Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

acting Oct 22, 1938 87 years Leytonstone, London, England, UK

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135 of 161 films rated

IMDb avg 6.7
IMDb median 6.9
RT avg 60%
RT median 65%

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  1. Lead Heads
  2. Frank and Percy
  3. The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island → Narrator
  4. Venom! Nine Ways to Die → Narrator
  5. Broken English → The Narrator
  6. Moss & Freud → Lucian Freud
  7. Heartstopper Forever
  8. Juliet & Romeo → The Friar
  9. Tinsel Town → Albert
  10. Gladiator II → Gracchus
  11. Ludwig (TV) → Mr. Todd
  12. Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration → Self
  13. The American Buffalo (TV) → (voice)
  14. The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies (TV) → Sir Ralph Unwin
  15. Allelujah → Ambrose
  16. U-Boat Wargamers (TV) → Narrator (voice)
  17. The Martini Shot → Errol
  18. The Sandman (TV) → Erasmus Fry
  19. Remembers… (TV) → Self
  20. Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba → Self
  21. A Bird Flew In → David
  22. Pearl Islands → Self
  23. The Lost Pirate Kingdom (TV) → Narrator
  24. Say Your Prayers → Father Enoch
  25. Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood → Self (archive footage)
  26. Come Away → Mr. Brown
  27. The Host → Dr. Hobson
  28. Breaking The Codes
  29. Coronation Street: Queens of the Street → Himself
  30. Good Omens (TV) → The Metatron
  31. Good Omens (TV) → Metatron
  32. Greatest Events of World War II in Colour (TV) → Narrator
  33. Tolkien → Professor Joseph Wright
  34. Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans → Claudius
  35. The Warrior Queen of Jhansi → Lord Palmerston
  36. Muse → The Lawyer
  37. Tomb Raider → Mr. Yaffe
  38. Les Misérables (TV) → Bishop Myriel
  39. Nothing Is Truer than Truth
  40. Murder on the Orient Express → Edward Henry Masterman
  41. Stratton → Ross
  42. A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong → Scrooge
  43. Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
  44. The Crown (TV) → Duke of Windsor
  45. The History of Love → Leopold Gursky
  46. Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet → Mercutio
  47. The Devil of Christmas
  48. Cinderella → King
  49. The Gospel of Luke → Narrator (voice) – King James Version
  50. Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC → Self (archive footage)
  51. Venom → Narrator
  52. Inside No. 9 (TV) → Webster
  53. Effie Gray → Travers Twiss
  54. Grace of Monaco → Count Fernando D'Aillieres
  55. Vicious (TV) → Stuart Bixby
  56. Muse of Fire → Self
  57. National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage → Claudius/Spooner
  58. Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene → Narrator (voice)
  59. You → Man
  60. Titanic: Blood and Steel (TV) → Lord Pirrie
  61. Last Tango in Halifax (TV) → Alan
  62. Shakespeare Uncovered (TV) → Himself
  63. Jail Caesar → Sulla
  64. The Halloween Kid → Narrator
  65. Last Will. & Testament → Himself
  66. The Amazing World of Gumball (TV) → Narrator (voice)
  67. The Borgias (TV) → Cardinal Orsini
  68. Ironclad → Cornhill
  69. My Week with Marilyn → Sir Owen Morshead
  70. Anonymous → Prologue
  71. There Be Dragons → Honorio
  72. National Theatre Live: King Lear → King Lear
  73. Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) → Narrator (voice)
  74. The King's Speech → Archbishop Cosmo Lang
  75. Hereafter → Derek Jacobi
  76. Joe Maddison's War → Mr. Simpson
  77. Doctor Who Greatest Moments (TV) → Self
  78. Endgame → Rudolph Agnew
  79. Diamonds (TV)
  80. Morris: A Life with Bells On → Quentin Neely
  81. Margot → Fred Ashton
  82. Diamonds → Piers Denmont
  83. Charles Dickens's England → Himself - Presenter
  84. Adam Resurrected → Dr. Nathan Gross
  85. A Bunch of Amateurs → Nigel Dewberry
  86. The Ties That Bind Us → The Master (archive footage)
  87. One of Those Days → Howard Whittam
  88. Pompeii and the Roman Villa → Narrator
  89. Sidney Turtlebaum → Sidney Turtlebaum
  90. In the Night Garden (TV) → Narrator (voice)
  91. The Golden Compass → Magisterial Emissary
  92. The Old Curiosity Shop → Grandfather
  93. The Riddle → The Tramp / Charles Dickens
  94. Guantanamero → Guido
  95. Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space → President
  96. Anastezsi → Balzer
  97. The Art of Francis Bacon → Derek Jacobi
  98. Underworld: Evolution → Alexander Corvinus
  99. Pinochet in Suburbia → Senator Augusto Pinochet
  100. Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy → Narrator (voice)
  101. Doctor Who (TV) → Professor Yana
  102. Doctor Who Confidential (TV)
  103. Nanny McPhee → Mr. Wheen
  104. Strength and Honor: Production Pods → Self
  105. Bye Bye Blackbird → Lord Dempsey
  106. Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy → Narrator(voice)
  107. Agatha Christie's Marple (TV) → Colonel Protheroe
  108. Who Do You Think You Are? (TV) → Self
  109. London (TV) → Tacitus
  110. The Long Firm (TV) → Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
  111. Strings → Nezo
  112. Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson → Other Voices (voice)
  113. Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On → Mr. Operatski (voice)
  114. Cloud Cuckoo Land → Victor
  115. Henry VIII (TV) → Narrator
  116. Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (TV) → The Master (voice)
  117. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There → Self
  118. The Jury (TV) → George Cording QC
  119. The Gathering Storm → Stanley Baldwin
  120. Ultimate Fights from the Movies → Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
  121. Revengers Tragedy → The Duke
  122. The Making of Gosford Park → Self
  123. Two Men Went To War → Maj. Merton
  124. Inquisition → Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
  125. I, Claudius: A Television Epic → Self
  126. The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky → Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
  127. The Dinosaur Hunters → Narrator (voice)
  128. Gosford Park → Probert
  129. The Body → Father Lavelle
  130. Revelation → Librarian
  131. David Macaulay: Mill Times → Priam Huntington (voice)
  132. Great Escape: The Untold Story → Narrator
  133. Gladiator → Gracchus
  134. Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV)
  135. Jason and the Argonauts (TV) → Phineas
  136. Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings → Various Characters
  137. Up at the Villa → Lucky Leadbetter
  138. The Wyvern Mystery → Squire Fairfield
  139. Wilfred → Voice
  140. Molokai: The Story of Father Damien → Father Leonor Fousnel
  141. The Chimes → Narrator
  142. Basil → Father Frederick
  143. Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon → Francis Bacon
  144. Animated Epics: Beowulf → Narrator ( voice )
  145. The West (TV) → Self (voice)
  146. Hamlet → King Claudius
  147. Looking for Richard → Self - Interviewee
  148. Witness Against Hitler → General
  149. Breaking the Code → Alan Turing
  150. Achilles → Narrator
  151. The Virgin in the Ice → Brother Cadfael
  152. Cadfael (TV) → Brother Cadfael
  153. Baseball (TV) → Various (voice)
  154. Baseball (TV) → (voice)
  155. David Macaulay: Roman City → Marcus Fabricius (voice)
  156. The Secret Garden → Archibald Craven (voice)
  157. Monk's Hood → Brother Cadfael
  158. The Sanctuary Sparrow → Brother Cadfael
  159. The Leper of St. Giles → Brother Cadfael
  160. One Corpse Too Many → Brother Cadfael
  161. The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher → Jeremy Fisher (voice)
  162. Frasier (TV) → Jackson Hedley
  163. Circles of Deceit → Randal
  164. The Vision Thing → George Salisbury
  165. The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (TV) → Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
  166. Aladdin → The Magician (voice)
  167. The Velvet Claw (TV) → Narrator
  168. The Storyteller: Greek Myths (TV) → Daedalus
  169. Dead Again → Franklyn Madson
  170. The Civil War (TV) → Various
  171. The Fool → Mr. Frederick / Sir John
  172. Discovering Hamlet → Himself
  173. Henry V → Chorus
  174. David Macaulay: Pyramid → Hordedef (voice)
  175. The Congress → (voice)
  176. The Tenth Man → The Imposter
  177. The Secret Garden → Archibald Craven
  178. Little Dorrit → Arthur Clennam
  179. Wedden, dat..? (TV) → Self
  180. Mr Pye (TV) → Mr Pye
  181. On Wings of Fire → Self
  182. Mr. Pye → Mr. Pye
  183. David Macaulay: Cathedral → Pierre (voice)
  184. The Statue of Liberty → Self (voice)
  185. Cyrano de Bergerac → Cyrano de Bergerac
  186. The Secret of NIMH → Nicodemus (voice)
  187. Inside the Third Reich (TV) → Adolf Hitler
  188. Enigma → Kurt Limmer
  189. The Hunchback of Notre Dame → Dom Claude Frollo
  190. Stranger in Town → The Stranger
  191. Charlotte → Daberlohn
  192. Hamlet → Hamlet
  193. The Man Who Went Up in Smoke → Martin Beck
  194. Minder (TV) → Freddie Fenton
  195. Tales of the Unexpected (TV) → The Stranger
  196. Tales of the Unexpected (TV) → Drioli
  197. The Human Factor → Arthur Davis
  198. The Medusa Touch → Townley - Publisher
  199. Richard II → King Richard II
  200. Mysterious Castles of Clay → Narrator
  201. Philby, Burgess and Maclean → Guy Burgess
  202. I, Claudius (TV) → Claudius
  203. NOVA (TV) → Voice of Ernest Shackleton
  204. The Pallisers (TV) → Lord Fawn
  205. The Odessa File → Klaus Wenzer
  206. Blue Blood → Gregory
  207. The Day of the Jackal → Inspector Caron
  208. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV) → William Drew
  209. Budgie (TV) → Herbert Fletcher
  210. Three Sisters → Andrei
  211. ITV Playhouse (TV) → Gerry
  212. Much Ado About Nothing → Don John
  213. Othello → Cassio
  214. Olivier Talks About Othello → (archive footage)
  215. Horizon (TV) → Narrator
  216. The Fishing Match → Eric
  217. Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Winner
  218. Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee
  219. Armchair Theatre (TV) → Eric
  220. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Dom Claude
  221. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Archibald Craven
  222. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Imposter

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