Derek Jacobi
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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Films (165)

Frank and Percy
2026

Heartstopper : Pour toujours
2026 · Pete

Kate Moss, Naked Portrait
2026 · Lucian Freud

Broken English
2026 · The Narrator

Tinsel Town
2025 · Albert

Juliet & Romeo
2025 · The Friar

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024 · Self

Gladiateur II
2024 · Gracchus

The Martini Shot
2023 · Errol

Allelujah
2023 · Ambrose

Peter O’Toole, le vrai visage de Lawrence d’Arabie
2022 · Self

A Bird Flew In
2022 · David

Pearl Islands
2022 · Self

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021 · Self (archive footage)

Say Your Prayers
2021 · Father Enoch
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
2020 · Himself

Merveilles imaginaires
2020 · Mr. Brown

Breaking The Codes
2020

The Host
2020 · Dr. Hobson

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019 · Lord Palmerston

Muse
2019 · The Lawyer

Horrible Histories : The Movie - Rotten Romans
2019 · Claudius

Tolkien
2019 · Professor Joseph Wright
2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
2018

Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018

Tomb Raider
2018 · Mr. Yaffe

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017 · Scrooge

Le Crime de l'Orient-Express
2017 · Edward Henry Masterman

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

Fuerzas especiales
2017 · Ross

The Devil of Christmas
2016

L'Histoire de l'amour
2016 · Leopold Gursky

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016 · Mercutio

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015 · Self (archive footage)

Venom
2015 · Narrator

Cendrillon
2015 · King

L'évangile de Luc
2015 · Narrator (voice) – King James Version

Grace de Monaco
2014 · Count Fernando D'Aillieres

Effie Gray
2014 · Travers Twiss

You
2013 · Man

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · Claudius/Spooner
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
2013 · Narrator

Muse of Fire
2013 · Self

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013 · Narrator (voice)

Last Will. & Testament
2012 · Himself

The Halloween Kid
2012 · Narrator

Jail Caesar
2012 · Sulla

My Week with Marilyn
2011 · Sir Owen Morshead

Anonyme
2011 · Prologue

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

Au prix du sang
2011 · Honorio

Le Sang des Templiers
2011 · Cornhill

National Theatre Live: King Lear
2011 · King Lear

Le Discours d'un roi
2010 · Archbishop Cosmo Lang

Au-delà
2010 · Derek Jacobi

Joe Maddison's War
2010 · Mr. Simpson

Margot
2009 · Fred Ashton

Charles Dickens's England
2009 · Himself - Presenter

Diamonds
2009 · Piers Denmont

Endgame
2009 · Rudolph Agnew

Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009 · Quentin Neely

A Bunch of Amateurs
2008 · Nigel Dewberry

Sidney Turtlebaum
2008 · Sidney Turtlebaum

Pompeii and the Roman Villa
2008 · Narrator

Adam Resurrected
2008 · Dr. Nathan Gross

The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · The Master (archive footage)

One of Those Days
2008 · Howard Whittam

The Old Curiosity Shop
2007 · Grandfather

À la croisée des mondes : La Boussole d'or
2007 · Magisterial Emissary

Guantanamero
2007 · Guido

The Riddle
2007 · The Tramp / Charles Dickens

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007 · President
Anastezsi
2007 · Balzer

The Art of Francis Bacon
2007 · Derek Jacobi

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006 · Narrator (voice)

Pinochet : la dernière bataille
2006 · Senator Augusto Pinochet

Underworld 2 : Évolution
2006 · Alexander Corvinus

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2005 · Narrator(voice)

Nounou McPhee
2005 · Mr. Wheen

Bye Bye Blackbird
2005 · Lord Dempsey

Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005 · Self

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004 · Mr. Operatski (voice)

Le Fil de la vie
2004 · Nezo

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Other Voices (voice)
Cloud Cuckoo Land
2004 · Victor

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · Self

The Dinosaur Hunters
2002 · Narrator (voice)

Inquisition
2002 · Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

Two Men Went To War
2002 · Maj. Merton

I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002 · Self

Revengers Tragedy
2002 · The Duke

The Making of Gosford Park
2002 · Self

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

Churchill: Pour l'amour d'un empire
2002 · Stanley Baldwin

Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002 · Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

Un week-end à Gosford Park
2001 · Probert

The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001 · Theseus (voice), Thanks

David Macaulay: Mill Times
2001 · Priam Huntington (voice)

Le Tombeau
2001 · Father Lavelle

Revelation
2001 · Librarian

Great Escape: The Untold Story
2001 · Narrator

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Various Characters

The Wyvern Mystery
2000 · Squire Fairfield
Wilfred
2000 · Voice

Gladiateur
2000 · Gracchus

Il suffit d'une nuit
2000 · Lucky Leadbetter

The Chimes
1999 · Narrator

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999 · Father Leonor Fousnel

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

Basil
1998 · Father Frederick

Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998 · Narrator ( voice )

Hamlet
1996 · King Claudius

Looking for Richard
1996 · Self - Interviewee

Breaking the Code
1996 · Alan Turing

Witness Against Hitler
1996 · General

The Virgin in the Ice
1995 · Brother Cadfael

Achilles
1995 · Narrator

The Secret Garden
1994 · Archibald Craven (voice)

Monk's Hood
1994 · Brother Cadfael

The Leper of St. Giles
1994 · Brother Cadfael

The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994 · Brother Cadfael

One Corpse Too Many
1994 · Brother Cadfael

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

David Macaulay: Roman City
1994 · Marcus Fabricius (voice)
Circles of Deceit
1993 · Randal

The Vision Thing
1993 · George Salisbury

Aladdin
1992 · The Magician (voice)

The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Daedalus & Icarus
1991 · Daedalus

Dead Again
1991 · Franklyn Madson
The Fool
1990 · Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Discovering Hamlet
1990 · Himself

Henry V
1989 · Chorus

The Congress
1989 · (voice)

David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989 · Hordedef (voice)

The Tenth Man
1988 · The Imposter

Little Dorrit
1987 · Arthur Clennam

The Secret Garden
1987 · Archibald Craven

On Wings of Fire
1986 · Self

David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986 · Pierre (voice)

Mr. Pye
1986 · Mr. Pye

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

Enigma
1982 · Kurt Limmer

The Secret of NIMH
1982 · Nicodemus (voice)

Stranger in Town
1982 · The Stranger

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982 · Dom Claude Frollo

Charlotte
1981 · Daberlohn

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1980 · Martin Beck

Hamlet
1980 · Hamlet

The Human Factor
1979 · Arthur Davis

Richard II
1978 · King Richard II

The Medusa Touch
1978 · Townley - Publisher

Mysterious Castles of Clay
1978 · Narrator

Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977 · Guy Burgess

Blue Blood
1974 · Gregory

The Odessa File
1974 · Klaus Wenzer

The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Inspector Caron

Three Sisters
1970 · Andrei

Much Ado About Nothing
1967 · Don John

Othello
1965 · Cassio
The Fishing Match
1962 · Eric
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
· Narrator
Lead Heads
The Vampyre: Blood & Ink

Good Omens T3: El final
Séries (60)

Ludwig
2024 · Mr. Todd

Bison : une histoire de l'Amérique
2023 · (voice)

The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023 · Sir Ralph Unwin

U-Boat Wargamers
2023 · Narrator (voice)

Sandman
2022 · Erasmus Fry

Remembers…
2022 · Self

Dans le sillage des pirates
2021 · Narrator

Les Grandes Dates de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en couleur
2019 · Narrator

De bons présages
2019 · The Metatron, Metatron

Los miserables
2018 · Bishop Myriel

The Crown
2016 · Duke of Windsor

Inside No. 9
2014 · Webster

Vicious
2013 · Stuart Bixby

Last Tango in Halifax
2012 · Alan

Shakespeare Uncovered
2012 · Himself

Titanic : De sang et d'acier
2012 · Lord Pirrie

Le Monde incroyable de Gumball
2011 · Narrator (voice)

Les Borgias
2011 · Cardinal Orsini

Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009 · Self

Diamonds
2009
Mist: Sheepdog Tales
2007 · Narrator

El jardín de los sueños
2007 · Narrator (voice)

Doctor Who Confidential
2005

Doctor Who
2005 · Professor Yana

Miss Marple
2004 · Colonel Protheroe

Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · Self

The Long Firm
2004 · Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
London
2004 · Tacitus

Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003 · The Master (voice)

The Jury
2002 · George Cording QC

Jason and the Argonauts
2000 · Phineas
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000

The West
1996 · Self (voice)

Baseball
1994 · Various (voice), (voice)

Cadfael
1994 · Brother Cadfael

Frasier
1993 · Jackson Hedley

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992 · Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
The Velvet Claw
1992 · Narrator

The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991 · Daedalus
In My Defence
1991 · Emile Zola

The Civil War
1990 · William Russell / Various (voice)

ScreenPlay
1986 · George Salisbury

Mr Pye
1986 · Mr Pye
Wedden, dat..?
1986 · Self

Inside the Third Reich
1982 · Adolf Hitler

Minder
1979 · Freddie Fenton

Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · The Stranger, Drioli

The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · Richard II, Hamlet

I, Claudius
1976 · Claudius

Affairs of the Heart
1974 · Bertram Braddle

NOVA
1974 · Voice of Ernest Shackleton

The Pallisers
1974 · Lord Fawn

Man of Straw
1972 · Diederich Hessling

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · William Drew

Budgie
1971 · Herbert Fletcher

ITV Playhouse
1967 · Gerry

Horizon
1964 · Narrator

Armchair Theatre
1956 · Eric

Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Winner, Self - Nominee

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Dom Claude, Archibald Craven, Imposter

