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 | 2027 | |
| 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 | Coronation Street: Queens of the Street | Himself | 2020-12-09 |
| Movie | Come Away | Mr. Brown | 2020-11-12 |
| Movie | Tolkien | Professor Joseph Wright | 2019-05-03 |
| Series | Greatest Events of World War II in Colour | Narrator | 2019-07-12 |
| Movie | Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans | Claudius | 2019-07-26 |
| Movie | Muse | The Lawyer | 2019-10-18 |
| 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 | A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Scrooge | 2017-12-30 |
| Movie | Stratton | Ross | 2017-07-06 |
| Movie | Murder on the Orient Express | Edward Henry Masterman | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | 2016-07-07 |
| Movie | The History of Love | Leopold Gursky | 2016-11-09 |
| Series | Medici: Masters of Florence | Cosimo de' Medici | 2016-10-18 |
| 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 |
| Series | Vicious | Stuart Bixby | 2013-04-29 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Claudius/Spooner | 2013-11-02 |
| Series | Titanic: Blood and Steel | Lord Pirrie | 2012-05-13 |
| Movie | The Halloween Kid | Narrator | 2012-07-29 |
| Movie | Jail Caesar | Sulla | 2012-06-28 |
| Series | Last Tango in Halifax | Alan | 2012-11-20 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Cornhill | 2011-03-03 |
| 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 | 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 | Margot | Fred Ashton | 2009-11-30 |
| Movie | Charles Dickens's England | Himself - Presenter | 2009-07-24 |
| Series | Diamonds | 2009-04-05 | |
| Movie | Adam Resurrected | Dr. Nathan Gross | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | A Bunch of Amateurs | Nigel Dewberry | 2008-11-17 |
| Movie | Sidney Turtlebaum | Sidney Turtlebaum | 2008-11-03 |
| Series | In the Night Garden | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-19 |
| Movie | The Old Curiosity Shop | Grandfather | 2007-12-26 |
| Movie | Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space | President | 2007-08-20 |
| Movie | Anastezsi | Balzer | 2007-03-16 |
| 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 | Underworld: Evolution | Alexander Corvinus | 2006-01-12 |
| Movie | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator | 2006-08-04 |
| Movie | Pinochet in Suburbia | Senator Augusto Pinochet | 2006-03-26 |
| Movie | Bye Bye Blackbird | Lord Dempsey | 2005-10-14 |
| Movie | Nanny McPhee | Mr. Wheen | 2005-10-21 |
| Series | The Long Firm | Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby | 2004-07-07 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003-04-03 |
| Series | Henry VIII | Narrator | 2003-10-12 |
| Series | Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka | The Master (voice) | 2003-11-13 |
| Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| 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 Gathering Storm | Stanley Baldwin | 2002-04-22 |
| Movie | Two Men Went To War | Maj. Merton | 2002-11-01 |
| Movie | Inquisition | Cardinal Grand Inquisitor | 2002-12-22 |
| Movie | Revengers Tragedy | The Duke | 2002-08-06 |
| Movie | The Making of Gosford Park | Self | 2002-06-18 |
| Movie | Great Escape: The Untold Story | Narrator | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Revelation | Librarian | 2001-04-12 |
| 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 | Up at the Villa | Lucky Leadbetter | 2000-04-14 |
| Movie | Gladiator | Gracchus | 2000-05-04 |
| Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters | 2000-12-25 |
| Series | Jason and the Argonauts | Phineas | 2000-05-07 |
| Movie | The Wyvern Mystery | Squire Fairfield | 2000-10-12 |
| Movie | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Father Leonor Fousnel | 1999-03-17 |
| Movie | The Chimes | Narrator | 1999-04-19 |
| 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 | Basil | Father Frederick | 1998-07-22 |
| Movie | Witness Against Hitler | General | 1996-03-10 |
| Movie | Hamlet | King Claudius | 1996-12-25 |
| Movie | Breaking the Code | Alan Turing | 1996-09-17 |
| Movie | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | The Virgin in the Ice | Brother Cadfael | 1995-12-26 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Roman City | Marcus Fabricius (voice) | 1994-02-15 |
| 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 | Dead Again | Franklyn Madson | 1991-08-23 |
| Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Himself | 1990-01-07 |
| Movie | The Fool | Mr. Frederick / Sir John | 1990-12-07 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Hordedef (voice) | 1989-01-04 |
| Movie | The Congress | (voice) | 1989-03-19 |
| Movie | Henry V | Chorus | 1989-10-05 |
| Movie | The Tenth Man | The Imposter | 1988-12-04 |
| Movie | The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven | 1987-11-30 |
| Movie | Little Dorrit | Arthur Clennam | 1987-12-11 |
| 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 Hunchback of Notre Dame | Dom Claude Frollo | 1982-02-02 |
| Movie | The Secret of NIMH | Nicodemus (voice) | 1982-06-17 |
| Movie | Enigma | Kurt Limmer | 1982-10-15 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet | 1980-05-25 |
| Movie | The Man Who Went Up in Smoke | Martin Beck | 1980-12-25 |
| 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 | The Odessa File | Klaus Wenzer | 1974-10-17 |
| Series | The Pallisers | 1974-01-19 | |
| Movie | Blue Blood | Gregory | 1974-11-01 |
| 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 |