Derek Jacobi

Known for: Acting
Born: October 22, 1938, Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Movies: 161

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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Best-Known Movies

8.2

Gladiator

2000

6.7

Murder on the Orient Express

2017

7.7

The King's Speech

2010

6.4

Tomb Raider

2018

6.8

Cinderella

2015

6.1

The Golden Compass

2007

6.6

Gladiator II

2024

6.6

Underworld: Evolution

2006

6.7

Nanny McPhee

2005

6.2

Hereafter

2010

Filmography

2026	Frank and Percy
2026	Heartstopper Forever	Pete
2026	Moss & Freud	Lucian Freud
2026	Broken English	The Narrator
2025	Tinsel Town	Albert
2025	Juliet & Romeo	The Friar
2024	Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration	Self
2024	Gladiator II	Gracchus
2023	The Martini Shot	Errol
2023	Allelujah	Ambrose
2022	Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba	Self
2022	A Bird Flew In	David
2022	Pearl Islands	Self
2021	Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood	Self (archive footage)
2021	Say Your Prayers	Father Enoch
2020	Coronation Street: Queens of the Street	Himself
2020	Come Away	Mr. Brown
2020	Breaking The Codes
2020	The Host	Dr. Hobson
2019	The Warrior Queen of Jhansi	Lord Palmerston
2019	Muse	The Lawyer
2019	Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans	Claudius
2019	Tolkien	Professor Joseph Wright
2018	2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
2018	Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018	Tomb Raider	Mr. Yaffe
2017	A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong	Scrooge
2017	Murder on the Orient Express	Edward Henry Masterman
2017	Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017	Stratton	Ross
2016	The Devil of Christmas
2016	The History of Love	Leopold Gursky
2016	Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet	Mercutio
2015	Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC	Self (archive footage)
2015	Venom	Narrator
2015	Cinderella	King
2015	The Gospel of Luke	Narrator (voice) – King James Version
2014	Grace of Monaco	Count Fernando D'Aillieres
2014	Effie Gray	Travers Twiss
2013	You	Man
2013	National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage	Claudius/Spooner
2013	The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island	Narrator
2013	Muse of Fire	Self
2013	Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene	Narrator (voice)
2012	Last Will. & Testament	Himself
2012	The Halloween Kid	Narrator
2012	Jail Caesar	Sulla
2011	My Week with Marilyn	Sir Owen Morshead
2011	Anonymous	Prologue
2011	Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)	Narrator (voice)
2011	There Be Dragons	Honorio
2011	Ironclad	Cornhill
2011	National Theatre Live: King Lear	King Lear
2010	The King's Speech	Archbishop Cosmo Lang
2010	Hereafter	Derek Jacobi
2010	Joe Maddison's War	Mr. Simpson
2009	Margot	Fred Ashton
2009	Charles Dickens's England	Himself - Presenter
2009	Diamonds	Piers Denmont
2009	Endgame	Rudolph Agnew
2009	Morris: A Life with Bells On	Quentin Neely
2008	A Bunch of Amateurs	Nigel Dewberry
2008	Sidney Turtlebaum	Sidney Turtlebaum
2008	Pompeii and the Roman Villa	Narrator
2008	Adam Resurrected	Dr. Nathan Gross
2008	The Ties That Bind Us	The Master (archive footage)
2008	One of Those Days	Howard Whittam
2007	The Old Curiosity Shop	Grandfather
2007	The Golden Compass	Magisterial Emissary
2007	Guantanamero	Guido
2007	The Riddle	The Tramp / Charles Dickens
2007	Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space	President
2007	Anastezsi	Balzer
2007	The Art of Francis Bacon	Derek Jacobi
2006	Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy	Narrator (voice)
2006	Pinochet in Suburbia	Senator Augusto Pinochet
2006	Underworld: Evolution	Alexander Corvinus
2005	Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy	Narrator(voice)
2005	Nanny McPhee	Mr. Wheen
2005	Bye Bye Blackbird	Lord Dempsey
2005	Strength and Honor: Production Pods	Self
2004	Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On	Mr. Operatski (voice)
2004	Strings	Nezo
2004	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Other Voices (voice)
2004	Cloud Cuckoo Land	Victor
2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There	Self
2002	The Dinosaur Hunters	Narrator (voice)
2002	Inquisition	Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
2002	Two Men Went To War	Maj. Merton
2002	I, Claudius: A Television Epic	Self
2002	Revengers Tragedy	The Duke
2002	The Making of Gosford Park	Self
2002	The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky	Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
2002	The Gathering Storm	Stanley Baldwin
2002	Ultimate Fights from the Movies	Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
2001	Gosford Park	Probert
2001	The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream	Theseus (voice)
2001	David Macaulay: Mill Times	Priam Huntington (voice)
2001	The Body	Father Lavelle
2001	Revelation	Librarian
2001	Great Escape: The Untold Story	Narrator
2000	Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings	Various Characters
2000	The Wyvern Mystery	Squire Fairfield
2000	Wilfred	Voice
2000	Gladiator	Gracchus
2000	Up at the Villa	Lucky Leadbetter
1999	The Chimes	Narrator
1999	Molokai: The Story of Father Damien	Father Leonor Fousnel
1998	Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon	Francis Bacon
1998	Basil	Father Frederick
1998	Animated Epics: Beowulf	Narrator ( voice )
1996	Hamlet	King Claudius
1996	Looking for Richard	Self - Interviewee
1996	Breaking the Code	Alan Turing
1996	Witness Against Hitler	General
1995	The Virgin in the Ice	Brother Cadfael
1995	Achilles	Narrator
1994	The Secret Garden	Archibald Craven (voice)
1994	Monk's Hood	Brother Cadfael
1994	The Leper of St. Giles	Brother Cadfael
1994	The Sanctuary Sparrow	Brother Cadfael
1994	One Corpse Too Many	Brother Cadfael
1994	The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher	Jeremy Fisher (voice)
1994	David Macaulay: Roman City	Marcus Fabricius (voice)
1993	Circles of Deceit	Randal
1993	The Vision Thing	George Salisbury
1992	Aladdin	The Magician (voice)
1991	The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Daedalus & Icarus	Daedalus
1991	Dead Again	Franklyn Madson
1990	The Fool	Mr. Frederick / Sir John
1990	Discovering Hamlet	Himself
1989	Henry V	Chorus
1989	The Congress	(voice)
1989	David Macaulay: Pyramid	Hordedef (voice)
1988	The Tenth Man	The Imposter
1987	Little Dorrit	Arthur Clennam
1987	The Secret Garden	Archibald Craven
1986	On Wings of Fire	Self
1986	David Macaulay: Cathedral	Pierre (voice)
1986	Mr. Pye	Mr. Pye
1985	The Statue of Liberty	Self (voice)
1985	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac
1982	Enigma	Kurt Limmer
1982	The Secret of NIMH	Nicodemus (voice)
1982	Stranger in Town	The Stranger
1982	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Dom Claude Frollo
1981	Charlotte	Daberlohn
1980	The Man Who Went Up in Smoke	Martin Beck
1980	Hamlet	Hamlet
1979	The Human Factor	Arthur Davis
1978	Richard II	King Richard II
1978	The Medusa Touch	Townley - Publisher
1978	Mysterious Castles of Clay	Narrator
1977	Philby, Burgess and Maclean	Guy Burgess
1974	Blue Blood	Gregory
1974	The Odessa File	Klaus Wenzer
1973	The Day of the Jackal	Inspector Caron
1970	Three Sisters	Andrei
1967	Much Ado About Nothing	Don John
1965	Othello	Cassio
1962	The Fishing Match	Eric

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