Derek Jacobi on screen and stage

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Jacobi in London, 2009

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

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 disappeared into thin air 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 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 II Senator Gracchus Post-production
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[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 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
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
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
The Old Curiosity Shop Grandfather TV movie
2007–2009 Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy Narrator 38 episodes
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?
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 [3]
1959 Love's Labour's Lost Bertram Berowne Lyric Opera House, London [3]
1959 Saint's Day Giles Aldus ADC Theatre, Cambridge [3]
1960 Cymbeline Iachimo Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge [3]
1960 The Duenna Ferdinand ADC Theatre, Cambridge [3]
1960 Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay Edward Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge [3]
1960 Dr. Faustus Evil Angel Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge [3]
1963 Hamlet Laertes The Old Vic, London [3]
1965 Much Ado About Nothing Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon The Old Vic, London [2]
1968 The Covent-Garden Tragedy
A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion
In His Own Write
Performer The Old Vic, London [3]
1972 The Real Inspector Hound Moon Phoenix Theatre, London [3]
1979 Hamlet Hamlet The Old Vic, London [3]
1980 The Suicide Semyon S. Podsekalnikov ANTA Theatre, Broadway [3]
1982–1984 The Tempest Prospero Royal Shakespeare Company [3]
1982–1984 Peer Gynt Peer Gynt Royal Shakespeare Company [3]
1982–1985 Much Ado About Nothing Signior Benedick of Padua Royal Shakespeare Company
Gershwin Theatre, Broadway
[3]
1983–1985 Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London
Gershwin Theatre, Broadway
[4]
1987 Breaking the Code Alan Turing Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway [4]
1993–1994 Macbeth Macbeth Barbican Theatre, London
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
[3]
2000 Uncle Vanya Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway [4]
2002–2003 The Tempest Prospero The Old Vic, London [3]
2005 Don Carlos Philip II Gielgud Theatre, London [5]
2006 A Voyage Round My Father Performer Wyndham's Theatre, London [6]
2009 Twelfth Night Malvolio Wyndham's Theatre, London [7]
2010 King Lear King Lear Brooklyn Academy of Music, Off-Broadway [8]
2016 Romeo and Juliet Mercutio Garrick Theatre, West End [9]

References

  1. ^ Koehler, Robert (28 December 2004). "Cloud Cuckoo Land". Variety. Archived from the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b BFI Screenonline Much Ado About Nothing (1967) accessed 14 August 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Derek Jacobi theatre profile". abouttheartists.com.
  4. ^ a b c "Derek Jacobi". Playbill.
  5. ^ Paul Taylor (8 February 2005). "Don Carlos, Gielgud Theatre, London". The Independent. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  6. ^ Nathan, John (28 July 2006). "Derek Jacobi to Take A Voyage Round My Father to the West End". Playbill.
  7. ^ Shenton, Mark (5 December 2008). "Donmar's Twelfth Night, with Derek Jacobi, Begins Previews Dec. 5". Playbill.
  8. ^ Hetrick, Adam (22 March 2011). "Cast Set for BAM Debut of Donmar's King Lear With Derek Jacobi". Playbill.
  9. ^ "Review: Jacobi Steals Show In Branagh's Romeo And Juliet". Londonist. 26 May 2016.

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