Sir Derek George Jacobi (born October 22nd, 1938) is an English actor and stage director. He guest starred in "The Lie" as the narrator, and "The Night" as the Moon.
Filmography
1965
- Othello (Michael Cassio)
1968
- Interlude (Paul)
1970
- Three Sisters (Andrei)
1972
- Man of Straw (Diederich Hessling, 2 episodes)
- The Strauss Family (Joseph Lanner, 2 episodes)
1973
- Blue Blood (Gregory)
- The Day of the Jackal (Caron)
1974
- The Pallisers (Lord Fawn, 8 episodes)
- The Odessa File (Klaus Wenzer)
1976
- I, Claudius (Claudius, 12 episodes)
1977
- Philby, Burgess and MacLean (Guy Burgess, television movie)
1978
- The Medusa Touch (Townley)
- BBC Television Shakespeare: Richard II (Richard II)
1979
- The Human Factor (Arthur Davis)
- Minder (Freddie Fenton, episode: "The Bounty Hunter")
1980
- Tales of the Unexpected (Drioli, episode: "Skin")
- BBC Television Shakespeare: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Hamlet)
1981
- Charlotte (Daberlohn)
1982
- The Secret of NIMH (Nicodemus)
- Enigma (Kurt Limmer)
- Inside the Third Reich (Adolf Hitler)
- Tales of the Unexpected (Sir Columbus)
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Claude Frollo)
1985
- Cryano de Bergerac (1985 film) (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1986
- Mr Pye (Mr. Pye, 4 episodes)
1987
- The Secret Garden (Archibald Craven)
- Little Dorrit (Arthur Clennam)
1988
- The Tenth Man (The Imposter)
1989
- Henry V (Chorus)
1990
- The Fool (Mr. Frederick/Sir John)
- The Civil War (various, 9 episodes)
1991
- Dead Again (Franklyn Madson)
1993
- The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1 episode)
1994
- Cadfael (Brother Cadfael, 13 episodes, 1994-1998)
1996
- Looking for Richard (Himself)
- Breaking the Code (Alan Turing)
- Hamlet (1996 film) (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)
- The Wyvern Mystery (Squire Fairfield)
- Jason and the Argonauts (Phineas)
2001
- The Body (Father Lavelle)
- Gosford Park (Probert)
- Wikipedia:The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (Vaslav Nijinsky)
- Revelation (Librarian)
- Frasier (Jackson Hedley, episode "The Show Must Go Off")
2002
- Revengers Tragedy (The Duke)
- Two Men Went to War (Major Merton)
- The Jury (George Cording QC, 6 episodes)
- The Edwardian Country House (Narrator, all episodes)
- The Gathering Storm (Stanley Baldwin)
2004
- Strings (Nezo)
- London (Tacitus)
- The Long Firm (Lord Edward Thrusby, 2 episodes)
- Marple (Colonel Protheroe, episode "The Murder at the Vicarage")
2005
- Bye Bye Blackbird (Lord Dempsey)
- Nanny McPhee (Mr. Wheen)
2006
- Underworld: Evolution (Alexander Corvinus)
2007
- The Riddle (Charles Dickens)
- Airlock Or How To Say Goodbye In Space (President)
- The Golden Compass (Magisterial Emissary)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Grandfather)
- Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy (narrator, 38 episodes)
- Doctor Who (The Master/Professor Yana, episode "Utopia")
- In the Night Garden... (narrator, 100 episodes, 2007-2009)
2008
- A Bunch of Amateurs (Nigel)
2009
- Morris: A Life with Bells On (Quentin Neely)
- Endgame (Rudolf Agnew)
- Adam Resurrected (Dr. Nathan Gross)
- Wikipedia:Charles Dickens's England (himself)
2010
- Hippie Hippie Snake (Judge)
- There Be Dragons (Honorio)
- Ironclad (Cornhill)
- The King's Speech (Cosmo Gordon Lang)
- Hereafter (Himself)
2011
- Anonymous (Narrator)
- My Week with Marilyn (Sir Owen Morshead)
- The Borgias (Cardinal Orsini, 2 episodes)
2012
- Jail Caesar (Sulla)
- Titanic: Blood and Steel (William Pirrie, 12 episodes)
- Wikipedia:Last Tango in Halifax (Alan Buttershaw, 2 series (6+ episodes), 2012-present)
2013
- Effie Gray (Travers Twiss)
- Vicious (Stuart Bixby, 2 series (14 episodes))
2014
- The Amazing World of Gumball (narrator in "The Lie", Moon in "The Night", 2014-2016)
2015
- Cinderella (King)
2016
- The History of Love (Léo Gursky)
- Stratton: First into Action (Ross)
2017
- Murder on the Orient Express (Edward Masterman)
Theatrical performances
1979
- Hamlet (Hamlet)
1980
- The Suicide (Semyon Semyonovich Podsekalnikov)
1982
- Much Ado About Nothing (Signior Benedick of Padua, 1982-1985)
1983
- Cryano de Bergerac (Cryano de Bergerac)
1986
- Breaking the Code (Alan Turing)
2000
- Uncle Vanya (Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky)
2009
- Twelfth Night (Malvolio)
2010
- King Lear (King Lear)
2016
- Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio)
Trivia
- He, Kerry Shale, Brian Blessed, David Warner, Togo Igawa, and Naoko Mori have all starred in at least one episode of the BBC sci-fi drama series Doctor Who.