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Derek Jacobi

English
Filmography

Gladiator

2000
as Senator Gracchus:

Good Omens

2019
as Metatron

Tomb Raider

2018
as Mr. Yaffe

Murder on the Orient Express

2017
as Edward Masterman

Cinderella

2015
as The King

The Borgias

2011
as Cardinal Orsini

The King's Speech

2010
as Archbishop Cosmo Lang

Underworld: Evolution

2006
as Alexander Corvinus

Nanny McPhee

2005
as Mr. Wheen

Tolkien

2019
as Professor Wright

The Golden Compass

2007
as Magisterial Emissary

Les Misérables (2018)

2018
as Bishop of Digne

The Lost Pirate Kingdom

2021
as Narrator

My Week with Marilyn

2011
as Sir Owen Morshead

Vicious

2013
as Stuart

National Theatre Live: Fifty Years on Stage

2013
as Claudius/Spooner

Inside the Third Reich

1982
as Adolf Hitler

Ironclad

2011
as Cornhill

The Body

2001
as Father Lavelle

Great Escape: The Untold Story

2001
as Derek Jacobi

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982
as Dom Claude Frollo

The Secret Garden

1994
as Archibald Craven (voice)

Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live: Romeo and Juliet

2016
as Mercrutio

The Medusa Touch

1978
as Townley - Publisher

Three Sisters

1970
as Andrei

Achilles

1995
as Narrator

David Macaulay: Roman City

1994
as Marcus Fabricius

The Gathering Storm

2002
as Stanley Baldwin

I, Claudius

1976
as Claudius

The Tenth Man

1988
as The Imposter

Allelujah

2023

The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island

2013
as Narrator

There Be Dragons

2011
as Honorio

Margot

2009
as Fred Ashton

Stratton

2017
as Ross

Dead Again

1991
as Franklyn Madson

The Odessa File

1974
as Klaus Wenzer

Henry V

1989
as Chorus

Guantanamero

2007
as Guido

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

1999
as Father Leonor Fousnel

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

2019
as Lord Palmerston

The Secret of NIMH

1982
as Nicodemus (voice)

The Jury

2002
as George Cording QC

Up at the Villa

2000
as Lucky Leadbetter

Jail Caesar

2012

BBC Television Shakespeare

1978

Anonymous

2011
as Prologue

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

2013
as Narrator

Say Your Prayers

2020
as Father Enoch

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

1998
as Francis Bacon

Mr Shaw Goes to Hollywood

as George Bernard Shaw

Strings

2004
as Nezo

The Pallisers

1974
as Lord Fawn

Looking for Richard

1996
as Himself/Interview

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

2001
as Nijinsky

Pinochet's Last Stand

2006
as Senator Pinochet

The Riddle

2007
as The Tramp / Charles Dickens

Discovering Hamlet

1990
as Himself

The Long Firm

2004
as Lord Edward Thursby

Mr Pye

1986
as Mr Pye

The Fool

1990
as Mr. Frederick / Sir John

The Wyvern Mystery

2000
as Squire Fairfield

David Macaulay: Mill Times

2001
as Priam Huntington

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

2006
as Narrator

Anastezsi

2007
as Balzer

The History of Love

2016
as Léo Gursky

Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans

2019
as Claudius

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

2017
as Scrooge

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

2011
as Narrator

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1988
as Hordedef

In The Night Garden

2007
as Narrator

Last Will & Testament

2012
as Himself

Witness Against Hitler

1996
as General

The Halloween Kid

2011
as Narrator (voice)

Jason and the Argonauts

2000
as Phineas

Cyrano de Bergerac

1985
as Cyrano de Bergerac

Come Away

2020
as Mr. Brown

On Wings of Fire

1986
as Narrator

Enigma

1982
as Kurt Limmer

Breaking the Code

1996
as Alan Turing

David Macaulay: Cathedral

1986
as Pierre

Joe Maddison's War

2010
as Mr Simpson

Endgame

2009
as Rudolph Agnew

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

2018

Two Men Went To War

2002
as Maj. Merton

The Sitting Room

2016
as Lord Fortnum

Othello

1965
as Cassio

The Secret Garden

1987
as Archibald Craven

Effie Gray

2014
as Travers Twiss

Broadway: The Golden Age

2003
as Himself

Grace of Monaco

2014
as Count Fernando D'Aillieres

Angelina Ballerina: The Silver Locket

2007
as Mr. Operatski

Little Dorrit

1987
as Arthur Clennam

The Old Curiosity Shop

2007
as Grandfather

Last Tango in Halifax

2012
as Alan

The Human Factor

1979
as Arthur Davis

Titanic: Blood and Steel

2012
as Lord Pirrie

Gosford Park

2001
as Probert

Hamlet

1996
as King Claudius

The Day of the Jackal

1973
as Caron

Revelation

2001
as Librarian

The Host

2020
as Dr. Hobson

Blue Blood

1973
as Gregory

The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies

2023
as Sir Ralph Unwin

Animated Epics: Beowulf

1998
as Narrator

Revengers Tragedy

2002
as The Duke

Cadfael

1994
as Brother Cadfael

Untitled Gladiator Sequel

2024
as Gracchus

Muse of Fire

2013
as Himself

James and Lucia

as Alfred Vogt

Bye Bye Blackbird

2005
as Lord Dempsey

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

1980

Philby, Burgess and Maclean

1977
as Guy Burgess

Mist: Sheepdog Tales

2007
as Narrator

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space

2007
as President

Hereafter

2010
as Derek Jacobi

Hamlet

1980
as Hamlet

Adam Resurrected

2008
as Dr. Nathan Gross

Sidney Turtlebaum

2008
as Sidney Turtlebaum

A Bunch of Amateurs

2008
as Nigel Dewberry

Crew

Series Greatest Events of WWII in Colour 2019

Guest Star

Episode CBeebies Bedtime Stories
Derek Jacobi - How to Catch a Star 		2009
Episode Frasier
The Show Must Go Off 		2001
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
Skin 		1980
Episode CBeebies Bedtime Stories
Derek Jacobi - How Big Is a Million? 		2009
Episode Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
Victoria Wood with all the Trimmings 		2000
Episode The ONE Show
Derek Jacobi, Anne Reid 		2016
Episode Shakespeare Uncovered
Derek Jacobi on Richard II 		2012
Episode The Goes Wrong Show
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong 		2017
Episode This is Jinsy
Population 791 		2014
Episode CBeebies Bedtime Stories
Derek Jacobi - Frog in Winter 		2015
Episode CBeebies Bedtime Stories
Derek Jacobi - The Black And White Club 		2015
Episode CBeebies Bedtime Stories
Derek Jacobi - Hairy Maclary Scattercat 		2015
Episode CBeebies Bedtime Stories
Derek Jacobi - Gingerbread Man 		2015
Episode ITV Playhouse
The Photographer 		1968
Episode BBC Comedy
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong 		2017
Episode Jim Henson's The Storyteller
Daedalus and Icarus 		1991
Episode The Sandman
Dream of a Thousand Cats/Calliope 		2022
Episode CBeebies Bedtime Stories
Derek Jacobi - The Nutcracker 		2014
Episode Doctor Who Greatest Moments
The Enemies 		2009
Episode Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh
Episode 13 		2024
Episode Doctor Who (2005)
Utopia (1) 		2007
Episode BBC Drama
Breaking the Code 		1997
Episode Portrait Artist of the Year
Meera Syal, Derek Jacobi, Kirsty Wark 		2018
Episode Inside No. 9
How Do You Plead? 		2021
Episode Agatha Christie's Marple
The Murder at the Vicarage 		2004
Episode PBS Specials
Last Will. & Testament 		2013
Episode CBeebies Bedtime Stories
Derek Jacobi - Small Knight George and the Royal Chocolate 		2009
Episode Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000)
Pain Killers 		2001
Episode CBeebies Bedtime Stories
Derek Jacobi - The Stickman 		2009
Episode CBeebies Bedtime Stories
Derek Jacobi - Wendell's Workshop 		2009
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
Stranger in Town 		1982