Derek Jacobi

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-10-22 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Leytonstone, London, England, UK

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Derek Jacobi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Acting

2000

Gladiator

as Gracchus

2006

Underworld: Evolution

as Alexander Corvinus

2007

The Golden Compass

as Magisterial Emissary

1996

Hamlet

as King Claudius

1989

Henry V

as Chorus

1982

Stranger in Town

as The Stranger

1982

Enigma

as Kurt Limmer

1973

The Day of the Jackal

as Inspector Caron

2001

Gosford Park

as Probert

1998

Animated Epics: Beowulf

as Narrator ( voice )

2004

Strings

as Nezo (voice)

1974

The Odessa File

as Klaus Wenzer

2005

Nanny McPhee

as Mr. Wheen

1982

The Secret of NIMH

as Nicodemus (voice)

-

Moss & Freud

as Lucian Freud

1978

The Medusa Touch

as Townley - Publisher

1991

Dead Again

as Franklyn Madson

2002

2023

Allelujah

as Ambrose

2007

2001

The Body

as Father Lavelle

2002

The Gathering Storm

as Stanley Baldwin

2000

The Wyvern Mystery

as Squire Fairfield

2005

Bye Bye Blackbird

as Lord Dempsey

2011

Anonymous

as Prologue

1993

The Vision Thing

as George Salisbury

1965

Othello

as Cassio

2011

2007

The Riddle

as The Tramp / Charles Dickens

1995

Achilles

as Narrator

2011

Ironclad

as Cornhill

1977

1987

Little Dorrit

as Arthur Clennam

1979

The Human Factor

as Arthur Davis

2002

Two Men Went To War

as Maj. Merton

2008

Adam Resurrected

as Dr. Nathan Gross

2008

A Bunch of Amateurs

as Nigel Dewberry

2000

Up at the Villa

as Lucky Leadbetter

1987

The Secret Garden

as Archibald Craven

2002

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

1982

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Dom Claude Frollo

2024

Gladiator II

as Gracchus

1985

Cyrano de Bergerac

as Cyrano de Bergerac

2010

Joe Maddison's War

as Mr. Simpson

2007

Anastezsi

as Balzer

1996

Breaking the Code

as Alan Turing

1986

2006

Pinochet in Suburbia

as Senator Augusto Pinochet

1988

The Tenth Man

as The Imposter

2014

Effie Gray

as Travers Twiss

2007

Guantanamero

as Guido

2014

Grace of Monaco

as Count Fernando D'Aillieres

1994

The Secret Garden

as Archibald Craven (voice)

2013

2009

Diamonds

as Piers Denmont

2023

2010

The King's Speech

as Archbishop Cosmo Lang

1978

Richard II

as King Richard II

1990

The Fool

as Mr. Frederick / Sir John

1974

Blue Blood

as Gregory

1990

1996

Looking for Richard

as Self - Interviewee

2002

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

2025

Juliet & Romeo

as The Friar

1986

Mr. Pye

as Mr. Pye

1970

Three Sisters

as Andrei

1967

2022

2015

The Gospel of Luke

as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

1982

Inside the Third Reich

as Adolf Hitler

2000

Wilfred

as Voice

2002

The Dinosaur Hunters

as Narrator (voice)

2015

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2021

2001

Revelation

as Librarian

1980

Hamlet

as Hamlet

2000

2009

Endgame

as Rudolph Agnew

2008

Sidney Turtlebaum

as Sidney Turtlebaum

1994

Aladdin

as The Magician (voice)

2012

Jail Caesar

as Sulla

2016

The History of Love

as Leopold Gursky

2017

Murder on the Orient Express

as Edward Henry Masterman

2009

Margot

as Fred Ashton

2002

Inquisition

as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

2010

Hereafter

as Derek Jacobi

2017

Stratton

as Ross

2008

One of Those Days

as Howard Whittam

2012

1999

The Chimes

as Narrator

1986

David Macaulay: Cathedral

as Pierre (voice)

2019

Tolkien

as Professor Joseph Wright

2018

Tomb Raider

as Mr. Yaffe

1999

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

as Father Leonor Fousnel

1994

David Macaulay: Roman City

as Marcus Fabricius (voice)

1989

David Macaulay: Pyramid

as Hordedef (voice)

2001

David Macaulay: Mill Times

as Priam Huntington (voice)

2020

Come Away

as Mr. Brown

2009

1981

Charlotte

as Daberlohn

1989

The Congress

as (voice)

2019

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

as Lord Palmerston

1993

2007

2020

The Host

as Dr. Hobson

2019

Muse

as The Lawyer

1965

Olivier Talks About Othello

as (archive footage)

1985

The Statue of Liberty

as Self (voice)

2022

2009

Charles Dickens's England

as Himself - Presenter

2021

Say Your Prayers

as Father Enoch

1998

Basil

as Father Frederick

2015

Venom

as Narrator

2011

My Week with Marilyn

as Sir Owen Morshead

2004

2015

Cinderella

as King

2021

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

as Himself (archive footage)

2013

You

as Man

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

as The Master (archive footage)

2004

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