Derek Jacobi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE, (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and film director. A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in Much Ado About Nothing. His stage work also includes playing notable historical figures such as Edward II, Octavius Caesar, Richard III of England, and Cyrano de Bergerac. In addition to being a founder member of the Royal National Theatre and winning several prestigious theatre awards, Jacobi has also enjoyed a successful television career, appearing in the critically praised adaptation I, Claudius, for which he won a BAFTA; the titular role in the acclaimed medieval drama series Brother Cadfael, and Stanley Baldwin in The Gathering Storm. Though principally a stage actor, Jacobi has appeared in a number of films, such as Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), Gladiator (2000), Gosford Park (2001), The Golden Compass (2007), The King's Speech (2010), and the forthcoming Hippie Hippie Shake. Like Laurence Olivier, he holds two knighthoods, Danish and British. Description above from the Wikipedia article Derek Jacobi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- Born:
- Oct 22, 1938 In Leytonstone, London, England
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 138
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Lead Heads
- Latest Project:
- Movie Juliet & Romeo 2025-05-09
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Lead Heads | 2026 | |
| Movie | Coronation Street: Queens of the Street | Himself | 2026 |
| Movie | Juliet & Romeo | The Friar | 2025-05-09 |
| Movie | Gladiator II | Gracchus | 2024-11-13 |
| Movie | Allelujah | Ambrose | 2023-03-17 |
| Movie | The Martini Shot | Errol | 2023-09-27 |
| Series | The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies | Sir Ralph Unwin | 2023-08-29 |
| Series | The Lost Pirate Kingdom | Narrator | 2021-03-15 |
| Movie | Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood | Himself (archive footage) | 2021-05-03 |
| Movie | The Host | Dr. Hobson | 2020-01-17 |
| Movie | Come Away | Mr. Brown | 2020-11-12 |
| Movie | The Warrior Queen of Jhansi | Lord Palmerston | 2019-11-15 |
| Movie | Muse | The Lawyer | 2019-10-18 |
| Movie | Tolkien | Professor Joseph Wright | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans | Claudius | 2019-07-26 |
| Series | Greatest Events of World War II in Colour | Narrator | 2019-07-12 |
| Movie | Tomb Raider | Mr. Yaffe | 2018-03-05 |
| Movie | Nothing Is Truer than Truth | 2018-04-29 | |
| Movie | A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Scrooge | 2017-12-30 |
| Movie | Murder on the Orient Express | Edward Henry Masterman | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | Stratton | Ross | 2017-07-06 |
| Movie | Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | 2016-07-07 |
| Series | Medici: Masters of Florence | Cosimo de' Medici | 2016-10-18 |
| Movie | The History of Love | Leopold Gursky | 2016-11-09 |
| Movie | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
| Movie | Cinderella | King | 2015-03-06 |
| Movie | The Gospel of Luke | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2015-01-01 |
| Movie | Grace of Monaco | Count Fernando D'Aillieres | 2014-04-22 |
| Movie | Effie Gray | Travers Twiss | 2014-03-08 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Claudius/Spooner | 2013-11-02 |
| Movie | Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene | Narrator (voice) | 2013-01-01 |
| Series | Vicious | Stuart Bixby | 2013-04-29 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
| Series | Titanic: Blood and Steel | Lord Pirrie | 2012-05-13 |
| Movie | Jail Caesar | Sulla | 2012-06-28 |
| Movie | The Halloween Kid | Narrator | 2012-07-29 |
| Series | Last Tango in Halifax | Alan | 2012-11-20 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear | 2011-02-03 |
| Movie | There Be Dragons | Honorio | 2011-03-25 |
| Movie | My Week with Marilyn | Sir Owen Morshead | 2011-11-23 |
| Movie | Anonymous | Prologue | 2011-10-21 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Cornhill | 2011-03-03 |
| Movie | Joe Maddison's War | Mr. Simpson | 2010-09-19 |
| Movie | Hereafter | Derek Jacobi | 2010-10-22 |
| Movie | The King's Speech | Archbishop Cosmo Lang | 2010-11-26 |
| Movie | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Quentin Neely | 2009-01-09 |
| Movie | Endgame | Rudolph Agnew | 2009-01-18 |
| Movie | Diamonds | Piers Denmont | 2009-04-04 |
| Movie | Charles Dickens's England | Himself - Presenter | 2009-07-24 |
| Series | Diamonds | 2009-04-05 | |
| Movie | Margot | Fred Ashton | 2009-11-30 |
| Movie | Adam Resurrected | Dr. Nathan Gross | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | Sidney Turtlebaum | Sidney Turtlebaum | 2008-11-03 |
| Movie | A Bunch of Amateurs | Nigel Dewberry | 2008-11-17 |
| Movie | The Old Curiosity Shop | Grandfather | 2007-12-26 |
| Movie | Anastezsi | Balzer | 2007-03-16 |
| Series | In the Night Garden | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-19 |
| Movie | Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space | President | 2007-08-20 |
| Movie | The Golden Compass | Magisterial Emissary | 2007-12-04 |
| Movie | Guantanamero | Guido | 2007-11-23 |
| Movie | The Riddle | The Tramp / Charles Dickens | 2007-10-14 |
| Movie | Pinochet in Suburbia | Senator Augusto Pinochet | 2006-03-26 |
| Movie | Underworld: Evolution | Alexander Corvinus | 2006-01-12 |
| Movie | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator | 2006-08-04 |
| Movie | Bye Bye Blackbird | Lord Dempsey | 2005-10-14 |
| Movie | Nanny McPhee | Mr. Wheen | 2005-10-21 |
| Series | London | Tacitus | 2004-05-07 |
| Movie | Strings | Nezo (voice) | 2004-10-24 |
| Movie | Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On | Mr. Operatski (voice) | 2004-11-30 |
| Series | The Long Firm | Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby | 2004-07-07 |
| Series | Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka | The Master (voice) | 2003-11-13 |
| Series | Henry VIII | Narrator | 2003-10-12 |
| Movie | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003-04-03 |
| Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Movie | Inquisition | Cardinal Grand Inquisitor | 2002-12-22 |
| Movie | The Gathering Storm | Stanley Baldwin | 2002-04-22 |
| Series | The Jury | George Cording QC | 2002-02-17 |
| Movie | The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi) | 2002-04-25 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Gosford Park' | Self | 2002-06-18 |
| Movie | Revengers Tragedy | The Duke | 2002-08-06 |
| Movie | Two Men Went To War | Maj. Merton | 2002-11-01 |
| Movie | Great Escape: The Untold Story | Narrator | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | The Body | Father Lavelle | 2001-04-13 |
| Movie | Gosford Park | Probert | 2001-12-26 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Mill Times | Priam Huntington (voice) | 2001-05-06 |
| Movie | Revelation | Librarian | 2001-04-12 |
| Movie | Gladiator | Gracchus | 2000-05-04 |
| Movie | Up at the Villa | Lucky Leadbetter | 2000-04-14 |
| Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters | 2000-12-25 |
| Movie | The Wyvern Mystery | Squire Fairfield | 2000-10-12 |
| Series | Jason and the Argonauts | Phineas | 2000-05-07 |
| Movie | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Father Leonor Fousnel | 1999-03-17 |
| Movie | The Chimes | Narrator | 1999-04-19 |
| Movie | Basil | Father Frederick | 1998-07-22 |
| Movie | Animated Epics: Beowulf | Narrator ( voice ) | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Francis Bacon | 1998-09-16 |
| Movie | Witness Against Hitler | General | 1996-03-10 |
| Movie | Breaking the Code | Alan Turing | 1996-09-17 |
| Movie | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | Hamlet | King Claudius | 1996-12-25 |
| Movie | Aladdin | The Magician (voice) | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Roman City | Marcus Fabricius (voice) | 1994-02-15 |
| Series | Cadfael | Brother Cadfael | 1994-05-29 |
| Movie | The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven (voice) | 1994-11-05 |
| Series | Baseball | Various (voice) | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | Dead Again | Franklyn Madson | 1991-08-23 |
| Movie | The Fool | Mr. Frederick / Sir John | 1990-12-07 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Himself | 1990-01-07 |
| Movie | Henry V | Chorus | 1989-10-05 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Hordedef (voice) | 1989-01-04 |
| Movie | The Congress | (voice) | 1989-03-19 |
| Movie | The Tenth Man | The Imposter | 1988-12-04 |
| Movie | Little Dorrit | Arthur Clennam | 1987-12-11 |
| Movie | The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven | 1987-11-30 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Cathedral | Pierre (voice) | 1986-04-30 |
| Movie | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1985-07-26 |
| Movie | The Statue of Liberty | Self (voice) | 1985-10-26 |
| Movie | The Secret of NIMH | Nicodemus (voice) | 1982-06-17 |
| Movie | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Dom Claude Frollo | 1982-02-02 |
| Movie | Inside the Third Reich | Adolf Hitler | 1982-05-09 |
| Movie | Enigma | Kurt Limmer | 1982-10-15 |
| Movie | The Man Who Went Up in Smoke | Martin Beck | 1980-12-25 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet | 1980-05-25 |
| Movie | The Human Factor | Arthur Davis | 1979-12-18 |
| Movie | Mysterious Castles of Clay | Narrator | 1978-01-01 |
| Movie | Richard II | King Richard II | 1978-12-10 |
| Movie | The Medusa Touch | Townley - Publisher | 1978-04-13 |
| Movie | Philby, Burgess and Maclean | Guy Burgess | 1977-05-31 |
| Series | I, Claudius | Claudius | 1976-09-20 |
| Movie | Blue Blood | Gregory | 1974-11-01 |
| Movie | The Odessa File | Klaus Wenzer | 1974-10-17 |
| Series | The Pallisers | 1974-01-19 | |
| Movie | The Day of the Jackal | Inspector Caron | 1973-05-16 |
| Series | The Strauss Family | 1972-11-07 | |
| Movie | Three Sisters | Andrei | 1970-04-01 |
| Movie | Much Ado About Nothing | Don John | 1967-02-05 |
| Movie | Othello | Cassio | 1965-12-15 |