Derek Jacobi on screen and stage
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Derek Jacobi is an English actor of the stage and screen.
Tables
List of Derek Jacobi film credits · Film
1998
Role(s)
Father Frederick
Role(s)
Francis Bacon
2001
Role(s)
Father Lavelle
Role(s)
Librarian
Role(s)
Probert
Role(s)
Nijinsky
2007
Airlock Or How To Say Goodbye In Space
Role(s)
President
Role(s)
Charles Dickens
Role(s)
Magisterial Emissary
2009
Role(s)
Quentin Neely
Role(s)
Rudolf Agnew
Role(s)
Himself
2010
Role(s)
Judge
Role(s)
Cosmo Gordon Lang
Role(s)
Himself
2011
Role(s)
Cornhill
Role(s)
Honorio
Role(s)
Narrator
Role(s)
Sir Owen Morshead
2019
Role(s)
Lord Palmerston
Role(s)
Prof. Joseph Wright
Role(s)
Claudius
Role(s)
The Lawyer
2025
Role(s)
The Friar
Role(s)
Lucian Freud
Notes
In post-production
TBA
Role(s)
Frank and Percy
| 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 | |||
| 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 |
· Television
1967
Role(s)
Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon
Notes
TV adaptation of the National Theatre Zeffirelli production
1971
1972
Role(s)
Herbert Fletcher
1975
Affairs of the Heart
Role(s)
Bertram Braddle
Notes
Episode: "Elizabeth"
1977
Philby, Burgess and MacLean
Role(s)
Guy Burgess
Notes
TV movie
1978
Tycoon
Role(s)
Timothy West
Notes
Episode: "What Price a Life"
1979
1980–82
Role(s)
Tales of the Unexpected
Notes
Drioli
1982
Role(s)
Frollo
Role(s)
Adolf Hitler
1985
Role(s)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Notes
Channel 4 TV presentation of the Terry Hands RSC production
1986
David Macaulay: Cathedral
Role(s)
Pierre
Notes
TV movie
1990
1992
Aladdin
Role(s)
The Magician
Notes
Voice, TV movie
1993
1994–98
Role(s)
Cadfael
Notes
Brother Cadfael
2002
2004
2007
2007–09
Role(s)
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Notes
Narrator
Role(s)
100 episodes
2012
2012–20
Role(s)
Last Tango in Halifax
Notes
Alan Buttershaw
2013–16
Role(s)
Vicious
Notes
Stuart Bixby
2014, 2016
Role(s)
The Amazing World of Gumball
Notes
Narrator/Moon
2019
Role(s)
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor
Notes
Guest role (Season 3); Episode: "Dangling Man"
2021
2024
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
· Theatre
1959
Saint's Day
Role(s)
Giles Aldus
Notes
ADC Theatre, Cambridge
1960
Role(s)
Evil Angel
1963
Role(s)
Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon
1980
1982–84
Role(s)
The Tempest
Notes
Prospero
Role(s)
Peer Gynt
1982–85
Role(s)
Much Ado About Nothing
Notes
Signior Benedick of Padua
1983–85
Role(s)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Notes
Cyrano de Bergerac
1987
1993–94
Role(s)
Macbeth
Notes
Macbeth
2000
2002–03
Role(s)
The Tempest
Notes
Prospero
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Ref. |
| 1959 | Henry IV, Part 2 | Henry, Prince of Wales | Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | Bertram Berowne | Lyric Opera House, London | ||
| Saint's Day | Giles Aldus | ADC Theatre, Cambridge | ||
| 1960 | Cymbeline | Iachimo | Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge | |
| The Duenna | Ferdinand | ADC Theatre, Cambridge | ||
| Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | Edward | Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge | ||
| Dr. Faustus | Evil Angel | |||
| 1963 | Hamlet | Laertes | The Old Vic, London | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon | |||
| 1968 | The Covent-Garden Tragedy A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion In His Own Write | Performer | ||
| 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 | |
| Peer Gynt | Peer Gynt | |||
| 1982–85 | Much Ado About Nothing | Signior Benedick of Padua | Royal Shakespeare CompanyGershwin Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1983–85 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, LondonGershwin 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 | ||
| 2010 | King Lear | King Lear | Brooklyn Academy of Music, Off-Broadway | |
| 2016 | Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | Garrick Theatre, West End |
References
- Varietyhttps://variety.com/2004/film/reviews/cloud-cuckoo-land-1200528935/
- BFI Screenonline Much Ado About Nothing (1967) accessed 14 August 2023.http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/565168/index.html
- ihttps://inews.co.uk/culture/television/ludwig-review-david-mitchell-cosy-crime-3292157
- abouttheartists.comhttp://www.abouttheartists.com/artists/306258-derek-jacobi
- Playbillhttp://www.playbill.com/person/derek-jacobi-vault-0000038091
- The Independenthttps://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/don-carlos-gielgud-theatre-london-9986.html
- Playbillhttp://www.playbill.com/article/derek-jacobi-to-take-a-voyage-round-my-father-to-the-west-end-com-134008
- Playbillhttp://www.playbill.com/article/donmars-twelfth-night-with-derek-jacobi-begins-previews-dec-5-com-155788
- Playbillhttp://www.playbill.com/article/cast-set-for-bam-debut-of-donmars-king-lear-with-derek-jacobi-com-177467
- Londonisthttps://londonist.com/2016/05/derek-jacobi-shamelessly-steals-the-show-in-branagh-s-romeo-and-juliet