Derek Jacobi

Q: Has Derek Jacobi won any awards?

Yes, Derek Jacobi has won several prestigious awards including a BAFTA Award for Best Actor and two Olivier Awards for his performances in theatre.

Q: What was Derek Jacobi's first film?

Derek Jacobi's first film was 'The Last of Mrs. Cheyney' released in 1979, marking the start of his film career.

Q: What are some of Derek Jacobi's most successful films?

Some of Derek Jacobi's most successful films include 'Glorious 39', 'The King's Speech', and 'The Last of the Blonde Bombshells'.

Q: What is known about Derek Jacobi's personal life?

Derek Jacobi is openly gay and has been in a long-term relationship with Richard Clifford since 1986. He has two children.

Q: What is Derek Jacobi's estimated net worth?

Derek Jacobi's estimated net worth is around $8 million, reflecting his successful career in acting.

Q: What are some milestones in Derek Jacobi's filmography?

Milestones in Derek Jacobi's filmography include his iconic role in 'I, Claudius', his voice work in 'Hey Duggee', and numerous stage performances that have garnered critical acclaim.

Q: Is Derek Jacobi involved in any recent projects?

Yes, Derek Jacobi is involved in the animated series 'Hey Duggee' as part of the Squirrel Club, showcasing his continued work in voice acting.

Known for

Gladiator (1992)

IMDb 6.5 / 10

1992 / Action / 101mins

Chicago's slimiest fight promoter introduces a promising young athlete to the dark side of illegal boxing.

Tomb Raider (2018)

IMDb 6.3 / 10

2018 / Action, Adventure / 119 min

Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where...

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

IMDb 6.5 / 10

2017 / Comedy, Crime / 109mins

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Name

Derek Jacobi

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

22 February 1938, Stockport, England

Spouses

Richard Clifford (1986–present)

Children

2 (including a son named James)

Parents

George Jacobi, Daisy Jacobi

Estimated Net Worth

$8 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Heartstopper Forever It's a new school year for the Truham-Higgs gang. As Nick and Charlie's relationship deepens, their thoughts turn to life...	Unknown character	Not rated
2026	Movie Moss & Freud Supermodel Kate Moss embarks on a journey of self-discovery when acclaimed artist Lucian Freud offers to paint her portrait.	Lucian Freud	Not rated
2026	Movie Broken English A survivor, provocateur and true original, Marianne has spent more than six decades defying expectations — releasing over thirty-five albums...	The Narrator	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2025	Movie Tinsel Town A washed-up Hollywood action hero is tricked into starring in a small English town’s chaotic Christmas pantomime, where a straight-talking...	Albert	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2025	Movie Juliet & Romeo Set in 1301 at the end of Medieval times, our most famous star-crossed lovers turn the tides on the history...	The Friar	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2024	Movie Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration A tribute to the celebrated and enigmatic actress, with her life story told by those who knew her best, celebrating...	Self	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2024	Movie Gladiator II Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to...	Gracchus	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2024	TV Ludwig John Taylor lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of 'Ludwig'. When his identical twin,...	Mr. Todd	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2023	TV The American Buffalo The dramatic story of America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations, being driven to...	(voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2023	TV The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies Two very different women, Alice a formidable PA and Cheryl a best-selling fantasy author, become trapped in a triangle of...	Sir Ralph Unwin	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2023	Movie The Martini Shot This existential comedic drama follows an ailing film director as he begins to shoot what he believes to be his...	Errol	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2023	Movie Allelujah When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a...	Ambrose	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2023	TV U-Boat Wargamers January 1943: Admiral Karl Dönitz, head of the Nazis’ U-boat fleet, has brought Britain to the brink of starvation by...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2022	Movie Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2022	Movie A Bird Flew In Charts six interlinked narratives after the cast and crew of a film are sent home from set.	David	Not rated
2022	Movie Pearl Islands Follow the breathtaking adventures of divers looking for pearls in the Persian Gulf and learn how the gems brought fortune...	Self	Not rated
2022	TV The Sandman After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what...	Erasmus Fry	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2022	TV Remembers… What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making...	Self	Not rated
2021	Movie Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood With the help of Hollywood, top Nazi Albert Speer tried to unscrupulously whitewash himself of his crimes in the 1970s....	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2021	Movie Say Your Prayers Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate...	Father Enoch	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2021	TV The Lost Pirate Kingdom The real-life pirates of the Caribbean violently plunder the world's riches and form a surprisingly egalitarian republic in this documentary...	Narrator	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2020	Movie Coronation Street: Queens of the Street We mark 60 glorious years of Coronation Street, the world’s longest-running soap, with a celebration of the women who have...	Himself	Not rated
2020	Movie Come Away Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies...	Mr. Brown	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2020	Movie Breaking The Codes Using rare archive footage and exclusive interviews, this series takes you to the heart of a war that was fought...	Unknown character	Not rated
2020	Movie The Host A chance opportunity arises for Robert Atkinson, a London banker who risks his bank's money to leave the mundane behind...	Dr. Hobson	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2019	Movie The Warrior Queen of Jhansi The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her...	Lord Palmerston	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2019	Movie Muse Luca is the pre-eminent artist of his generation and at the peak of his career, lauded, feted and collected by...	The Lawyer	Not rated
2019	Movie Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans Brainy Roman teenager Atti is always coming up with schemes, but one ultimately goes too far, angering Emperor Nero. As...	Claudius	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2019	TV Greatest Events of World War II in Colour Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from Stalingrad to The Battle of Britain, are shown...	Narrator	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2019	TV Good Omens Aziraphale and Crowley, of Heaven and Hell respectively, have grown rather fond of the Earth. So it's terrible news that...	Metatron	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2019	TV Good Omens Aziraphale and Crowley, of Heaven and Hell respectively, have grown rather fond of the Earth. So it's terrible news that...	The Metatron	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2019	Movie Tolkien England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create...	Professor Joseph Wright	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2018	TV Les Misérables France, 1815. Jean Valjean, a common thief, is released from prison after having lived a hell in life for 19...	Bishop Myriel	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2018	Movie 2018: A Year in the Life of a Year Spoof end-of-the-year review show written and presented by Rhys Thomas.	Unknown character	Not rated
2018	Movie Nothing Is Truer than Truth NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party...	Unknown character	TMDB 3.5 / 10
2018	Movie Tomb Raider Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself...	Mr. Yaffe	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2017	Movie A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC...	Scrooge	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2017	Movie Murder on the Orient Express Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.	Edward Henry Masterman	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2017	Movie Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge THE UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND CELEBRATED ITS EPIC TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL IN 2017. Over 4,000...	Unknown character	Not rated
2017	Movie Stratton A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell.	Ross	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2016	Movie The Devil of Christmas A director talks about his old horror film. It's Austria, Krampusnacht, December 1977. The Devonshires arrive at the alpine chalet...	Unknown character	Not rated
2016	Movie The History of Love The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a...	Leopold Gursky	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2016	TV The Crown The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny....	Duke of Windsor	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2016	Movie Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy.	Mercutio	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2015	Movie Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first tentative steps on the...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2015	Movie Venom A BBC Earth documentary inside the world of the most venomous creatures on Earth, with stories from survivors of deadly...	Narrator	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2015	Movie Cinderella When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters....	King	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2015	Movie The Gospel of Luke THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, more than any other, fits the category of ancient biography. Luke, as "narrator" of events, sees...	Narrator (voice) – King James Version	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2014	Movie Grace of Monaco The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince...	Count Fernando D'Aillieres	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	Movie Effie Gray A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.	Travers Twiss	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2014	TV Inside No. 9 An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.	Webster	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2013	Movie You Part of Channel 4 series Derek Jacobi has stepped in to voice lyrics in a incredibly moving new film. Taking...	Man	Not rated
2013	Movie National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together...	Claudius/Spooner	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2013	Movie The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island Out in the English Channel is the tiny island of Sark, in August 1990, a French Physicist attempted a bizarre...	Narrator	Not rated
2013	Movie Muse of Fire This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2013	TV Vicious Freddie and Stuart are an old couple who have been together for decades and bicker constantly. Their lives are turned...	Stuart Bixby	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2013	Movie Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2012	TV Last Tango in Halifax Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they...	Alan	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2012	Movie Last Will. & Testament It's the greatest mystery of all time; who wrote the works of Shakespeare? DEREK JACOBI leads an impressive cast on...	Himself	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2012	Movie The Halloween Kid Henry is a lonely child who lives for his favourite holiday.	Narrator	Not rated
2012	Movie Jail Caesar The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and...	Sulla	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2012	TV Shakespeare Uncovered Celebrity hosts guide viewers through William Shakespeare's plays in performance. Each episode serves as a primer for newcomers to Shakespeare...	Himself	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2012	TV Titanic: Blood and Steel Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a...	Lord Pirrie	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2011	Movie My Week with Marilyn London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered...	Sir Owen Morshead	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2011	Movie Anonymous Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances...	Prologue	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2011	Movie Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2011	TV The Amazing World of Gumball The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2011	TV The Borgias Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo...	Cardinal Orsini	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2011	Movie There Be Dragons Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who...	Honorio	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2011	Movie Ironclad In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal...	Cornhill	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2011	Movie National Theatre Live: King Lear An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once...	King Lear	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2010	Movie The King's Speech The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II....	Archbishop Cosmo Lang	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2010	Movie Hereafter Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in...	Derek Jacobi	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2010	Movie Joe Maddison's War Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s...	Mr. Simpson	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2009	Movie Margot At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and...	Fred Ashton	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2009	TV Doctor Who Greatest Moments Takes viewers on a journey through time and space to relive all the action from the sci-fi show, featuring exclusive...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2009	Movie Charles Dickens's England The film looks at the places Charles Dickens lived and worked and how he used them in his novels and...	Himself - Presenter	Not rated
2009	TV Diamonds The once mighty Denmont Corporation with headquarters in South Africa is on the verge of collapse, threatened by upstart rivals...	Unknown character	Not rated
2009	Movie Diamonds Complex tale about small and big players in the African diamond business wrapped around a murder of US senator's daughter.	Piers Denmont	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2009	Movie Endgame The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging...	Rudolph Agnew	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2009	Movie Morris: A Life with Bells On The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.	Quentin Neely	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2008	Movie A Bunch of Amateurs Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him...	Nigel Dewberry	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2008	Movie Sidney Turtlebaum Sidney Turtlebaum is a bitter sweet comedy that tells the story of Sidney, an eccentric gay Jewish man in his...	Sidney Turtlebaum	TMDB 3.3 / 10
2008	Movie Pompeii and the Roman Villa Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series "I, Claudius" - this documentary explores art and...	Narrator	Not rated
2008	Movie Adam Resurrected After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control...	Dr. Nathan Gross	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2008	Movie The Ties That Bind Us A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story...	The Master (archive footage)	Not rated
2008	Movie One of Those Days We've all had "one of those days" - when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be...	Howard Whittam	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2007	Movie The Old Curiosity Shop A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted...	Grandfather	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2007	Movie The Golden Compass In a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls...	Magisterial Emissary	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2007	Movie Guantanamero After a violent storm, Ali awakens on a deserted beach, sick and disoriented. They'll be looking for him and he...	Guido	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2007	Movie The Riddle A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the...	The Tramp / Charles Dickens	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2007	Movie Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space Two astronauts await the news that will decide their fate.	President	Not rated
2007	TV In the Night Garden In the Night Garden is a magical place that exists between the waking and sleeping imagination of children close to...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2007	Movie Anastezsi A talented young violinist enrols at an isolated music school. But when he begins having visions of the other students...	Balzer	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2007	Movie The Art of Francis Bacon This film explores many of his key canvases which have been newly filmed in HDTV. The works are complemented solely...	Derek Jacobi	Not rated
2006	Movie Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy is a British family television film following the life of a border collie...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2006	Movie Pinochet in Suburbia In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the...	Senator Augusto Pinochet	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2006	Movie Underworld: Evolution As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an...	Alexander Corvinus	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2005	Movie Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy Mist is a puppy with a lofty goal: She wants to be the best sheepdog she can be! Born with...	Narrator(voice)	Not rated
2005	Movie Nanny McPhee Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies....	Mr. Wheen	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2005	Movie Bye Bye Blackbird A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in...	Lord Dempsey	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2005	Movie Strength and Honor: Production Pods Series of documentary pods chronicling every aspect of the production of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Released as an extra on the...	Self	Not rated
2005	TV Doctor Who The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...	Professor Yana	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2005	TV Doctor Who Confidential Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary to complement the revival of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....	Unknown character	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2004	TV Agatha Christie's Marple The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During...	Colonel Protheroe	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2004	Movie Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On It's Christmas, and Angelina Mouseling (Finty Williams) is auditioning for the lead role in the musical extravaganza, Cinderella Mouse and...	Mr. Operatski (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	Movie Strings The story of Prince Hal who sets out to avenge his dead father against the city's rivals, the Zeriths, little...	Nezo	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2004	TV Who Do You Think You Are? A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	Movie Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.	Other Voices (voice)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	TV The Long Firm The lives of characters who live, love and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks.	Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	TV London London is a 2004 three-part BBC history documentary series about the history of London, presented by Peter Ackroyd.	Tacitus	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2004	Movie Cloud Cuckoo Land A young man with cerebral palsy leaves the safety of his care home to search for a wrecked aircraft, finding...	Victor	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	TV Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka The Doctor, a time-traveling alien explorer, is sent by his people, the Time Lords, to liberate a small town in...	The Master (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	TV Henry VIII The life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging Spanish princess until...	Narrator	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	Movie Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2002	Movie The Dinosaur Hunters One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2002	Movie Inquisition Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears...	Cardinal Grand Inquisitor	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2002	Movie Two Men Went To War Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go...	Maj. Merton	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2002	Movie I, Claudius: A Television Epic The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2002	Movie Revengers Tragedy A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the...	The Duke	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2002	Movie The Making of Gosford Park A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Robert Altman's 2001 film 'Gosford Park'. Cast and crew relate some of their...	Self	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2002	Movie The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet...	Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2002	Movie The Gathering Storm A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though...	Stanley Baldwin	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2002	Movie Ultimate Fights from the Movies In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies...	Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2002	TV The Jury The Jury is a British television serial broadcast in 2002. The series was the first ever to be allowed to...	George Cording QC	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2001	Movie Gosford Park In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting...	Probert	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2001	Movie The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy using the complete text of the play but performed by child actors.	Theseus (voice)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2001	Movie David Macaulay: Mill Times Travel back to late 18th century Lowell, MA, now infamous for its textile mills and its "Lowell Girls," the poor,...	Priam Huntington (voice)	Not rated
2001	Movie The Body An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones...	Father Lavelle	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2001	Movie Revelation Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine...	Librarian	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2001	Movie Great Escape: The Untold Story A documentary about the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and...	Narrator	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2000	Movie Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.	Various Characters	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie The Wyvern Mystery After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young...	Squire Fairfield	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2000	Movie Wilfred Imagining the unimaginable through the eyes of Wilfred Owen, combining reconstructions of Owen’s war experiences with animation and readings from...	Voice	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2000	TV Jason and the Argonauts At a young age, Jason witnesses the brutal deposement and murder of his father at the hands of his uncle...	Phineas	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2000	Movie Gladiator After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable...	Gracchus	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2000	Movie Up at the Villa Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and...	Lucky Leadbetter	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2000	TV Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1999	Movie The Chimes A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a...	Narrator	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1999	Movie Molokai: The Story of Father Damien The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai,...	Father Leonor Fousnel	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1998	Movie Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a...	Francis Bacon	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1998	Movie Basil A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while...	Father Frederick	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1998	Movie Animated Epics: Beowulf Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch...	Narrator ( voice )	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1996	Movie Hamlet Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle....	King Claudius	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1996	Movie Looking for Richard Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of...	Self - Interviewee	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1996	Movie Breaking the Code A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one...	Alan Turing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1996	TV The West The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It...	Self (voice)	TMDB 8.4 / 10
1996	Movie Witness Against Hitler The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group...	General	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	Movie The Virgin in the Ice Dire deeds during a winter storm leave Brother Oswin beaten near to death, Sister Hilaria dead, and a pair of...	Brother Cadfael	Not rated
1995	Movie Achilles With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.	Narrator	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1994	Movie The Secret Garden Animated TV-film version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story about a spoiled English orphan who lives in India but...	Archibald Craven (voice)	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1994	TV Baseball The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those...	(voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1994	TV Baseball The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those...	Various (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1994	Movie Monk's Hood When an unpleasant and cruel nobleman spites his stepson by ceding his estate to the abbey, he ends up being...	Brother Cadfael	Not rated
1994	Movie The Leper of St. Giles When a cruel middle-aged baron and a beautiful wealthy orphan are to be wed at the abbey, it comes as...	Brother Cadfael	Not rated
1994	Movie The Sanctuary Sparrow Liliwin is a poor acrobat hired to entertain at an Aurifaber wedding. But when he is dismissed and the master...	Brother Cadfael	Not rated
1994	TV Cadfael Brother Cadfael is a twelfth-century Anglo-Welsh monk. A retired crusader disappointed in love, and now a herbalist in charge of...	Brother Cadfael	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1994	Movie One Corpse Too Many Assigned by King Stephen to dispose of 94 hanged rebels, Cadfael discovers the body of a murdered man among the...	Brother Cadfael	Not rated
1994	Movie The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher "The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 5. While searching for her somewhere lost handkerchiefs, little Lucie meets Mrs....	Jeremy Fisher (voice)	Not rated
1994	Movie David Macaulay: Roman City The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in ROMAN CITY, based on David Macaulay's acclaimed book. This animated and live-action...	Marcus Fabricius (voice)	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1993	Movie Circles of Deceit John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former...	Randal	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1993	Movie The Vision Thing In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God.	George Salisbury	Not rated
1993	TV Frasier After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist...	Jackson Hedley	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1992	TV The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends Nine animated stories based on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter.	Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1992	Movie Aladdin A young man's life is turned around with the help of a genie inside a lamp.	The Magician (voice)	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1992	TV The Velvet Claw From big cats to tiny weasels, this series follows the sometimes surprising evolution of the Carnivora - the mammals that...	Narrator	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1991	TV The Storyteller: Greek Myths A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the...	Daedalus	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1991	Movie Dead Again In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes...	Franklyn Madson	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1990	Movie The Fool A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian...	Mr. Frederick / Sir John	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1990	TV The Civil War A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination...	William Russell / Various (voice)	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1990	Movie Discovering Hamlet IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his...	Himself	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1989	Movie Henry V In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the...	Chorus	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1989	Movie The Congress For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. In...	(voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1989	Movie David Macaulay: Pyramid How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision?...	Hordedef (voice)	Not rated
1988	Movie The Tenth Man During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage...	The Imposter	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1987	Movie Little Dorrit Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long...	Arthur Clennam	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1987	Movie The Secret Garden When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent...	Archibald Craven	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1986	TV ScreenPlay Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one...	George Salisbury	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1986	Movie On Wings of Fire Maestro Zubin Mehta introduces the history of Zoroastrianism and prophet Zarathushtra in an epic that covers 3500 years of the...	Self	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1986	Movie David Macaulay: Cathedral Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation,...	Pierre (voice)	Not rated
1986	TV Mr Pye Mr Pye travels to the Channel Island of Sark to spread the love of God. But doing good deeds means...	Mr Pye	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1986	Movie Mr. Pye Mr. Pye is a missionary whose mission to spread God's love on the tiny English Channel island of Sark faces...	Mr. Pye	Not rated
1986	TV Wedden, dat..?	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1985	Movie The Statue of Liberty For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of...	Self (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1985	Movie Cyrano de Bergerac As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is as...	Cyrano de Bergerac	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1982	Movie Enigma Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical...	Kurt Limmer	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1982	Movie The Secret of NIMH A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided...	Nicodemus (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1982	Movie Stranger in Town An eccentrically-dressed stranger gets off a train and within a few days has endeared himself to the citizens of the...	The Stranger	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1982	TV Inside the Third Reich A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler’s young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the...	Adolf Hitler	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1982	Movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her....	Dom Claude Frollo	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1981	Movie Charlotte In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little...	Daberlohn	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1980	Movie The Man Who Went Up in Smoke The journalist Alf Mattson gets thoroughly drunk at his birthday party, where his wife announces that she intends to divorce...	Martin Beck	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1980	Movie Hamlet Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements...	Hamlet	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1979	Movie The Human Factor When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in...	Arthur Davis	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1979	TV Minder Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.	Freddie Fenton	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1979	TV Tales of the Unexpected A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With...	The Stranger	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1979	TV Tales of the Unexpected A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With...	Drioli	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1978	Movie Richard II Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the...	King Richard II	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1978	TV The BBC Television Shakespeare The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric...	Hamlet	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1978	TV The BBC Television Shakespeare The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric...	Richard II	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1978	Movie The Medusa Touch A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help...	Townley - Publisher	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1978	Movie Mysterious Castles of Clay Mysterious Castles of Clay is a 1978 film about a termite colony; filmed in Kenya by film-makers Joan and Alan...	Narrator	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1977	Movie Philby, Burgess and Maclean Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their...	Guy Burgess	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1976	TV I, Claudius Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of...	Claudius	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1974	Movie Blue Blood A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely....	Gregory	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1974	Movie The Odessa File Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain...	Klaus Wenzer	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1974	TV Affairs of the Heart Anthology series of thirteen one-hour love stories based on the short stories of Henry James.	Bertram Braddle	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1974	TV NOVA PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies...	Voice of Ernest Shackleton	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1974	TV The Pallisers This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England....	Lord Fawn	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1973	Movie The Day of the Jackal An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with...	Inspector Caron	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1971	TV The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests,...	William Drew	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1971	TV Budgie Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend...	Herbert Fletcher	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1970	Movie Three Sisters Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress,...	Andrei	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1967	TV ITV Playhouse ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such...	Gerry	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1967	Movie Much Ado About Nothing Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy,...	Don John	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1965	Movie Othello General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.	Cassio	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1965	Movie Olivier Talks About Othello Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."	(archive footage)	Not rated
1964	TV Horizon Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.	Narrator	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1962	Movie The Fishing Match Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he...	Eric	Not rated
1956	TV Armchair Theatre Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956...	Eric	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1956	TV Tony Awards The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway...	Self - Winner	Not rated
1956	TV Tony Awards The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway...	Self - Nominee	Not rated
1951	TV Hallmark Hall of Fame Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,...	Archibald Craven	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1951	TV Hallmark Hall of Fame Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,...	Imposter	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1951	TV Hallmark Hall of Fame Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,...	Dom Claude	TMDB 8.8 / 10
TBA	Movie Frank and Percy During their dog walks on Hampstead Heath, two older gentlemen find their conversations about everyday aches and weather growing into...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Lead Heads A drama about greed, the film will focus on a group of men corrupted by greed, who, in their desperation,...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Venom! Nine Ways to Die Over a million people a year are injected with animal venom, and many thousands die. We see how the nine...	Narrator	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2001	Movie The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy using the complete text of the play but performed by child actors.	Thanks Crew	TMDB 6.0 / 10

Moss & Freud

2026

Broken English

2026 / TMDB 7.0

Tinsel Town

2025 / TMDB 5.8

Juliet & Romeo

2025 / TMDB 6.1

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

2024 / TMDB 4.5

Gladiator II

2024 / TMDB 6.6

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Gladiator (1992)

Tomb Raider (2018)

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

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