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Derek Jacobiborn 1938

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Actor

Popularity

3.8

Famous

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Derek Jacobi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Credits

Juliet & Romeo

2025

Drama • Romance

as The Friar

6(3)

2.3

Gladiator II

2024

Action • Adventure • Drama

as Gracchus

6.7(3,360)

The Martini Shot

2023

Drama

as Errol

8(1)

0.2

Allelujah

2023

Drama

as Ambrose

5.2(24)

0.7

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

2022

Documentary

as Self

7.6(5)

0.5

Pearl Islands

2022

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

Rhythm of Life

2021

Music

as Self

6.5(2)

0.3

Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans

2019

Adventure • Comedy • Family

as Claudius

5.2(74)

2.5

Tolkien

2019

Drama • Romance • War

as Professor Joseph Wright

6.9(1,448)

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

2018

Documentary • History

4.3(3)

0.1

Tomb Raider

2018

Action • Adventure • Fantasy

as Mr. Yaffe

6.4(7,944)

8.1

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

2017

Comedy • TV Movie

as Scrooge

7.5(24)

0.4

Murder on the Orient Express

2017

Crime • Drama • Mystery

as Edward Henry Masterman

6.7(10,130)

6.7

Stratton

2017

Action • Thriller

as Ross

5(212)

1.3

The History of Love

2016

Drama • Romance • War

as Leopold Gursky

6.4(91)

0.5

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

2016

Drama • Romance

as Mercutio

8(23)

0.3

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

2015

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self (archive footage)

0(0)

0.2

The Gospel of Luke

2015

Drama • History

as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

8.3(3)

0.3

Grace of Monaco

2014

Drama • Romance

as Count Fernando D'Aillieres

6(600)

1.3

Effie Gray

2014

Drama

as Travers Twiss

5.9(186)

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

2013

Documentary

as Claudius/Spooner

6.3(4)

0.5

Muse of Fire

2013

Documentary

as Self

6.5(2)

0.6

Last Will. & Testament

2012

Documentary • History

as Himself

7(2)

0.3

The Halloween Kid

2012

Drama • Horror

as Narrator

0(0)

0.2

Jail Caesar

2012

Drama • History

6.3(3)

0.4

Anonymous

2011

Drama • History • Thriller

as Prologue

6.4(731)

1.3

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

2011

Documentary • History

as Narrator (voice)

6.3(7)

0.2

There Be Dragons

2011

Drama • History • War

as Honorio

5(136)

1.2

Ironclad

2011

Action • Adventure • History • Romance

as Cornhill

6.1(751)

National Theatre Live: King Lear

2011

Drama

as King Lear

7(2)

0.1

The King's Speech

2010

Drama • History

as Archbishop Cosmo Lang

7.7(8,881)

Hereafter

2010

Drama • Fantasy

as Derek Jacobi

6.1(1,713)

2.4

Joe Maddison's War

2010

Drama • TV Movie • War

as Mr. Simpson

5.3(3)

0.2

Margot

2009

Drama

as Fred Ashton

6(11)

0.4

Diamonds

2009

Drama • TV Movie

as Piers Denmont

4.7(3)

0.2

Endgame

2009

Crime • Drama

as Rudolph Agnew

5.8(47)

0.5

A Bunch of Amateurs

2008

Comedy

as Nigel Dewberry

5.4(19)

0.2

Sidney Turtlebaum

2008

Comedy • Drama

as Sidney Turtlebaum

4.5(2)

0.1

Adam Resurrected

2008

Drama • War

as Dr. Nathan Gross

6.2(95)

0.6

One of Those Days

2008

Comedy

as Howard Whittam

7.3(3)

0.1

The Old Curiosity Shop

2007

Drama

as Grandfather

5(13)

0.3

The Golden Compass

2007

Adventure • Fantasy

as Magisterial Emissary

6.1(4,605)

5.9

Guantanamero

2007

Drama • Fantasy • Mystery

as Guido

3.6(5)

0.1

The Riddle

2007

Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as The Tramp / Charles Dickens

4.8(23)

0.4

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space

2007

Science Fiction

as President

0(0)

0.2

Anastezsi

2007

Thriller

as Balzer

0(0)

0.1

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

2006

Comedy • Family • TV Movie

as Narrator

4(1)

0.2

Pinochet in Suburbia

2006

Drama • History • TV Movie

as Senator Augusto Pinochet

6(5)

0.3

Underworld: Evolution

2006

Action • Fantasy • Thriller

as Alexander Corvinus

6.6(4,122)

3.9

Nanny McPhee

2005

Comedy • Family • Fantasy

as Mr. Wheen

6.7(3,085)

4.9

Bye Bye Blackbird

2005

Comedy • Drama

as Lord Dempsey

5.4(8)

0.2

Strings

2004

Adventure • Animation • Drama • Fantasy

as Nezo (voice)

6.7(77)

0.5

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

2003

Documentary • History • Music

as Self

7(6)

0.4

The Dinosaur Hunters

2002

Documentary • Drama

as Narrator (voice)

5(1)

0.2

Inquisition

2002

Drama • TV Movie

as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

0(0)

0.2

Two Men Went To War

2002

Comedy • War

as Maj. Merton

6.3(11)

0.8

Revengers Tragedy

2002

Comedy • Drama • Science Fiction

as The Duke

5.4(12)

0.6

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

2002

Documentary • Drama

as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

4.2(4)

0.1

The Gathering Storm

2002

Drama • History

as Stanley Baldwin

6.6(65)

1.4

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

2002

Action • Documentary

as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

4.9(28)

0.6

Gosford Park

2001

Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as Probert

6.8(1,129)

The Body

2001

Drama • Mystery • Romance • Thriller

as Father Lavelle

5.5(215)

Revelation

2001

Fantasy • Horror • Science Fiction

as Librarian

4.8(25)

0.6

Great Escape: The Untold Story

2001

Documentary • History • War

as Narrator

6(1)

0.2

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

2000

Comedy

as Various Characters

6.5(6)

0.2

The Wyvern Mystery

2000

Drama • History • Horror • Mystery • TV Movie • Thriller

as Squire Fairfield

4.4(8)

0.3

Wilfred

2000

Animation • Drama • War

as Voice

0(0)

0.2

Gladiator

2000

Action • Adventure • Drama

as Gracchus

8.2(19,687)

22.4

Up at the Villa

2000

Drama • Romance

as Lucky Leadbetter

5.3(31)

0.5

The Chimes

1999

Animation • Drama

as Narrator

7(1)

0.1

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

1999

Drama

as Father Leonor Fousnel

6(17)

0.5

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

1998

Drama

as Francis Bacon

6(66)

0.5

Animated Epics: Beowulf

1998

Animation

as Narrator ( voice )

4.3(3)

0.3

Hamlet

1996

Drama

as King Claudius

7.3(486)

2.1

Looking for Richard

1996

Documentary

as Self - Interviewee

6.8(141)

0.9

Breaking the Code

1996

Drama • History • TV Movie

as Alan Turing

5.4(15)

0.2

Witness Against Hitler

1996

Drama • TV Movie • War

as General

6(1)

0.2

Achilles

1995

Animation • Drama • Fantasy • Romance • War

as Narrator

5.6(16)

0.3

The Secret Garden

1994

Animation • Family

as Archibald Craven (voice)

5.9(16)

0.4

David Macaulay: Roman City

1994

Documentary • History

as Marcus Fabricius (voice)

9(2)

0.4

Aladdin

1994

Animation • Family

as The Magician (voice)

5.2(12)

0.3

The Vision Thing

1993

Drama

as George Salisbury

0(0)

0.1

Dead Again

1991

Crime • Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as Franklyn Madson

6.4(383)

1.7

The Fool

1990

Drama

as Mr. Frederick / Sir John

7(2)

0.5

Discovering Hamlet

1990

Documentary

as Himself

5.7(6)

0.6

Henry V

1989

Drama • History • War

as Chorus

7.1(386)

1.7

The Tenth Man

1988

Drama • TV Movie

as The Imposter

6.7(26)

0.6

Little Dorrit

1987

Drama

as Arthur Clennam

6.5(11)

0.6

The Secret Garden

1987

Drama • Family • TV Movie

as Archibald Craven

7.6(47)

0.4

On Wings of Fire

1986

Drama • History

as Self

9.5(1)

0.2

David Macaulay: Cathedral

1986

Documentary • History

as Pierre (voice)

0(0)

0.3

Mr. Pye

1986

Comedy • Fantasy

as Mr. Pye

0(0)

0.2

Cyrano de Bergerac

1985

Adventure • Drama • History • Romance • TV Movie

as Cyrano de Bergerac

5.5(3)

0.2

Enigma

1982

Drama • Thriller

as Kurt Limmer

5.6(37)

1.3

The Secret of NIMH

1982

Adventure • Animation • Drama • Family • Fantasy • Mystery • Science Fiction

as Nicodemus (voice)

7.4(855)

2.6

Stranger in Town

1982

as The Stranger

7.7(3)

0.1

Inside the Third Reich

1982

Drama • History • TV Movie • War

as Adolf Hitler

7.2(7)

0.3

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982

Drama • Horror • Romance • TV Movie

as Dom Claude Frollo

5.8(30)

0.8

Hamlet

1980

Drama • TV Movie

as Hamlet

6.1(14)

0.3

The Human Factor

1979

Thriller

as Arthur Davis

5.9(29)

0.8

The Medusa Touch

1978

Horror • Mystery • Science Fiction • Thriller

as Townley - Publisher

6.8(188)

0.9

Philby, Burgess and Maclean

1977

Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

as Guy Burgess

4.5(5)

0.2

The Odessa File

1974

Thriller

as Klaus Wenzer

6.6(190)

1.5

The Day of the Jackal

1973

Action • Thriller

as Inspector Caron

7.5(602)

7.3

Moss & Freud

Drama

as Lucian Freud

0(0)

0.1

Venom! Nine Ways to Die

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

1980

Drama

as Martin Beck

0(0)

0.2

Richard II

1978

Drama • History • TV Movie

as King Richard II

7.5(2)

0.3

Blue Blood

1974

Drama • Horror

as Gregory

4.1(9)

0.5

Three Sisters

1970

Drama

as Andrei

3.8(10)

0.5

Much Ado About Nothing

1967

Comedy • TV Movie

as Don John

5.5(2)

0.4

Othello

1965

Drama

as Cassio

6.4(27)

0.6

The Fishing Match

1962

as Eric

0(0)

0.2

The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

A Bird Flew In

2022

Drama

as David

0(0)

0.1

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

2021

Documentary

as Himself (archive footage)

0(0)

0.2

Say Your Prayers

2021

Comedy • Crime • Drama

as Father Enoch

7.3(9)

0.4

Come Away

2020

Adventure • Fantasy

as Mr. Brown

5.8(297)

2.2

Breaking The Codes

2020

Documentary • Drama • History • War

0(0)

0.1

The Host

2020

Crime • Mystery • Thriller

as Dr. Hobson

5.6(19)

0.5

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

2019

Action • Adventure • Drama • History • War

as Lord Palmerston

5.7(10)

0.6

Muse

2019

Drama

as The Lawyer

0(0)

0.3

Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge

2017

Documentary

0(0)

0.2

The Devil of Christmas

2016

Comedy • Horror

as Dennis Fulcher (Voice)

0(0)

0.2

Venom

2015

Documentary • TV Movie

as Narrator

10(2)

0.1

Cinderella

2015

Drama • Family • Fantasy • Romance

as King

6.8(7,160)

13.8

You

2013

Drama

as Man

0(0)

0.1

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

2013

Documentary

as Narrator (voice)

1(1)

0.1

My Week with Marilyn

2011

Drama • Romance

as Sir Owen Morshead

6.7(1,302)

0.9

Charles Dickens's England

2009

Documentary • History

as Himself - Presenter

0(0)

0.1

Morris: A Life with Bells On

2009

Comedy • Documentary

as Quentin Neely

6.5(4)

0.2

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

2008

Documentary • History

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

The Ties That Bind Us

2008

Documentary • Science Fiction

as The Master (archive footage)

0(0)

0.4

The Art of Francis Bacon

2007

Documentary

as Derek Jacobi

0(0)

0.1

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

2004

Animation • Drama • Family

as Mr. Operatski (voice)

7(1)

0.1

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2004

Documentary

as Other Voices (voice)

7.1(26)

0.3

Cloud Cuckoo Land

2004

as Victor

0(0)

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

2002

Documentary

as Self

7(1)

0.2

The Making of 'Gosford Park'

2002

Documentary

as Self

5(2)

0.8

David Macaulay: Mill Times

2001

Documentary • History

as Priam Huntington (voice)

0(0)

0.1

Basil

1998

Drama • Romance

as Father Frederick

5.4(26)

1.2

Circle of Deceit

1993

Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

as Randal

7.5(1)

0.2

The Congress

1989

Documentary • History

as (voice)

8.3(3)

0.2

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1989

Documentary • History

as Hordedef (voice)

0(0)

0.1

The Statue of Liberty

1985

Documentary • History

as Self (voice)

6.7(13)

0.3

Charlotte

1981

Drama • War

as Daberlohn

0(0)

0.3

Mysterious Castles of Clay

1978

Documentary

as Narrator

5.8(4)

0.3

Olivier Talks About Othello

1965

Documentary

as (archive footage)

0(0)

0.2

Lead Heads

Drama

0(0)

0.2

Coronation Street: Queens of the Street

Documentary

as Himself

0(0)

0.2

Tinsel Town

Comedy • Romance

0(0)

0.3