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Derek Jacobi

Acting · Born 1938-10-22 · Leytonstone, London, England, UK

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

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Credits · 187

Heartstopper Forever

2026 · Lucian Freud

2026 · The Narrator

2025 · The Friar

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

2024 · Gracchus

2024 · Mr. Todd

The American Buffalo

2023 · (voice)

The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies

2023 · Sir Ralph Unwin

The Martini Shot

2023 · Ambrose

U-Boat Wargamers

2023 · Narrator (voice)

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

2022 · Erasmus Fry

Say Your Prayers

2021 · Father Enoch

The Lost Pirate Kingdom

2021 · Narrator

2020 · Mr. Brown

2020 · Dr. Hobson

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

2019 · Lord Palmerston

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans

2019 · Claudius

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

2019 · Narrator

2019 · The Metatron

2019 · Professor Joseph Wright

Les Misérables

2018 · Bishop Myriel

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

2018 · Mr. Yaffe

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

2017 · Scrooge

Murder on the Orient Express

2017 · Edward Henry Masterman

The History of Love

2016 · Leopold Gursky

2016 · Duke of Windsor

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

2016 · Mercutio

2015 · Narrator

The Gospel of Luke

2015 · Narrator (voice) – King James Version

Grace of Monaco

2014 · Count Fernando D'Aillieres

2014 · Travers Twiss

2014 · Webster

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

2013 · Claudius/Spooner

2013 · Stuart Bixby

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

2013 · Narrator (voice)

Last Tango in Halifax

Last Will. & Testament

2012 · Himself

Shakespeare Uncovered

2012 · Himself

Titanic: Blood and Steel

2012 · Lord Pirrie

My Week with Marilyn

2011 · Sir Owen Morshead

2011 · Prologue

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

2011 · Narrator (voice)

The Amazing World of Gumball

2011 · Narrator (voice)

2011 · Cardinal Orsini

There Be Dragons

2011 · Honorio

2011 · Cornhill

National Theatre Live: King Lear

2011 · King Lear

The King's Speech

2010 · Archbishop Cosmo Lang

2010 · Derek Jacobi

Joe Maddison's War

2010 · Mr. Simpson

2009 · Fred Ashton

Doctor Who Greatest Moments

2009 · Piers Denmont

2009 · Rudolph Agnew

Morris: A Life with Bells On

2009 · Quentin Neely

A Bunch of Amateurs

2008 · Nigel Dewberry

Sidney Turtlebaum

2008 · Sidney Turtlebaum

Adam Resurrected

2008 · Dr. Nathan Gross

One of Those Days

2008 · Howard Whittam

The Old Curiosity Shop

2007 · Grandfather

The Golden Compass

2007 · Magisterial Emissary

2007 · The Tramp / Charles Dickens

Mist: Sheepdog Tales

Mist: Sheepdog Tales

2007 · Narrator

In the Night Garden

2007 · Narrator (voice)

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

2006 · Narrator (voice)

Pinochet in Suburbia

2006 · Senator Augusto Pinochet

Underworld: Evolution

2006 · Alexander Corvinus

2005 · Mr. Wheen

Bye Bye Blackbird

2005 · Lord Dempsey

Doctor Who Confidential

2005 · Professor Yana

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004 · Colonel Protheroe

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

2004 · Mr. Operatski (voice)

Who Do You Think You Are?

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2004 · Other Voices (voice)

2004 · Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby

2004 · Tacitus

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka

2003 · The Master (voice)

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

The Dinosaur Hunters

2002 · Narrator (voice)

2002 · Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

Two Men Went To War

2002 · Maj. Merton

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

Revengers Tragedy

2002 · The Duke

The Making of Gosford Park

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

2002 · Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

The Gathering Storm

2002 · Stanley Baldwin

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

2002 · Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

2002 · George Cording QC

2001 · Probert

The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream

2001 · Theseus (voice)

2001 · Father Lavelle

2001 · Librarian

Great Escape: The Untold Story

2001 · Narrator

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

2000 · Various Characters

The Wyvern Mystery

2000 · Squire Fairfield

Jason and the Argonauts

2000 · Phineas

2000 · Gracchus

Up at the Villa

2000 · Lucky Leadbetter

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

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

1998 · Father Frederick

Animated Epics: Beowulf

1998 · Narrator ( voice )

1996 · King Claudius

Looking for Richard

1996 · Self - Interviewee

Breaking the Code

1996 · Alan Turing

1996 · Self (voice)

Witness Against Hitler

1996 · General

1995 · Narrator

The Secret Garden

1994 · Archibald Craven (voice)

1994 · Various (voice)

1994 · Brother Cadfael

David Macaulay: Roman City

1994 · Marcus Fabricius (voice)

Circles of Deceit

Circles of Deceit

1993 · Jackson Hedley

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

1992 · Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)

1992 · The Magician (voice)

The Velvet Claw

The Velvet Claw

1992 · Narrator

The Storyteller: Greek Myths

1991 · Daedalus

1991 · Franklyn Madson

1991 · Emile Zola

1990 · Mr. Frederick / Sir John

1990 · William Russell / Various (voice)

Discovering Hamlet

1990 · Himself

1989 · (voice)

1988 · The Imposter

1987 · Arthur Clennam

The Secret Garden

1987 · Archibald Craven

1986 · George Salisbury

On Wings of Fire

The Statue of Liberty

1985 · Self (voice)

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

1985 · Cyrano de Bergerac

1982 · Kurt Limmer

The Secret of NIMH

1982 · Nicodemus (voice)

Stranger in Town

1982 · The Stranger

Inside the Third Reich

1982 · Adolf Hitler

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982 · Dom Claude Frollo

1981 · Daberlohn

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

1980 · Martin Beck

The Human Factor

1979 · Arthur Davis

1979 · Freddie Fenton

Tales of the Unexpected

1979 · The Stranger

1978 · King Richard II

The BBC Television Shakespeare

1978 · Richard II

The Medusa Touch

1978 · Townley - Publisher

Mysterious Castles of Clay

1978 · Narrator

Philby, Burgess and Maclean

1977 · Guy Burgess

1976 · Claudius

1974 · Gregory

The Odessa File

1974 · Klaus Wenzer

Affairs of the Heart

1974 · Bertram Braddle

1974 · Voice of Ernest Shackleton

1974 · Lord Fawn

The Day of the Jackal

1973 · Inspector Caron

1972 · Diederich Hessling

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

1971 · William Drew

1971 · Herbert Fletcher

Much Ado About Nothing

1967 · Don John

1964 · Narrator

Armchair Theatre

1956 · Self - Winner

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Dom Claude

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