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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 22, 1938
Place of Birth
Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- 데릭 자코비
- デレク ジャコビ
- درک جاکوبی
Derek Jacobi
1.7 Popularity
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
Known For
6.2
Albert
Tinsel Town
2025
0.0
Lucian Freud
Moss & Freud
2025
8.0
The Narrator
Broken English
2025
6.9
The Friar
Juliet & Romeo
2025
4.5
Self
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024
6.6
Gracchus
Gladiator II
2024
7.6
Mr. Todd
Ludwig
2024
6.8
(voice)
The American Buffalo
2023
8.0
Errol
The Martini Shot
2023
7.1
Sir Ralph Unwin
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023
Credits
Tinsel Town
as Albert
2025
6.2
Moss & Freud
as Lucian Freud
2025
0.0
Broken English
as The Narrator
2025
8.0
Juliet & Romeo
as The Friar
2025
6.9
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
as Self
2024
4.5
Gladiator II
as Gracchus
2024
6.6
Ludwig
as Mr. Todd
2024
7.6
The American Buffalo
as (voice)
2023
6.8
The Martini Shot
as Errol
2023
8.0
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies
as Sir Ralph Unwin
2023
7.1
Allelujah
as Ambrose
2023
5.2
U-Boat Wargamers
as Narrator (voice)
2023
6.8
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
2022
7.8
A Bird Flew In
as David
2022
0.0
🎬
Pearl Islands
as Self
2022
0.0
The Sandman
as Erasmus Fry
2022
7.9
Rhythm of Life
as Self
2021
6.5
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
as Himself (archive footage)
2021
0.0
Say Your Prayers
as Father Enoch
2021
7.3
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
as Narrator
2021
7.3
🎬
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
as Himself
2020
0.0
Come Away
as Mr. Brown
2020
5.8
Breaking The Codes
2020
0.0
The Host
as Dr. Hobson
2020
5.6
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
as Lord Palmerston
2019
6.1
Muse
as The Lawyer
2019
0.0
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
as Claudius
2019
5.2
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
as Narrator
2019
8.0
Good Omens
as The Metatron
2019
8.0
Good Omens
as Metatron
2019
8.0
Tolkien
as Professor Joseph Wright
2019
6.9
Les Misérables
as Bishop Myriel
2018
7.3
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
3.5
Tomb Raider
as Mr. Yaffe
2018
6.4
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Scrooge
2017
7.6
Murder on the Orient Express
as Edward Henry Masterman
2017
6.7
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
0.0
Stratton
as Ross
2017
5.0
The Devil of Christmas
2016
0.0
The History of Love
as Leopold Gursky
2016
6.4
The Crown
as Duke of Windsor
2016
8.2
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
as Mercutio
2016
8.0
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2015
0.0
Venom
as Narrator
2015
10.0
Cinderella
as King
2015
6.8
The Gospel of Luke
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
2015
8.3
Grace of Monaco
as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
2014
6.0
Effie Gray
as Travers Twiss
2014
5.9
Inside No. 9
as Webster
2014
8.0
You
as Man
2013
0.0
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Claudius/Spooner
2013
6.2
Muse of Fire
as Self
2013
6.5
Vicious
as Stuart Bixby
2013
7.5
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
as Narrator (voice)
2013
1.0
Last Tango in Halifax
as Alan
2012
7.0
Last Will. & Testament
as Himself
2012
7.0
The Halloween Kid
as Narrator
2012
0.0
Jail Caesar
as Sulla
2012
6.3
Shakespeare Uncovered
as Himself
2012
7.5
Titanic: Blood and Steel
as Lord Pirrie
2012
7.2
My Week with Marilyn
as Sir Owen Morshead
2011
6.7
Anonymous
as Prologue
2011
6.4
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
as Narrator (voice)
2011
6.3
The Amazing World of Gumball
as Narrator (voice)
2011
8.5
There Be Dragons
as Honorio
2011
5.0
Ironclad
as Cornhill
2011
6.1
National Theatre Live: King Lear
as King Lear
2011
7.0
The King's Speech
as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
2010
7.7
Hereafter
as Derek Jacobi
2010
6.1
Joe Maddison's War
as Mr. Simpson
2010
4.3
Margot
as Fred Ashton
2009
5.5
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
as Self
2009
7.0
Charles Dickens's England
as Himself - Presenter
2009
0.0
🎬
Diamonds
2009
0.0
Diamonds
as Piers Denmont
2009
4.7
Endgame
as Rudolph Agnew
2009
5.8
Morris: A Life with Bells On
as Quentin Neely
2009
6.5
A Bunch of Amateurs
as Nigel Dewberry
2008
5.7
Sidney Turtlebaum
as Sidney Turtlebaum
2008
3.3
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
as Narrator
2008
0.0
Adam Resurrected
as Dr. Nathan Gross
2008
6.1
The Ties That Bind Us
as The Master (archive footage)
2008
0.0
One of Those Days
as Howard Whittam
2008
7.3
The Old Curiosity Shop
as Grandfather
2007
5.0
The Golden Compass
as Magisterial Emissary
2007
6.1
Guantanamero
as Guido
2007
3.3
The Riddle
as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
2007
4.8
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
as President
2007
0.0
In the Night Garden
as Narrator (voice)
2007
6.6
🎬
Anastezsi
as Balzer
2007
0.0
The Art of Francis Bacon
as Derek Jacobi
2007
0.0
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
as Narrator
2006
4.0
Pinochet in Suburbia
as Senator Augusto Pinochet
2006
6.0
Underworld: Evolution
as Alexander Corvinus
2006
6.6
Nanny McPhee
as Mr. Wheen
2005
6.7
Bye Bye Blackbird
as Lord Dempsey
2005
5.0
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
as Self
2005
0.0
Doctor Who
as Professor Yana
2005
7.6
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
8.2
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Colonel Protheroe
2004
7.8
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
as Mr. Operatski (voice)
2004
7.0
Strings
as Nezo
2004
6.7
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
6.7
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
2004
7.1
The Long Firm
as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
2004
7.0
🎬
London
as Tacitus
2004
0.0
🎬
Cloud Cuckoo Land
as Victor
2004
0.0
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
as The Master (voice)
2003
6.6
Henry VIII
as Narrator
2003
6.8
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
7.0
The Dinosaur Hunters
as Narrator (voice)
2002
5.0
Inquisition
as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
2002
0.0
Two Men Went To War
as Maj. Merton
2002
6.5
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
as Self
2002
7.0
Revengers Tragedy
as The Duke
2002
5.4
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self
2002
5.0
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
2002
3.6
The Gathering Storm
as Stanley Baldwin
2002
6.6
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
2002
4.9
The Jury
as George Cording QC
2002
6.8
Gosford Park
as Probert
2001
6.8
David Macaulay: Mill Times
as Priam Huntington (voice)
2001
0.0
The Body
as Father Lavelle
2001
5.5
Revelation
as Librarian
2001
4.9
Great Escape: The Untold Story
as Narrator
2001
6.0
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Various Characters
2000
6.5
The Wyvern Mystery
as Squire Fairfield
2000
4.8
🎬
Wilfred
as Voice
2000
0.0
Jason and the Argonauts
as Phineas
2000
6.3
Gladiator
as Gracchus
2000
8.2
Up at the Villa
as Lucky Leadbetter
2000
5.2
🎬
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
6.5
The Chimes
as Narrator
1999
7.0
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
as Father Leonor Fousnel
1999
6.0
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
as Francis Bacon
1998
6.0
Basil
as Father Frederick
1998
5.3
Animated Epics: Beowulf
as Narrator ( voice )
1998
4.3
Hamlet
as King Claudius
1996
7.3
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
1996
6.8
Breaking the Code
as Alan Turing
1996
5.1
The West
as Self (voice)
1996
8.4
Witness Against Hitler
as General
1996
6.0
The Virgin in the Ice
as Brother Cadfael
1995
0.0
Achilles
as Narrator
1995
5.4
The Secret Garden
as Archibald Craven (voice)
1994
5.7
Baseball
as Various (voice)
1994
7.4
Baseball
as (voice)
1994
7.4
Monk's Hood
as Brother Cadfael
1994
0.0
The Leper of St. Giles
as Brother Cadfael
1994
0.0
The Sanctuary Sparrow
as Brother Cadfael
1994
0.0
Cadfael
as Brother Cadfael
1994
7.4
One Corpse Too Many
as Brother Cadfael
1994
0.0
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
as Jeremy Fisher (voice)
1994
0.0
David Macaulay: Roman City
as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
1994
9.0
Aladdin
as The Magician (voice)
1994
5.4
🎬
Circle of Deceit
as Randal
1993
7.5
The Vision Thing
as George Salisbury
1993
0.0
Frasier
as Jackson Hedley
1993
7.7
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
1992
6.2
🎬
The Velvet Claw
as Narrator
1992
9.0
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
as Daedalus
1991
8.2
Dead Again
as Franklyn Madson
1991
6.4
🎬
The Fool
as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
1990
7.0
The Civil War
as Various
1990
7.9
Discovering Hamlet
as Himself
1990
5.7
Henry V
as Chorus
1989
7.2
The Congress
as (voice)
1989
7.8
David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Hordedef (voice)
1989
0.0
The Tenth Man
as The Imposter
1988
6.7
Little Dorrit
as Arthur Clennam
1987
6.5
The Secret Garden
as Archibald Craven
1987
7.6
On Wings of Fire
as Self
1986
9.5
David Macaulay: Cathedral
as Pierre (voice)
1986
0.0
🎬
Mr. Pye
as Mr. Pye
1986
0.0
Mr. Pye
as Mr. Pye
1986
2.7
🎬
Wedden, dat..?
as Self
1986
8.0
The Statue of Liberty
as Self (voice)
1985
6.7
🎬
Cyrano de Bergerac
as Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
5.5
Enigma
as Kurt Limmer
1982
5.5
The Secret of NIMH
as Nicodemus (voice)
1982
7.5
Stranger in Town
as The Stranger
1982
7.7
Inside the Third Reich
as Adolf Hitler
1982
0.0
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Dom Claude Frollo
1982
5.7
Charlotte
as Daberlohn
1981
0.0
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
as Martin Beck
1980
0.0
Hamlet
as Hamlet
1980
6.1
The Human Factor
as Arthur Davis
1979
5.8
Minder
as Freddie Fenton
1979
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
as The Stranger
1979
6.7
Richard II
as King Richard II
1978
7.5
The Medusa Touch
as Townley - Publisher
1978
6.8
Mysterious Castles of Clay
as Narrator
1978
5.8
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
as Guy Burgess
1977
4.5
I, Claudius
as Claudius
1976
7.8
Blue Blood
as Gregory
1974
4.0
The Odessa File
as Klaus Wenzer
1974
6.6
NOVA
as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
1974
7.0
The Day of the Jackal
as Inspector Caron
1973
7.5
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as William Drew
1971
7.4
Budgie
as Herbert Fletcher
1971
7.0
Three Sisters
as Andrei
1970
3.8
Much Ado About Nothing
as Don John
1967
5.5
Othello
as Cassio
1965
6.2
🎬
Olivier Talks About Othello
as (archive footage)
1965
0.0
🎬
The Fishing Match
as Eric
1962
0.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dom Claude
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Archibald Craven
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Imposter
1951
8.6
🎬
Lead Heads
N/A
0.0
🎬
Frank and Percy
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
as Narrator
N/A
0.0
🎬
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
as Narrator
N/A
0.0