Matthew Jacobs

Matthew Jacobs

London, England, UK 40 Credits

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Matthew Jacobs (born 1 July 1956) is a British screenwriter, director and actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Jacobs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Doctor Who Am I

Doctor Who Am I

2022

as Self

5.0
Acting

In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with a fresh direction but was met only by an outcry f...

Doctor Who Am I

Doctor Who Am I

2022

Producer, Director

5.0
Producing Directing

In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with a fresh direction but was met only by an outcry f...

Traveling Light

Traveling Light

2021

as Arthur

2.0
Acting

On May 30th, 2020, Uber and delivery driver Caddy searches for his missing son who has been living on the Los Angeles streets during the early days of...

Vice

Vice

2018

as Antonin Scalia

7.0
Acting

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to poli...

Unforgiven

Unforgiven

2018

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

Based on true and tragic events in the life of Vitaly Kaloyev, an architect and family man. In 2002, his wife and children die in a mid-air collision...

The Hurdy Gurdy Man

The Hurdy Gurdy Man

2018

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

Faced with an early death sentence and struggling to pay the bills, Franz Schubert is inspired to write one of his most famous songs as he is haunted ...

The Hurdy Gurdy Man

The Hurdy Gurdy Man

2018

Producer

Producing

Faced with an early death sentence and struggling to pay the bills, Franz Schubert is inspired to write one of his most famous songs as he is haunted ...

State of Modern Love

State of Modern Love

2017

as Josh

7.0
Acting

A womanizing man-child binges on sex and alcohol, experiments with ayahuasca for addiction therapy and comes to terms with past mistakes.

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

2015

as Dr. Marcus

5.4
Acting

After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggressio...

Lady of Csejte

Lady of Csejte

2015

Writer

4.5
Writing

Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.

Your Good Friend

Your Good Friend

2014

as Jules

Acting

Zander, a widowed rabbi, and Jules, an out-of-date pornographer become friends. Their values are put to the test as Jules documents their unique relat...

Your Good Friend

Your Good Friend

2014

Director, Editor, Producer

Directing Producing Writing

Zander, a widowed rabbi, and Jules, an out-of-date pornographer become friends. Their values are put to the test as Jules documents their unique relat...

Bar America

Bar America

2014

as Harry

Acting

Two best friends face losing each other and the show that has made them hometown celebrities when a conniving duo sees a way to strike it rich by dest...

Bar America

Bar America

2014

Writer, Director, Editor

Writing Directing

Two best friends face losing each other and the show that has made them hometown celebrities when a conniving duo sees a way to strike it rich by dest...

Justin and the Knights of Valour

Justin and the Knights of Valour

2013

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.

Boxing Day

Boxing Day

2012

as Nick

5.5
Acting

A struggling, indebted business man leaves his family immediately after Christmas to pursue a lucrative property deal that could solve all of his prob...

Mr. Nice

Mr. Nice

2010

as Eddie Laxton

6.1
Acting

Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as le...

The Seven Year Hitch

The Seven Year Hitch

2010

as Self

Acting

This documentary looks at executive producer Philip Segal’s seven-year quest to return Doctor Who to the screen, from his initial contact with the BBC...

The Kreutzer Sonata

The Kreutzer Sonata

2008

as Driver

6.1
Acting

A man becomes obsessively jealous of his pianist wife and her violinist companion.

The Emperor's New Groove

The Emperor's New Groove

2000

Original Story

7.6
Writing

When self-centered Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his scheming advisor, he is forced to rely on good-hearted peasant Pacha to get back home.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

2000

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional ...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life

2000

Writer

6.0
Writing

On safari at the Masai Mara game preserve in Kenya with Teddy Roosevelt, Indy becomes lost in the vast and dangerous wilderness. Later, in Paris, he e...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure

1999

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

Indy and his girlfriend, Nancy Stratemeyer, whose father created the Nancy Drew mystery series, visit the laboratory of inventor Thomas Edison. The tw...

Mothertime

Mothertime

1997

Writer, Director

10.0
Writing Directing

Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage da...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father

1996

Writer

6.2
Writing

While visiting Russia on his father’s lecture tour, Indy runs off on his own and meets Leo Tolstoy. Later, on a trip to Athens, Indy and his father ar...

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

1996

Screenplay, Co-Producer

6.2
Writing Producing

The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen

1995

Writer

5.7
Writing

Working with the French Secret Service, Indy joins the legendary Lafayette Escadrille flying unit and embarks on dangerous airborne reconnaissance mis...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies

1994

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

While working for a Hollywood movie studio, Indy finds that he is no match for the wily megalomaniacal director Erich von Stroheim when the two lock h...

Lassie

Lassie

1994

Writer

6.1
Writing

On their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted by a wreck on the highway that has claimed the life o...

Hallelujah Anyhow

Hallelujah Anyhow

1991

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

When Adlyn, a woman preacher at a Gospel Church in London, meets and falls in love again with her old childhood sweetheart, she is forced to make an a...

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone

1990

Writer

5.9
Writing

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

Somewhere to Run

1989

Writer

Writing

Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.

Monster Maker

Monster Maker

1989

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

A young boy wants to work with a famous creature/fx man but gets more than he bargained when one of the creatures, The Ultra-Gorgon, takes him under h...

Paperhouse

Paperhouse

1988

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in he...

Smart Money

Smart Money

1986

Writer

5.5
Writing

Leon, a hacker convicted for a crime he did not commit, escapes from detention centre following the death of his father, to take revenge on the man wh...

Lorca and the Outlaws

Lorca and the Outlaws

1984

Writer

3.6
Writing

Jowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of an arid planet, Ordessa, helped in that by androids inc...

The Ninja Mission

The Ninja Mission

1984

Writer

4.8
Writing

CIA, KGB and the amazing ninja masters are all in the center of Russia where the Swedish nuclear professor Karl Markov have invented a new kind of nuc...

John, Love

1983

Producer

Producing

A BAFTA award nominated drama about a young boy's memories of his first communion, set in Dublin in 1950.

By Common Consent

By Common Consent

1975

as Wulf

Acting

In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of Y...

Lear Rex

Lear Rex

N/A

as Gloucester

Acting

An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.