Filmography
Derek Jacobi
Doctor Who
2005 · Professor Yana
The Crown
2016 · Duke of Windsor
Frasier
1993 · Jackson Hedley
Jason and the Argonauts
2000 · Phineas
NOVA
1974 · Voice of Ernest Shackleton
The Amazing World of Gumball
2011 · Narrator (voice)
Horizon
1964 · Narrator
Minder
1979 · Freddie Fenton
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Winner, Self - Nominee
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Colonel Protheroe
Gladiator
2000 · Gracchus
Ludwig
2024 · Mr. Todd
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · The Stranger, Drioli
Inside No. 9
2014 · Webster
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Gerry
The Sandman
2022 · Erasmus Fry
Good Omens
2019 · The Metatron, Metatron
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · Self
The Borgias
2011 · Cardinal Orsini
Doctor Who Confidential
2005 · Actor
Cinderella
2015 · King
Gladiator II
2024 · Gracchus
Remembers…
2022 · Self
ScreenPlay
1986 · George Salisbury
Murder on the Orient Express
2017 · Edward Henry Masterman
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · Richard II, Hamlet
In the Night Garden
2007 · Narrator (voice)
I, Claudius
1976 · Claudius
The Civil War
1990 · William Russell / Various (voice)
The King's Speech
2010 · Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Tomb Raider
2018 · Mr. Yaffe
Cadfael
1994 · Brother Cadfael
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · William Drew
Baseball
1994 · Various (voice), (voice)
Underworld: Evolution
2006 · Alexander Corvinus
Heartstopper Forever
2026 · Pete
The Golden Compass
2007 · Magisterial Emissary
Les Misérables
2018 · Bishop Myriel
Last Tango in Halifax
2012 · Alan
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012 · Lord Pirrie
Vicious
2013 · Stuart Bixby
The Pallisers
1974 · Lord Fawn
Nanny McPhee
2005 · Mr. Wheen
Budgie
1971 · Herbert Fletcher
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Inspector Caron
Wedden, dat..?
1986 · Self
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
2019 · Narrator
The Jury
2002 · George Cording QC
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992 · Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
The West
1996 · Self (voice)
Gosford Park
2001 · Probert
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Dom Claude, Archibald Craven
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000 · Actor
Hamlet
1996 · King Claudius
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991 · Daedalus
The Secret of NIMH
1982 · Nicodemus (voice)
Affairs of the Heart
1974 · Bertram Braddle
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023 · Sir Ralph Unwin
Hereafter
2010 · Derek Jacobi
The Body
2001 · Father Lavelle
The Long Firm
2004 · Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
The American Buffalo
2023 · (voice)
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009 · Self
Tolkien
2019 · Professor Joseph Wright
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
2021 · Narrator
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Eric
The Odessa File
1974 · Klaus Wenzer
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003 · The Master (voice)
Dead Again
1991 · Franklyn Madson
Henry V
1989 · Chorus
Inside the Third Reich
1982 · Adolf Hitler
Mist: Sheepdog Tales
2007 · Narrator
Ironclad
2011 · Cornhill
My Week with Marilyn
2011 · Sir Owen Morshead
Anonymous
2011 · Prologue
Come Away
2020 · Mr. Brown
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012 · Himself
Grace of Monaco
2014 · Fernando D'Aillieres
The Medusa Touch
1978 · Townley - Publisher
Juliet & Romeo
2025 · The Friar
London
2004 · Tacitus
Effie Gray
2014 · Travers Twiss
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982 · Dom Claude Frollo
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998 · Francis Bacon
Tinsel Town
2025 · Albert
Looking for Richard
1996 · Self - Interviewee
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019 · Claudius
The Human Factor
1979 · Arthur Davis
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · Self
Mr Pye
1986 · Mr Pye
Adam Resurrected
2008 · Dr. Nathan Gross
Diamonds
2009 · Actor
Stratton
2017 · Ross
Enigma
1982 · Kurt Limmer
The History of Love
2016 · Leopold Gursky
There Be Dragons
2011 · Honorio
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Other Voices (voice)
The Gathering Storm
2002 · Stanley Baldwin
Up at the Villa
2000 · Lucky Leadbetter
Moss & Freud
2026 · Lucian Freud
The Statue of Liberty
1985 · Self (voice)
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002 · Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
Endgame
2009 · Rudolph Agnew
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · Claudius/Spooner
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017 · Actor
The Tenth Man
1988 · The Imposter
The Gospel of Luke
2015 · Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999 · Father Leonor Fousnel
Strings
2004 · Nezo
Muse of Fire
2013 · Self
Man of Straw
1972 · Diederich Hessling
The Fool
1990 · Mr. Frederick / Sir John
U-Boat Wargamers
2023 · Narrator (voice)
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019 · Lord Palmerston
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · The Master (archive footage)
Broken English
2026 · The Narrator
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022 · Self
Basil
1998 · Father Frederick
The Secret Garden
1987 · Archibald Craven
Last Will. & Testament
2012 · Himself
The Old Curiosity Shop
2007 · Grandfather
Frank and Percy
2026 · Actor
Mysterious Castles of Clay
1978 · Narrator
Achilles
1995 · Narrator
Allelujah
2023 · Ambrose
Little Dorrit
1987 · Arthur Clennam
Two Men Went To War
2002 · Maj. Merton
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Daedalus & Icarus
1991 · Daedalus
Much Ado About Nothing
1967 · Don John
Three Sisters
1970 · Andrei
The Making of Gosford Park
2002 · Self
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989 · Hordedef (voice)
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008 · Nigel Dewberry
Othello
1965 · Cassio
Breaking the Code
1996 · Alan Turing
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017 · Scrooge
The Secret Garden
1994 · Archibald Craven (voice)
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009 · Quentin Neely
The Host
2020 · Dr. Hobson
In My Defence
1991 · Emile Zola
Revelation
2001 · Librarian
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2011 · King Lear
Joe Maddison's War
2010 · Mr. Simpson
Aladdin
1992 · The Magician (voice)
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004 · Mr. Operatski (voice)
Blue Blood
1974 · Gregory
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013 · Narrator (voice)
Charlotte
1981 · Daberlohn
A Bird Flew In
2022 · David
Say Your Prayers
2021 · Father Enoch
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016 · Mercutio
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006 · Narrator (voice)
Witness Against Hitler
1996 · General
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Various Characters
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002 · Self
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001 · Theseus (voice), Thanks
One of Those Days
2008 · Howard Whittam
The Wyvern Mystery
2000 · Squire Fairfield
The Riddle
2007 · The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024 · Self
Guantanamero
2007 · Guido
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1980 · Martin Beck
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977 · Guy Burgess
The Martini Shot
2023 · Errol
Hamlet
1980 · Hamlet
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2005 · Narrator(voice)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994 · Jeremy Fisher (voice)
One Corpse Too Many
1994 · Brother Cadfael
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007 · President
Muse
2019 · The Lawyer
Sidney Turtlebaum
2008 · Sidney Turtlebaum
David Macaulay: Roman City
1994 · Marcus Fabricius (voice)
The Devil of Christmas
2016 · Actor
Margot
2009 · Fred Ashton
Good Omens T3: El final
TBA · Actor
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
2008 · Narrator
Revengers Tragedy
2002 · The Duke
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998 · Narrator ( voice )
The Vampyre: Blood & Ink
TBA · Actor
On Wings of Fire
1986 · Self
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005 · Self
Inquisition
2002 · Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
The Velvet Claw
1992 · Narrator
Diamonds
2009 · Piers Denmont
The Congress
1989 · (voice)
The Virgin in the Ice
1995 · Brother Cadfael
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018 · Actor
Discovering Hamlet
1990 · Himself
Mr. Pye
1986 · Mr. Pye
The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994 · Brother Cadfael
David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986 · Pierre (voice)
The Leper of St. Giles
1994 · Brother Cadfael
Wilfred
2000 · Voice
The Chimes
1999 · Narrator
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005 · Lord Dempsey
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Richard II
1978 · King Richard II
The Fishing Match
1962 · Eric
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011 · Narrator (voice)
Venom
2015 · Narrator
Charles Dickens's England
2009 · Himself - Presenter
Great Escape: The Untold Story
2001 · Narrator
You
2013 · Man
Breaking The Codes
2020 · Actor
David Macaulay: Mill Times
2001 · Priam Huntington (voice)
Jail Caesar
2012 · Sulla
The Vision Thing
1993 · George Salisbury
Lead Heads
TBA · Actor
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002 · Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
The Halloween Kid
2012 · Narrator
The Art of Francis Bacon
2007 · Derek Jacobi
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985 · Cyrano de Bergerac
Monk's Hood
1994 · Brother Cadfael
Stranger in Town
1982 · The Stranger
Circles of Deceit
1993 · Randal
Pinochet in Suburbia
2006 · Senator Augusto Pinochet
2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
2018 · Actor
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
2020 · Himself
Cloud Cuckoo Land
2004 · Victor
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002 · Narrator (voice)
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
TBA · Narrator
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
2013 · Narrator
Pearl Islands
2022 · Self
Anastezsi
2007 · Balzer