Derek Jacobi
Known for: Acting
Born: October 22, 1938
Place of birth: 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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Filmography
163 movies · 61 TV shows, newest first
7.2
Heartstopper Forever
2026
5.5
Moss & Freud
2026
7.6
Broken English
2026
5.8
Tinsel Town
2025
6.0
Juliet & Romeo
2025
4.5
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024
6.6
Gladiator II
2024
7.8
Ludwig
2024
7.4
The American Buffalo
2023
7.0
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023
6.5
The Martini Shot
2023
5.2
Allelujah
2023
6.8
U-Boat Wargamers
2023
7.3
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
NR
A Bird Flew In
2022
NR
Pearl Islands
2022
7.9
The Sandman
2022
7.0
Remembers…
2022
NR
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
7.3
Say Your Prayers
2021
7.3
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
2021NR
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
2020
5.8
Come Away
2020
NR
Breaking The Codes
2020
5.6
The Host
2020
6.4
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019
NR
Muse
2019
5.2
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
8.0
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
2019
8.0
Good Omens
2019
6.9
Tolkien
2019
7.3
Les Misérables
2018NR
2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
2018
3.5
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
6.4
Tomb Raider
2018
7.7
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017
6.7
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
NR
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
5.0
Stratton
2017
NR
The Devil of Christmas
2016
6.4
The History of Love
2016
8.2
The Crown
2016
8.0
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
NR
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
10.0
Venom
2015
6.8
Cinderella
2015
7.6
The Gospel of Luke
2015
6.0
Grace of Monaco
2014
6.0
Effie Gray
2014
8.1
Inside No. 9
2014
NR
You
2013
6.2
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013NR
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
2013
6.5
Muse of Fire
2013
7.5
Vicious
2013
1.0
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013
7.1
Last Tango in Halifax
2012
5.3
Last Will. & Testament
2012
NR
The Halloween Kid
2012
6.3
Jail Caesar
2012
7.3
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
7.2
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012
6.7
My Week with Marilyn
2011
6.4
Anonymous
2011
6.4
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011
8.5
The Amazing World of Gumball
2011
7.6
The Borgias
2011
5.1
There Be Dragons
2011
6.2
Ironclad
2011
7.0
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2011
7.7
The King's Speech
2010
6.1
Hereafter
2010
4.3
Joe Maddison's War
2010
5.5
Margot
2009
7.0
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
NR
Charles Dickens's England
2009NR
Diamonds
2009
4.7
Diamonds
2009
5.9
Endgame
2009
6.5
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
5.7
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008
3.3
Sidney Turtlebaum
2008
NR
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
2008
6.1
Adam Resurrected
2008
NR
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
7.3
One of Those Days
2008
5.0
The Old Curiosity Shop
2007
6.1
The Golden Compass
2007
4.0
Guantanamero
2007
4.8
The Riddle
2007
NR
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
20077.0
Mist: Sheepdog Tales
2007
6.5
In the Night Garden
20077.0
Anastezsi
2007
NR
The Art of Francis Bacon
2007
7.0
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006
5.3
Pinochet in Suburbia
2006
6.6
Underworld: Evolution
2006
NR
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2005
6.7
Nanny McPhee
2005
5.3
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005
NR
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
8.1
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
7.6
Doctor Who
2005
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
7.0
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004
6.6
Strings
2004
7.0
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
7.2
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
7.2
The Long Firm
200410.0
London
20047.0
Cloud Cuckoo Land
2004
NR
Doctor Who: The Scream of the Shalka
2003
7.0
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003
7.0
Henry VIII
2003
7.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
6.5
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002
7.0
Inquisition
2002
6.7
Two Men Went To War
2002
7.0
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
5.8
Revengers Tragedy
2002
5.3
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
4.5
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002
6.6
The Gathering Storm
2002
5.0
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002
7.0
The Jury
2002
6.8
Gosford Park
2001
6.0
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001
NR
David Macaulay: Mill Times
2001
5.5
The Body
2001
5.1
Revelation
2001
7.5
Great Escape: The Untold Story
2001
7.0
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
5.2
The Wyvern Mystery
20009.0
Wilfred
2000
6.5
Jason and the Argonauts
2000
8.2
Gladiator
2000
5.3
Up at the Villa
20006.8
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
7.0
The Chimes
1999
6.3
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999
6.1
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
5.5
Basil
1998
5.8
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998
7.3
Hamlet
1996
6.8
Looking for Richard
1996
5.6
Breaking the Code
1996
8.4
The West
1996
8.0
Witness Against Hitler
1996
NR
The Virgin in the Ice
1995
5.5
Achilles
1995
5.9
The Secret Garden
1994
7.5
Baseball
1994
NR
Monk's Hood
1994
NR
The Leper of St. Giles
1994
NR
The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994
NR
One Corpse Too Many
1994
7.6
Cadfael
1994
NR
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994
9.0
David Macaulay: Roman City
19947.8
Circles of Deceit
1993
NR
The Vision Thing
1993
7.7
Frasier
1993
6.4
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
5.6
Aladdin
19929.0
The Velvet Claw
1992
8.2
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
6.4
Dead Again
1991NR
In My Defence
19918.0
The Fool
1990
7.9
The Civil War
1990
5.9
Discovering Hamlet
1990
7.1
Henry V
1989
7.6
The Congress
1989
NR
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
6.7
The Tenth Man
1988
6.4
Little Dorrit
1987
7.7
The Secret Garden
1987
6.0
ScreenPlay
1986
8.8
On Wings of Fire
1986
NR
David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986NR
Mr. Pye
1986
4.3
Mr Pye
19867.0
Wedden, dat..?
1986
6.9
The Statue of Liberty
19856.6
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
5.6
Enigma
1982
7.4
The Secret of NIMH
1982
7.7
Stranger in Town
1982
8.0
Inside the Third Reich
1982
5.7
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
8.0
Charlotte
1981
9.0
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1980
6.2
Hamlet
1980
5.8
The Human Factor
1979
7.1
Minder
1979
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
8.0
Richard II
1978
6.0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
6.8
The Medusa Touch
1978
6.4
Mysterious Castles of Clay
1978
5.4
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977
7.8
I, Claudius
1976
4.4
Blue Blood
1974
6.6
The Odessa File
1974
7.0
Affairs of the Heart
1974
7.0
NOVA
1974
6.4
The Pallisers
1974
7.5
The Day of the Jackal
1973
NR
Man of Straw
1972
7.5
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
7.2
Budgie
1971
4.3
Three Sisters
1970
7.0
ITV Playhouse
1967
6.3
Much Ado About Nothing
1967
6.4
Othello
1965
7.5
Horizon
1964NR
The Fishing Match
1962
6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
NR
Tony Awards
1956
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951NR
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
—NR
Lead Heads
—NR
Frank and Percy
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