Person

Derek Jacobi

Acting · Born 1938-10-22 · 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Derek Jacobi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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  Doctor Who

  Professor Yana

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  NOVA

  Voice of Ernest Shackleton

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  Frasier

  Jackson Hedley

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  The Crown

  Duke of Windsor

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  Horizon

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  The Amazing World of Gumball

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  Agatha Christie's Marple

  Colonel Protheroe

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  Minder

  Freddie Fenton

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  The Sandman

  Erasmus Fry

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  Tony Awards

  Self - Winner

• 2026Heartstopper Forever
• 2026Moss & FreudLucian Freud
• 2026Broken EnglishThe Narrator
• 2025Tinsel TownAlbert
• 2025Juliet & RomeoThe Friar
• 2024Dame Maggie Smith - A CelebrationSelf
• 2024Gladiator IIGracchus
• 2024LudwigMr. Todd
• 2023The American Buffalo(voice)
• 2023The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of LiesSir Ralph Unwin
• 2023The Martini ShotErrol
• 2023AllelujahAmbrose
• 2023U-Boat WargamersNarrator (voice)
• 2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to AqabaSelf
• 2022A Bird Flew InDavid
• 2022Pearl IslandsSelf
• 2022The SandmanErasmus Fry
• 2022Remembers…Self
• 2021Albert Speer und der Traum von HollywoodSelf (archive footage)
• 2021Say Your PrayersFather Enoch
• 2021The Lost Pirate KingdomNarrator
• 2020Coronation Street: Queens of the StreetHimself
• 2020Come AwayMr. Brown
• 2020Breaking The Codes
• 2020The HostDr. Hobson
• 2019The Warrior Queen of JhansiLord Palmerston
• 2019MuseThe Lawyer
• 2019Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten RomansClaudius
• 2019Greatest Events of World War II in ColourNarrator
• 2019Good OmensThe Metatron
• 2019TolkienProfessor Joseph Wright
• 2018Les MisérablesBishop Myriel
• 20182018: A Year in the Life of a Year
• 2018Nothing Is Truer than Truth
• 2018Tomb RaiderMr. Yaffe
• 2017A Christmas Carol Goes WrongScrooge
• 2017Murder on the Orient ExpressEdward Henry Masterman
• 2017Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
• 2017StrattonRoss
• 2016The Devil of Christmas
• 2016The History of LoveLeopold Gursky
• 2016The CrownDuke of Windsor
• 2016Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and JulietMercutio
• 2015Knights of Classic Drama at the BBCSelf (archive footage)
• 2015VenomNarrator
• 2015CinderellaKing
• 2015The Gospel of LukeNarrator (voice) – King James Version
• 2014Grace of MonacoCount Fernando D'Aillieres
• 2014Effie GrayTravers Twiss
• 2014Inside No. 9Webster
• 2013YouMan
• 2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on StageClaudius/Spooner
• 2013The Man Who Tried to Steal an IslandNarrator
• 2013Muse of FireSelf
• 2013ViciousStuart Bixby
• 2013Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham GreeneNarrator (voice)
• 2012Last Tango in HalifaxAlan
• 2012Last Will. & TestamentHimself
• 2012The Halloween KidNarrator
• 2012Jail CaesarSulla
• 2012Shakespeare UncoveredHimself
• 2012Titanic: Blood and SteelLord Pirrie
• 2011My Week with MarilynSir Owen Morshead
• 2011AnonymousPrologue
• 2011Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)Narrator (voice)
• 2011The Amazing World of GumballNarrator (voice)
• 2011The BorgiasCardinal Orsini
• 2011There Be DragonsHonorio
• 2011IroncladCornhill
• 2011National Theatre Live: King LearKing Lear
• 2010The King's SpeechArchbishop Cosmo Lang
• 2010HereafterDerek Jacobi
• 2010Joe Maddison's WarMr. Simpson
• 2009MargotFred Ashton
• 2009Doctor Who Greatest MomentsSelf
• 2009Charles Dickens's EnglandHimself - Presenter
• 2009Diamonds
• 2009DiamondsPiers Denmont
• 2009EndgameRudolph Agnew
• 2009Morris: A Life with Bells OnQuentin Neely
• 2008A Bunch of AmateursNigel Dewberry
• 2008Sidney TurtlebaumSidney Turtlebaum
• 2008Pompeii and the Roman VillaNarrator
• 2008Adam ResurrectedDr. Nathan Gross
• 2008The Ties That Bind UsThe Master (archive footage)
• 2008One of Those DaysHoward Whittam
• 2007The Old Curiosity ShopGrandfather
• 2007The Golden CompassMagisterial Emissary
• 2007GuantanameroGuido
• 2007The RiddleThe Tramp / Charles Dickens
• 2007Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in SpacePresident
• 2007In the Night GardenNarrator (voice)
• 2007AnastezsiBalzer
• 2007The Art of Francis BaconDerek Jacobi
• 2006Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog PuppyNarrator (voice)
• 2006Pinochet in SuburbiaSenator Augusto Pinochet
• 2006Underworld: EvolutionAlexander Corvinus
• 2005Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog PuppyNarrator(voice)
• 2005Nanny McPheeMr. Wheen
• 2005Bye Bye BlackbirdLord Dempsey
• 2005Strength and Honor: Production PodsSelf
• 2005Doctor Who Confidential
• 2005Doctor WhoProfessor Yana
• 2004Agatha Christie's MarpleColonel Protheroe
• 2004Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go OnMr. Operatski (voice)
• 2004StringsNezo
• 2004Who Do You Think You Are?Self
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonOther Voices (voice)
• 2004The Long FirmLord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
• 2004LondonTacitus
• 2004Cloud Cuckoo LandVictor
• 2003Doctor Who: Scream of the ShalkaThe Master (voice)
• 2003Henry VIIINarrator
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereSelf
• 2002The Dinosaur HuntersNarrator (voice)
• 2002InquisitionCardinal Grand Inquisitor
• 2002Two Men Went To WarMaj. Merton
• 2002I, Claudius: A Television EpicSelf
• 2002Revengers TragedyThe Duke
• 2002The Making of Gosford ParkSelf
• 2002The Diaries of Vaslav NijinskyNijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
• 2002The Gathering StormStanley Baldwin
• 2002Ultimate Fights from the MoviesGracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
• 2002The JuryGeorge Cording QC
• 2001Gosford ParkProbert
• 2001The Children's Midsummer Night's DreamTheseus (voice)
• 2001David Macaulay: Mill TimesPriam Huntington (voice)
• 2001The BodyFather Lavelle
• 2001RevelationLibrarian
• 2001Great Escape: The Untold StoryNarrator
• 2000Victoria Wood with All the TrimmingsVarious Characters
• 2000The Wyvern MysterySquire Fairfield
• 2000WilfredVoice
• 2000Jason and the ArgonautsPhineas
• 2000GladiatorGracchus
• 2000Up at the VillaLucky Leadbetter
• 2000Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
• 1999The ChimesNarrator
• 1999Molokai: The Story of Father DamienFather Leonor Fousnel
• 1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis BaconFrancis Bacon
• 1998BasilFather Frederick
• 1998Animated Epics: BeowulfNarrator ( voice )
• 1996HamletKing Claudius
• 1996Looking for RichardSelf - Interviewee
• 1996Breaking the CodeAlan Turing
• 1996The WestSelf (voice)
• 1996Witness Against HitlerGeneral
• 1995The Virgin in the IceBrother Cadfael
• 1995AchillesNarrator
• 1994The Secret GardenArchibald Craven (voice)
• 1994BaseballVarious (voice)
• 1994Monk's HoodBrother Cadfael
• 1994The Leper of St. GilesBrother Cadfael
• 1994The Sanctuary SparrowBrother Cadfael
• 1994One Corpse Too ManyBrother Cadfael
• 1994CadfaelBrother Cadfael
• 1994The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy FisherJeremy Fisher (voice)
• 1994David Macaulay: Roman CityMarcus Fabricius (voice)
• 1993Circles of DeceitRandal
• 1993The Vision ThingGeorge Salisbury
• 1993FrasierJackson Hedley
• 1992The World of Peter Rabbit and FriendsMr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
• 1992AladdinThe Magician (voice)
• 1992The Velvet ClawNarrator
• 1991The Storyteller: Greek MythsDaedalus
• 1991Dead AgainFranklyn Madson
• 1990The FoolMr. Frederick / Sir John
• 1990The Civil WarWilliam Russell / Various (voice)
• 1990Discovering HamletHimself
• 1989Henry VChorus
• 1989The Congress(voice)
• 1989David Macaulay: PyramidHordedef (voice)
• 1988The Tenth ManThe Imposter
• 1987Little DorritArthur Clennam
• 1987The Secret GardenArchibald Craven
• 1986ScreenPlayGeorge Salisbury
• 1986On Wings of FireSelf
• 1986David Macaulay: CathedralPierre (voice)
• 1986Mr. PyeMr. Pye
• 1986Mr PyeMr Pye
• 1986Wedden, dat..?Self
• 1985The Statue of LibertySelf (voice)
• 1985Cyrano de BergeracCyrano de Bergerac
• 1982EnigmaKurt Limmer
• 1982The Secret of NIMHNicodemus (voice)
• 1982Stranger in TownThe Stranger
• 1982Inside the Third ReichAdolf Hitler
• 1982The Hunchback of Notre DameDom Claude Frollo
• 1981CharlotteDaberlohn
• 1980The Man Who Went Up in SmokeMartin Beck
• 1980HamletHamlet
• 1979The Human FactorArthur Davis
• 1979MinderFreddie Fenton
• 1979Tales of the UnexpectedThe Stranger
• 1978Richard IIKing Richard II
• 1978The BBC Television ShakespeareRichard II
• 1978The Medusa TouchTownley - Publisher
• 1978Mysterious Castles of ClayNarrator
• 1977Philby, Burgess and MacleanGuy Burgess
• 1976I, ClaudiusClaudius
• 1974Blue BloodGregory
• 1974The Odessa FileKlaus Wenzer
• 1974Affairs of the HeartBertram Braddle
• 1974NOVAVoice of Ernest Shackleton
• 1974The PallisersLord Fawn
• 1973The Day of the JackalInspector Caron
• 1972Man of StrawDiederich Hessling
• 1971The Rivals of Sherlock HolmesWilliam Drew
• 1971BudgieHerbert Fletcher
• 1970Three SistersAndrei
• 1967ITV PlayhouseGerry
• 1967Much Ado About NothingDon John
• 1965OthelloCassio
• 1965Olivier Talks About Othello(archive footage)
• 1964HorizonNarrator
• 1962The Fishing MatchEric
• 1956Armchair TheatreEric
• 1956Tony AwardsSelf - Winner
• 1951Hallmark Hall of FameDom Claude
• —Venom! Nine Ways to DieNarrator
• —Lead Heads
• —Frank and Percy