Derek Jacobi: movies and TV shows
Derek Jacobi has 231 credits in the archive: 165 films and 66 TV series, from 1951 to 2026. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1951 – 2026 · busiest year: 1994 (10 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Heartstopper Forever | Pete | Film | 7.1 | 87 |
| 2026 | Moss & Freud | Lucian Freud | Film | 5.0 | 87 |
| 2026 | Broken English | The Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 87 |
| 2025 | Juliet & Romeo | The Friar | Film | 6.4 | 86 |
| 2025 | Tinsel Town | Albert | Film | 5.8 | 86 |
| 2024 | Gladiator II | Gracchus | Film | 6.6 | 85 |
| 2024 | Ludwig | Mr. Todd | TV | 7.7 | 85 |
| 2024 | Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration | Self | Film | 4.5 | 85 |
| 2023 | The American Buffalo | (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 84 |
| 2023 | U-Boat Wargamers | Narrator (voice) | TV | 6.8 | 84 |
| 2023 | The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies | Sir Ralph Unwin | TV | 7.1 | 84 |
| 2023 | Allelujah | Ambrose | Film | 5.2 | 84 |
| 2023 | The Martini Shot | Errol | Film | 6.5 | 84 |
| 2022 | The Sandman | Erasmus Fry | TV | 7.9 | 83 |
| 2022 | Remembers… | Self | TV | 7.0 | 83 |
| 2022 | A Bird Flew In | David | Film | — | 83 |
| 2022 | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | Film | 7.8 | 83 |
| 2022 | Pearl Islands | Self | Film | — | 83 |
| 2021 | The Lost Pirate Kingdom | Narrator | TV | 7.3 | 82 |
| 2021 | Say Your Prayers | Father Enoch | Film | 7.3 | 82 |
| 2021 | Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 82 |
| 2020 | Come Away | Mr. Brown | Film | 5.8 | 81 |
| 2020 | Breaking The Codes | Film | — | 81 | |
| 2020 | The Host | Dr. Hobson | Film | 5.6 | 81 |
| 2020 | Coronation Street: Queens of the Street | Himself | Film | — | 81 |
| 2019 | Good Omens | The Metatron | TV | 8.0 | 80 |
| 2019 | Good Omens | Metatron | TV | 8.0 | 80 |
| 2019 | Tolkien | Professor Joseph Wright | Film | 6.9 | 80 |
| 2019 | Greatest Events of World War II in Colour | Narrator | TV | 8.0 | 80 |
| 2019 | Muse | The Lawyer | Film | — | 80 |
| 2019 | Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans | Claudius | Film | 5.2 | 80 |
| 2019 | The Warrior Queen of Jhansi | Lord Palmerston | Film | 6.4 | 80 |
| 2018 | Les Misérables | Bishop Myriel | TV | 7.4 | 79 |
| 2018 | Tomb Raider | Mr. Yaffe | Film | 6.4 | 79 |
| 2018 | Nothing Is Truer than Truth | Film | 3.5 | 79 | |
| 2018 | 2018: A Year in the Life of a Year | Film | — | 79 | |
| 2017 | Murder on the Orient Express | Edward Henry Masterman | Film | 6.7 | 78 |
| 2017 | Stratton | Ross | Film | 5.0 | 78 |
| 2017 | A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Scrooge | Film | 7.6 | 78 |
| 2017 | Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge | Film | — | 78 | |
| 2016 | The Crown | Duke of Windsor | TV | 8.2 | 77 |
| 2016 | The History of Love | Leopold Gursky | Film | 6.4 | 77 |
| 2016 | Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | Film | 8.0 | 77 |
| 2016 | The Devil of Christmas | Film | — | 77 | |
| 2015 | Cinderella | King | Film | 6.8 | 76 |
| 2015 | Venom | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 76 |
| 2015 | The Gospel of Luke | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | Film | 8.2 | 76 |
| 2015 | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 76 |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 | Webster | TV | 8.1 | 75 |
| 2014 | Effie Gray | Travers Twiss | Film | 5.9 | 75 |
| 2014 | Grace of Monaco | Count Fernando D'Aillieres | Film | 6.0 | 75 |
| 2013 | Vicious | Stuart Bixby | TV | 7.5 | 74 |
| 2013 | Muse of Fire | Self | Film | 6.5 | 74 |
| 2013 | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Claudius/Spooner | Film | 6.2 | 74 |
| 2013 | You | Man | Film | — | 74 |
| 2013 | Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene | Narrator (voice) | Film | 1.0 | 74 |
| 2013 | The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island | Narrator | Film | — | 74 |
| 2012 | Titanic: Blood and Steel | Lord Pirrie | TV | 7.2 | 73 |
| 2012 | Last Tango in Halifax | Alan | TV | 7.1 | 73 |
| 2012 | Shakespeare Uncovered | Himself | TV | 7.3 | 73 |
| 2012 | Last Will. & Testament | Himself | Film | 5.3 | 73 |
| 2012 | Jail Caesar | Sulla | Film | 6.3 | 73 |
| 2012 | The Halloween Kid | Narrator | Film | — | 73 |
| 2011 | The Amazing World of Gumball | Narrator (voice) | TV | 8.5 | 72 |
| 2011 | The Borgias | Cardinal Orsini | TV | 7.6 | 72 |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Sir Owen Morshead | Film | 6.7 | 72 |
| 2011 | Ironclad | Cornhill | Film | 6.2 | 72 |
| 2011 | Anonymous | Prologue | Film | 6.4 | 72 |
| 2011 | There Be Dragons | Honorio | Film | 5.1 | 72 |
| 2011 | Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.4 | 72 |
| 2011 | National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear | Film | 7.0 | 72 |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | Archbishop Cosmo Lang | Film | 7.7 | 71 |
| 2010 | Hereafter | Derek Jacobi | Film | 6.1 | 71 |
| 2010 | Joe Maddison's War | Mr. Simpson | Film | 4.2 | 71 |
| 2009 | Doctor Who Greatest Moments | Self | TV | 7.0 | 70 |
| 2009 | Diamonds | TV | — | 70 | |
| 2009 | Endgame | Rudolph Agnew | Film | 5.9 | 70 |
| 2009 | Diamonds | Piers Denmont | Film | 4.7 | 70 |
| 2009 | Margot | Fred Ashton | Film | 5.5 | 70 |
| 2009 | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Quentin Neely | Film | 6.5 | 70 |
| 2009 | Charles Dickens's England | Himself - Presenter | Film | — | 70 |
| 2008 | A Bunch of Amateurs | Nigel Dewberry | Film | 5.7 | 69 |
| 2008 | Adam Resurrected | Dr. Nathan Gross | Film | 6.1 | 69 |
| 2008 | The Ties That Bind Us | The Master (archive footage) | Film | — | 69 |
| 2008 | One of Those Days | Howard Whittam | Film | 7.3 | 69 |
| 2008 | Sidney Turtlebaum | Sidney Turtlebaum | Film | 3.3 | 69 |
| 2008 | Pompeii and the Roman Villa | Narrator | Film | — | 69 |
| 2007 | In the Night Garden | Narrator (voice) | TV | 6.5 | 68 |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | Magisterial Emissary | Film | 6.1 | 68 |
| 2007 | Guantanamero | Guido | Film | 4.0 | 68 |
| 2007 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Grandfather | Film | 5.0 | 68 |
| 2007 | Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space | President | Film | — | 68 |
| 2007 | The Riddle | The Tramp / Charles Dickens | Film | 4.8 | 68 |
| 2007 | The Art of Francis Bacon | Derek Jacobi | Film | — | 68 |
| 2007 | Anastezsi | Balzer | Film | 7.0 | 68 |
| 2007 | Doctor Who: Utopia & The Sound of Drums & Last of the Time Lords | Professor Yana / The Master | Film | — | 68 |
| 2006 | Underworld: Evolution | Alexander Corvinus | Film | 6.6 | 67 |
| 2006 | Pinochet in Suburbia | Senator Augusto Pinochet | Film | 5.3 | 67 |
| 2006 | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | Professor Yana | TV | 7.6 | 66 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who Confidential | TV | 8.1 | 66 | |
| 2005 | Nanny McPhee | Mr. Wheen | Film | 6.7 | 66 |
| 2005 | Bye Bye Blackbird | Lord Dempsey | Film | 5.3 | 66 |
| 2005 | Strength and Honor: Production Pods | Self | Film | — | 66 |
| 2005 | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator(voice) | Film | — | 66 |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Colonel Protheroe | TV | 7.8 | 65 |
| 2004 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | TV | 7.0 | 65 |
| 2004 | The Long Firm | Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby | TV | 7.0 | 65 |
| 2004 | London | Tacitus | TV | 10.0 | 65 |
| 2004 | Strings | Nezo | Film | 6.7 | 65 |
| 2004 | Cloud Cuckoo Land | Victor | Film | 7.0 | 65 |
| 2004 | Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On | Mr. Operatski (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 65 |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 65 |
| 2003 | Henry VIII | Narrator | TV | 7.0 | 64 |
| 2003 | Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka | The Master (voice) | TV | 7.0 | 64 |
| 2003 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 2002 | The Jury | George Cording QC | TV | 7.3 | 63 |
| 2002 | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage) | Film | 5.1 | 63 |
| 2002 | I, Claudius: A Television Epic | Self | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm | Stanley Baldwin | Film | 6.7 | 63 |
| 2002 | The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi) | Film | 4.5 | 63 |
| 2002 | The Making of Gosford Park | Self | Film | 5.3 | 63 |
| 2002 | Revengers Tragedy | The Duke | Film | 5.8 | 63 |
| 2002 | Two Men Went To War | Maj. Merton | Film | 6.7 | 63 |
| 2002 | The Dinosaur Hunters | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 2002 | Inquisition | Cardinal Grand Inquisitor | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 2001 | Gosford Park | Probert | Film | 6.8 | 62 |
| 2001 | Revelation | Librarian | Film | 5.1 | 62 |
| 2001 | Great Escape: The Untold Story | Narrator | Film | 7.5 | 62 |
| 2001 | The Body | Father Lavelle | Film | 5.5 | 62 |
| 2001 | David Macaulay: Mill Times | Priam Huntington (voice) | Film | — | 62 |
| 2001 | The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream | Theseus (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 62 |
| 2001 | The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream | Film | 6.0 | 62 | |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Gracchus | Film | 8.2 | 61 |
| 2000 | Jason and the Argonauts | Phineas | TV | 6.4 | 61 |
| 2000 | Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | TV | 6.8 | 61 | |
| 2000 | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 2000 | Wilfred | Voice | Film | 9.0 | 61 |
| 2000 | Up at the Villa | Lucky Leadbetter | Film | 5.3 | 61 |
| 2000 | The Wyvern Mystery | Squire Fairfield | Film | 5.2 | 61 |
| 1999 | The Chimes | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1999 | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Father Leonor Fousnel | Film | 6.2 | 60 |
| 1998 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Francis Bacon | Film | 6.0 | 59 |
| 1998 | Animated Epics: Beowulf | Narrator ( voice ) | Film | 5.5 | 59 |
| 1998 | Basil | Father Frederick | Film | 5.4 | 59 |
| 1996 | The West | Self (voice) | TV | 8.4 | 57 |
| 1996 | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | Film | 6.8 | 57 |
| 1996 | Hamlet | King Claudius | Film | 7.3 | 57 |
| 1996 | Witness Against Hitler | General | Film | 8.0 | 57 |
| 1996 | Breaking the Code | Alan Turing | Film | 5.5 | 57 |
| 1995 | Achilles | Narrator | Film | 5.5 | 56 |
| 1995 | The Virgin in the Ice | Brother Cadfael | Film | — | 56 |
| 1994 | Cadfael | Brother Cadfael | TV | 7.6 | 55 |
| 1994 | Baseball | Various (voice) | TV | 7.5 | 55 |
| 1994 | Baseball | (voice) | TV | 7.5 | 55 |
| 1994 | The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven (voice) | Film | 5.9 | 55 |
| 1994 | One Corpse Too Many | Brother Cadfael | Film | — | 55 |
| 1994 | The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher | Jeremy Fisher (voice) | Film | — | 55 |
| 1994 | Monk's Hood | Brother Cadfael | Film | — | 55 |
| 1994 | The Sanctuary Sparrow | Brother Cadfael | Film | — | 55 |
| 1994 | David Macaulay: Roman City | Marcus Fabricius (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 55 |
| 1994 | The Leper of St. Giles | Brother Cadfael | Film | — | 55 |
| 1993 | Frasier | Jackson Hedley | TV | 7.7 | 54 |
| 1993 | Circles of Deceit | Randal | Film | 7.8 | 54 |
| 1993 | The Vision Thing | George Salisbury | Film | — | 54 |
| 1992 | The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends | Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice) | TV | 6.2 | 53 |
| 1992 | Aladdin | The Magician (voice) | Film | 5.6 | 53 |
| 1992 | The Velvet Claw | Narrator | TV | 9.0 | 53 |
| 1991 | The Storyteller: Greek Myths | Daedalus | TV | 8.2 | 52 |
| 1991 | Dead Again | Franklyn Madson | Film | 6.4 | 52 |
| 1990 | The Civil War | William Russell / Various (voice) | TV | 7.9 | 51 |
| 1990 | The Fool | Mr. Frederick / Sir John | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 1990 | Discovering Hamlet | Himself | Film | 5.9 | 51 |
| 1989 | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Hordedef (voice) | Film | — | 50 |
| 1989 | Henry V | Chorus | Film | 7.1 | 50 |
| 1989 | The Congress | (voice) | Film | 7.6 | 50 |
| 1988 | The Tenth Man | The Imposter | Film | 6.7 | 49 |
| 1987 | The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven | Film | 7.7 | 48 |
| 1987 | Little Dorrit | Arthur Clennam | Film | 6.4 | 48 |
| 1986 | ScreenPlay | George Salisbury | TV | 6.0 | 47 |
| 1986 | Wedden, dat..? | Self | TV | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1986 | David Macaulay: Cathedral | Pierre (voice) | Film | — | 47 |
| 1986 | Mr Pye | Mr Pye | TV | 4.3 | 47 |
| 1986 | Mr. Pye | Mr. Pye | Film | — | 47 |
| 1986 | On Wings of Fire | Self | Film | 8.8 | 47 |
| 1985 | The Statue of Liberty | Self (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 46 |
| 1985 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Film | 6.6 | 46 |
| 1982 | The Secret of NIMH | Nicodemus (voice) | Film | 7.4 | 43 |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Adolf Hitler | TV | 8.0 | 43 |
| 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Dom Claude Frollo | Film | 5.8 | 43 |
| 1982 | Enigma | Kurt Limmer | Film | 5.6 | 43 |
| 1982 | Stranger in Town | The Stranger | Film | 7.7 | 43 |
| 1981 | Charlotte | Daberlohn | Film | 8.0 | 42 |
| 1980 | Hamlet | Hamlet | Film | 6.2 | 41 |
| 1980 | The Man Who Went Up in Smoke | Martin Beck | Film | 9.0 | 41 |
| 1979 | Minder | Freddie Fenton | TV | 7.2 | 40 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | The Stranger | TV | 6.8 | 40 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Drioli | TV | 6.8 | 40 |
| 1979 | The Human Factor | Arthur Davis | Film | 5.8 | 40 |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Richard II | TV | 6.0 | 39 |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Hamlet | TV | 6.0 | 39 |
| 1978 | Mysterious Castles of Clay | Narrator | Film | 6.4 | 39 |
| 1978 | The Medusa Touch | Townley - Publisher | Film | 6.8 | 39 |
| 1978 | Richard II | King Richard II | Film | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1977 | Philby, Burgess and Maclean | Guy Burgess | Film | 5.4 | 38 |
| 1976 | I, Claudius | Claudius | TV | 7.8 | 37 |
| 1974 | NOVA | Voice of Ernest Shackleton | TV | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1974 | The Pallisers | Lord Fawn | TV | 6.4 | 35 |
| 1974 | Affairs of the Heart | Bertram Braddle | TV | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1974 | The Odessa File | Klaus Wenzer | Film | 6.6 | 35 |
| 1974 | Blue Blood | Gregory | Film | 4.3 | 35 |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Inspector Caron | Film | 7.5 | 34 |
| 1972 | Man of Straw | Diederich Hessling | TV | — | 33 |
| 1971 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | William Drew | TV | 7.5 | 32 |
| 1971 | Budgie | Herbert Fletcher | TV | 7.2 | 32 |
| 1970 | Three Sisters | Andrei | Film | 4.3 | 31 |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse | Gerry | TV | 7.0 | 28 |
| 1967 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don John | Film | 6.3 | 28 |
| 1965 | Olivier Talks About Othello | (archive footage) | Film | — | 26 |
| 1965 | Othello | Cassio | Film | 6.4 | 26 |
| 1964 | Horizon | Narrator | TV | 7.4 | 25 |
| 1962 | The Fishing Match | Eric | Film | — | 23 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner | TV | — | 17 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | — | 17 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Eric | TV | 6.0 | 17 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Dom Claude | TV | 8.8 | 12 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Archibald Craven | TV | 8.8 | 12 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Imposter | TV | 8.8 | 12 |
| Frank and Percy | Film | — | — | ||
| Lead Heads | Film | — | — | ||
| Venom! Nine Ways to Die | Narrator | Film | — | — |