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Doctor Who
2005 · 7.6
Professor Yana
Frasier
1993 · 7.7
Jackson Hedley
NOVA
1974 · 7.0
Voice of Ernest Shackleton
The Crown
2016 · 8.2
Duke of Windsor
Gladiator
2000 · 8.2
Gracchus
Tony Awards
1956
Self - Winner, Self - Nominee
The Amazing World of Gumball
2011 · 8.5
Narrator (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · 7.8
Colonel Protheroe
Minder
1979 · 7.2
Freddie Fenton
Horizon
1964 · 7.4
Narrator
Gladiator II
2024 · 6.6
Gracchus
The Sandman
2022 · 7.9
Erasmus Fry
Good Omens
2019 · 8.0
The Metatron, Metatron
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · 6.8
The Stranger, Drioli
Heartstopper Forever
2026 · 7.3
Pete
Inside No. 9
2014 · 8.1
Webster
Cinderella
2015 · 6.8
King
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · 7.0
Self
The Borgias
2011 · 7.6
Cardinal Orsini
Tomb Raider
2018 · 6.4
Mr. Yaffe
ITV Playhouse
1967 · 7.0
Gerry
The King's Speech
2010 · 7.7
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Murder on the Orient Express
2017 · 6.7
Edward Henry Masterman
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · 7.5
William Drew
Remembers…
2022 · 7.0
Self
The Golden Compass
2007 · 6.1
Magisterial Emissary
ScreenPlay
1986 · 6.0
George Salisbury
Ludwig
2024 · 7.7
Mr. Todd
Cadfael
1994 · 7.6
Brother Cadfael
Doctor Who Confidential
2005 · 8.1
Actor
Nanny McPhee
2005 · 6.7
Mr. Wheen
Les Misérables
2018 · 7.3
Bishop Myriel
I, Claudius
1976 · 7.8
Claudius
Underworld: Evolution
2006 · 6.6
Alexander Corvinus
In the Night Garden
2007 · 6.5
Narrator (voice)
Gosford Park
2001 · 6.8
Probert
Budgie
1971 · 7.2
Herbert Fletcher
The Pallisers
1974 · 6.4
Lord Fawn
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · 7.5
Inspector Caron
Baseball
1994 · 7.5
Various (voice), (voice)
The Civil War
1990 · 7.9
William Russell / Various (voice)
Jason and the Argonauts
2000 · 6.4
Phineas
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012 · 7.2
Lord Pirrie
The Secret of NIMH
1982 · 7.4
Nicodemus (voice)
Tolkien
2019 · 6.9
Professor Joseph Wright
Vicious
2013 · 7.5
Stuart Bixby
The Jury
2002 · 7.0
George Cording QC
Last Tango in Halifax
2012 · 7.1
Alan
Come Away
2020 · 5.8
Mr. Brown
Ironclad
2011 · 6.2
Cornhill
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992 · 6.4
Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Hereafter
2010 · 6.2
Derek Jacobi
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · 6.0
Richard II, Hamlet
Henry VIII
2003 · 7.0
Narrator
Anonymous
2011 · 6.4
Prologue
My Week with Marilyn
2011 · 6.7
Sir Owen Morshead
Dead Again
1991 · 6.4
Franklyn Madson
Hamlet
1996 · 7.3
King Claudius
The Body
2001 · 5.5
Father Lavelle
Henry V
1989 · 7.1
Chorus
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
2019 · 8.0
Narrator
The West
1996 · 8.4
Self (voice)
Affairs of the Heart
1974 · 7.0
Bertram Braddle
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003 · 7.0
The Master (voice)
Inside the Third Reich
1982 · 8.0
Adolf Hitler
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
2021 · 7.3
Narrator
Looking for Richard
1996 · 6.8
Self - Interviewee
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991 · 8.2
Daedalus
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012 · 7.3
Himself
Grace of Monaco
2014 · 6.0
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
Effie Gray
2014 · 6.0
Travers Twiss
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019 · 5.2
Claudius
The Long Firm
2004 · 7.2
Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8.8
Dom Claude, Archibald Craven
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023 · 7.0
Sir Ralph Unwin
The Gathering Storm
2002 · 6.6
Stanley Baldwin
The American Buffalo
2023 · 7.4
(voice)
A Bird Flew In
2022
David
Stratton
2017 · 5.0
Ross
Moss & Freud
2026 · 5.5
Lucian Freud
Little Dorrit
1987 · 6.4
Arthur Clennam
Mr Pye
1986 · 4.3
Mr Pye
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009 · 7.0
Self
The Odessa File
1974 · 6.6
Klaus Wenzer
The Medusa Touch
1978 · 6.8
Townley - Publisher
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002 · 5.0
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
Juliet & Romeo
2025 · 6.0
The Friar
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999 · 6.2
Father Leonor Fousnel
The History of Love
2016 · 6.4
Leopold Gursky
U-Boat Wargamers
2023 · 6.8
Narrator (voice)
The Secret Garden
1987 · 7.7
Archibald Craven
Tinsel Town
2025 · 5.8
Albert
Enigma
1982 · 5.6
Kurt Limmer
Broken English
2026 · 7.5
The Narrator
There Be Dragons
2011 · 5.1
Honorio
The Tenth Man
1988 · 6.7
The Imposter
Basil
1998 · 5.5
Father Frederick
The Human Factor
1979 · 5.8
Arthur Davis
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982 · 5.8
Dom Claude Frollo
Up at the Villa
2000 · 5.3
Lucky Leadbetter
Guantanamero
2007 · 4.0
Guido
The Host
2020 · 5.6
Dr. Hobson
Strings
2004 · 6.7
Nezo
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994
Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Last Will. & Testament
2012 · 5.3
Himself
Muse of Fire
2013 · 6.5
Self
Armchair Theatre
1956 · 6.0
Eric
The Martini Shot
2023 · 6.5
Errol
Adam Resurrected
2008 · 6.1
Dr. Nathan Gross
The Old Curiosity Shop
2007 · 5.0
Grandfather
The Making of Gosford Park
2002 · 5.3
Self
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024 · 4.5
Self
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
Hordedef (voice)
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998 · 6.0
Francis Bacon
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008 · 5.7
Nigel Dewberry
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · 7.0
Various Characters
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · 7.0
Self
The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994
Brother Cadfael
Venom
2015 · 10.0
Narrator
David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986
Pierre (voice)
Othello
1965 · 6.4
Cassio
Revelation
2001 · 5.1
Librarian
Say Your Prayers
2021 · 7.3
Father Enoch
Charlotte
1981 · 8.0
Daberlohn
Hamlet
1980 · 6.2
Hamlet
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977 · 5.4
Guy Burgess
Aladdin
1992 · 5.6
The Magician (voice)
Man of Straw
1972
Diederich Hessling
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002 · 7.0
Self
Achilles
1995 · 5.5
Narrator
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · 7.2
Other Voices (voice)
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016 · 8.0
Mercutio
Monk's Hood
1994
Brother Cadfael
Endgame
2009 · 5.9
Rudolph Agnew
Muse
2019
The Lawyer
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009 · 6.5
Quentin Neely
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
The Master (archive footage)
The Secret Garden
1994 · 5.9
Archibald Craven (voice)
Blue Blood
1974 · 4.3
Gregory
Allelujah
2023 · 5.2
Ambrose
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019 · 6.4
Lord Palmerston
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
Self
The Devil of Christmas
2016
Actor
Much Ado About Nothing
1967 · 6.3
Don John
The Chimes
1999 · 7.0
Narrator
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2011 · 7.0
King Lear
Great Escape: The Untold Story
2001 · 7.5
Narrator
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
Self (archive footage)
Pinochet in Suburbia
2006 · 5.3
Senator Augusto Pinochet
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002 · 4.5
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
Revengers Tragedy
2002 · 5.8
The Duke
Mysterious Castles of Clay
1978 · 6.4
Narrator
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · 6.2
Claudius/Spooner
Two Men Went To War
2002 · 6.7
Maj. Merton
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006 · 7.0
Narrator (voice)
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018 · 3.5
Actor
Discovering Hamlet
1990 · 5.9
Himself
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998 · 5.5
Narrator ( voice )
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017 · 7.7
Scrooge
Richard II
1978 · 8.0
King Richard II
The Statue of Liberty
1985 · 6.9
Self (voice)
Breaking the Code
1996 · 5.6
Alan Turing
Margot
2009 · 5.5
Fred Ashton
Charles Dickens's England
2009
Himself - Presenter
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1980 · 9.0
Martin Beck
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2005
Narrator(voice)
The Gospel of Luke
2015 · 8.2
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
One Corpse Too Many
1994
Brother Cadfael
The Riddle
2007 · 4.8
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Three Sisters
1970 · 4.3
Andrei
The Wyvern Mystery
2000 · 5.2
Squire Fairfield
Sidney Turtlebaum
2008 · 3.3
Sidney Turtlebaum
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
Actor
Joe Maddison's War
2010 · 4.3
Mr. Simpson
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022 · 7.8
Self
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004 · 7.0
Mr. Operatski (voice)
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002 · 6.5
Narrator (voice)
David Macaulay: Roman City
1994 · 9.0
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
Jail Caesar
2012 · 6.3
Sulla
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007
President
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
2008
Narrator
Witness Against Hitler
1996 · 8.0
General
David Macaulay: Mill Times
2001
Priam Huntington (voice)
On Wings of Fire
1986 · 8.8
Self
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001 · 6.0
Theseus (voice), Thanks
The Congress
1989 · 7.6
(voice)
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005 · 5.3
Lord Dempsey
The Virgin in the Ice
1995
Brother Cadfael
Inquisition
2002 · 7.0
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
Self (archive footage)
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013 · 1.0
Narrator (voice)
Diamonds
2009 · 4.7
Piers Denmont
The Art of Francis Bacon
2007
Derek Jacobi
The Halloween Kid
2012
Narrator
One of Those Days
2008 · 7.3
Howard Whittam
The Leper of St. Giles
1994
Brother Cadfael
Breaking The Codes
2020
Actor
You
2013
Man
Pearl Islands
2022
Self
The Vision Thing
1993
George Salisbury
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011 · 6.4
Narrator (voice)
Stranger in Town
1982 · 7.7
The Stranger