History Creator / DerekJacobi

* ''Theatre/{{BlackComedy|1965}}'' (1965)

* ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'' (2011)

He also has a distinguished stage career, having got his big break in Creator/LaurenceOlivier's National Theatre company, including [[ShakespearianActors lots of Shakespeare]]; he has played Theatre/{{Hamlet}} over 400 times on stage, not to mention his performance in the BBC's Complete Television Shakespeare. (He was also in Creator/KennethBranagh's film version of ''Hamlet'', as Hamlet's villainous uncle -- another Claudius -- in addition to his role as Chorus in Branagh's ''Henry V''.) He played a very similar role as Chorus in ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', appearing in modern times in a modern theater to introduce the film. While it may seem odd for so prominent a Shakespearean to appear in an anti-Shakespearean film, Jacobi is actually a prominent anti-Stratfordian.

* ''[[Theatre/BlackComedy1965 Black Comedy]]'' (1965)

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cathedral}}'' (1986)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pyramid}}'' (1988)

He appeared in an episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' as a thespian who, when Niles and Frasier were children, introduced them to the wonder of the theatre. When they met him again as adults and helped him get his own one-man show, [[CastingGag he wasn't as good as they remembered.]] Many of the younger readers will know Derek Jacobi as Nicodemus from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'', or from his guest appearance as Daedalus in ''[[Series/{{TheStoryteller}} The [=StoryTeller=]: Greek Myths]]''. More recently, he appeared as the Archbishop of Canterbury in ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' and Cardinal Orsini in ''Series/TheBorgias'', promising some wonderful acting alongside Creator/JeremyIrons... until he was [[DeadStarWalking poisoned in the very first episode.]] He has starred with Creator/IanMcKellen in a series called ''Series/{{Vicious}}'', a gay DomCom about [[GrowOldWithMe a long-partnered male couple]].[[note]]Somewhat amusingly, Jacobi and [=McKellen=] were a year apart at Cambridge, and as it turned out, each had what he thought was an unrequited crush on the other.[[/note]] He was the narrator for the ChristmasEpisode parody "The Lie" and the VignetteEpisode "The Night" on the Cartoon Network show ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''.[[note]]which is considered a British show, as it was created by Ben Bocquelet, who works for the UK division of Cartoon Network[[/note]] He also did voiceover work for most of the Creator/{{PBS}} adaptations of Creator/DavidMacaulay's architectural books beginning with ''WesternAnimation/{{Cathedral}}''.

He appeared in an episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' as a thespian who, when Niles and Frasier were children, introduced them to the wonder of the theatre. When they met him again as adults and helped him get his own one-man show, [[CastingGag he wasn't as good as they remembered.]] Many of the younger readers will know Derek Jacobi as Nicodemus from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'', or from his guest appearance as Daedalus in ''[[Series/{{TheStoryteller}} The [=StoryTeller=]: Greek Myths]]''. More recently, he appeared as the Archbishop of Canterbury in ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' and Cardinal Orsini in ''Series/TheBorgias'', promising some wonderful acting alongside Creator/JeremyIrons... until he was [[DeadStarWalking poisoned in the very first episode.]] He has starred with Creator/IanMcKellen in a series called ''Series/{{Vicious}}'', a gay DomCom about [[GrowOldWithMe a long-partnered male couple]].[[note]]Somewhat amusingly, Jacobi and [=McKellen=] were a year apart at Cambridge, and as it turned out, each had what they thought was an unrequited crush on the other.[[/note]] He was the narrator for the ChristmasEpisode parody "The Lie" and the VignetteEpisode "The Night" on the Cartoon Network show ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''.[[note]]which is considered a British show, as it was created by Ben Bocquelet, who works for the UK division of Cartoon Network[[/note]] He also did voiceover work for most of the Creator/{{PBS}} adaptations of Creator/DavidMacaulay's architectural books beginning with ''WesternAnimation/{{Cathedral}}''.

* ''Film/Ironclad'' (2011)

* ''Series/{{The Sandman|2022}}'' (2022)

* ''Series/TheSandman2022'' (2022)