The Fishing Match

(1962)

Eric

Olivier Talks About Othello

(1965)

Archive Footage

Othello

(1965)

Cassio

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

Mysterious Castles of Clay

(1978)

Narrator

Richard II

(1978)

King Richard II

The Human Factor

(1979)

Arthur Davis

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

(1980)

Martin Beck

Hamlet

(1980)

Hamlet

Charlotte

(1981)

Daberlohn

Stranger in Town

(1982)

The Stranger

Enigma

(1982)

Kurt Limmer

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

(1982)

Dom Claude Frollo

Inside the Third Reich

(1982)

Adolf Hitler

The Secret of NIMH

(1982)

Nicodemus (voice)

The Statue of Liberty

(1985)

Self (voice)

Cyrano de Bergerac

(1985)

Cyrano de Bergerac

Mr. Pye

(1986)

Mr. Pye

On Wings of Fire

(1986)

Self

David Macaulay: Cathedral

(1986)

Pierre (voice)

The Secret Garden

(1987)

Archibald Craven

Little Dorrit

(1987)

Arthur Clennam

The Tenth Man

(1988)

The Imposter

David Macaulay: Pyramid

(1989)

Hordedef (voice)

The Congress

(1989)

(voice)

Henry V

(1989)

Chorus

Discovering Hamlet

(1990)

Himself

The Fool

(1990)

Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Dead Again

(1991)

Franklyn Madson

The Vision Thing

(1993)

George Salisbury

Circle of Deceit

(1993)

Randal

The Secret Garden

(1994)

Archibald Craven (voice)

Aladdin

(1994)

The Magician (voice)

David Macaulay: Roman City

(1994)

Marcus Fabricius (voice)

Achilles

(1995)

Narrator

Witness Against Hitler

(1996)

General

Hamlet

(1996)

King Claudius

Looking for Richard

(1996)

Self - Interviewee

Breaking the Code

(1996)

Alan Turing

Animated Epics: Beowulf

(1998)

Narrator ( voice )

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

(1998)

Francis Bacon

Basil

(1998)

Father Frederick

The Chimes

(1999)

Narrator

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

(1999)

Father Leonor Fousnel

Up at the Villa

(2000)

Lucky Leadbetter

The Wyvern Mystery

(2000)

Squire Fairfield

Wilfred

(2000)

Voice

Gladiator

(2000)

Gracchus

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

(2000)

Revelation

(2001)

Librarian

The Body

(2001)

Father Lavelle

Gosford Park

(2001)

Probert

David Macaulay: Mill Times

(2001)

Priam Huntington (voice)

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

(2002)

Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

Two Men Went To War

(2002)

Maj. Merton

Revengers Tragedy

(2002)

The Duke

The Gathering Storm

(2002)

Stanley Baldwin

Inquisition

(2002)

Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

(2002)

Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

The Making of 'Gosford Park'

(2002)

Self

The Dinosaur Hunters

(2002)

Narrator (voice)

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

(2002)

Self

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

(2003)

Self

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

(2004)

Other Voices (voice)

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

(2004)

Mr. Operatski (voice)

Strings

(2004)

Nezo (voice)

Bye Bye Blackbird

(2005)

Lord Dempsey

Nanny McPhee

(2005)

Mr. Wheen

Underworld: Evolution

(2006)

Alexander Corvinus

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

(2006)

Narrator

Pinochet in Suburbia

(2006)

Senator Augusto Pinochet

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space

(2007)

President

Guantanamero

(2007)

Guido

The Art of Francis Bacon

(2007)

Derek Jacobi

The Riddle

(2007)

The Tramp / Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop

(2007)

Grandfather

The Golden Compass

(2007)

Magisterial Emissary

Anastezsi

(2007)

Balzer

A Bunch of Amateurs

(2008)

Nigel Dewberry

Adam Resurrected

(2008)

Dr. Nathan Gross

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

(2008)

Narrator

One of Those Days

(2008)

Howard Whittam

Sidney Turtlebaum

(2008)

Sidney Turtlebaum

Diamonds

(2009)

Piers Denmont

Morris: A Life with Bells On

(2009)

Quentin Neely

Margot

(2009)

Fred Ashton

Endgame

(2009)

Rudolph Agnew

Charles Dickens's England

(2009)

Himself - Presenter

Joe Maddison's War

(2010)

Mr. Simpson

The King's Speech

(2010)

Archbishop Cosmo Lang

Hereafter

(2010)

Derek Jacobi

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

(2011)

Narrator (voice)

There Be Dragons

(2011)

Honorio

Ironclad

(2011)

Cornhill

Anonymous

(2011)

Prologue

My Week with Marilyn

(2011)

Sir Owen Morshead

National Theatre Live: King Lear

(2011)

King Lear

Last Will. & Testament

(2012)

Himself

The Halloween Kid

(2012)

Narrator

Jail Caesar

(2012)

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

(2013)

Narrator (voice)

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

(2013)

Claudius/Spooner

Muse of Fire

(2013)

Self

Effie Gray

(2014)

Travers Twiss

Grace of Monaco

(2014)

Count Fernando D'Aillieres

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

(2015)

Self (archive footage)

Cinderella

(2015)

King

The Gospel of Luke

(2015)

Narrator (voice) – King James Version

Venom

(2015)

Narrator

The History of Love

(2016)

Leopold Gursky

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

(2016)

Mercutio

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

(2017)

Scrooge

Stratton

(2017)

Ross

Murder on the Orient Express

(2017)

Edward Masterman

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

(2017)

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

(2018)

Tomb Raider

(2018)

Mr. Yaffe

Muse

(2019)

The Lawyer

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

(2019)

Lord Palmerston

Tolkien

(2019)

Professor Joseph Wright

Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans

(2019)

Claudius

The Host

(2020)

Dr. Hobson

Come Away

(2020)

Mr. Brown

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

(2021)

Himself (archive footage)

Say Your Prayers

(2021)

Father Enoch

Rhythm of Life

(2021)

Self

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

(2022)

Self

Pearl Islands

(2022)

Self

A Bird Flew In

(2022)

David

The Martini Shot

(2023)

Errol

Allelujah

(2023)

Ambrose

Gladiator II

(2024)

Gracchus

Verona's Romeo & Juliet

(2025)

The Friar