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Derek Jacobi
Born 22 October 1938 87 years old Leytonstone, London, England, UK Who else is 87? → TMDB ↗
Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor. Jacobi is known for his work at the Royal National Theatre and for his film and television roles. He has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, two Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. He was given a knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994.
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13age in their first credit on record (1951)
75years on screen and counting
10credits in 1994, their busiest year
187dated credits on record
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Frank and Percy
Age: 87 Heartstopper Forever
2026
Age: 87 Moss & Freud
2026as Lucian Freud
Age: 87 Broken English
2026as The Narrator
Age: 87 Tinsel Town
2025as Albert
Age: 86 Juliet & Romeo
2025as The Friar
Age: 86 Gladiator II
2024as Gracchus
Age: 84 The Martini Shot
2023as Errol
Age: 84 Allelujah
2023as Ambrose
Age: 83 A Bird Flew In
2022as David
Age: 82 Say Your Prayers
2021as Father Enoch
Age: 82 Come Away
2020as Mr. Brown
Age: 81 Breaking The Codes
2020
Age: 81 The Host
2020as Dr. Hobson
Age: 81 The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019as Lord Palmerston
Age: 80 Muse
2019as The Lawyer
Age: 80 Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019as Claudius
Age: 80 Tolkien
2019as Professor Joseph Wright
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Age: 80 2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
2018
Age: 79 Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
Age: 79 Tomb Raider
2018as Mr. Yaffe
Age: 79 A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017as Scrooge
Age: 79 Murder on the Orient Express
2017as Edward Henry Masterman
Age: 79 Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
Age: 78 Stratton
2017as Ross
Age: 78 The Devil of Christmas
2016
Age: 78 The History of Love
2016as Leopold Gursky
Age: 77 Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016as Mercutio
Age: 76 Cinderella
2015as King
Age: 76 The Gospel of Luke
2015as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Age: 75 Grace of Monaco
2014as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
Age: 75 Effie Gray
2014as Travers Twiss
Age: 75 You
2013as Man
Age: 75 National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013as Claudius/Spooner
Age: 74 Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013as Narrator (voice)
Age: 73 Jail Caesar
2012as Sulla
Age: 73 My Week with Marilyn
2011as Sir Owen Morshead
Age: 72 Anonymous
2011as Prologue
Age: 72 Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011as Narrator (voice)
Age: 72 There Be Dragons
2011as Honorio
Age: 72 Ironclad
2011as Cornhill
Age: 72 National Theatre Live: King Lear
2011as King Lear
Age: 72 The King's Speech
2010as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Age: 72 Hereafter
2010as Derek Jacobi
Age: 71 Joe Maddison's War
2010as Mr. Simpson
Age: 71 Margot
2009as Fred Ashton
Age: 70 Diamonds
2009as Piers Denmont
Age: 70 Endgame
2009as Rudolph Agnew
Age: 70 Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009as Quentin Neely
Age: 70 A Bunch of Amateurs
2008as Nigel Dewberry
Age: 70 Sidney Turtlebaum
2008as Sidney Turtlebaum
Age: 69 Adam Resurrected
2008as Dr. Nathan Gross
Age: 69 The Ties That Bind Us
2008as The Master (archive footage)
Age: 69 One of Those Days
2008as Howard Whittam
Age: 69 The Old Curiosity Shop
2007as Grandfather
Age: 69 The Golden Compass
2007as Magisterial Emissary
Age: 69 Guantanamero
2007as Guido
Age: 68 The Riddle
2007as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Age: 68 Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007as President
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Age: 68 Anastezsi
2007as Balzer
Age: 68 The Art of Francis Bacon
2007as Derek Jacobi
Age: 67 Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006as Narrator (voice)
Age: 67 Pinochet in Suburbia
2006as Senator Augusto Pinochet
Age: 67 Underworld: Evolution
2006as Alexander Corvinus
Age: 67 Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2005as Narrator(voice)
Age: 66 Nanny McPhee
2005as Mr. Wheen
Age: 66 Bye Bye Blackbird
2005as Lord Dempsey
Age: 66 Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004as Mr. Operatski (voice)
Age: 66 Strings
2004as Nezo
Age: 65 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004as Other Voices (voice)
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Age: 65 Cloud Cuckoo Land
2004as Victor
Age: 64 The Dinosaur Hunters
2002as Narrator (voice)
Age: 64 Inquisition
2002as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Age: 64 Two Men Went To War
2002as Maj. Merton
Age: 63 Revengers Tragedy
2002as The Duke
Age: 63 The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
Age: 63 The Gathering Storm
2002as Stanley Baldwin
Age: 63 Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
Age: 63 Gosford Park
2001as Probert
Age: 62 The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001as Theseus (voice)
Age: 62 David Macaulay: Mill Times
2001as Priam Huntington (voice)
Age: 62 The Body
2001as Father Lavelle
Age: 62 Revelation
2001as Librarian
Age: 62 Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000as Various Characters
Age: 61 The Wyvern Mystery
2000as Squire Fairfield
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Age: 61 Wilfred
2000as Voice
Age: 61 Gladiator
2000as Gracchus
Age: 61 Up at the Villa
2000as Lucky Leadbetter
Age: 60 Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999as Father Leonor Fousnel
Age: 59 Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998as Francis Bacon
Age: 59 Basil
1998as Father Frederick
Age: 59 Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998as Narrator ( voice )
Age: 58 Hamlet
1996as King Claudius
Age: 57 Breaking the Code
1996as Alan Turing
Age: 57 Witness Against Hitler
1996as General
Age: 57 The Virgin in the Ice
1995as Brother Cadfael
Age: 56 The Secret Garden
1994as Archibald Craven (voice)
Age: 55 Monk's Hood
1994as Brother Cadfael
Age: 55 The Leper of St. Giles
1994as Brother Cadfael
Age: 55 The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994as Brother Cadfael
Age: 55 One Corpse Too Many
1994as Brother Cadfael
Age: 55 The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994as Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Age: 55 David Macaulay: Roman City
1994as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
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Age: 54 Circles of Deceit
1993as Randal
Age: 54 The Vision Thing
1993as George Salisbury
Age: 54 Aladdin
1992as The Magician (voice)
Age: 52 Dead Again
1991as Franklyn Madson
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Age: 52 The Fool
1990as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Age: 50 Henry V
1989as Chorus
Age: 50 The Congress
1989as (voice)
Age: 50 David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989as Hordedef (voice)
Age: 50 The Tenth Man
1988as The Imposter
Age: 49 Little Dorrit
1987as Arthur Clennam
Age: 49 The Secret Garden
1987as Archibald Craven
Age: 47 David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986as Pierre (voice)
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Age: 47 Mr. Pye
1986as Mr. Pye
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Age: 46 Cyrano de Bergerac
1985as Cyrano de Bergerac
Age: 43 Enigma
1982as Kurt Limmer
Age: 43 The Secret of NIMH
1982as Nicodemus (voice)
Age: 43 Stranger in Town
1982as The Stranger
Age: 43 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982as Dom Claude Frollo
Age: 42 Charlotte
1981as Daberlohn
Age: 42 The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1980as Martin Beck
Age: 41 Hamlet
1980as Hamlet
Age: 41 The Human Factor
1979as Arthur Davis
Age: 40 Richard II
1978as King Richard II
Age: 39 The Medusa Touch
1978as Townley - Publisher
Age: 38 Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977as Guy Burgess
Age: 36 Blue Blood
1974as Gregory
Age: 35 The Odessa File
1974as Klaus Wenzer
Age: 34 The Day of the Jackal
1973as Inspector Caron
Age: 31 Three Sisters
1970as Andrei
Age: 28 Much Ado About Nothing
1967as Don John
Age: 27 Othello
1965as Cassio
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Age: 23 The Fishing Match
1962as Eric
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Age: 85 Ludwig
2024as Mr. Todd
Age: 84 The American Buffalo
2023as (voice)
Age: 84 The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023as Sir Ralph Unwin
Age: 84 U-Boat Wargamers
2023as Narrator (voice)
Age: 83 The Sandman
2022as Erasmus Fry
Age: 80 Good Omens
2019as The Metatron
Age: 80 Good Omens
2019as Metatron
Age: 80 Les Misérables
2018as Bishop Myriel
Age: 78 The Crown
2016as Duke of Windsor
Age: 75 Inside No. 9
2014as Webster
Age: 74 Vicious
2013as Stuart Bixby
Age: 74 Last Tango in Halifax
2012as Alan
Age: 73 Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012as Lord Pirrie
Age: 72 The Amazing World of Gumball
2011as Narrator (voice)
Age: 72 The Borgias
2011as Cardinal Orsini
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Age: 70 Diamonds
2009
Age: 68 In the Night Garden
2007as Narrator (voice)
Age: 66 Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Age: 66 Doctor Who
2005as Professor Yana
Age: 66 Agatha Christie's Marple
2004as Colonel Protheroe
Age: 65 The Long Firm
2004as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
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Age: 65 London
2004as Tacitus
Age: 65 Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003as The Master (voice)
Age: 63 The Jury
2002as George Cording QC
Age: 61 Jason and the Argonauts
2000as Phineas
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Age: 61 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Age: 55 Baseball
1994as Various (voice)
Age: 55 Baseball
1994as (voice)
Age: 55 Cadfael
1994as Brother Cadfael
Age: 54 Frasier
1993as Jackson Hedley
Age: 54 The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Age: 53 The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991as Daedalus
Age: 51 The Civil War
1990as William Russell / Various (voice)
Age: 47 ScreenPlay
1986as George Salisbury
Age: 47 Mr Pye
1986as Mr Pye
Age: 43 Inside the Third Reich
1982as Adolf Hitler
Age: 41 Minder
1979as Freddie Fenton
Age: 40 Tales of the Unexpected
1979as The Stranger
Age: 40 Tales of the Unexpected
1979as Drioli
Age: 40 The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978as Hamlet
Age: 40 The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978as Richard II
Age: 37 I, Claudius
1976as Claudius
Age: 35 Affairs of the Heart
1974as Bertram Braddle
Age: 35 NOVA
1974as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
Age: 35 The Pallisers
1974as Lord Fawn
Age: 33 Man of Straw
1972as Diederich Hessling
Age: 32 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971as William Drew
Age: 32 Budgie
1971as Herbert Fletcher
Age: 28 ITV Playhouse
1967as Gerry
Age: 17 Armchair Theatre
1956as Eric
Age: 13 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Dom Claude
Age: 13 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Archibald Craven
Age: 13 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Imposter