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Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

Total Box Office:
 $599.8M
Highest Rated:
100% Henry V (1989)
Lowest Rated:
0% Basil (1998)
Birthday:
Oct 22
Birthplace:
Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Bio:
One of Britain's most distinguished stage performers, Derek Jacobi is one of two actors (the other being Laurence Olivier) to hold both Danish and English knighthoods. Primarily known for his work on the stage, he has also made a number of films and remains best-known to television audiences for his…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies | TV series

MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
Grace Of Monaco
  • Count Fernando D'Aillieres
-- 2014
National Theatre Live: King Lear
  • Actor
-- 2011
84% My Week with Marilyn
  • Sir Owen Morshead
$14.6M 2011
43% Ironclad
  • Cornhill
-- 2011
47% Anonymous
  • Prologue
$4.5M 2011
11% There Be Dragons
  • Honorio Soto
$1.1M 2011
94% The King's Speech
  • Archbishop Cosmo Lang
$138.8M 2010
Joe Maddison's War
  • Mr. Simpson
-- 2010
46% Hereafter
  • Himself
$32.7M 2010
Mist: Sheepdog Tales - Round Up
  • Actor
-- 2009
23% Charles Dickens's England
  • Actor
-- 2009
Margot
  • Actor
-- 2009
71% Endgame
  • Rudolph Agnew
-- 2009
Twin Spirits
  • Actor
-- 2009
Sidney Turtlebaum
  • Sidney
-- 2008
Jury
  • Actor
-- 2008
Morris: A Life With Bells On
  • Actor
-- 2008
34% Adam Resurrected
  • Dr. Nathan Gross
-- 2008
A Bunch of Amateurs
  • Actor
-- 2008
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
  • Actor
-- 2007
The Riddle
  • Actor
-- 2007
Mist - The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
  • Actor
-- 2007
Twin Spirits
  • Actor
-- 2007
The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Grandfather
-- 2007
Pinochet's Last Stand
  • Actor
-- 2007
42% The Golden Compass
  • Magisterial Emissary
$70.1M 2007
Guantanamero
  • Actor
-- 2006
73% Nanny McPhee
  • Mr. Wheen
$47.1M 2006
Mist: The Story of a Sheepdog Puppy
  • Narrator
-- 2006
Pinochet's Last Stand
  • Actor
-- 2006
17% Underworld: Evolution
  • Corvinus Alexander
$62.3M 2006
Bye Bye Blackbird
  • Actor
-- 2005
First Christmas and Other Stories
  • Actor
-- 2005
63% Two Men Went to War
  • Major Merton
-- 2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • Actor
-- 2004
80% Strings
  • Nezo (English version)
-- 2004
Revelation
  • Actor
-- 2002
60% The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
  • Actor
-- 2002
Jury
  • George Cording QC
-- 2002
The Gathering Storm
  • Actor
-- 2002
Nijinsky
  • Vaslav Nijinsky
-- 2002
Revelation
  • Actor
-- 2002
60% Revengers Tragedy
  • The Duke
-- 2002
Great Escape: The Untold Story
  • Actor
-- 2001
86% Gosford Park
  • Probert
$41.3M 2001
13% The Body
  • Father Lavelle
-- 2001
Best of Boys in Love
  • Actor
-- 2000
The Wyvern Mystery
  • Squire Fairfield
-- 2000
77% Gladiator
  • Gracchus
$187.3M 2000
David Macaulay: Cathedral
  • Narrator
-- 2000
The Shakespeare Conspiracy
  • Narrator
-- 2000
46% Up at the Villa
  • Lucky Leadbetter
-- 2000
40% Jason and the Argonauts
  • Phineas
-- 2000
David Macaulay: Pyramid
  • Narrator
-- 2000
Edvard Grieg: What Price Immortality?
  • Narrator
-- 1999
Breaking The Code
  • Actor
-- 1999
63% Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
  • Father Leonor Fousnel
-- 1999
Discovering Hamlet
  • Director
  • Actor
-- 1999
0% Basil
  • Actor
-- 1998
68% Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
  • Francis Bacon
-- 1998
Breaking The Code
  • Alan Turing
-- 1996
95% Hamlet
  • Actor
-- 1996
81% Looking for Richard
  • Interviewee
-- 1996
Witness Against Hitler
  • Actor
-- 1995
Three Tenors - Encore
  • Actor
-- 1992
92% Aladdin
  • Actor
-- 1992
82% Dead Again
  • Franklyn Madson
-- 1991
100% Henry V
  • Chorus
-- 1989
71% Little Dorrit - Set
  • Actor
-- 1988
Little Dorrit (Nobody's Fault) (Little Dorrit's Story)
  • Arthur Clennam
-- 1988
The Tenth Man
  • The Imposter
-- 1988
Little Dorrit - Pt. 1 - Nobody's Fault
  • Actor
-- 1988
Little Dorrit - Pt. 2 - Little Dorrit's Story
  • Actor
-- 1988
The Secret Garden
  • Archibald Craven
-- 1987
Burgess Philby and MacLean - Spy Scandal of the Century
  • Actor
-- 1986
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Dom Claude Frollo
-- 1982
Enigma
  • Kurt Limmer
-- 1982
95% The Secret of NIMH
  • Nicodemus
-- 1982
Inside the Third Reich
  • Adolf Hitler
-- 1982
Blueblood
  • Actor
-- 1980
Richard II
  • Richard II
-- 1979
The Medusa Touch
  • Townley the Publisher
-- 1978
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
  • Guy Burgess
-- 1977
33% The Human Factor
  • Arthur Davis
-- 1975
64% The Odessa File
  • Klaus Wenzer
-- 1974
The Strauss Family
  • Actor
-- 1973
90% The Day of the Jackal
  • Caron
-- 1973
Blue Blood
  • Gregory
-- 1973
The Three Sisters
  • Andrei Prosorov
-- 1970
80% Othello
  • Cassio
-- 1965
100% Gamlet (Hamlet)
  • Claudius
-- 1964
Interlude
  • Paul
-- 1957
80% Richard III
  • Actor
-- 1955

Movies | TV series

TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
80% The Borgias
  • Cardinal Orsini
2011-2013
100% Last Tango in Halifax
  • Actor
113-113
Doctor Who
  • Professor Yana
2012

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    1. Corvinus Alexander: We are oddities of nature, you and I. Nothing more! This is a world for humanity.
    From Underworld: Evolution. Submitted by Typhon Q (10 months ago)
    1. Lucilla: Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome. Honor him.
    2. Gracchus: Who will help me carry him?
    From Gladiator. Submitted by Henry E (14 months ago)

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Wiseman Just Fine with an "Underworld 3" Opens in new window
December 8, 2005

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