- Birthday: 1938-10-22
- Place of Birth: Leytonstone, London, England
- Age: 85
- Average Role Age: 63.43
Movie | Release Date | Character | Age at Release | |
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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 |