# Derek Jacobi on screen and stage

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

## Film

List of Derek Jacobi film credits :
| 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 | |
| 2001 | Revelation | Librarian | |
| 2001 | Gosford Park | Probert | |
| 2001 | The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Nijinsky | |
| 2002 | Revengers Tragedy' | The Duke | |
| 2002 | Two Men Went to War | Major Merton | |
| 2004 | Strings | Nezo | |
| 2004 | Cloud Cuckoo Land | Victor | |
| 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 | |
| 2007 | The Riddle | Charles Dickens | |
| 2007 | 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 | |
| 2009 | Endgame | Rudolf Agnew | |
| 2009 | Charles Dickens's England | Himself | |
| 2010 | Hippie Hippie Shake | Judge | |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | Cosmo Gordon Lang | |
| 2010 | Hereafter | Himself | |
| 2011 | Ironclad | Cornhill | |
| 2011 | There Be Dragons | Honorio | |
| 2011 | Anonymous | Narrator | |
| 2011 | 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 | |
| 2019 | Tolkien | Prof. Joseph Wright | |
| 2019 | Horrible Histories: The Movie | Claudius | |
| 2019 | Muse | The Lawyer | |
| 2020 | The Host | Dr. Hobson | |
| 2020 | Come Away | Mr. Brown | |
| 2020 | Say Your Prayers | Father Enoch | |
| 2021 | A Bird Flew In | David | |
| 2022 | Allelujah | Ambrose | |
| 2023 | The Martini Shot | Errol | |
| 2024 | Gladiator II | Senator Gracchus | |
| TBA | Lead Heads | | In post-production |
| TBA | Tinsel Town | | In post-production |
| TBA | Verona's Romeo & Juliet | The Friar | 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 |
| 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 |
| 1972 | The Strauss Family | Joseph Lanner | 2 episodes |
| 1972 | 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" |
| 1978 | Jackanory | Narrator | 5 episodes reading 'Tales from Tartary' by James Riordan |
| 1978 | 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 | TV movie |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Adolf Hitler | TV movie |
| 1982 | 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 |
| 1994–98 | 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 | 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 |
| 2002 | The Edwardian Country House | The Narrator | All episodes |
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm | Stanley Baldwin | TV movie |
| 2003 | Henry VIII | Narrator | Voice, TV Serial |
| 2004 | London | Tacitus | TV movie |
| 2004 | The Long Firm | Lord Edward Thursby | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | 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 |
| 2007–09 | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator | 38 episodes |
| 2007–09 | In the Night Garden... | Narrator | 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?" |
| 2021 | 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" |
| 2024 | Ludwig | Mr. Todd | Episode #1.5 |
| 2024 | Family Guy | Rupert (voice) | Episode: "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater" |

## Theatre

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