Derek Jacobi on screen and stage

Derek Jacobi is an English actor of the stage and screen.

Derek Jacobi in London, 2009

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1965	Othello	Cassio
1968	Interlude	Paul
1970	Three Sisters	Andrei Prozorov
1973	The Day of the Jackal	Caron
1973	Blue Blood	Gregory
1974	The Odessa File	Klaus Wenzer
1978	The Medusa Touch	Townley
1979	The Human Factor	Arthur Davis
1980	The man who disappeared into thin air	Martin Beck
1981	Charlotte	Daberlohn
1982	The Secret of NIMH	Nicodemus	Voice
1982	Enigma	Kurt Limmer
1987	Little Dorrit	Arthur Clennam
1989	Henry V	Chorus
1990	The Fool	Mr. Frederick/Sir John
1991	Dead Again	Franklyn Madson
1996	Looking for Richard	Himself
1996	Hamlet	Claudius
1998	Basil	Father Frederick
1998	Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon	Francis Bacon
1999	Molokai: The Story of Father Damien	Father Leonor Fousnel
2000	Up at the Villa	Lucky Leadbetter
2000	Gladiator	Gracchus
2001	The Body	Father Lavelle
	Revelation	Librarian
	Gosford Park	Probert
	The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky	Nijinsky
2002	Revengers Tragedy	The Duke
2002	Two Men Went to War	Major Merton
2004	Strings	Nezo
2005	Bye Bye Blackbird	Lord Dempsey
2005	Nanny McPhee	Mr. Wheen
2006	Underworld: Evolution	Alexander Corvinus
2007	Airlock Or How To Say Goodbye In Space	President
	The Riddle	Charles Dickens
	The Golden Compass	Magisterial Emissary
2008	A Bunch of Amateurs	Nigel
2008	Adam Resurrected	Dr. Nathan Gross
2009	Morris: A Life with Bells On	Quentin Neely
	Endgame	Rudolf Agnew
	Charles Dickens's England	Himself
2010	Hippie Hippie Shake	Judge
	The King's Speech	Cosmo Gordon Lang
	Hereafter	Himself
2011	Ironclad	Cornhill
	There Be Dragons	Honorio
	Anonymous	Narrator
	My Week with Marilyn	Sir Owen Morshead
2012	Jail Caesar	Sulla
2013	Effie Gray	Travers Twiss
2014	Grace of Monaco	Count Fernando D'Aillieres
2015	Cinderella	The King
2016	The History of Love	Léo Gursky
2016	The Bed-Sitting Room	Lord Fortnum
2017	Stratton	Ross
2017	Murder on the Orient Express	Edward Masterman
2018	Tomb Raider	Mr. Yaffe
2019	The Warrior Queen of Jhansi	Lord Palmerston
	Tolkien	Prof. Joseph Wright
	Horrible Histories: The Movie	Claudius
	Muse	The Lawyer
2020	The Host	Dr. Hobson
	Come Away	Mr. Brown
	Say Your Prayers	Father Enoch
2021	A Bird Flew In	David
2022	Allelujah	Ambrose
2024	Gladiator 2	Senator Gracchus	Filming
TBA	The Martini Shot	Errol	In post-production
TBA	Lead Heads		In post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1961	BBC Sunday-Night Play	Charles Marlow	Episode: She Stoops to Conquer
1962	Armchair Theatre	Eric	Episode: The Fishing Match
1967	Much Ado About Nothing	Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon	TV adaptation of the National Theatre Zeffirelli production[1]
1968	ITV Playhouse	Jerry	Episode: The Photographer
1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	William Drew	Episode: The Secret of the Foxhunter
1972	Man of Straw	Diederich Hessling	6 episodes
	The Strauss Family	Joseph Lanner	2 episodes
	Budgie	Herbert Fletcher	2 episodes
1974	The Pallisers	Lord Fawn	8 episodes
1975	Affairs of the Heart	Bertram Braddle	Episode: Elizabeth
1976	I, Claudius	Claudius	12 episodes
1977	Philby, Burgess and MacLean	Guy Burgess	TV movie
1978	Tycoon	Timothy West	Episode: What Price a Life
	Jackanory	Narrator	5 episodes reading 'Tales from Tartary' by James Riordan
	Richard II	Richard II	BBC-TV
1979	Minder	Freddie Fenton	Episode: The Bounty Hunter
1980–1982	Tales of the Unexpected	Drioli	2 episodes
1980	Hamlet	Hamlet	TV movie
1982	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Frollo	TV movie
	Inside the Third Reich	Adolf Hitler	TV movie
	Tales of the Unexpected	Performer	2 episodes
1985	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	Channel 4 TV presentation of the Terry Hands RSC production
1986	Mr Pye	Mr. Pye	4 episodes
1986	David Macaulay: Cathedral	Pierre	TV movie
1987	The Secret Garden	Archibald Craven	TV movie
1988	The Tenth Man	The Imposter	TV movie
1990	The Civil War	Various	9 episodes
1990	The Storyteller	Daedalus	1 episode
1992	Aladdin	The Magician	Voice, TV Movie
1993	The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends	Mr Jeremy Fisher	1 episode
1994–1998	Cadfael	Brother Cadfael	13 episodes
1994	The Secret Garden	Archibald Craven	Voice, TV Movie
1996	Breaking the Code	Alan Turing	TV movie
2000	The Wyvern Mystery	Squire Fairfield	TV movie
2000	Jason and the Argonauts	Phineus	TV movie
2001	Frasier	Jackson Hedley	Episode: The Show Must Go Off
2002	The Jury	George Cording QC	6 episodes
	The Edwardian Country House	The Narrator	All episodes
	The Gathering Storm	Stanley Baldwin	TV movie
2003	Henry VIII	Narrator	Voice, TV Serial
2004	London	Tacitus	TV movie
	The Long Firm	Lord Edward Thursby	2 episodes
	Marple	Colonel Protheroe	Episode: The Murder at the Vicarage
2007	Doctor Who	The Master / Professor Yana	Episode: Utopia
2007	The Old Curiosity Shop	Grandfather	TV movie
2007–2009	Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy	Narrator	38 episodes
2007–2009	In the Night Garden...	Narrator	100 episodes
2011	The Borgias	Cardinal Orsini	2 episodes
2012	Titanic: Blood and Steel	William Pirrie	12 episodes
2012–2020	Last Tango in Halifax	Alan Buttershaw	5 series - 24 episodes, BBC
2013–2016	Vicious	Stuart Bixby	2 series - 14 episodes, PBS
2014, 2016	The Amazing World of Gumball	Narrator/Moon	Episodes: "The Lie", "The Night"
2016	Inside No. 9	Dennis Fulcher	Episode: The Devil of Christmas
2017	A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong	Scrooge / Self	TV movie
2018	Les Misérables	Bishop	Episode: #1.1
2019–2023	Good Omens	Metatron	2 episodes
2019	The Crown	Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor	Guest role (Season 3) Episode: Dangling Man
2021	Inside No. 9	Mr Webster	Episode: How Do You Plead?
2021	The Lost Pirate Kingdom	Narrator	TV series Docudrama
2022	The Sandman	Erasmus Fry	Episode: "Calliope"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1959	Henry IV, Part 2	Henry, Prince of Wales	Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge	[2]
1959	Love's Labour's Lost	Bertram Berowne	Lyric Opera House, London	[2]
1959	Saint's Day	Giles Aldus	ADC Theatre, Cambridge	[2]
1960	Cymbeline	Iachimo	Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge	[2]
1960	The Duenna	Ferdinand	ADC Theatre, Cambridge	[2]
1960	Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay	Edward	Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge	[2]
1960	Dr. Faustus	Evil Angel	Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge	[2]
1963	Hamlet	Laertes	The Old Vic, London	[2]
1965	Much Ado About Nothing	Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon	The Old Vic, London	[1]
1968	The Covent-Garden Tragedy A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion In His Own Write	Performer	The Old Vic, London	[2]
1972	The Real Inspector Hound	Moon	Phoenix Theatre, London	[2]
1979	Hamlet	Hamlet	The Old Vic, London	[2]
1980	The Suicide	Semyon S. Podsekalnikov	ANTA Theatre, Broadway	[2]
1982–1984	The Tempest	Prospero	Royal Shakespeare Company	[2]
1982–1984	Peer Gynt	Peer Gynt	Royal Shakespeare Company	[2]
1982–1985	Much Ado About Nothing	Signior Benedick of Padua	Royal Shakespeare Company Gershwin Theatre, Broadway	[2]
1983–1985	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London Gershwin Theatre, Broadway	[3]
1987	Breaking the Code	Alan Turing	Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway	[3]
1993–1994	Macbeth	Macbeth	Barbican Theatre, London Royal Shakespeare Theatre	[2]
2000	Uncle Vanya	Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway	[3]
2002–2003	The Tempest	Prospero	The Old Vic, London	[2]
2005	Don Carlos	Philip II	Gielgud Theatre, London	[4]
2006	A Voyage Round My Father	Performer	Wyndham's Theatre, London	[5]
2009	Twelfth Night	Malvolio	Wyndham's Theatre, London	[6]
2010	King Lear	King Lear	Brooklyn Academy of Music, Off-Broadway	[7]
2016	Romeo and Juliet	Mercutio	Garrick Theatre, West End	[8]

References

BFI Screenonline Much Ado About Nothing (1967) accessed 14 August 2023.
"Derek Jacobi theatre profile". abouttheartists.com.
"Derek Jacobi". Playbill.
Paul Taylor (8 February 2005). "Don Carlos, Gielgud Theatre, London". The Independent. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
Nathan, John (28 July 2006). "Derek Jacobi to Take A Voyage Round My Father to the West End". Playbill.
Shenton, Mark (5 December 2008). "Donmar's Twelfth Night, with Derek Jacobi, Begins Previews Dec. 5". Playbill.
Hetrick, Adam (22 March 2011). "Cast Set for BAM Debut of Donmar's King Lear With Derek Jacobi". Playbill.
"Review: Jacobi Steals Show In Branagh's Romeo And Juliet". Londonist. 26 May 2016.

External links

Derek Jacobi on screen and stage at IMDb
Derek Jacobi on screen and stage at the BFI's Screenonline
"Jacobi, Sir Derek (George)", Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2008.

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[bfimuch-1] BFI Screenonline Much Ado About Nothing (1967) accessed 14 August 2023.

[aboutartist-2] "Derek Jacobi theatre profile". abouttheartists.com.

[playbill-3] "Derek Jacobi". Playbill.

[4] Paul Taylor (8 February 2005). "Don Carlos, Gielgud Theatre, London". The Independent. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020.

[5] Nathan, John (28 July 2006). "Derek Jacobi to Take A Voyage Round My Father to the West End". Playbill.

[6] Shenton, Mark (5 December 2008). "Donmar's Twelfth Night, with Derek Jacobi, Begins Previews Dec. 5". Playbill.

[7] Hetrick, Adam (22 March 2011). "Cast Set for BAM Debut of Donmar's King Lear With Derek Jacobi". Playbill.

[8] "Review: Jacobi Steals Show In Branagh's Romeo And Juliet". Londonist. 26 May 2016.