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

Filmography

• 2026Broken English — The Narrator
• 2026Frank and Percy
• 2026Heartstopper Forever — Pete
• 2026Moss & Freud — Lucian Freud
• 2025Juliet & Romeo — The Friar
• 2025Tinsel Town — Albert
• 2024Gladiator II — Gracchus
• Ludwig — Mr. Todd
• 2023Allelujah — Ambrose
• The American Buffalo — (voice)
• The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies — Sir Ralph Unwin
• 2023The Martini Shot — Errol
• U-Boat Wargamers — Narrator (voice)
• 2022A Bird Flew In — David
• The Sandman — Erasmus Fry
• Only Murders in the Building
• 2021Say Your Prayers — Father Enoch
• The Lost Pirate Kingdom — Narrator
• 2020Breaking The Codes
• 2020Come Away — Mr. Brown
• 2020The Host — Dr. Hobson
• Good Omens — The Metatron
• Greatest Events of World War II in Colour — Narrator
• 2019Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans — Claudius
• 2019Muse — The Lawyer
• 2019The Warrior Queen of Jhansi — Lord Palmerston
• 2019Tolkien — Professor Joseph Wright
• 20182018: A Year in the Life of a Year
• Les Misérables — Bishop Myriel
• 2018Nothing Is Truer than Truth
• 2018Tomb Raider — Mr. Yaffe
• 2017A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong — Scrooge
• 2017Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
• 2017Murder on the Orient Express — Edward Henry Masterman
• 2017Stratton — Ross
• 2016Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet — Mercutio
• The Crown — Duke of Windsor
• 2016The Devil of Christmas
• 2016The History of Love — Leopold Gursky
• 2015Cinderella — King
• 2015The Gospel of Luke — Narrator (voice) – King James Version
• 2015Venom — Narrator
• 2014Effie Gray — Travers Twiss
• 2014Grace of Monaco — Count Fernando D'Aillieres
• Inside No. 9 — Webster
• 2013Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene — Narrator (voice)
• 2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage — Claudius/Spooner
• 2013The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island — Narrator
• Vicious — Stuart Bixby
• 2013You — Man
• 2012Jail Caesar — Sulla
• Last Tango in Halifax — Alan
• 2012The Halloween Kid — Narrator
• Titanic: Blood and Steel — Lord Pirrie
• 2011Anonymous — Prologue
• 2011Ironclad — Cornhill
• 2011My Week with Marilyn — Sir Owen Morshead
• 2011National Theatre Live: King Lear — King Lear
• The Amazing World of Gumball — Narrator (voice)
• The Borgias — Cardinal Orsini
• 2011There Be Dragons — Honorio
• 2011Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) — Narrator (voice)
• 2010Hereafter — Derek Jacobi
• 2010Joe Maddison's War — Mr. Simpson
• 2010The King's Speech — Archbishop Cosmo Lang
• 2009Diamonds — Piers Denmont
• Diamonds
• 2009Endgame — Rudolph Agnew
• 2009Margot — Fred Ashton
• 2009Morris: A Life with Bells On — Quentin Neely
• 2008A Bunch of Amateurs — Nigel Dewberry
• 2008Adam Resurrected — Dr. Nathan Gross
• 2008One of Those Days — Howard Whittam
• 2008Pompeii and the Roman Villa — Narrator
• 2008Sidney Turtlebaum — Sidney Turtlebaum
• 2008The Ties That Bind Us — The Master (archive footage)
• 2007Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space — President
• 2007Anastezsi — Balzer
• 2007Guantanamero — Guido
• In the Night Garden — Narrator (voice)
• Mist: Sheepdog Tales — Narrator
• 2007The Art of Francis Bacon — Derek Jacobi
• 2007The Golden Compass — Magisterial Emissary
• 2007The Old Curiosity Shop — Grandfather
• 2007The Riddle — The Tramp / Charles Dickens
• 2006Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Pinochet in Suburbia — Senator Augusto Pinochet
• 2006Underworld: Evolution — Alexander Corvinus
• 2005Bye Bye Blackbird — Lord Dempsey
• Doctor Who — Professor Yana
• Doctor Who Confidential
• 2005Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy — Narrator(voice)
• 2005Nanny McPhee — Mr. Wheen
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Colonel Protheroe
• 2004Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On — Mr. Operatski (voice)
• 2004Cloud Cuckoo Land — Victor
• London — Tacitus
• 2004Strings — Nezo
• The Long Firm — Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka — The Master (voice)
• 2003Doctor Who: The Scream of the Shalka — The Master
• 2002Inquisition — Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
• 2002Revengers Tragedy — The Duke
• 2002The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky — Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
• 2002The Dinosaur Hunters — Narrator (voice)
• 2002The Gathering Storm — Stanley Baldwin
• The Jury — George Cording QC
• 2002Two Men Went To War — Maj. Merton
• 2002Ultimate Fights from the Movies — Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
• 2001David Macaulay: Mill Times — Priam Huntington (voice)
• 2001Gosford Park — Probert
• 2001Great Escape: The Untold Story — Narrator
• 2001Revelation — Librarian
• 2001The Body — Father Lavelle
• 2001The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream — Theseus (voice), Thanks
• 2000Gladiator — Gracchus
• Jason and the Argonauts — Phineas
• Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
• 2000The Wyvern Mystery — Squire Fairfield
• 2000Up at the Villa — Lucky Leadbetter
• 2000Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings — Various Characters
• 2000Wilfred — Voice
• 1999Molokai: The Story of Father Damien — Father Leonor Fousnel
• 1999The Chimes — Narrator
• 1998Animated Epics: Beowulf — Narrator ( voice )
• 1998Basil — Father Frederick
• 1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon — Francis Bacon
• 1996Breaking the Code — Alan Turing
• 1996Hamlet — King Claudius
• 1996Witness Against Hitler — General
• 1995Achilles — Narrator
• 1995The Virgin in the Ice — Brother Cadfael
• Baseball — Various (voice)
• Cadfael — Brother Cadfael
• 1994David Macaulay: Roman City — Marcus Fabricius (voice)
• 1994Monk's Hood — Brother Cadfael
• 1994One Corpse Too Many — Brother Cadfael
• 1994The Leper of St. Giles — Brother Cadfael
• 1994The Sanctuary Sparrow — Brother Cadfael
• 1994The Secret Garden — Archibald Craven (voice)
• 1994The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher — Jeremy Fisher (voice)
• 1993Circles of Deceit — Randal
• Frasier — Jackson Hedley
• 1993The Vision Thing — George Salisbury
• 1992Aladdin — The Magician (voice)
• The Velvet Claw — Narrator
• The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends — Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
• 1991Dead Again — Franklyn Madson
• In My Defence — Emile Zola
• The Storyteller: Greek Myths — Daedalus
• 1991The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Daedalus & Icarus — Daedalus
• The Civil War — William Russell / Various (voice)
• 1990The Fool — Mr. Frederick / Sir John
• 1989David Macaulay: Pyramid — Hordedef (voice)
• 1989Henry V — Chorus
• 1989The Congress — (voice)
• 1988The Tenth Man — The Imposter
• 1987Little Dorrit — Arthur Clennam
• 1987The Secret Garden — Archibald Craven
• 1986David Macaulay: Cathedral — Pierre (voice)
• Mr Pye — Mr Pye
• 1986Mr. Pye — Mr. Pye
• ScreenPlay — George Salisbury
• 1985Cyrano de Bergerac — Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1982Enigma — Kurt Limmer
• Inside the Third Reich — Adolf Hitler
• 1982Stranger in Town — The Stranger
• 1982The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Dom Claude Frollo
• 1982The Secret of NIMH — Nicodemus (voice)
• 1981Charlotte — Daberlohn
• 1980Hamlet — Hamlet
• 1980The Man Who Went Up in Smoke — Martin Beck
• Minder — Freddie Fenton
• Tales of the Unexpected — The Stranger, Drioli
• 1979The Human Factor — Arthur Davis
• 1978Mysterious Castles of Clay — Narrator
• 1978Richard II — King Richard II
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Richard II, Hamlet
• 1978The Medusa Touch — Townley - Publisher
• 1977Philby, Burgess and Maclean — Guy Burgess
• I, Claudius — Claudius
• Affairs of the Heart — Bertram Braddle
• 1974Blue Blood — Gregory
• NOVA — Voice of Ernest Shackleton
• 1974The Odessa File — Klaus Wenzer
• The Pallisers — Lord Fawn
• 1973The Day of the Jackal — Inspector Caron
• Man of Straw — Diederich Hessling
• Budgie — Herbert Fletcher
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes — William Drew
• 1970Three Sisters — Andrei
• ITV Playhouse — Gerry
• 1967Much Ado About Nothing — Don John
• 1965Othello — Cassio
• Horizon — Narrator
• 1962The Fishing Match — Eric
• Armchair Theatre — Eric
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Dom Claude, Archibald Craven, Imposter
• Lead Heads
• Venom! Nine Ways to Die — Narrator

Appearances as themselves (24)

• 2024Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration — Self
• 2022Pearl Islands — Self
• 2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba — Self
• Remembers… — Self
• 2021Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Coronation Street: Queens of the Street — Himself
• 2015Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Muse of Fire — Self
• 2012Last Will. & Testament — Himself
• Shakespeare Uncovered — Himself
• 2009Charles Dickens's England — Himself - Presenter
• Doctor Who Greatest Moments — Self
• 2005Strength and Honor: Production Pods — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
• 2002I, Claudius: A Television Epic — Self
• 2002The Making of Gosford Park — Self
• 1996Looking for Richard — Self - Interviewee
• The West — Self (voice)
• 1990Discovering Hamlet — Himself
• 1986On Wings of Fire — Self
• Wedden, dat..? — Self
• 1985The Statue of Liberty — Self (voice)
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner, Self - Nominee