Derek Jacobi
146 movies · 53 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 22, 1938 (age 87)
- Place of birth
- Leytonstone, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- 데릭 자코비 · デレク ジャコビ · درک جاکوبی
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.
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Derek Jacobi: movies and TV shows
Acting (199)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Venom! Nine Ways to Die
as Narrator
- Upcoming
- 2026 Heartstopper Forever
as Pete
- 2026 Moss & Freud
as Lucian Freud
- 2026 Broken English
as The Narrator
- 2025 Tinsel Town
as Albert
- 2025 Juliet & Romeo
as The Friar
- 2024 Gladiator II
as Gracchus
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023 The Martini Shot
as Errol
- 2023 Allelujah
as Ambrose
- 2023
- 2022 A Bird Flew In
as David
- 2022
- 2021 Say Your Prayers
as Father Enoch
- 2021
- 2020 Come Away
as Mr. Brown
- 2020
- 2020 The Host
as Dr. Hobson
- 2019 The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
as Lord Palmerston
- 2019 Muse
as The Lawyer
- 2019 Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
as Claudius
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019 Tolkien
as Professor Joseph Wright
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018 Tomb Raider
as Mr. Yaffe
- 2017 A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Scrooge
- 2017 Murder on the Orient Express
as Edward Henry Masterman
- 2017
- 2017 Stratton
as Ross
- 2016
- 2016 The History of Love
as Leopold Gursky
- 2016
- 2016 Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
as Mercutio
- 2015 Venom
as Narrator
- 2015 Cinderella
as King
- 2015 The Gospel of Luke
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
- 2014 Grace of Monaco
as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
- 2014 Effie Gray
as Travers Twiss
- 2014
- 2013 You
as Man
- 2013 National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Claudius/Spooner
- 2013 The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
as Narrator
- 2013
- 2013 Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
as Narrator (voice)
- 2012
- 2012 The Halloween Kid
as Narrator
- 2012 Jail Caesar
as Sulla
- 2012
- 2011 My Week with Marilyn
as Sir Owen Morshead
- 2011 Anonymous
as Prologue
- 2011
- 2011
- 2011
- 2011 There Be Dragons
as Honorio
- 2011 Ironclad
as Cornhill
- 2011 National Theatre Live: King Lear
as King Lear
- 2010 The King's Speech
as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
- 2010 Hereafter
as Derek Jacobi
- 2010 Joe Maddison's War
as Mr. Simpson
- 2009 Margot
as Fred Ashton
- 2009
- 2009 Diamonds
as Piers Denmont
- 2009 Endgame
as Rudolph Agnew
- 2009 Morris: A Life with Bells On
as Quentin Neely
- 2008 A Bunch of Amateurs
as Nigel Dewberry
- 2008 Sidney Turtlebaum
as Sidney Turtlebaum
- 2008 Pompeii and the Roman Villa
as Narrator
- 2008 Adam Resurrected
as Dr. Nathan Gross
- 2008 The Ties That Bind Us
as The Master (archive footage)
- 2008 One of Those Days
as Howard Whittam
- 2007 The Old Curiosity Shop
as Grandfather
- 2007 The Golden Compass
as Magisterial Emissary
- 2007 Guantanamero
as Guido
- 2007 The Riddle
as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
- 2007 Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
as President
- 2007
- 2007
- 2007 Anastezsi
as Balzer
- 2007 The Art of Francis Bacon
as Derek Jacobi
- 2006 Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 Pinochet in Suburbia
as Senator Augusto Pinochet
- 2006 Underworld: Evolution
as Alexander Corvinus
- 2005 Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
as Narrator(voice)
- 2005 Nanny McPhee
as Mr. Wheen
- 2005 Bye Bye Blackbird
as Lord Dempsey
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004
- 2004 Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
as Mr. Operatski (voice)
- 2004 Strings
as Nezo
- 2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004 Cloud Cuckoo Land
as Victor
- 2003
- 2002 The Dinosaur Hunters
as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 Inquisition
as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
- 2002 Two Men Went To War
as Maj. Merton
- 2002 Revengers Tragedy
as The Duke
- 2002 The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
- 2002 The Gathering Storm
as Stanley Baldwin
- 2002 Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
- 2002
- 2001 Gosford Park
as Probert
- 2001 The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
as Theseus (voice)
- 2001 David Macaulay: Mill Times
as Priam Huntington (voice)
- 2001 The Body
as Father Lavelle
- 2001 Revelation
as Librarian
- 2001 Great Escape: The Untold Story
as Narrator
- 2000 Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Various Characters
- 2000 The Wyvern Mystery
as Squire Fairfield
- 2000 Wilfred
as Voice
- 2000
- 2000 Gladiator
as Gracchus
- 2000 Up at the Villa
as Lucky Leadbetter
- 2000
- 1999 The Chimes
as Narrator
- 1999 Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
as Father Leonor Fousnel
- 1998 Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
as Francis Bacon
- 1998 Basil
as Father Frederick
- 1998 Animated Epics: Beowulf
as Narrator ( voice )
- 1996 Hamlet
as King Claudius
- 1996 Breaking the Code
as Alan Turing
- 1996 Witness Against Hitler
as General
- 1995 The Virgin in the Ice
as Brother Cadfael
- 1995 Achilles
as Narrator
- 1994 The Secret Garden
as Archibald Craven (voice)
- 1994
- 1994 Monk's Hood
as Brother Cadfael
- 1994 The Leper of St. Giles
as Brother Cadfael
- 1994 The Sanctuary Sparrow
as Brother Cadfael
- 1994 One Corpse Too Many
as Brother Cadfael
- 1994
- 1994 The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
as Jeremy Fisher (voice)
- 1994 David Macaulay: Roman City
as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
- 1993 Circles of Deceit
as Randal
- 1993 The Vision Thing
as George Salisbury
- 1993
- 1992
- 1992 Aladdin
as The Magician (voice)
- 1992
- 1991 The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Daedalus & Icarus
as Daedalus
- 1991
- 1991 Dead Again
as Franklyn Madson
- 1991
- 1990 The Fool
as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
- 1990
- 1989 Henry V
as Chorus
- 1989 The Congress
as (voice)
- 1989 David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Hordedef (voice)
- 1988 The Tenth Man
as The Imposter
- 1987 Little Dorrit
as Arthur Clennam
- 1987 The Secret Garden
as Archibald Craven
- 1986
- 1986 David Macaulay: Cathedral
as Pierre (voice)
- 1986 Mr. Pye
as Mr. Pye
- 1986
- 1985 Cyrano de Bergerac
as Cyrano de Bergerac
- 1982 Enigma
as Kurt Limmer
- 1982 The Secret of NIMH
as Nicodemus (voice)
- 1982 Stranger in Town
as The Stranger
- 1982
- 1982 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Dom Claude Frollo
- 1981 Charlotte
as Daberlohn
- 1980 The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
as Martin Beck
- 1980 Hamlet
as Hamlet
- 1979 The Human Factor
as Arthur Davis
- 1979
- 1979
- 1978 Richard II
as King Richard II
- 1978
- 1978 The Medusa Touch
as Townley - Publisher
- 1978 Mysterious Castles of Clay
as Narrator
- 1977 Philby, Burgess and Maclean
as Guy Burgess
- 1976
- 1974 Blue Blood
as Gregory
- 1974 The Odessa File
as Klaus Wenzer
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974
- 1973 The Day of the Jackal
as Inspector Caron
- 1972
- 1971
- 1971
- 1970 Three Sisters
as Andrei
- 1967
- 1967 Much Ado About Nothing
as Don John
- 1965 Othello
as Cassio
- 1964
- 1962 The Fishing Match
as Eric
- 1956
- 1951
Behind the camera (1)
- 2001
Talk shows and appearances (24)
- 2024
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022 Remembers…
2 episodes
- 2021
- 2020
- 2015
- 2013
- 2012
- 2012 Shakespeare Uncovered
1 episode
- 2009 Doctor Who Greatest Moments
1 episode
- 2009
- 2005
- 2004 Who Do You Think You Are?
1 episode
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 1996
- 1996 The West
1 episode
- 1990
- 1986
- 1986 Wedden, dat..?
1 episode
- 1985
- 1956 Tony Awards
2 episodes