Derek Jacobi on screen and stage
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Derek Jacobi in London, 2009
Derek Jacobi is an English actor of the stage and screen.
Film[]
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 | |
1981 | Charlotte | Daberlohn | |
1982 | The Secret of NIMH | Nicodemus | Voice |
Enigma | Kurt Limmer | ||
1985 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
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 | |
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 | The Martini Shot | Errol | In post-production |
A Bird Flew In | David | In post-production | |
2022 | Allelujah | Ambrose | In post-production |
TBA | Lead Heads | In post-production |
Television[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1961 | BBC Sunday-Night Play | Charles Marlow | Episode: She Stoops the Conquerer |
1962 | Armchair Theatre | Eric | Episode: The Fishing Match |
1967 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don John | TV Movie |
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 | TV Movie |
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 |
1994–98 | 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 |
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 | |
2007–09 | 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—present | 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 | Good Omens | Metatron | Episode: Saturday Morning Funtime |
The Crown | Duke of Windsor | Episode: Dangling Man | |
2021 | Inside No. 9 | Mr Webster | Episode: How Do You Plead? |
The Lost Pirate Kingdom | Narrator | TV Series Docudrama |
Theatre[]
Year | Title | Role | Venue | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1959 | Henry IV, Part 2 | Henry, Prince of Wales | Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge | [1] |
1959 | Love's Labour's Lost | Bertram Berowne | Lyric Opera House, London | [1] |
1959 | Saint's Day | Giles Aldus | ADC Theatre, Cambridge | [1] |
1960 | Cymbeline | Iachimo | Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge | [1] |
1960 | The Duenna | Ferdinand | ADC Theatre, Cambridge | [1] |
1960 | Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | Edward | Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge | [1] |
1960 | Dr. Faustus | Evil Angel | Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge | [1] |
1963 | Hamlet | Laertes | The Old Vic, London | [1] |
1965 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don Jon | The Old Vic, London | [1] |
1968 | The Covent-Garden Tragedy A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion In His Own Write |
Performer | The Old Vic, London | [1] |
1972 | The Real Inspector Hound | Moon | Phoenix Theatre, London | [1] |
1979 | Hamlet | Hamlet | The Old Vic, London | [1] |
1980 | The Suicide | Semyon S. Podsekalnikov | ANTA Theatre, Broadway | [1] |
1982-84 | The Tempest | Prospero | Royal Shakespeare Company | [1] |
1982-84 | Peer Gynt | Peer Gynt | Royal Shakespeare Company | [1] |
1982–85 | Much Ado About Nothing | Signior Benedick of Padua | Royal Shakespeare Company Gershwin Theatre, Broadway |
[1] |
1983–85 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London Gershwin Theatre, Broadway |
[2] |
1987 | Breaking the Code | Alan Turing | Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway | [2] |
1993-94 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Barbican Theatre, London Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
[1] |
2000 | Uncle Vanya | Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky | Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway | [2] |
2002-03 | The Tempest | Prospero | The Old Vic, London | [1] |
2005 | Don Carlos | Philip II | Gielgud Theatre, London | [3] |
2006 | A Voyage Round My Father | Performer | Wyndham's Theatre, London | [4] |
2009 | Twelfth Night | Malvolio | Wyndham's Theatre, London | [5] |
2010 | King Lear | King Lear | Brooklyn Academy of Music, Off-Broadway | [6] |
2016 | Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | Garrick Theatre, West End | [7] |
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Derek Jacobi theatre profile". abouttheartists.com.
- ^ a b c "Derek Jacobi". Playbill.
- ^ Paul Taylor (8 February 2005). "Don Carlos, Gielgud Theatre, London". The Independent. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ Nathan, John (28 July 2006). "Derek Jacobi to Take A Voyage Round My Father to the West End". Playbill.
- ^ Shenton, Mark (5 December 2008). "Donmar's Twelfth Night, with Derek Jacobi, Begins Previews Dec. 5". Playbill.
- ^ Hetrick, Adam (22 March 2011). "Cast Set for BAM Debut of Donmar's King Lear With Derek Jacobi". Playbill.
- ^ "Review: Jacobi Steals Show In Branagh's Romeo And Juliet". Londonist. 26 May 2016.
External links[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Derek Jacobi on screen and stage. |
- Derek Jacobi on screen and stage at IMDb
- Derek Jacobi on screen and stage at the BFI's Screenonline
- "Jacobi, Sir Derek (George)", Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
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