Biography
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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Doctor Who Am I
2022
as Self
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
2022
Producer, Director
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
2021
as Arthur
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
2018
as Antonin Scalia
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
2018
Screenplay
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
2018
as Narrator (voice)
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
2018
Producer
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
2017
as Josh
A womanizing man-child binges on sex and alcohol, experiments with ayahuasca for addiction therapy and comes to terms with past mistakes.

Frankenstein
2015
as Dr. Marcus
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
2015
Writer
Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.

Your Good Friend
2014
as Jules
Zander, a widowed rabbi, and Jules, an out-of-date pornographer become friends.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
2014
Director, Editor, Producer
Zander, a widowed rabbi, and Jules, an out-of-date pornographer become friends.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
2014
as Harry
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
2014
Writer, Director, Editor
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
2013
Screenplay
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
2012
as Nick
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
2010
as Eddie Laxton
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
2010
as Self
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
2008
as Driver
A man becomes obsessively jealous of his pianist wife and her violinist companion.

The Emperor's New Groove
2000
Original Story
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
2000
Screenplay
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
2000
Writer
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
1999
Screenplay
Indy and his girlfriend, Nancy Stratemeyer, whose father created the Nancy Drew mystery series, visit the laboratory of inventor Thomas Edison. The tw...

Mothertime
1997
Writer, Director
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
1996
Writer
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
1996
Screenplay, Co-Producer
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
1995
Writer
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
1994
Screenplay
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
1994
Writer
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
1991
Writer, Director
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
1990
Writer
A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
Somewhere to Run
1989
Writer
Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.

Monster Maker
1989
Screenplay
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
1988
Screenplay
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
1986
Writer
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
1984
Writer
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
1984
Writer
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
A BAFTA award nominated drama about a young boy's memories of his first communion, set in Dublin in 1950.

By Common Consent
1975
as Wulf
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
N/A
as Gloucester
An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.