Derek Jacobi

Oct 22, 1938 (86 years old) in 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.

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Known For

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Doctor Who

Professor Yana

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Family Guy

Rupert (voice)

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The Amazing World of Gumball

Narrator (voice)

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NOVA

Voice of Ernest Shackleton

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Frasier

Jackson Hedley

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Who Do You Think You Are?

Self

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Gladiator II

Gracchus

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Minder

Freddie Fenton

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Tales of the Unexpected

The Stranger

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The Crown

Duke of Windsor

Credits

Moss & Freud Future

Lucian Freud

★ NR
Venom! Nine Ways to Die Future

Narrator

★ NR
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island Future

Narrator

★ NR
Lead Heads Future

★ NR
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street Future

Himself

★ NR
Tinsel Town Future

★ NR
Juliet & Romeo 2025

The Friar

★ NR
Gladiator II 2024

Gracchus

★ 6.8
Ludwig 2024

Mr. Todd

★ 7.7
The American Buffalo 2023

(voice)

★ 6.7
The Martini Shot 2023

Errol

★ 8
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies 2023

Sir Ralph Unwin

★ 7
Allelujah 2023

Ambrose

★ 5.2
U-Boat Wargamers 2023

Narrator (voice)

★ 6.8
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba 2022

Self

★ 7.6
A Bird Flew In 2022

David

★ NR
Pearl Islands 2022

Self

★ NR
The Sandman 2022

Erasmus Fry

★ 7.9
Rhythm of Life 2021

Self

★ 6.5
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood 2021

Himself (archive footage)

★ NR
Say Your Prayers 2021

Father Enoch

★ 7.3
The Lost Pirate Kingdom 2021

Narrator

★ 7.5
Come Away 2020

Mr. Brown

★ 5.8
Breaking The Codes 2020

★ NR
The Host 2020

Dr. Hobson

★ 5.6
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi 2019

Lord Palmerston

★ 5.7
Muse 2019

The Lawyer

★ NR
Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans 2019

Claudius

★ 5.2
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour 2019

Narrator

★ 8
Good Omens 2019

The Metatron

★ 8
Tolkien 2019

Professor Joseph Wright

★ 7
Les Misérables 2018

Bishop Myriel

★ 7.3
Nothing Is Truer than Truth 2018

★ 4.3
Tomb Raider 2018

Mr. Yaffe

★ 6.4
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong 2017

Scrooge

★ 7.5
Murder on the Orient Express 2017

Edward Henry Masterman

★ 6.7
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge 2017

★ NR
Stratton 2017

Ross

★ 5
The History of Love 2016

Leopold Gursky

★ 6.5
The Crown 2016

Duke of Windsor

★ 8.2
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet 2016

Mercutio

★ 8
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC 2015

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Venom 2015

Narrator

★ 10
Cinderella 2015

King

★ 6.8
The Gospel of Luke 2015

Narrator (voice) – King James Version

★ 8.3
Grace of Monaco 2014

Count Fernando D'Aillieres

★ 6
Effie Gray 2014

Travers Twiss

★ 5.9
Inside No. 9 2014

Webster

★ 8
You 2013

Man

★ NR
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage 2013

Claudius/Spooner

★ 7
Muse of Fire 2013

Self

★ 6.5
Vicious 2013

Stuart Bixby

★ 7.5
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene 2013

Narrator (voice)

★ 1
Last Tango in Halifax 2012

Alan

★ 7.2
Last Will. & Testament 2012

Himself

★ 7
The Halloween Kid 2012

Narrator

★ NR
Jail Caesar 2012

★ 6.3
Shakespeare Uncovered 2012

Himself

★ 6
Titanic: Blood and Steel 2012

Lord Pirrie

★ 7.1
My Week with Marilyn 2011

Sir Owen Morshead

★ 6.7
Anonymous 2011

Prologue

★ 6.4
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) 2011

Narrator (voice)

★ 6.3
The Amazing World of Gumball 2011

Narrator (voice)

★ 8.5
There Be Dragons 2011

Honorio

★ 5
Ironclad 2011

Cornhill

★ 6.1
National Theatre Live: King Lear 2011

King Lear

★ 7
The King's Speech 2010

Archbishop Cosmo Lang

★ 7.7
Hereafter 2010

Derek Jacobi

★ 6.1
Joe Maddison's War 2010

Mr. Simpson

★ 5.3
Margot 2009

Fred Ashton

★ 6
Doctor Who Greatest Moments 2009

Self

★ 7
Charles Dickens's England 2009

Himself - Presenter

★ NR
Diamonds 2009

Piers Denmont

★ 4.7
Endgame 2009

Rudolph Agnew

★ 5.8
Morris: A Life with Bells On 2009

Quentin Neely

★ 6.5
A Bunch of Amateurs 2008

Nigel Dewberry

★ 5.4
Sidney Turtlebaum 2008

Sidney Turtlebaum

★ 4.5
Pompeii and the Roman Villa 2008

Narrator

★ NR
Adam Resurrected 2008

Dr. Nathan Gross

★ 6.2
The Ties That Bind Us 2008

The Master (archive footage)

★ NR
One of Those Days 2008

Howard Whittam

★ 7.3
The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

Grandfather

★ 5
The Golden Compass 2007

Magisterial Emissary

★ 6.1
Guantanamero 2007

Guido

★ 3.6
The Riddle 2007

The Tramp / Charles Dickens

★ 4.8
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space 2007

President

★ NR
In the Night Garden 2007

Narrator (voice)

★ 6.6
Anastezsi 2007

Balzer

★ NR
The Art of Francis Bacon 2007

Derek Jacobi

★ NR
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy 2006

Narrator

★ 4
Pinochet in Suburbia 2006

Senator Augusto Pinochet

★ 6
Underworld: Evolution 2006

Alexander Corvinus

★ 6.6
Nanny McPhee 2005

Mr. Wheen

★ 6.7
Bye Bye Blackbird 2005

Lord Dempsey

★ 5.4
Doctor Who Confidential 2005

★ 8.1
Doctor Who 2005

Professor Yana

★ 7.5
Agatha Christie's Marple 2004

Colonel Protheroe

★ 7.7
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On 2004

Mr. Operatski (voice)

★ 7
Strings 2004

Nezo (voice)

★ 6.7
Who Do You Think You Are? 2004

Self

★ 6.7
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson 2004

Other Voices (voice)

★ 7.1
The Long Firm 2004

Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby

★ 7.6
London 2004

Tacitus

★ NR
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka 2003

The Master (voice)

★ 6.6
Henry VIII 2003

Narrator

★ 6.5
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There 2003

Self

★ 7
The Dinosaur Hunters 2002

Narrator (voice)

★ 5
Inquisition 2002

Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

★ NR
Two Men Went To War 2002

Maj. Merton

★ 6.3
I, Claudius: A Television Epic 2002

Self

★ 7
Revengers Tragedy 2002

The Duke

★ 5.4
The Making of 'Gosford Park' 2002

Self

★ 5
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky 2002

Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

★ 4.2
The Gathering Storm 2002

Stanley Baldwin

★ 6.6
Ultimate Fights from the Movies 2002

Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

★ 4.9
The Jury 2002

George Cording QC

★ 6.4
Gosford Park 2001

Probert

★ 6.8
David Macaulay: Mill Times 2001

Priam Huntington (voice)

★ NR
The Body 2001

Father Lavelle

★ 5.5
Revelation 2001

Librarian

★ 4.8
Great Escape: The Untold Story 2001

Narrator

★ 6
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings 2000

Various Characters

★ 6.5
The Wyvern Mystery 2000

Squire Fairfield

★ 4.4
Wilfred 2000

Voice

★ NR
Jason and the Argonauts 2000

Phineas

★ 6
Gladiator 2000

Gracchus

★ 8.2
Up at the Villa 2000

Lucky Leadbetter

★ 5.3
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) 2000

★ 6.1
The Chimes 1999

Narrator

★ 7
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien 1999

Father Leonor Fousnel

★ 6
Family Guy 1999

Rupert (voice)

★ 7.4
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon 1998

Francis Bacon

★ 6
Basil 1998

Father Frederick

★ 5.4
Animated Epics: Beowulf 1998

Narrator ( voice )

★ 4.3
Hamlet 1996

King Claudius

★ 7.3
Looking for Richard 1996

Self - Interviewee

★ 6.8
Breaking the Code 1996

Alan Turing

★ 5.4
The West 1996

Self (voice)

★ 8.4
Witness Against Hitler 1996

General

★ 6
Achilles 1995

Narrator

★ 5.6
Baseball 1994

Various (voice)

★ 7.4
Cadfael 1994

Brother Cadfael

★ 7.3
David Macaulay: Roman City 1994

Marcus Fabricius (voice)

★ 9
Aladdin 1994

The Magician (voice)

★ 5.2
Circle of Deceit 1993

Randal

★ 7.5
The Vision Thing 1993

George Salisbury

★ NR
Frasier 1993

Jackson Hedley

★ 7.7
The Velvet Claw 1992

Narrator

★ 9
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends 1992

Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)

★ 6.1
The Storyteller: Greek Myths 1991

Daedalus

★ 8.1
Dead Again 1991

Franklyn Madson

★ 6.4
The Fool 1990

Mr. Frederick / Sir John

★ 7
The Civil War 1990

Various

★ 8.1
Discovering Hamlet 1990

Himself

★ 5.7
Henry V 1989

Chorus

★ 7.1
The Congress 1989

(voice)

★ 8.3
David Macaulay: Pyramid 1989

Hordedef (voice)

★ NR
The Tenth Man 1988

The Imposter

★ 6.8
Little Dorrit 1987

Arthur Clennam

★ 6.5
The Secret Garden 1987

Archibald Craven

★ 7.7
On Wings of Fire 1986

Self

★ 9.5
David Macaulay: Cathedral 1986

Pierre (voice)

★ NR
Mr. Pye 1986

Mr. Pye

★ NR
Wedden, dat..? 1986

Self

★ NR
The Statue of Liberty 1985

Self (voice)

★ 6.7
Cyrano de Bergerac 1985

Cyrano de Bergerac

★ 5.5
Enigma 1982

Kurt Limmer

★ 5.6
The Secret of NIMH 1982

Nicodemus (voice)

★ 7.4
Stranger in Town 1982

The Stranger

★ 7.7
Inside the Third Reich 1982

Adolf Hitler

★ 7.2
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1982

Dom Claude Frollo

★ 5.8
Charlotte 1981

Daberlohn

★ NR
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke 1980

Martin Beck

★ NR
The Human Factor 1979

Arthur Davis

★ 5.9
Minder 1979

Freddie Fenton

★ 6.8
Tales of the Unexpected 1979

The Stranger

★ 6.7
Richard II 1978

King Richard II

★ 7.5
The BBC Television Shakespeare 1978

King Richard

★ 5.2
The Medusa Touch 1978

Townley - Publisher

★ 6.8
Mysterious Castles of Clay 1978

Narrator

★ 5.8
Philby, Burgess and Maclean 1977

Guy Burgess

★ 4.5
I, Claudius 1976

Claudius

★ 7.8
Blue Blood 1974

Gregory

★ 4.5
The Odessa File 1974

Klaus Wenzer

★ 6.6
NOVA 1974

Voice of Ernest Shackleton

★ 7
The Pallisers 1974

★ 6.7
The Day of the Jackal 1973

Inspector Caron

★ 7.5
The Strauss Family 1972

★ NR
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes 1971

William Drew

★ 7.3
Budgie 1971

Herbert Fletcher

★ 7
Three Sisters 1970

Andrei

★ 3.8
Much Ado About Nothing 1967

Don John

★ 5.5
Othello 1965

Cassio

★ 6.4
Olivier Talks About Othello 1965

(archive footage)

★ NR
The Fishing Match 1962

Eric

★ NR
Tony Awards 1956

Self - Nominee

★ 4.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951

Dom Claude

★ 8.6