Moss & Freud
2026 · Movie
as Lucian Freud
Derek Jacobi
1938-10-22
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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
Filmography
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2026 · Movie
as The Narrator
Heartstopper Forever
2026 · Movie
as Pete
Juliet & Romeo
2025 · Movie
as The Friar
Tinsel Town
2025 · Movie
as Albert
Gladiator II
2024 · Movie
as Gracchus
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024 · Movie
as Self
Ludwig
2024 · TV Show
as Mr. Todd
Allelujah
2023 · Movie
as Ambrose
The Martini Shot
2023 · Movie
as Errol
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023 · TV Show
as Sir Ralph Unwin
The American Buffalo
2023 · TV Show
as (voice)
U-Boat Wargamers
2023 · TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022 · Movie
as Self
Pearl Islands
2022 · Movie
as Self
A Bird Flew In
2022 · Movie
as David
The Sandman
2022 · TV Show
as Erasmus Fry
Remembers…
2022 · TV Show
as Self
Say Your Prayers
2021 · Movie
as Father Enoch
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
2021 · TV Show
as Narrator
Come Away
2020 · Movie
as Mr. Brown
The Host
2020 · Movie
as Dr. Hobson
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Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
2020 · Movie
as Himself
Breaking The Codes
2020 · Movie
Tolkien
2019 · Movie
as Professor Joseph Wright
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019 · Movie
as Claudius
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019 · Movie
as Lord Palmerston
Muse
2019 · Movie
as The Lawyer
Good Omens
2019 · TV Show
as The Metatron, Metatron
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
2019 · TV Show
as Narrator
Tomb Raider
2018 · Movie
as Mr. Yaffe
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018 · Movie
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2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
2018 · Movie
Les Misérables
2018 · TV Show
as Bishop Myriel
Murder on the Orient Express
2017 · Movie
as Edward Henry Masterman
Stratton
2017 · Movie
as Ross
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017 · Movie
as Scrooge
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017 · Movie
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016 · Movie
as Mercutio
The History of Love
2016 · Movie
as Leopold Gursky
The Devil of Christmas
2016 · Movie
The Crown
2016 · TV Show
as Duke of Windsor
The Gospel of Luke
2015 · Movie
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Venom
2015 · Movie
as Narrator
Cinderella
2015 · Movie
as King
Effie Gray
2014 · Movie
as Travers Twiss
Grace of Monaco
2014 · Movie
as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
Inside No. 9
2014 · TV Show
as Webster
Muse of Fire
2013 · Movie
as Self
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The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
2013 · Movie
as Narrator
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · Movie
as Claudius/Spooner
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
You
2013 · Movie
as Man
Vicious
2013 · TV Show
as Stuart Bixby
Last Will. & Testament
2012 · Movie
as Himself
Jail Caesar
2012 · Movie
as Sulla
The Halloween Kid
2012 · Movie
as Narrator
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012 · TV Show
as Lord Pirrie
Last Tango in Halifax
2012 · TV Show
as Alan
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012 · TV Show
as Himself
Anonymous
2011 · Movie
as Prologue
There Be Dragons
2011 · Movie
as Honorio
Ironclad
2011 · Movie
as Cornhill
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2011 · Movie
as King Lear
My Week with Marilyn
2011 · Movie
as Sir Owen Morshead
The Amazing World of Gumball
2011 · TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
The Borgias
2011 · TV Show
as Cardinal Orsini
Joe Maddison's War
2010 · Movie
as Mr. Simpson
The King's Speech
2010 · Movie
as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Hereafter
2010 · Movie
as Derek Jacobi
Diamonds
2009 · Movie
as Piers Denmont
Endgame
2009 · Movie
as Rudolph Agnew
Margot
2009 · Movie
as Fred Ashton
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009 · Movie
as Quentin Neely
Charles Dickens's England
2009 · Movie
as Himself - Presenter
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Diamonds
2009 · TV Show
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009 · TV Show
as Self
Adam Resurrected
2008 · Movie
as Dr. Nathan Gross
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008 · Movie
as Nigel Dewberry
Sidney Turtlebaum
2008 · Movie
as Sidney Turtlebaum
One of Those Days
2008 · Movie
as Howard Whittam
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
2008 · Movie
as Narrator
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Movie
as The Master (archive footage)
The Golden Compass
2007 · Movie
as Magisterial Emissary
The Old Curiosity Shop
2007 · Movie
as Grandfather
The Riddle
2007 · Movie
as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
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Anastezsi
2007 · Movie
as Balzer
Guantanamero
2007 · Movie
as Guido
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007 · Movie
as President
The Art of Francis Bacon
2007 · Movie
as Derek Jacobi
In the Night Garden
2007 · TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
Underworld: Evolution
2006 · Movie
as Alexander Corvinus
Pinochet in Suburbia
2006 · Movie
as Senator Augusto Pinochet
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Nanny McPhee
2005 · Movie
as Mr. Wheen
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005 · Movie
as Lord Dempsey
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005 · Movie
as Self
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2005 · Movie
as Narrator(voice)
Doctor Who Confidential
2005 · TV Show
Doctor Who
2005 · TV Show
as Professor Yana
Strings
2004 · Movie
as Nezo
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Movie
as Other Voices (voice)
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004 · Movie
as Mr. Operatski (voice)
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
2004 · Movie
as Victor
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · TV Show
as Self
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London
2004 · TV Show
as Tacitus
The Long Firm
2004 · TV Show
as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV Show
as Colonel Protheroe
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · Movie
as Self
Henry VIII
2003 · TV Show
as Narrator
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003 · TV Show
as The Master (voice)
Revengers Tragedy
2002 · Movie
as The Duke
The Gathering Storm
2002 · Movie
as Stanley Baldwin
Two Men Went To War
2002 · Movie
as Maj. Merton
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002 · Movie
as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002 · Movie
as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Inquisition
2002 · Movie
as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002 · Movie
as Self
The Making of Gosford Park
2002 · Movie
as Self
The Jury
2002 · TV Show
as George Cording QC
Gosford Park
2001 · Movie
as Probert
The Body
2001 · Movie
as Father Lavelle
Revelation
2001 · Movie
as Librarian
Great Escape: The Untold Story
2001 · Movie
as Narrator
David Macaulay: Mill Times
2001 · Movie
as Priam Huntington (voice)
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001 · Movie
as Theseus (voice)
Gladiator
2000 · Movie
as Gracchus
The Wyvern Mystery
2000 · Movie
as Squire Fairfield
Up at the Villa
2000 · Movie
as Lucky Leadbetter
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Wilfred
2000 · Movie
as Voice
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Movie
as Various Characters
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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000 · TV Show
Jason and the Argonauts
2000 · TV Show
as Phineas
The Chimes
1999 · Movie
as Narrator
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999 · Movie
as Father Leonor Fousnel
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998 · Movie
as Narrator ( voice )
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998 · Movie
as Francis Bacon
Basil
1998 · Movie
as Father Frederick
Hamlet
1996 · Movie
as King Claudius
Breaking the Code
1996 · Movie
as Alan Turing
Witness Against Hitler
1996 · Movie
as General
Looking for Richard
1996 · Movie
as Self - Interviewee
The West
1996 · TV Show
as Self (voice)
Achilles
1995 · Movie
as Narrator
The Virgin in the Ice
1995 · Movie
as Brother Cadfael
The Secret Garden
1994 · Movie
as Archibald Craven (voice)
David Macaulay: Roman City
1994 · Movie
as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
One Corpse Too Many
1994 · Movie
as Brother Cadfael
The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994 · Movie
as Brother Cadfael
The Leper of St. Giles
1994 · Movie
as Brother Cadfael
Monk's Hood
1994 · Movie
as Brother Cadfael
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994 · Movie
as Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Cadfael
1994 · TV Show
as Brother Cadfael
Baseball
1994 · TV Show
as Various (voice), (voice)
The Vision Thing
1993 · Movie
as George Salisbury
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Circles of Deceit
1993 · Movie
as Randal
Frasier
1993 · TV Show
as Jackson Hedley
Aladdin
1992 · Movie
as The Magician (voice)
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The Velvet Claw
1992 · TV Show
as Narrator
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992 · TV Show
as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Dead Again
1991 · Movie
as Franklyn Madson
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991 · TV Show
as Daedalus
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The Fool
1990 · Movie
as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Discovering Hamlet
1990 · Movie
as Himself
The Civil War
1990 · TV Show
as William Russell / Various (voice)
Henry V
1989 · Movie
as Chorus
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989 · Movie
as Hordedef (voice)
The Congress
1989 · Movie
as (voice)
The Tenth Man
1988 · Movie
as The Imposter
Little Dorrit
1987 · Movie
as Arthur Clennam
The Secret Garden
1987 · Movie
as Archibald Craven
On Wings of Fire
1986 · Movie
as Self
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Mr. Pye
1986 · Movie
as Mr. Pye
David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986 · Movie
as Pierre (voice)
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Wedden, dat..?
1986 · TV Show
as Self
Mr Pye
1986 · TV Show
as Mr Pye
ScreenPlay
1986 · TV Show
as George Salisbury
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Cyrano de Bergerac
1985 · Movie
as Cyrano de Bergerac
The Statue of Liberty
1985 · Movie
as Self (voice)
Stranger in Town
1982 · Movie
as The Stranger
Enigma
1982 · Movie
as Kurt Limmer
The Secret of NIMH
1982 · Movie
as Nicodemus (voice)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982 · Movie
as Dom Claude Frollo
Inside the Third Reich
1982 · TV Show
as Adolf Hitler
Charlotte
1981 · Movie
as Daberlohn
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1980 · Movie
as Martin Beck
Hamlet
1980 · Movie
as Hamlet
The Human Factor
1979 · Movie
as Arthur Davis
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · TV Show
as The Stranger, Drioli
Minder
1979 · TV Show
as Freddie Fenton
The Medusa Touch
1978 · Movie
as Townley - Publisher
Richard II
1978 · Movie
as King Richard II
Mysterious Castles of Clay
1978 · Movie
as Narrator
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · TV Show
as Richard II, Hamlet
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977 · Movie
as Guy Burgess
I, Claudius
1976 · TV Show
as Claudius
The Odessa File
1974 · Movie
as Klaus Wenzer
Blue Blood
1974 · Movie
as Gregory
NOVA
1974 · TV Show
as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
The Pallisers
1974 · TV Show
as Lord Fawn
Affairs of the Heart
1974 · TV Show
as Bertram Braddle
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Movie
as Inspector Caron
Man of Straw
1972 · TV Show
as Diederich Hessling
Budgie
1971 · TV Show
as Herbert Fletcher
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · TV Show
as William Drew
Three Sisters
1970 · Movie
as Andrei
Much Ado About Nothing
1967 · Movie
as Don John
ITV Playhouse
1967 · TV Show
as Gerry
Othello
1965 · Movie
as Cassio
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Olivier Talks About Othello
1965 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Horizon
1964 · TV Show
as Narrator
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The Fishing Match
1962 · Movie
as Eric
Armchair Theatre
1956 · TV Show
as Eric
Tony Awards
1956 · TV Show
as Self - Winner, Self - Nominee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV Show
as Dom Claude, Archibald Craven, Imposter
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Venom! Nine Ways to Die
· Movie
as Narrator
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Lead Heads
· Movie
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Frank and Percy
· Movie
