Effie GrayTravers Twiss

2014Inside No. 9Webster

2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on StageClaudius/Spooner

2013The Man Who Tried to Steal an IslandNarrator

2013Muse of FireSelf

2013ViciousStuart Bixby

2013Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham GreeneNarrator (voice)

2012Last Tango in HalifaxAlan

2012Last Will. & TestamentHimself

2012The Halloween KidNarrator

2012Jail CaesarSulla

2012Shakespeare UncoveredHimself

2012Titanic: Blood and SteelLord Pirrie

2011My Week with MarilynSir Owen Morshead

2011AnonymousPrologue

2011Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)Narrator (voice)

2011The Amazing World of GumballNarrator (voice)

2011The BorgiasCardinal Orsini

2011There Be DragonsHonorio

2011IroncladCornhill

2011National Theatre Live: King LearKing Lear

2010The King's SpeechArchbishop Cosmo Lang

2010HereafterDerek Jacobi

2010Joe Maddison's WarMr. Simpson

2009MargotFred Ashton

2009Doctor Who Greatest MomentsSelf

2009Charles Dickens's EnglandHimself - Presenter

2009DiamondsPiers Denmont

2009EndgameRudolph Agnew

2009Morris: A Life with Bells OnQuentin Neely

2008A Bunch of AmateursNigel Dewberry

2008Sidney TurtlebaumSidney Turtlebaum

2008Pompeii and the Roman VillaNarrator

2008Adam ResurrectedDr. Nathan Gross

2008The Ties That Bind UsThe Master (archive footage)

2008One of Those DaysHoward Whittam

2007The Old Curiosity ShopGrandfather

2007The Golden CompassMagisterial Emissary

2007GuantanameroGuido

2007The RiddleThe Tramp / Charles Dickens

2007Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in SpacePresident

2007In the Night GardenNarrator (voice)

2007AnastezsiBalzer

2007The Art of Francis BaconDerek Jacobi

2006Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog PuppyNarrator (voice)

2006Pinochet in SuburbiaSenator Augusto Pinochet

2006Underworld: EvolutionAlexander Corvinus

2005Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog PuppyNarrator(voice)

2005Nanny McPheeMr. Wheen

2005Bye Bye BlackbirdLord Dempsey

2005Strength and Honor: Production PodsSelf

2005Doctor Who Confidential

2005Doctor WhoProfessor Yana

2004Agatha Christie's MarpleColonel Protheroe

2004Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go OnMr. Operatski (voice)

2004StringsNezo

2004Who Do You Think You Are?Self

2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonOther Voices (voice)

2004The Long FirmLord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby

2004LondonTacitus

2004Cloud Cuckoo LandVictor

2003Doctor Who: Scream of the ShalkaThe Master (voice)

2003Henry VIIINarrator

2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereSelf

2002The Dinosaur HuntersNarrator (voice)

2002InquisitionCardinal Grand Inquisitor

2002Two Men Went To WarMaj. Merton

2002I, Claudius: A Television EpicSelf

2002Revengers TragedyThe Duke

2002The Making of Gosford ParkSelf

2002The Diaries of Vaslav NijinskyNijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

2002The Gathering StormStanley Baldwin

2002Ultimate Fights from the MoviesGracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

2002The JuryGeorge Cording QC

2001Gosford ParkProbert

2001The Children's Midsummer Night's DreamTheseus (voice)

2001David Macaulay: Mill TimesPriam Huntington (voice)

2001The BodyFather Lavelle

2001RevelationLibrarian

2001Great Escape: The Untold StoryNarrator

2000Victoria Wood with All the TrimmingsVarious Characters

2000The Wyvern MysterySquire Fairfield

2000WilfredVoice

2000Jason and the ArgonautsPhineas

2000GladiatorGracchus

2000Up at the VillaLucky Leadbetter

2000Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

1999The ChimesNarrator

1999Molokai: The Story of Father DamienFather Leonor Fousnel

1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis BaconFrancis Bacon

1998BasilFather Frederick

1998Animated Epics: BeowulfNarrator ( voice )

1996HamletKing Claudius

1996Looking for RichardSelf - Interviewee

1996Breaking the CodeAlan Turing

1996The WestSelf (voice)

1996Witness Against HitlerGeneral

1995The Virgin in the IceBrother Cadfael

1995AchillesNarrator

1994The Secret GardenArchibald Craven (voice)

1994BaseballVarious (voice)

1994Monk's HoodBrother Cadfael

1994The Leper of St. GilesBrother Cadfael

1994The Sanctuary SparrowBrother Cadfael

1994One Corpse Too ManyBrother Cadfael

1994CadfaelBrother Cadfael

1994The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy FisherJeremy Fisher (voice)

1994David Macaulay: Roman CityMarcus Fabricius (voice)

1993Circles of DeceitRandal

1993The Vision ThingGeorge Salisbury

1993FrasierJackson Hedley

1992The World of Peter Rabbit and FriendsMr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)

1992AladdinThe Magician (voice)

1992The Velvet ClawNarrator

1991The Storyteller: Greek MythsDaedalus

1991Dead AgainFranklyn Madson

1990The FoolMr. Frederick / Sir John

1990The Civil WarWilliam Russell / Various (voice)

1990Discovering HamletHimself

1989Henry VChorus

1989The Congress(voice)

1989David Macaulay: PyramidHordedef (voice)

1988The Tenth ManThe Imposter

1987Little DorritArthur Clennam

1987The Secret GardenArchibald Craven

1986ScreenPlayGeorge Salisbury

1986On Wings of FireSelf

1986David Macaulay: CathedralPierre (voice)

1986Mr. PyeMr. Pye

1986Mr PyeMr Pye

1986Wedden, dat..?Self

1985The Statue of LibertySelf (voice)

1985Cyrano de BergeracCyrano de Bergerac

1982EnigmaKurt Limmer

1982The Secret of NIMHNicodemus (voice)

1982Stranger in TownThe Stranger

1982Inside the Third ReichAdolf Hitler

1982The Hunchback of Notre DameDom Claude Frollo

1981CharlotteDaberlohn

1980The Man Who Went Up in SmokeMartin Beck

1980HamletHamlet

1979The Human FactorArthur Davis

1979MinderFreddie Fenton

1979Tales of the UnexpectedThe Stranger

1978Richard IIKing Richard II

1978The BBC Television ShakespeareRichard II

1978The Medusa TouchTownley - Publisher

1978Mysterious Castles of ClayNarrator

1977Philby, Burgess and MacleanGuy Burgess

1976I, ClaudiusClaudius

1974Blue BloodGregory

1974The Odessa FileKlaus Wenzer

1974Affairs of the HeartBertram Braddle

1974NOVAVoice of Ernest Shackleton

1974The PallisersLord Fawn

1973The Day of the JackalInspector Caron

1972Man of StrawDiederich Hessling

1971The Rivals of Sherlock HolmesWilliam Drew

1971BudgieHerbert Fletcher

1970Three SistersAndrei

1967ITV PlayhouseGerry

1967Much Ado About NothingDon John

1965OthelloCassio

1965Olivier Talks About Othello(archive footage)

1964HorizonNarrator

1962The Fishing MatchEric

1956Armchair TheatreEric

1956Tony AwardsSelf - Winner

1951Hallmark Hall of FameDom Claude

Venom! Nine Ways to DieNarrator

Frank and Percy

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