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Derek Jacobi
Highest Rated: 100% Say Your Prayers (2020)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Oct 22, 1938
Birthplace: Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Handpicked to cofound Britain's National Theatre Company by Sir Laurence Olivier in 1963, Sir Derek Jacobi gained notice in Shakespearean classics such as "Hamlet" and "Othello" before segueing to feature films like "Day of the Jackal" (1973) and "The Odessa File" (1974). Jacobi's profile rose considerably with his career-making turn as "I, Claudius" (PBS, 1977), soon followed by his chilling embodiment of history's most reviled dictator in "Inside the Third Reich" (ABC, 1982). As an actor and public figure, his honors were numerous, including a Tony Award, Emmys, the Laurence Olivier Award, and a British knighthood in 1994. Other notable efforts on television, film and stage included his run as the 12th-century monk detective "Cadfael" (PBS, 1995-99), performing as a member of the award-winning ensemble cast of "The King's Speech" (2010) and what some called the definitive portrayal of "King Lear" on the London stage in 2011. Whether it was redefining another of Shakespeare's iconic characters, portraying a well-known historical figure, or creating a completely original performance for a modern work, Jacobi approached each role armed with classic training, fresh ideas and an indefatigable creative energy.
Photos
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gladiator 2 | Gracchus (Character) | - | 2024 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Martini Shot | Unknown (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 38% | 62% | Allelujah | Ambrose (Character) | - | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Bird Flew In | David (Character) | - | 2021 |
| 100% | 53% | Say Your Prayers | Father Enoch (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 29% | 53% | Come Away | Mr. Brown (Character) | $106.1K | 2020 |
| 25% | 75% | The Host | Dr. Hobson (Character) | - | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Muse | The Lawyer (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 27% | 78% | The Warrior Queen of Jhansi | Lord Palmerston (Character) | $174.1K | 2019 |
| 51% | 71% | Tolkien | Professor Wright (Character) | $4.5M | 2019 |
| 69% | 72% | Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans | Claudius (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 52% | 55% | Tomb Raider | Mr. Yaffe (Character) | $57.3M | 2018 |
| 0% | 22% | Stratton | Ross (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 60% | 54% | Murder on the Orient Express | Edward Henry Masterman (Character) | $101.5M | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Shakespeare Conspiracy Presented by Sir Derek Jacobi | Narrator | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | The History of Love | Léo Gursky (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 84% | 78% | Cinderella | King (Character) | $201.2M | 2015 |
| 9% | 25% | Grace of Monaco | Count Fernando D'Aillieres (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 43% | 40% | Effie Gray | Travers Twiss (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jail Caesar | Sulla (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 83% | 71% | My Week With Marilyn | Sir Owen Morshead (Character) | $85.3K | 2011 |
| 47% | 53% | Anonymous | Prologue (Character) | $4.5M | 2011 |
| 43% | 41% | Ironclad | Cornhill (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 12% | 54% | There Be Dragons | Honorio (Character) | $1.1M | 2011 |
| 94% | 92% | The King's Speech | Archbishop Cosmo Lang (Character) | $138.8M | 2010 |
| 47% | 38% | Hereafter | Self | $32.7M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Joe Maddison's War | Mr. Simpson (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Margot | Fred Ashton (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 71% | 58% | Endgame | Agnew (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diamonds | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Hippie Hippie Shake | Judge (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Quentin Neely (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 23% | 38% | Charles Dickens's England | Self | - | 2009 |
| 35% | 44% | Adam Resurrected | Dr. Nathan Gross (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | A Bunch of Amateurs | Nigel (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | The Old Curiosity Shop | Grandfather (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | The Riddle | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | Guantanamero |
Guido/ |
- | 2007 |
| 42% | 51% | The Golden Compass | Magisterial Emissary (Character) | $70.1M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pinochet's Last Stand | Senator Pinochet (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 17% | 72% | Underworld: Evolution | Alexander Corvinus (Character) | $62.3M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Bye Bye Blackbird | Lord Dempsey (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 74% | 64% | Nanny McPhee | Mr. Wheen (Character) | $47.1M | 2005 |
| 80% | 82% | Strings | Nezo (Voice) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 83% | 81% | The Gathering Storm | Stanley Baldwin (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 59% | 70% | Two Men Went to War | Maj. Merton (Character) | $150.0K | 2002 |
| 60% | 76% | Revengers Tragedy | The Duke (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | Revelation | Librarian (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 60% | 55% | The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Nijinsky (Character) | $55.1K | 2001 |
| 87% | 78% | Gosford Park | Probert (Character) | $41.3M | 2001 |
| 13% | 43% | The Body | Father Lavelle (Character) | $33.6K | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | The Wyvern Mystery | Squire Fairfield (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 80% | 87% | Gladiator | Gracchus (Character) | $187.7M | 2000 |
| 45% | 35% | Up at the Villa | Lucky Leadbetter (Character) | $2.9M | 2000 |
| 63% | 77% | Molokai | Father Leonor Fouesnel (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 0% | 46% | Basil | Father Frederick (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 67% | 61% | Love Is the Devil: Study of a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Francis Bacon (Character) | $343.0K | 1998 |
| 95% | 89% | Hamlet | Claudius (Character) | $4.4M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Witness Against Hitler | General (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven (Voice) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Circle of Deceit | Randal (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Aladdin | Unknown (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Breaking the Code | Alan Turing (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 81% | 76% | Dead Again | Franklyn Madson (Character) | $35.5M | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fool |
Mr. Frederick/ |
- | 1990 |
| 98% | 89% | Henry V | Chorus (Character) | $10.2M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Little Dorrit Part Two: Little Dorrit's Story | Arthur Clennam (Character) | $644.6K | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Little Dorrit Part One: Nobody's Fault | Arthur Clennam (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | The Tenth Man | The Imposter (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 28% | Enigma | Kurt Limmer (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 93% | 85% | The Secret of NIMH | Nicodemus (Voice) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Dom Claude Frollo (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Inside the Third Reich | Adolf Hitler (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Hamlet (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Who Went Up in Smoke | Unknown (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 33% | 28% | The Human Factor | Arthur Davis (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | The Medusa Touch | Townley (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | King Richard the Second | Richard II (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 67% | 64% | The Odessa File | Klaus Wenzer (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 91% | 88% | The Day of the Jackal | Caron (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Blue Blood | Gregory (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Three Sisters | Andrei (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Interlude | Paul (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 83% | 64% | Othello | Cassio (Character) | - | 1965 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78% | 93% | The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies | Sir Ralph Unwin (Character) | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Night Garden | Narrator | 2007-2009 2022 |
| 100% | 90% | Inside No. 9 | Webster (Character) | 2016 2021 |
| 100% | 63% | The Lost Pirate Kingdom |
Narrator (Character), Narrator |
2021 |
| 95% | 90% | Last Tango in Halifax | Alan Buttershaw (Character) | 2012-2016 2020 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | The Greatest Events of WW II in Colour | Narrator | 2019 |
| 88% | 79% | Les Misérables | Bishop (Character) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Do You Think You Are? | Host | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 96% | Vicious | Stuart (Character) | 2013 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Great Performances | Guest | 2014 |
| 85% | 84% | The Borgias | Cardinal Orsini (Character) | 2011-2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shakespeare Uncovered | Host | 2012 |
| 90% | 65% | Doctor Who | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 2003 |
| 95% | 94% | Frasier | Jackson Hedley (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mystery! | Unknown (Character) | 1997-2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Drioli (Character) | 1980 1982 |
| 100% | 89% | I, Claudius | Claudius (Character) | 1976 |