Biography
Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor. Jacobi is known for his work at the Royal National Theatre and for his film and television roles. He has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, two Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. He was given a knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994. Description above from the Wikipedia article Derek Jacobi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, ful...
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Complete Filmography
Tinsel Town
2025
Egotistical A-lister Bradley Mack is blindsided when his iconic action franchise is abruptly canceled. His career in freefall and worried his Hollywoo...

Juliet & Romeo
2025
as The Friar
Set in 1301 at the end of Medieval times, our most famous star-crossed lovers turn the tides on the history Shakespeare based his own story on, as the...

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024
as Self
A tribute to the celebrated and enigmatic actress, with her life story told by those who knew her best, celebrating her much-loved appearances across ...

Gladiator II
2024
as Gracchus
Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conq...

The Martini Shot
2023
as Errol
This existential comedic drama follows an ailing film director as he begins to shoot what he believes to be his final work of art. What starts out as ...

Allelujah
2023
as Ambrose
When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their ...

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that enc...

A Bird Flew In
2022
as David
Charts six interlinked narratives after the cast and crew of a film are sent home from set.
Pearl Islands
2022
as Self
Follow the breathtaking adventures of divers looking for pearls in the Persian Gulf and learn how the gems brought fortune to the islands of Bahrain.

Rhythm of Life
2021
as Self
A star-studded short film encouraging people to get COVID-19 vaccines and featuring the song "The Rhythm of Life" from the 1966 classic musical, Sweet...

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
as Himself (archive footage)
With the help of Hollywood, top Nazi Albert Speer tried to unscrupulously whitewash himself of his crimes in the 1970s. Speer gave long interviews to ...

Say Your Prayers
2021
as Father Enoch
Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate the fa...

Come Away
2020
as Mr. Brown
Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they ...

Breaking The Codes
2020
Using rare archive footage and exclusive interviews, this series takes you to the heart of a war that was fought far from the bombs and shells of any ...

The Host
2020
as Dr. Hobson
A chance opportunity arises for Robert Atkinson, a London banker who risks his bank's money to leave the mundane behind and start a new life. To take ...

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019
as Lord Palmerston
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India ...

Muse
2019
as The Lawyer
Luca is the pre-eminent artist of his generation and at the peak of his career, lauded, feted and collected by all. He is the ultimate showman however...

Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
2019
as Claudius
Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to "miserable, cold, wet B...

Tolkien
2019
as Professor Joseph Wright
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond...

Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circ...

Tomb Raider
2018
as Mr. Yaffe
Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where ...

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017
as Scrooge
The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a ...

Murder on the Orient Express
2017
as Edward Henry Masterman
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
THE UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND CELEBRATED ITS EPIC TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL IN 2017. Over 4,000 Freemasons from Provinces...

Stratton
2017
as Ross
A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell.

The History of Love
2016
as Leopold Gursky
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's lo...

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
as Mercutio
Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy.

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
as Self (archive footage)
The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first tentative steps on the road to success. Long before they w...

Venom
2015
as Narrator
A BBC Earth documentary inside the world of the most venomous creatures on Earth, with stories from survivors of deadly venom attacks from animals cou...

Cinderella
2015
as King
When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, ...

The Gospel of Luke
2015
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, more than any other, fits the category of ancient biography. Luke, as "narrator" of events, sees Jesus as the "Savior" of all peop...

Grace of Monaco
2014
as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and F...

Effie Gray
2014
as Travers Twiss
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

You
2013
as Man
Part of Channel 4 series Derek Jacobi has stepped in to voice lyrics in a incredibly moving new film. Taking the role of an ageing writer addressing a...

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Claudius/Spooner
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best Brit...

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013
as Narrator (voice)
The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fasc...

Last Will. & Testament
2012
as Himself
It's the greatest mystery of all time; who wrote the works of Shakespeare? DEREK JACOBI leads an impressive cast on a quest to uncover the truth behin...

The Halloween Kid
2012
as Narrator
Henry is a lonely child who lives for his favourite holiday.

Jail Caesar
2012
as Sulla
The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and Canada. A small group of professional actors ...

My Week with Marilyn
2011
as Sir Owen Morshead
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince an...

Anonymous
2011
as Prologue
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fac...

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011
as Narrator (voice)
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mutte...

There Be Dragons
2011
as Honorio
Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged fathe...

Ironclad
2011
as Cornhill
In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that u...

National Theatre Live: King Lear
2011
as King Lear
An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question...

The King's Speech
2010
as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie...

Hereafter
2010
as Derek Jacobi
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

Joe Maddison's War
2010
as Mr. Simpson
Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves him for ...

Margot
2009
as Fred Ashton
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Roya...

Charles Dickens's England
2009
as Himself - Presenter
The film looks at the places Charles Dickens lived and worked and how he used them in his novels and stories.
Diamonds
2009
as Piers Denmont
Complex tale about small and big players in the African diamond business wrapped around a murder of US senator's daughter.

Endgame
2009
as Rudolph Agnew
The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African Nat...

Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
as Quentin Neely
The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.

A Bunch of Amateurs
2008
as Nigel Dewberry
Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him up for what he believe...

Sidney Turtlebaum
2008
as Sidney Turtlebaum
Sidney Turtlebaum is a bitter sweet comedy that tells the story of Sidney, an eccentric gay Jewish man in his seventies. To punish the world Sidney ea...

Pompeii and the Roman Villa
2008
as Narrator
Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series "I, Claudius" - this documentary explores art and culture around the Bay of Napl...

Adam Resurrected
2008
as Dr. Nathan Gross
After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an ...

The Ties That Bind Us
2008
as The Master (archive footage)
A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.

One of Those Days
2008
as Howard Whittam
We've all had "one of those days" - when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be dealing you one poor hand after another. Unfortunately ...

The Old Curiosity Shop
2007
as Grandfather
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his...

The Golden Compass
2007
as Magisterial Emissary
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherwor...

Guantanamero
2007
as Guido
After a violent storm, Ali awakens on a deserted beach, sick and disoriented. They'll be looking for him and he must keep moving. Ivan, a local Cuban,...

The Riddle
2007
as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames pub...

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007
as President
Two astronauts await the news that will decide their fate.
Anastezsi
2007
as Balzer
A talented young violinist enrols at an isolated music school. But when he begins having visions of the other students dead, he realises there is a si...

The Art of Francis Bacon
2007
as Derek Jacobi
This film explores many of his key canvases which have been newly filmed in HDTV. The works are complemented solely with Bacon’s own words, recorded b...

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006
as Narrator
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy is a British family television film following the life of a border collie puppy as she grows up to become a working...

Pinochet in Suburbia
2006
as Senator Augusto Pinochet
In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to ...

Underworld: Evolution
2006
as Alexander Corvinus
As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts...

Nanny McPhee
2005
as Mr. Wheen
Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and h...

Bye Bye Blackbird
2005
as Lord Dempsey
A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city...

Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
as Self
Series of documentary pods chronicling every aspect of the production of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Released as an extra on the 2005 extended version B...

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004
as Mr. Operatski (voice)
It's Christmas, and Angelina Mouseling (Finty Williams) is auditioning for the lead role in the musical extravaganza, Cinderella Mouse and the Ugly Wh...

Strings
2004
as Nezo (voice)
Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to avenge the death of his father. To his surprise he dis...

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
Cloud Cuckoo Land
2004
as Victor
A young man with cerebral palsy leaves the safety of his care home to search for a wrecked aircraft, finding adventure, freedom, and love along the wa...

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...

The Dinosaur Hunters
2002
as Narrator (voice)
One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to get the British scientific ...

Inquisition
2002
as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears that is healing the sick and raising the de...

Two Men Went To War
2002
as Maj. Merton
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.

I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
as Self
The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.

Revengers Tragedy
2002
as The Duke
A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the reveng...

The Making of 'Gosford Park'
2002
as Self
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes in...

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002
as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet Russe impre...

The Gathering Storm
2002
as Stanley Baldwin
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, mo...

Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002
as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from H...

Gosford Park
2001
as Probert
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, ea...

David Macaulay: Mill Times
2001
as Priam Huntington (voice)
Travel back to late 18th century Lowell, MA, now infamous for its textile mills and its "Lowell Girls," the poor, barely-educated waifs who helped tur...

The Body
2001
as Father Lavelle
An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was cru...

Revelation
2001
as Librarian
Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, ...

Great Escape: The Untold Story
2001
as Narrator
A documentary about the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen that eventually was ...

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Various Characters
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

The Wyvern Mystery
2000
as Squire Fairfield
After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young daughter to live in Wyvern Manor...
Wilfred
2000
as Voice
Imagining the unimaginable through the eyes of Wilfred Owen, combining reconstructions of Owen’s war experiences with animation and readings from his ...

Gladiator
2000
as Gracchus
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred....

Up at the Villa
2000
as Lucky Leadbetter
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British ...

The Chimes
1999
as Narrator
A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by Cha...

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999
as Father Leonor Fousnel
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
as Francis Bacon
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, ...

Basil
1998
as Father Frederick
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to pl...

Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998
as Narrator ( voice )
Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and featuri...

Hamlet
1996
as King Claudius
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Looking for Richard
1996
as Self - Interviewee
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Ric...

Breaking the Code
1996
as Alan Turing
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking ...

Witness Against Hitler
1996
as General
The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group of fellow devout Christians, p...

Achilles
1995
as Narrator
With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.

The Secret Garden
1994
as Archibald Craven (voice)
Animated TV-film version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story about a spoiled English orphan who lives in India but is transplanted t...

David Macaulay: Roman City
1994
as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in ROMAN CITY, based on David Macaulay's acclaimed book. This animated and live-action video recounts life in...

Aladdin
1994
as The Magician (voice)
A young man's life is turned around with the help of a genie inside a lamp.
Circle of Deceit
1993
as Randal
John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former bosses have other plans. He is re-act...

The Vision Thing
1993
as George Salisbury
In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God.

Dead Again
1991
as Franklyn Madson
In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is so...
The Fool
1990
as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working c...

Discovering Hamlet
1990
as Himself
IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his professional career under the guida...

Henry V
1989
as Chorus
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

The Congress
1989
as (voice)
For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, thoughtful ...

David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Hordedef (voice)
How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who ...

The Tenth Man
1988
as The Imposter
During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execu...

Little Dorrit
1987
as Arthur Clennam
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young sea...

The Secret Garden
1987
as Archibald Craven
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country ma...

On Wings of Fire
1986
as Self
Maestro Zubin Mehta introduces the history of Zoroastrianism and prophet Zarathushtra in an epic that covers 3500 years of the Zoroastrians, Parsees o...

David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986
as Pierre (voice)
Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality anima...
Mr. Pye
1986
as Mr. Pye
Mr. Pye is a missionary whose mission to spread God's love on the tiny English Channel island of Sark faces supernatural setbacks in this comic fantas...

The Statue of Liberty
1985
as Self (voice)
For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants. In this lyrical, compelling and pro...
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
as Cyrano de Bergerac
As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is as timid as a schoolboy before th...

Enigma
1982
as Kurt Limmer
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent ...

The Secret of NIMH
1982
as Nicodemus (voice)
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, es...

Stranger in Town
1982
as The Stranger
An eccentrically-dressed stranger gets off a train and within a few days has endeared himself to the citizens of the town with his jovial behaviour an...

Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Adolf Hitler
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
as Dom Claude Frollo
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimod...

Charlotte
1981
as Daberlohn
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlot...

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1980
as Martin Beck
The journalist Alf Mattson gets thoroughly drunk at his birthday party, where his wife announces that she intends to divorce him. He is knocked down o...

Hamlet
1980
as Hamlet
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then...

The Human Factor
1979
as Arthur Davis
When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.

Richard II
1978
as King Richard II
Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet ...

The Medusa Touch
1978
as Townley - Publisher
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He re...

Mysterious Castles of Clay
1978
as Narrator
Mysterious Castles of Clay is a 1978 film about a termite colony; filmed in Kenya by film-makers Joan and Alan Root, and narrated by Orson Welles. (na...

Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977
as Guy Burgess
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.

Blue Blood
1974
as Gregory
A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely. Before long the servant begi...

The Odessa File
1974
as Klaus Wenzer
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration cam...

The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Inspector Caron
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated genda...

Three Sisters
1970
as Andrei
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support he...

Much Ado About Nothing
1967
as Don John
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in w...

Othello
1965
as Cassio
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Olivier Talks About Othello
1965
as (archive footage)
Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."
The Fishing Match
1962
as Eric
Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels b...
Moss & Freud
N/A
as Lucian Freud
Supermodel Kate Moss embarks on a journey of self-discovery when acclaimed artist Lucian Freud offers to paint her portrait.
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
N/A
as Narrator
Over a million people a year are injected with animal venom, and many thousands die. We see how the nine main types of venom work their damage in the ...
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
N/A
as Narrator
Out in the English Channel is the tiny island of Sark, in August 1990, a French Physicist attempted a bizarre one man invasion attempt on the island. ...
Lead Heads
N/A
A drama about greed, the film will focus on a group of men corrupted by greed, who, in their desperation, are drawn together for one night to play a g...
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
N/A
as Himself
We mark 60 glorious years of Coronation Street, the world’s longest-running soap, with a celebration of the women who have ruled the roost in Weatherf...