Derek Jacobi
Acting1938Leytonstone, London, England, UK
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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Known For
Acting History
2025
2024
2023
The American Buffalo
TVas (voice)• 2 eps
2022
A Bird Flew In
as David
The Sandman
TVas Erasmus Fry• 1 eps
2021
2020
2019
Tolkien
as Professor Joseph Wright
Good Omens
TVas Metatron / The Metatron• 1 eps
The Crown
TVas Duke of Windsor• 1 eps
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
TVas Narrator
2018
2017
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Scrooge
Murder on the Orient Express
as Edward Henry Masterman
Stratton
as Ross
2016
The History of Love
as Leopold Gursky
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
as Mercutio
2015
The Gospel of Luke
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Cinderella
as King
Who Do You Think You Are?
TVas Self• 1 eps
2014
Effie Gray
as Travers Twiss
The Amazing World of Gumball
TVas Narrator (voice)• 2 eps
2013
Vicious
TVas Stuart Bixby• 12 eps
2012
Last Tango in Halifax
TVas Alan• 24 eps
Titanic: Blood and Steel
TVas Lord Pirrie• 12 eps
2011
There Be Dragons
as Honorio
Ironclad
as Cornhill
My Week with Marilyn
as Sir Owen Morshead
Anonymous
as Prologue
2010
Hereafter
as Derek Jacobi
The King's Speech
as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
2008
One of Those Days
as Howard Whittam
A Bunch of Amateurs
as Nigel Dewberry
Adam Resurrected
as Dr. Nathan Gross
2007
The Riddle
as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
The Golden Compass
as Magisterial Emissary
Anastezsi
as Balzer
Guantanamero
as Guido
In the Night Garden
TVas Narrator (voice)• 100 eps
Doctor Who
TVas Professor Yana• 1 eps
2006
Pinochet in Suburbia
as Senator Augusto Pinochet
Underworld: Evolution
as Alexander Corvinus
2005
Nanny McPhee
as Mr. Wheen
Bye Bye Blackbird
as Lord Dempsey
2004
Strings
as Nezo
Unforgivable Blackness - The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
London
TVas Tacitus• 3 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
TVas Colonel Protheroe• 1 eps
2003
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
TVas The Master (voice)• 5 eps
2002
The Dinosaur Hunters
as Narrator (voice)
The Gathering Storm
as Stanley Baldwin
Two Men Went To War
as Maj. Merton
Revengers Tragedy
as The Duke
Inquisition
as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
2001
Revelation
as Librarian
Gosford Park
as Probert
The Body
as Father Lavelle
Frasier
TVas Jackson Hedley• 1 eps
2000
The Wyvern Mystery
as Squire Fairfield
Gladiator
as Gracchus
Up at the Villa
as Lucky Leadbetter
Jason and the Argonauts
TVas Phineas
1999
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
as Father Leonor Fousnel
1998
Animated Epics: Beowulf
as Narrator ( voice )
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
as Francis Bacon
Basil
as Father Frederick
1996
1995
Achilles
as Narrator
1993
The Vision Thing
as George Salisbury
1992
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
TVas Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
1991
Dead Again
as Franklyn Madson
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
TVas Daedalus
1990
1989
Henry V
as Chorus
1987
The Secret Garden
as Archibald Craven
Little Dorrit
as Arthur Clennam
1986
Mr. Pye
as Mr. Pye
Wedden, dat..?
TVas Self
1985
Cyrano de Bergerac
as Cyrano de Bergerac
The Statue of Liberty
as Self (voice)
Tony Awards
TVas Self - Winner / Self - Nominee• 1 eps
1982
Enigma
as Kurt Limmer
The Secret of NIMH
as Nicodemus (voice)
Stranger in Town
as The Stranger
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Dom Claude Frollo
1980
Hamlet
as Hamlet
Tales of the Unexpected
TVas Drioli• 1 eps
1979
The Human Factor
as Arthur Davis
Minder
TVas Freddie Fenton• 1 eps
1978
The Medusa Touch
as Townley - Publisher
Richard II
as King Richard II
1977
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
as Guy Burgess
1976
I, Claudius
TVas Claudius• 12 eps
1974
Blue Blood
as Gregory
The Odessa File
as Klaus Wenzer
The Pallisers
TVas Lord Fawn
NOVA
TVas Voice of Ernest Shackleton
1973
The Day of the Jackal
as Inspector Caron
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TVas William Drew• 1 eps
1971
Budgie
TVas Herbert Fletcher
1967
Much Ado About Nothing
as Don John
1965
Othello
as Cassio
1964
Horizon
TVas Narrator