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:
- 139
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Frank and Percy
- Latest Project:
- Movie Juliet & Romeo 2025-05-09
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Lead Heads | 2027 | |
| Movie | Frank and Percy | 2027 | |
| Movie | Juliet & Romeo | The Friar | 2025-05-09 |
| Movie | Gladiator II | Gracchus | 2024-11-13 |
| Movie | Allelujah | Ambrose | 2023-03-17 |
| Series | The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies | Sir Ralph Unwin | 2023-08-29 |
| Movie | The Martini Shot | Errol | 2023-07-13 |
| Series | The Lost Pirate Kingdom | Narrator | 2021-03-15 |
| Movie | Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2021-05-03 |
| Movie | Come Away | Mr. Brown | 2020-11-12 |
| Movie | The Host | Dr. Hobson | 2020-01-17 |
| Movie | Coronation Street: Queens of the Street | Himself | 2020-12-09 |
| Movie | Tolkien | Professor Joseph Wright | 2019-05-03 |
| Series | Greatest Events of World War II in Colour | Narrator | 2019-07-12 |
| Movie | Muse | The Lawyer | 2019-10-18 |
| Movie | Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans | Claudius | 2019-07-26 |
| Movie | The Warrior Queen of Jhansi | Lord Palmerston | 2019-11-15 |
| Movie | Tomb Raider | Mr. Yaffe | 2018-03-05 |
| Movie | Nothing Is Truer than Truth | 2018-04-29 | |
| Movie | Murder on the Orient Express | Edward Henry Masterman | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | Stratton | Ross | 2017-07-06 |
| Movie | A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Scrooge | 2017-12-30 |
| Series | Medici: Masters of Florence | Cosimo de' Medici | 2016-10-18 |
| Movie | The History of Love | Leopold Gursky | 2016-11-09 |
| Movie | Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | 2016-07-07 |
| Movie | The Gospel of Luke | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2015-01-01 |
| Movie | Cinderella | King | 2015-03-06 |
| Movie | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
| Movie | Effie Gray | Travers Twiss | 2014-03-08 |
| Movie | Grace of Monaco | Count Fernando D'Aillieres | 2014-04-22 |
| Movie | Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene | Narrator (voice) | 2013-01-01 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Claudius/Spooner | 2013-11-02 |
| Series | Vicious | Stuart Bixby | 2013-04-29 |
| 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 | 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 | The Virgin in the Ice | Brother Cadfael | 1995-12-26 |
| Movie | Aladdin | The Magician (voice) | 1994-01-01 |
| 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 | David Macaulay: Roman City | Marcus Fabricius (voice) | 1994-02-15 |
| Movie | Dead Again | Franklyn Madson | 1991-08-23 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | The Fool | Mr. Frederick / Sir John | 1990-12-07 |
| Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Himself | 1990-01-07 |
| Movie | The Congress | (voice) | 1989-03-19 |
| Movie | Henry V | Chorus | 1989-10-05 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Hordedef (voice) | 1989-01-04 |
| 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 | The Statue of Liberty | Self (voice) | 1985-10-26 |
| Movie | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1985-07-26 |
| Movie | The Secret of NIMH | Nicodemus (voice) | 1982-06-17 |
| Movie | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Dom Claude Frollo | 1982-02-02 |
| 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 |