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:
- 146
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Lead Heads
- Latest Project:
- Movie Verona's Romeo & Juliet 2025-02-14
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Coronation Street: Queens of the Street | Himself | 2025 |
| Movie | Verona's Romeo & Juliet | The Friar | 2025-02-14 |
| Movie | Lead Heads | 2025 | |
| Movie | Gladiator II | Gracchus | 2024-11-05 |
| Movie | Allelujah | Ambrose | 2023-03-17 |
| Movie | The Martini Shot | Errol | 2023-09-27 |
| Series | The American Buffalo | (voice) | 2023-10-16 |
| Series | The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies | Sir Ralph Unwin | 2023-08-29 |
| Movie | A Bird Flew In | David | 2022-09-30 |
| Movie | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | 2022-11-26 |
| Movie | Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood | Himself (archive footage) | 2021-05-03 |
| Series | The Lost Pirate Kingdom | Narrator | 2021-03-15 |
| Movie | Rhythm of Life | Self | 2021-07-03 |
| Movie | The Host | Dr. Hobson | 2020-01-17 |
| Movie | Come Away | Mr. Brown | 2020-11-12 |
| Series | Greatest Events of World War II in Colour | Narrator | 2019-07-12 |
| Movie | Tolkien | Professor Joseph Wright | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans | Claudius | 2019-07-26 |
| Movie | The Warrior Queen of Jhansi | Lord Palmerston | 2019-11-15 |
| Movie | Muse | The Lawyer | 2019-10-18 |
| Movie | Tomb Raider | Mr. Yaffe | 2018-03-05 |
| Movie | Stratton | Ross | 2017-07-06 |
| Movie | Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge | 2017-10-31 | |
| Movie | A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Scrooge | 2017-12-30 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Gospel of Luke | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2015-01-01 |
| Movie | Cinderella | King | 2015-03-06 |
| 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 |
| Series | Vicious | Stuart Bixby | 2013-04-29 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Claudius/Spooner | 2013-11-02 |
| Series | Titanic: Blood and Steel | Lord Pirrie | 2012-05-13 |
| Movie | Jail Caesar | 2012-06-28 | |
| Movie | The Halloween Kid | Narrator | 2012-07-29 |
| Series | Last Tango in Halifax | Alan | 2012-11-20 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear | 2011-02-03 |
| Movie | My Week with Marilyn | Sir Owen Morshead | 2011-11-23 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Cornhill | 2011-03-03 |
| Movie | Anonymous | Prologue | 2011-10-21 |
| Movie | There Be Dragons | Honorio | 2011-03-25 |
| Movie | The King's Speech | Archbishop Cosmo Lang | 2010-11-26 |
| Movie | Joe Maddison's War | Mr. Simpson | 2010-09-19 |
| Movie | Hereafter | Derek Jacobi | 2010-10-22 |
| Movie | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Quentin Neely | 2009-01-09 |
| Movie | Endgame | Rudolph Agnew | 2009-01-18 |
| Series | Diamonds | 2009-04-05 | |
| Movie | Charles Dickens's England | Himself - Presenter | 2009-07-24 |
| Movie | Margot | Fred Ashton | 2009-11-30 |
| Movie | Diamonds | Piers Denmont | 2009-04-04 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Anastezsi | Balzer | 2007-03-16 |
| Series | In the Night Garden | 2007-03-19 | |
| Movie | The Old Curiosity Shop | Grandfather | 2007-12-26 |
| Movie | Guantanamero | Guido | 2007-11-23 |
| Movie | Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space | President | 2007-08-20 |
| Movie | The Riddle | The Tramp / Charles Dickens | 2007-10-14 |
| Movie | The Golden Compass | Magisterial Emissary | 2007-12-04 |
| Movie | Pinochet in Suburbia | Senator Augusto Pinochet | 2006-03-26 |
| Movie | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator | 2006-08-04 |
| Movie | Underworld: Evolution | Alexander Corvinus | 2006-01-12 |
| Movie | Bye Bye Blackbird | Lord Dempsey | 2005-10-14 |
| Movie | Nanny McPhee | Mr. Wheen | 2005-10-21 |
| Movie | Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On | Mr. Operatski (voice) | 2004-11-30 |
| Series | London | Tacitus | 2004-05-07 |
| Series | The Long Firm | Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby | 2004-07-07 |
| Movie | Strings | Nezo (voice) | 2004-10-24 |
| Movie | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003-04-03 |
| Series | Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka | The Master (voice) | 2003-11-13 |
| Series | Henry VIII | 2003-10-12 | |
| Series | The Jury | George Cording QC | 2002-02-17 |
| Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Movie | The Dinosaur Hunters | Narrator (voice) | 2002-12-30 |
| Movie | The Gathering Storm | Stanley Baldwin | 2002-04-22 |
| Movie | The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi) | 2002-04-25 |
| Movie | Inquisition | Cardinal Grand Inquisitor | 2002-12-22 |
| Movie | Two Men Went To War | Maj. Merton | 2002-11-01 |
| Movie | Revengers Tragedy | The Duke | 2002-08-06 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Gosford Park' | Self | 2002-06-18 |
| Movie | Revelation | Librarian | 2001-04-12 |
| Movie | Gosford Park | Probert | 2001-11-07 |
| Movie | The Body | Father Lavelle | 2001-04-13 |
| 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 | The Wyvern Mystery | Squire Fairfield | 2000-10-12 |
| Series | Jason and the Argonauts | Phineas | 2000-05-07 |
| Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters | 2000-12-25 |
| Movie | The Chimes | Narrator | 1999-04-19 |
| Movie | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Father Leonor Fousnel | 1999-03-17 |
| Movie | Basil | Father Frederick | 1998-07-22 |
| Movie | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Francis Bacon | 1998-09-16 |
| Movie | Animated Epics: Beowulf | Narrator ( voice ) | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Witness Against Hitler | General | 1996-03-10 |
| Movie | Breaking the Code | Alan Turing | 1996-09-17 |
| Movie | Hamlet | King Claudius | 1996-12-25 |
| Movie | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | Achilles | Narrator | 1995-08-31 |
| Movie | Aladdin | The Magician (voice) | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven (voice) | 1994-11-05 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Roman City | Marcus Fabricius (voice) | 1994-02-15 |
| Series | Baseball | Various (voice) | 1994-09-18 |
| Series | Cadfael | Brother Cadfael | 1994-05-29 |
| Movie | Circle of Deceit | Randal | 1993-10-16 |
| Movie | Dead Again | Franklyn Madson | 1991-08-23 |
| Series | The Civil War | Various | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | The Fool | Mr. Frederick / Sir John | 1990-12-07 |
| Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Himself | 1990-01-07 |
| 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 | Little Dorrit | Arthur Clennam | 1987-12-11 |
| Movie | The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven | 1987-11-30 |
| Movie | Mr. Pye | Mr. Pye | 1986-03-02 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Cathedral | Pierre (voice) | 1986-04-30 |
| Movie | On Wings of Fire | Self | 1986-06-01 |
| 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 | Inside the Third Reich | Adolf Hitler | 1982-05-09 |
| Movie | Enigma | Kurt Limmer | 1982-10-15 |
| Movie | The Secret of NIMH | Nicodemus (voice) | 1982-06-17 |
| Movie | Charlotte | Daberlohn | 1981-02-26 |
| 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 | Richard II | King Richard II | 1978-12-10 |
| Movie | Mysterious Castles of Clay | Narrator | 1978-01-01 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Pallisers | 1974-01-19 | |
| Movie | The Odessa File | Klaus Wenzer | 1974-10-17 |
| 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 | 1967-01-01 |
| Movie | Othello | Cassio | 1965-12-15 |
| Movie | The Fishing Match | Eric | 1962-08-19 |