Derek Jacobi

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 202

Gender Male

Birthday October 22, 1938 (86 years old)

Place of Birth Leytonstone, London, England, UK

Also Known As

데릭 자코비
デレクジャコビ
درک جاکوبی

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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.

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Known For

Acting

—		Tinsel Town
—		Coronation Street: Queens of the Street as Himself
—		Lead Heads
—		The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island as Narrator
—		Venom! Nine Ways to Die as Narrator
—		Moss & Freud as Lucian Freud

2025

as The Friar

2024		Gladiator II as Gracchus
2024		Ludwig (1 episode) as Mr. Todd

2023		The American Buffalo (2 episodes) as (voice)
2023		The Martini Shot as Errol
2023		The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies (5 episodes) as Sir Ralph Unwin
2023		Allelujah as Ambrose
2023		U-Boat Wargamers (6 episodes) as Narrator (voice)

2022		Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
2022		A Bird Flew In as David
2022		Pearl Islands as Self
2022		The Sandman (1 episode) as Erasmus Fry

2021		Rhythm of Life as Self
2021		Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood as Himself (archive footage)
2021		Say Your Prayers as Father Enoch
2021		The Lost Pirate Kingdom (6 episodes) as Narrator

2020		Come Away as Mr. Brown
2020		Breaking The Codes
2020		The Host as Dr. Hobson

2019		The Warrior Queen of Jhansi as Lord Palmerston
2019		Muse as The Lawyer
2019		Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans as Claudius
2019		Greatest Events of World War II in Colour (10 episodes) as Narrator
2019		Good Omens (1 episode) as Metatron (1 episode) as The Metatron
2019		Tolkien as Professor Joseph Wright

2018		Les Misérables (1 episode) as Bishop Myriel
2018		Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018		Tomb Raider as Mr. Yaffe

2017		A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Scrooge
2017		Murder on the Orient Express as Edward Henry Masterman
2017		Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017		Stratton as Ross

2016		The Devil of Christmas as Dennis Fulcher (Voice)
2016		The History of Love as Leopold Gursky
2016		The Crown (1 episode) as Duke of Windsor
2016		Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio

2015		Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
2015		Venom as Narrator
2015		Cinderella as King
2015		The Gospel of Luke as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

2014		Grace of Monaco as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
2014		Effie Gray as Travers Twiss
2014		Inside No. 9 (1 episode) as Dennis Fulcher (voice) (1 episode) as Webster

2013		You as Man
2013		National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Claudius/Spooner
2013		Muse of Fire as Self
2013		Vicious (12 episodes) as Stuart Bixby
2013		Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene as Narrator (voice)

2012		Last Tango in Halifax (24 episodes) as Alan
2012		Last Will. & Testament as Himself
2012		The Halloween Kid as Narrator
2012		Jail Caesar
2012		Shakespeare Uncovered (1 episode) as Himself
2012		Titanic: Blood and Steel (12 episodes) as Lord Pirrie

2011		My Week with Marilyn as Sir Owen Morshead
2011		Anonymous as Prologue
2011		Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) as Narrator (voice)
2011		The Amazing World of Gumball (2 episodes) as Narrator (voice)
2011		There Be Dragons as Honorio
2011		Ironclad as Cornhill
2011		National Theatre Live: King Lear as King Lear

2010		The King's Speech as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
2010		Hereafter as Derek Jacobi
2010		Joe Maddison's War as Mr. Simpson

2009		Margot as Fred Ashton
2009		Doctor Who Greatest Moments (1 episode) as Self
2009		Charles Dickens's England as Himself - Presenter
2009		Diamonds (2 episodes)
2009		Diamonds as Piers Denmont
2009		Endgame as Rudolph Agnew
2009		Morris: A Life with Bells On as Quentin Neely

2008		A Bunch of Amateurs as Nigel Dewberry
2008		Sidney Turtlebaum as Sidney Turtlebaum
2008		Pompeii and the Roman Villa as Narrator
2008		Adam Resurrected as Dr. Nathan Gross
2008		The Ties That Bind Us as The Master (archive footage)
2008		One of Those Days as Howard Whittam

2007		The Old Curiosity Shop as Grandfather
2007		The Golden Compass as Magisterial Emissary
2007		Guantanamero as Guido
2007		The Riddle as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
2007		Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space as President
2007		In the Night Garden (100 episodes) as Narrator (voice)
2007		Anastezsi as Balzer
2007		The Art of Francis Bacon as Derek Jacobi

2006		Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Narrator
2006		Pinochet in Suburbia as Senator Augusto Pinochet
2006		Underworld: Evolution as Alexander Corvinus

2005		Nanny McPhee as Mr. Wheen
2005		Bye Bye Blackbird as Lord Dempsey
2005		Doctor Who (1 episode) as Professor Yana
2005		Doctor Who Confidential (1 episode)

2004		Agatha Christie's Marple (1 episode) as Colonel Protheroe
2004		Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On as Mr. Operatski (voice)
2004		Strings as Nezo (voice)
2004		Who Do You Think You Are? (1 episode) as Self
2004		Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2004		The Long Firm (4 episodes) as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
2004		London (3 episodes) as Tacitus

2003		Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (5 episodes) as The Master (voice)
2003		Henry VIII (2 episodes) as Narrator
2003		Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self

2002		The Dinosaur Hunters as Narrator (voice)
2002		Inquisition as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
2002		Two Men Went To War as Maj. Merton
2002		I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self
2002		Revengers Tragedy as The Duke
2002		The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self
2002		The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
2002		The Gathering Storm as Stanley Baldwin
2002		Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
2002		The Jury (6 episodes) as George Cording QC

2001		Gosford Park as Probert
2001		David Macaulay: Mill Times as Priam Huntington (voice)
2001		The Body as Father Lavelle
2001		Revelation as Librarian
2001		Great Escape: The Untold Story as Narrator

2000		Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters
2000		The Wyvern Mystery as Squire Fairfield
2000		Wilfred as Voice
2000		Jason and the Argonauts (2 episodes) as Phineas
2000		Gladiator as Gracchus
2000		Up at the Villa as Lucky Leadbetter
2000		Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (1 episode)

1999		The Chimes as Narrator
1999		Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as Father Leonor Fousnel
1999		Family Guy (1 episode) as Rupert (voice)

1998		Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon as Francis Bacon
1998		Basil as Father Frederick
1998		Animated Epics: Beowulf as Narrator ( voice )

1996		Hamlet as King Claudius
1996		Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
1996		Breaking the Code as Alan Turing
1996		The West (1 episode) as Self (voice)
1996		Witness Against Hitler as General

1995

as Narrator

1994		The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven (voice)
1994		Baseball (1 episode) as (voice) (0 episodes) as Various (voice)
1994		Cadfael (13 episodes) as Brother Cadfael
1994		David Macaulay: Roman City as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
1994		Aladdin as The Magician (voice)

1993		Circle of Deceit as Randal
1993		The Vision Thing as George Salisbury
1993		Frasier (1 episode) as Jackson Hedley

1992		The Velvet Claw (7 episodes) as Narrator
1992		The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1 episode) as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)

1991		The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1 episode) as Daedalus
1991		Dead Again as Franklyn Madson

1990		The Fool as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
1990		The Civil War (9 episodes) as Various
1990		Discovering Hamlet as Himself

1989		Henry V as Chorus
1989		The Congress as (voice)
1989		David Macaulay: Pyramid as Hordedef (voice)

1988

as The Imposter

1987		Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam
1987		The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven

1986		On Wings of Fire as Self
1986		David Macaulay: Cathedral as Pierre (voice)
1986		Mr. Pye (4 episodes) as Mr. Pye
1986		Mr. Pye as Mr. Pye
1986		Wedden, dat..? (1 episode) as Self

1985		The Statue of Liberty as Self (voice)
1985		Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac

1982		Enigma as Kurt Limmer
1982		The Secret of NIMH as Nicodemus (voice)
1982		Stranger in Town as The Stranger
1982		Inside the Third Reich as Adolf Hitler
1982		The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Dom Claude Frollo

1981

as Daberlohn

1980		The Man Who Went Up in Smoke as Martin Beck
1980		Hamlet as Hamlet

1979		The Human Factor as Arthur Davis
1979		Minder (1 episode) as Freddie Fenton
1979		Tales of the Unexpected (2 episodes) as The Stranger

1978		Richard II as King Richard II
1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare (1 episode) as Hamlet (1 episode) as King Richard
1978		The Medusa Touch as Townley - Publisher
1978		Mysterious Castles of Clay as Narrator

1977

as Guy Burgess

1976

(1 episode) as Self (12 episodes) as Claudius

1974		Blue Blood as Gregory
1974		The Odessa File as Klaus Wenzer
1974		NOVA (1 episode) as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
1974		The Pallisers (26 episodes)

1973

as Inspector Caron

1972

(8 episodes)

1971		The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1 episode) as William Drew
1971		Budgie (1 episode) as Herbert Fletcher

1970

as Andrei

1967

as Don John

1965		Othello as Cassio
1965		Olivier Talks About Othello as (archive footage)

1962

as Eric

1956

(1 episode) as Self - Winner (1 episode) as Self - Nominee

1951

(1 episode) as Imposter (1 episode) as Archibald Craven (1 episode) as Dom Claude

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