Appearances
8.2
Gladiator
Gracchus
6.6
Underworld: Evolution
Alexander Corvinus
6.1
The Golden Compass
Magisterial Emissary
7.3
Hamlet
King Claudius
7.1
Henry V
Chorus
7.7
Stranger in Town
The Stranger
5.6
Enigma
Kurt Limmer
7.5
The Day of the Jackal
Inspector Caron
6.8
Gosford Park
Probert
6.0
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
5.5
Animated Epics: Beowulf
Narrator ( voice )
6.7
Strings
Nezo
6.6
The Odessa File
Klaus Wenzer
6.7
Nanny McPhee
Mr. Wheen
7.5
The Secret of NIMH
Nicodemus (voice)
Moss & Freud
Lucian Freud
6.8
The Medusa Touch
Townley - Publisher
6.4
Dead Again
Franklyn Madson
5.6
Revengers Tragedy
The Duke
5.2
Allelujah
Ambrose
5.0
The Old Curiosity Shop
Grandfather
5.5
The Body
Father Lavelle
6.7
The Gathering Storm
Stanley Baldwin
5.2
The Wyvern Mystery
Squire Fairfield
5.3
Bye Bye Blackbird
Lord Dempsey
6.4
Anonymous
Prologue
The Vision Thing
George Salisbury
6.4
Othello
Cassio
5.1
There Be Dragons
Honorio
4.8
The Riddle
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
5.6
Achilles
Narrator
6.1
Ironclad
Cornhill
5.4
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Guy Burgess
6.4
Little Dorrit
Arthur Clennam
5.8
The Human Factor
Arthur Davis
6.7
Two Men Went To War
Maj. Merton
6.1
Adam Resurrected
Dr. Nathan Gross
5.7
A Bunch of Amateurs
Nigel Dewberry
5.3
Up at the Villa
Lucky Leadbetter
7.7
The Secret Garden
Archibald Craven
5.1
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
5.8
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dom Claude Frollo
6.6
Gladiator II
Gracchus
Cyrano de Bergerac
6.6
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
4.2
Joe Maddison's War
Mr. Simpson
Anastezsi
7.0
Anastezsi
Balzer
5.5
Breaking the Code
Alan Turing
8.8
On Wings of Fire
Self
6.0
Pinochet in Suburbia
Senator Augusto Pinochet
7.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
6.7
The Tenth Man
The Imposter
7.0
Last Will. & Testament
Himself
5.9
Effie Gray
Travers Twiss
4.0
Guantanamero
Guido
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
Narrator
7.8
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
8.0
Witness Against Hitler
General
6.4
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Narrator (voice)
6.0
Grace of Monaco
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
5.9
The Secret Garden
Archibald Craven (voice)
6.5
Muse of Fire
Self
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
President
4.7
Diamonds
Piers Denmont
6.5
The Martini Shot
Errol
7.7
The King's Speech
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
8.0
Richard II
King Richard II
The Fool
8.0
The Fool
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
4.3
Blue Blood
Gregory
5.9
Discovering Hamlet
Himself
6.8
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
4.5
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
6.1
Juliet & Romeo
The Friar
Mr. Pye
Mr. Pye
Mr. Pye
4.1
Three Sisters
Andrei
9.0
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Martin Beck
6.3
Much Ado About Nothing
Don John
Pearl Islands
Pearl Islands
Self
8.3
The Gospel of Luke
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Wilfred
9.0
Wilfred
Voice
6.5
The Dinosaur Hunters
Narrator (voice)
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
The Fishing Match
The Fishing Match
Eric
5.1
Revelation
Librarian
6.2
Hamlet
Hamlet
7.0
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Various Characters
5.9
Endgame
Rudolph Agnew
3.3
Sidney Turtlebaum
Sidney Turtlebaum
5.6
Aladdin
The Magician (voice)
6.3
Jail Caesar
Sulla
7.0
National Theatre Live: King Lear
King Lear
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
Narrator
8.0
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio
6.4
The History of Love
Leopold Gursky
6.7
Murder on the Orient Express
Edward Henry Masterman
7.5
Great Escape: The Untold Story
Narrator
5.5
Margot
Fred Ashton
7.0
Inquisition
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
6.2
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Claudius/Spooner
6.1
Hereafter
Derek Jacobi
5.0
Stratton
Ross
7.3
One of Those Days
Howard Whittam
The Halloween Kid
Narrator
7.6
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Scrooge
7.0
The Chimes
Narrator
7.0
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Narrator (voice)
David Macaulay: Cathedral
Pierre (voice)
6.9
Tolkien
Professor Joseph Wright
6.4
Tomb Raider
Mr. Yaffe
6.2
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Father Leonor Fousnel
3.5
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
5.2
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Claudius
9.0
David Macaulay: Roman City
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
David Macaulay: Mill Times
Priam Huntington (voice)
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Hordedef (voice)
5.8
Come Away
Mr. Brown
6.5
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Quentin Neely
1.0
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Narrator (voice)
8.0
Charlotte
Daberlohn
7.6
The Congress
(voice)
7.2
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
6.4
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Lord Palmerston
Circles of Deceit
7.8
Circles of Deceit
Randal
The Art of Francis Bacon
Derek Jacobi
5.6
The Host
Dr. Hobson
Muse
The Lawyer
Olivier Talks About Othello
Olivier Talks About Othello
(archive footage)
7.0
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Self
6.9
The Statue of Liberty
Self (voice)
A Bird Flew In
David
Charles Dickens's England
Himself - Presenter
7.3
Say Your Prayers
Father Enoch
Lead Heads
Lead Heads
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Himself
5.3
The Making of Gosford Park
Self
5.4
Basil
Father Frederick
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
Narrator
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
10.0
Venom
Narrator
6.4
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Narrator
6.7
My Week with Marilyn
Sir Owen Morshead
7.0
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Mr. Operatski (voice)
6.8
Cinderella
King
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
You
Man
Breaking The Codes
5.8
Tinsel Town
Albert
The Ties That Bind Us
The Master (archive footage)
Cloud Cuckoo Land
7.0
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Victor
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Self
4.5
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Self
One Corpse Too Many
Brother Cadfael
The Sanctuary Sparrow
Brother Cadfael
The Leper of St. Giles
Brother Cadfael
Monk's Hood
Brother Cadfael
The Virgin in the Ice
Brother Cadfael
Frank and Percy
Frank and Percy
7.0
Broken English
The Narrator
The Devil of Christmas
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Narrator(voice)
Heartstopper Forever
6.0
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus (voice)
7.2
Budgie
Herbert Fletcher
8.1
Doctor Who Confidential
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
The Stranger
7.7
Frasier
Jackson Hedley
7.1
Minder
Freddie Fenton
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
6.8
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
6.9
In the Night Garden
Narrator (voice)
7.9
I, Claudius
Claudius
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dom Claude
7.3
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
Narrator
7.5
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
William Drew
8.1
Inside No. 9
Webster
The Velvet Claw
9.0
The Velvet Claw
Narrator
Diamonds
Diamonds
7.5
Cadfael
Brother Cadfael
7.2
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Lord Pirrie
7.0
Last Tango in Halifax
Alan
7.0
NOVA
Voice of Ernest Shackleton
7.5
Shakespeare Uncovered
Himself
7.6
Vicious
Stuart Bixby
6.9
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
London
10.0
London
Tacitus
7.0
The Jury
George Cording QC
8.0
Good Omens
The Metatron
7.1
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
Sir Ralph Unwin
7.6
Doctor Who
Professor Yana
7.0
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Self
8.5
The Amazing World of Gumball
Narrator (voice)
6.3
Jason and the Argonauts
Phineas
7.0
The Long Firm
Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
7.9
The Civil War
Various
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Archibald Craven
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Imposter
7.5
Baseball
Various (voice)
7.4
The American Buffalo
(voice)
7.3
Les Misérables
Bishop Myriel
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
Colonel Protheroe
7.9
The Sandman
Erasmus Fry
8.4
The West
Self (voice)
8.0
Good Omens
Metatron
6.8
U-Boat Wargamers
Narrator (voice)
8.0
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
Narrator
Wedden, dat..?
7.0
Wedden, dat..?
Self
8.2
The Crown
Duke of Windsor
7.7
Ludwig
Mr. Todd
6.2
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
7.5
Baseball
(voice)
7.0
Henry VIII
Narrator
8.2
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Daedalus
7.0
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
The Master (voice)
8.0
Inside the Third Reich
Adolf Hitler
6.4
The Pallisers
Lord Fawn
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
Drioli
4.3
Mr Pye
Mr Pye
Remembers…
Self
7.4
Horizon
Narrator
7.6
The Borgias
Cardinal Orsini
6.0
Armchair Theatre
Eric
7.0
ITV Playhouse
Gerry
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee