Derek Jacobi on screen and stage

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

Jacobi in London, 2009

Film

List of Derek Jacobi film credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1965	Othello	Cassio
1968	Interlude	Paul
1970	Three Sisters	Andrei Prozorov
1973	The Day of the Jackal	Caron
	Blue Blood	Gregory
1974	The Odessa File	Klaus Wenzer
1978	The Medusa Touch	Townley
1979	The Human Factor	Arthur Davis
1980	The Man Who Went Up in Smoke	Martin Beck
1981	Charlotte	Daberlohn
1982	The Secret of NIMH	Nicodemus	Voice
	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
	Hamlet	Claudius
1998	Basil	Father Frederick
	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
	Gladiator	Gracchus
2001	The Body	Father Lavelle
	Revelation	Librarian
	Gosford Park	Probert
	The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky	Nijinsky
2002	Revengers Tragedy	The Duke
	Two Men Went to War	Major Merton
2004	Strings	Nezo
	Cloud Cuckoo Land	Victor		[1]
2005	Bye Bye Blackbird	Lord Dempsey
	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
	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
	The Bed-Sitting Room	Lord Fortnum
2017	Stratton	Ross
	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 – Rotten Romans	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
2023	The Martini Shot	Errol
2024	Gladiator II	Senator Gracchus
2025	Juliet & Romeo	The Friar
TBA	Lead Heads		In post-production
TBA	Tinsel Town		In post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
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	[2]
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
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"
1980–82	Tales of the Unexpected	Drioli	2 episodes
1980	Hamlet	Hamlet	TV movie
1982	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Frollo
	Inside the Third Reich	Adolf Hitler
	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
	David Macaulay: Cathedral	Pierre	TV movie
1987	The Secret Garden	Archibald Craven
1988	The Tenth Man	The Imposter
1990	The Civil War	Various	Voice, 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
1994–98	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
	Jason and the Argonauts	Phineus
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"
	The Old Curiosity Shop	Grandfather	TV movie
2007–09	Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy	Narrator	38 episodes
	In the Night Garden...		100 episodes
2011	The Borgias	Cardinal Orsini	2 episodes
2012	Titanic: Blood and Steel	William Pirrie	12 episodes
2012–20	Last Tango in Halifax	Alan Buttershaw	5 series - 24 episodes, BBC
2013–16	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
2019–23	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?"
	The Lost Pirate Kingdom	Narrator	TV series Docudrama
2022	The Sandman	Erasmus Fry	Episode: "Calliope"
2023	The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies	Sir Ralph Unwin	5 episodes
2024	Extraordinary	Himself (voice)	Episode: "Meet the Parent"
	Ludwig	Mr. Todd	Episode #1.5	[3]
	Family Guy	Rupert (voice)	Episode: "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1959	Henry IV, Part 2	Henry, Prince of Wales	Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge	[4]
	Love's Labour's Lost	Bertram Berowne	Lyric Opera House, London	[4]
	Saint's Day	Giles Aldus	ADC Theatre, Cambridge	[4]
1960	Cymbeline	Iachimo	Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge	[4]
	The Duenna	Ferdinand	ADC Theatre, Cambridge	[4]
	Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay	Edward	Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge	[4]
	Dr. Faustus	Evil Angel		[4]
1963	Hamlet	Laertes	The Old Vic, London	[4]
	Much Ado About Nothing	Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon		[2]
1968	The Covent-Garden Tragedy A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion In His Own Write	Performer		[4]
1972	The Real Inspector Hound	Moon	Phoenix Theatre, London	[4]
1979	Hamlet	Hamlet	The Old Vic, London	[4]
1980	The Suicide	Semyon S. Podsekalnikov	ANTA Theatre, Broadway	[4]
1982–84	The Tempest	Prospero	Royal Shakespeare Company	[4]
	Peer Gynt	Peer Gynt		[4]
1982–85	Much Ado About Nothing	Signior Benedick of Padua	Royal Shakespeare Company Gershwin Theatre, Broadway	[4]
1983–85	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London Gershwin Theatre, Broadway	[5]
1987	Breaking the Code	Alan Turing	Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway	[5]
1993–94	Macbeth	Macbeth	Barbican Theatre, London Royal Shakespeare Theatre	[4]
2000	Uncle Vanya	Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway	[5]
2002–03	The Tempest	Prospero	The Old Vic, London	[4]
2005	Don Carlos	Philip II	Gielgud Theatre, London	[6]
2006	A Voyage Round My Father	Performer	Wyndham's Theatre, London	[7]
2009	Twelfth Night	Malvolio		[8]
2010	King Lear	King Lear	Brooklyn Academy of Music, Off-Broadway	[9]
2016	Romeo and Juliet	Mercutio	Garrick Theatre, West End	[10]