The Fishing Match

(1962)

Eric

Othello

(1965)

Cassio

Olivier Talks About Othello

(1965)

Archive Footage

Much Ado About Nothing

(1967)

Don John

Three Sisters

(1970)

Andrei

The Day of the Jackal

(1973)

Inspector Caron

The Odessa File

(1974)

Klaus Wenzer

Blue Blood

(1974)

Gregory

Philby, Burgess and Maclean

(1977)

Guy Burgess

The Medusa Touch

(1978)

Townley - Publisher

Richard II

(1978)

King Richard II

Mysterious Castles of Clay

(1978)

Narrator

The Human Factor

(1979)

Arthur Davis

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

(1980)

Martin Beck

Hamlet

(1980)

Hamlet

Charlotte

(1981)

Daberlohn

Enigma

(1982)

Kurt Limmer

The Secret of NIMH

(1982)

Nicodemus (voice)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

(1982)

Dom Claude Frollo

Inside the Third Reich

(1982)

Adolf Hitler

Stranger in Town

(1982)

The Stranger

Cyrano de Bergerac

(1985)

Cyrano de Bergerac

The Statue of Liberty

(1985)

Self (voice)

David Macaulay: Cathedral

(1986)

Pierre (voice)

On Wings of Fire

(1986)

Self

Mr. Pye

(1986)

Mr. Pye

The Secret Garden

(1987)

Archibald Craven

Little Dorrit

(1987)

Arthur Clennam

The Tenth Man

(1988)

The Imposter

Henry V

(1989)

Chorus

David Macaulay: Pyramid

(1989)

Hordedef (voice)

The Congress

(1989)

(voice)

The Fool

(1990)

Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Discovering Hamlet

(1990)

Himself

Dead Again

(1991)

Franklyn Madson

Circle of Deceit

(1993)

Randal

The Vision Thing

(1993)

George Salisbury

The Secret Garden

(1994)

Archibald Craven (voice)

Aladdin

(1994)

The Magician (voice)

David Macaulay: Roman City

(1994)

Marcus Fabricius (voice)

Achilles

(1995)

Narrator

Hamlet

(1996)

King Claudius

Breaking the Code

(1996)

Alan Turing

Looking for Richard

(1996)

Self - Interviewee

Witness Against Hitler

(1996)

General

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

(1998)

Francis Bacon

Animated Epics: Beowulf

(1998)

Narrator ( voice )

Basil

(1998)

Father Frederick

The Chimes

(1999)

Narrator

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

(1999)

Father Leonor Fousnel

Gladiator

(2000)

Gracchus

The Wyvern Mystery

(2000)

Squire Fairfield

Up at the Villa

(2000)

Lucky Leadbetter

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

(2000)

Wilfred

(2000)

Voice

Gosford Park

(2001)

Probert

The Body

(2001)

Father Lavelle

Revelation

(2001)

Librarian

David Macaulay: Mill Times

(2001)

Priam Huntington (voice)

Revengers Tragedy

(2002)

The Duke

The Gathering Storm

(2002)

Stanley Baldwin

Two Men Went To War

(2002)

Maj. Merton

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

(2002)

Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

(2002)

Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

Inquisition

(2002)

Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

(2002)

Self

The Making of 'Gosford Park'

(2002)

Self

The Dinosaur Hunters

(2002)

Narrator (voice)

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

(2003)

Self

Strings

(2004)

Nezo (voice)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

(2004)

Other Voices (voice)

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

(2004)

Mr. Operatski (voice)

Nanny McPhee

(2005)

Mr. Wheen

Bye Bye Blackbird

(2005)

Lord Dempsey

Underworld: Evolution

(2006)

Alexander Corvinus

Pinochet in Suburbia

(2006)

Senator Augusto Pinochet

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

(2006)

Narrator

The Golden Compass

(2007)

Magisterial Emissary

The Old Curiosity Shop

(2007)

Grandfather

The Riddle

(2007)

The Tramp / Charles Dickens

Anastezsi

(2007)

Balzer

Guantanamero

(2007)

Guido

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space

(2007)

President

The Art of Francis Bacon

(2007)

Derek Jacobi

A Bunch of Amateurs

(2008)

Nigel Dewberry

Adam Resurrected

(2008)

Dr. Nathan Gross

Sidney Turtlebaum

(2008)

Sidney Turtlebaum

One of Those Days

(2008)

Howard Whittam

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

(2008)

Narrator

Diamonds

(2009)

Piers Denmont

Endgame

(2009)

Rudolph Agnew

Margot

(2009)

Fred Ashton

Morris: A Life with Bells On

(2009)

Quentin Neely

Charles Dickens's England

(2009)

Himself - Presenter

The King's Speech

(2010)

Archbishop Cosmo Lang

Joe Maddison's War

(2010)

Mr. Simpson

Hereafter

(2010)

Derek Jacobi

Anonymous

(2011)

Prologue

There Be Dragons

(2011)

Honorio

Ironclad

(2011)

Cornhill

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

(2011)

Narrator (voice)

National Theatre Live: King Lear

(2011)

King Lear

My Week with Marilyn

(2011)

Sir Owen Morshead

Last Will. & Testament

(2012)

Himself

Jail Caesar

(2012)

The Halloween Kid

(2012)

Narrator

Muse of Fire

(2013)

Self

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

(2013)

Claudius/Spooner

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

(2013)

Narrator (voice)

Effie Gray

(2014)

Travers Twiss

Grace of Monaco

(2014)

Count Fernando D'Aillieres

Venom

(2015)

Narrator

Cinderella

(2015)

King

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

(2015)

Self (archive footage)

The Gospel of Luke

(2015)

Narrator (voice) – King James Version

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

(2016)

Mercutio

The History of Love

(2016)

Leopold Gursky

Murder on the Orient Express

(2017)

Edward Masterman

Stratton

(2017)

Ross

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

(2017)

Scrooge

Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge

(2017)

Tomb Raider

(2018)

Mr. Yaffe

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

(2018)

Tolkien

(2019)

Professor Joseph Wright

Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans

(2019)

Claudius

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

(2019)

Lord Palmerston

Muse

(2019)

The Lawyer

Come Away

(2020)

Mr. Brown

The Host

(2020)

Dr. Hobson

Say Your Prayers

(2021)

Father Enoch

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

(2021)

Himself (archive footage)

Rhythm of Life

(2021)

Self

A Bird Flew In

(2022)

David

Pearl Islands

(2022)

Self

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

(2022)

Self

Allelujah

(2023)

Ambrose

The Martini Shot

(2023)

Errol

Gladiator II

(2024)

Gracchus