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Movie Release Date Character Age at Release
Gladiator II 11/20/24 Gracchus 86
The Martini Shot 09/27/23 Errol 84
Allelujah 03/17/23 Ambrose 84
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba 11/26/22 Self 84
A Bird Flew In 09/30/22 David 83
Pearl Islands 09/10/22 Self 83
Rhythm of Life 07/03/21 Self 82
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood 05/03/21 Himself (archive footage) 82
Say Your Prayers 04/02/21 Father Enoch 82
Come Away 11/12/20 Mr. Brown 82
The Host 01/17/20 Dr. Hobson 81
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi 11/15/19 Lord Palmerston 81
Muse 10/18/19 The Lawyer 80
Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans 07/26/19 Claudius 80
Tolkien 05/03/19 Professor Joseph Wright 80
Nothing Is Truer than Truth 04/29/18 79
Tomb Raider 03/05/18 Mr. Yaffe 79
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong 12/30/17 Scrooge 79
Murder on the Orient Express 11/03/17 Edward Masterman 79
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge 10/31/17 79
Stratton 07/06/17 Ross 78
The History of Love 11/09/16 Leopold Gursky 78
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet 07/07/16 Mercutio 77
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC 11/01/15 Self (archive footage) 77
Venom 08/04/15 Narrator 76
Cinderella 03/06/15 King 76
The Gospel of Luke 01/01/15 Narrator (voice) – King James Version 76
Grace of Monaco 04/22/14 Count Fernando D'Aillieres 75
Effie Gray 03/08/14 Travers Twiss 75
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage 11/02/13 Claudius/Spooner 75
Muse of Fire 09/26/13 Self 74
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene 01/01/13 Narrator (voice) 74
Last Will. & Testament 10/23/12 Himself 74
The Halloween Kid 07/29/12 Narrator 73
Jail Caesar 06/28/12 73
My Week with Marilyn 11/23/11 Sir Owen Morshead 73
Anonymous 10/21/11 Prologue 72
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) 09/24/11 Narrator (voice) 72
There Be Dragons 03/25/11 Honorio 72
Ironclad 03/03/11 Cornhill 72
National Theatre Live: King Lear 02/03/11 King Lear 72
The King's Speech 11/26/10 Archbishop Cosmo Lang 72
Hereafter 10/22/10 Derek Jacobi 72
Joe Maddison's War 09/19/10 Mr. Simpson 71
Margot 11/30/09 Fred Ashton 71
Charles Dickens's England 07/24/09 Himself - Presenter 70
Diamonds 04/04/09 Piers Denmont 70
Endgame 01/18/09 Rudolph Agnew 70
Morris: A Life with Bells On 01/09/09 Quentin Neely 70
A Bunch of Amateurs 11/17/08 Nigel Dewberry 70
Sidney Turtlebaum 11/03/08 Sidney Turtlebaum 70
Pompeii and the Roman Villa 10/19/08 Narrator 69
Adam Resurrected 08/08/08 Dr. Nathan Gross 69
One of Those Days 01/01/08 Howard Whittam 69
The Old Curiosity Shop 12/26/07 Grandfather 69
The Golden Compass 12/04/07 Magisterial Emissary 69
Arritmia 11/23/07 Guido 69
The Riddle 10/14/07 The Tramp / Charles Dickens 68
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space 08/20/07 President 68
Anastezsi 03/16/07 Balzer 68
The Art of Francis Bacon 01/01/07 Derek Jacobi 68
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy 08/04/06 Narrator 67
Pinochet in Suburbia 03/26/06 Senator Augusto Pinochet 67
Underworld: Evolution 01/12/06 Alexander Corvinus 67
Nanny McPhee 10/21/05 Mr. Wheen 66
Bye Bye Blackbird 10/14/05 Lord Dempsey 66
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On 11/30/04 Mr. Operatski (voice) 66
Strings 10/24/04 Nezo (voice) 66
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson 09/04/04 Other Voices (voice) 65
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There 01/01/03 Self 64
The Dinosaur Hunters 12/30/02 Narrator (voice) 64
Inquisition 12/22/02 Cardinal Grand Inquisitor 64
Two Men Went To War 11/01/02 Maj. Merton 64
I, Claudius: A Television Epic 09/30/02 Self 63
Revengers Tragedy 08/06/02 The Duke 63
The Making of 'Gosford Park' 06/18/02 Self 63
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky 04/25/02 Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi) 63
The Gathering Storm 04/22/02 Stanley Baldwin 63
Ultimate Fights from the Movies 04/16/02 Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage) 63
Gosford Park 11/07/01 Probert 63
David Macaulay: Mill Times 05/06/01 Priam Huntington (voice) 62
The Body 04/13/01 Father Lavelle 62
Revelation 04/12/01 Librarian 62
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings 12/25/00 62
The Wyvern Mystery 10/12/00 Squire Fairfield 61
Wilfred 06/03/00 Voice 61
Gladiator 05/04/00 Gracchus 61
Up at the Villa 04/14/00 Lucky Leadbetter 61
The Chimes 04/19/99 Narrator 60
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien 03/17/99 Father Leonor Fousnel 60
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon 09/16/98 Francis Bacon 59
Basil 07/22/98 Father Frederick 59
Animated Epics: Beowulf 01/01/98 Narrator ( voice ) 59
Hamlet 12/25/96 King Claudius 58
Looking for Richard 10/11/96 Self - Interviewee 57
Breaking the Code 09/17/96 Alan Turing 57
Witness Against Hitler 03/10/96 General 57
Achilles 08/31/95 Narrator 56
The Secret Garden 11/05/94 Archibald Craven (voice) 56
David Macaulay: Roman City 02/15/94 Marcus Fabricius (voice) 55
Aladdin 01/01/94 The Magician (voice) 55
Circle of Deceit 10/16/93 Randal 54
The Vision Thing 10/06/93 George Salisbury 54
Dead Again 08/23/91 Franklyn Madson 52
The Fool 12/07/90 Mr. Frederick / Sir John 52
Discovering Hamlet 01/07/90 Himself 51
Henry V 10/05/89 Chorus 50
The Congress 03/19/89 (voice) 50
David Macaulay: Pyramid 01/04/89 Hordedef (voice) 50
The Tenth Man 12/04/88 The Imposter 50
Little Dorrit 12/11/87 Arthur Clennam 49
The Secret Garden 11/30/87 Archibald Craven 49
On Wings of Fire 06/01/86 Self 47
David Macaulay: Cathedral 04/30/86 Pierre (voice) 47
Mr. Pye 03/02/86 Mr. Pye 47
The Statue of Liberty 10/26/85 Self (voice) 47
Cyrano de Bergerac 07/26/85 Cyrano de Bergerac 46
Enigma 10/15/82 Kurt Limmer 43
The Secret of NIMH 06/17/82 Nicodemus (voice) 43
Stranger in Town 05/23/82 The Stranger 43
Inside the Third Reich 05/09/82 Adolf Hitler 43
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 02/02/82 Dom Claude Frollo 43
Charlotte 02/26/81 Daberlohn 42
Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste 12/25/80 Martin Beck 42
Hamlet 05/25/80 Hamlet 41
The Human Factor 12/18/79 Arthur Davis 41
Richard II 12/10/78 King Richard II 40
The Medusa Touch 04/13/78 Townley - Publisher 39
Mysterious Castles of Clay 01/01/78 Narrator 39
Philby, Burgess and Maclean 05/31/77 Guy Burgess 38
Blue Blood 11/01/74 Gregory 36
The Odessa File 10/17/74 Klaus Wenzer 35
The Day of the Jackal 05/16/73 Inspector Caron 34
Three Sisters 04/01/70 Andrei 31
Much Ado About Nothing 01/01/67 Don John 28
Othello 12/15/65 Cassio 27
Olivier Talks About Othello 01/01/65 Archive Footage 26
The Fishing Match 08/19/62 Eric 23
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island None Narrator 85
Lead Heads None 85
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street None Himself 85
Moss & Freud None Lucian Freud 85
Venom! Nine Ways to Die None Narrator 85
Verona None 85