Sir Derek Jacobi is an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen as well as for his work at the Royal National Theatre, he has received numerous accolades including a Tony Award, a British Academy Television Award, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He was given a knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994.Sarah Stanton, Martin Banham, The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre (1996), p. 181

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 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 PrologueMy 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 2020The 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 Moss & Freud Lucian Freud Tinsel Town Albert 2026 Heartstopper Forever Pete Featured Frank and Percy 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 BFI Screenonline Much Ado About Nothing (1967) accessed 14 August 2023.1968 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 1994 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 2019–26 Good Omens Metatron 4 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 Unwin5 episodes 2024 Extraordinary Himself (voice) Episode: "Meet the Parent" Ludwig Mr. Todd Episode #1.5 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 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 1963 Saint Joan Brother Martin Ladvenu The Old Vic, London National Theatre Archive results for Derek Jacobi NA1147, accessed 26 July 2026. 1963 The Recruiting Officer Mr Worthy The Old Vic, London 1964 Andorra Fedri, a journeyman carpenter The Old Vic, London 1964 Othello Cassio The Old Vic, London 1964 Hay Fever Simon Bliss Opera House, Manchester 1964 The Master Builder Ragnar Brovik The Old Vic, London 1964 The Royal Hunt of the Sun Felipillo Chichester Festival Theatre 1965 Much Ado About Nothing Don John, then Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon The Old Vic, London 1965 Armstrong's Last Goodnight 1st Scots Commissioner Chichester Festival Theatre 1965 Trelawny of the "Wells" Captain de Foenix Chichester Festival Theatre 1966 Black Comedy Brindsley Miller Chichester Festival Theatre 1967 As You Like It Touchstone The Old Vic, London 1967 Tartuffe The Officer The Old Vic, London 1967 Three Sisters Andrei Sergeyevich, then Baron Tusenbach The Old Vic, London 1968 The Advertisement Lorenzo Theatre Royal, Brighton 1968 Love's Labour's Lost Duke Ferdinand, King of Navarre The Old Vic, London 1968 Edward II Bishop of Coventry The Old Vic, London 1968 The Covent-Garden Tragedy A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion In His Own Write Intruder The Old Vic, London 1969 Back to Methuselah, Part One Adam (In The Beginning) The Old Vic, London 1969 Back to Methuselah, Part Two Ozymandias (As Far as Thought can Reach) The Old Vic, London 1969 Macrune's Guevara Edward Hotel Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre 1969 The White Devil Count Lodovico The Old Vic, London 1970 The Idiot adapted Gray Prince Leo Nikolaievich Myshkin The Old Vic, London 1970 The Beaux' Stratagem Foigard The Old Vic, London 1970 The Merchant of Venice Gratiano The Old Vic, London 1971 A Woman Killed with Kindness Sir Charles Mountford 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 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 Father 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

External links

"Jacobi, Sir Derek (George)", Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2008.