Best Movies

Moss & Freud

Lucian Freud

Juliet & Romeo

The Friar

Gladiator II

Gracchus

The Martini Shot

Errol

Allelujah

Ambrose

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Self

Pearl Islands

Self

Rhythm of Life

Self

Come Away

Mr. Brown

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

Lord Palmerston

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans

Claudius

Tolkien

Professor Joseph Wright

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

Tomb Raider

Mr. Yaffe

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

Scrooge

Murder on the Orient Express

Edward Henry Masterman

Stratton

Ross

The History of Love

Leopold Gursky

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

Mercutio

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

Self (archive footage)

The Gospel of Luke

Narrator (voice) – King James Version

Grace of Monaco

Count Fernando D'Aillieres

Effie Gray

Travers Twiss

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

Claudius/Spooner

Muse of Fire

Self

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

Narrator (voice)

Last Will. & Testament

Himself

The Halloween Kid

Narrator

Jail Caesar

Sulla

Anonymous

Prologue

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

Narrator (voice)

There Be Dragons

Honorio

Ironclad

Cornhill

National Theatre Live: King Lear

King Lear

The King's Speech

Archbishop Cosmo Lang

Hereafter

Derek Jacobi

Joe Maddison's War

Mr. Simpson

Margot

Fred Ashton

Diamonds

Piers Denmont

Endgame

Rudolph Agnew

Morris: A Life with Bells On

Quentin Neely

A Bunch of Amateurs

Nigel Dewberry

Sidney Turtlebaum

Sidney Turtlebaum

Adam Resurrected

Dr. Nathan Gross

One of Those Days

Howard Whittam

The Old Curiosity Shop

Grandfather

The Golden Compass

Magisterial Emissary

Guantanamero

Guido

The Riddle

The Tramp / Charles Dickens

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space

President

Anastezsi

Balzer

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

Narrator

Pinochet in Suburbia

Senator Augusto Pinochet

Underworld: Evolution

Alexander Corvinus

Nanny McPhee

Mr. Wheen

Bye Bye Blackbird

Lord Dempsey

Strings

Nezo

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Other Voices (voice)

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

Self

The Dinosaur Hunters

Narrator (voice)

Inquisition

Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

Two Men Went To War

Maj. Merton

Revengers Tragedy

The Duke

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)

The Gathering Storm

Stanley Baldwin

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

Gosford Park

Probert

David Macaulay: Mill Times

Priam Huntington (voice)

The Body

Father Lavelle

Revelation

Librarian

Great Escape: The Untold Story

Narrator

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Various Characters

The Wyvern Mystery

Squire Fairfield

Wilfred

Voice

Gladiator

Gracchus

Up at the Villa

Lucky Leadbetter

The Chimes

Narrator

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Father Leonor Fousnel

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

Francis Bacon

Animated Epics: Beowulf

Narrator ( voice )

Hamlet

King Claudius

Looking for Richard

Self - Interviewee

Breaking the Code

Alan Turing

Witness Against Hitler

General

Achilles

Narrator

The Secret Garden

Archibald Craven (voice)

David Macaulay: Roman City

Marcus Fabricius (voice)

Aladdin

The Magician (voice)

Circles of Deceit

Randal

The Vision Thing

George Salisbury

Dead Again

Franklyn Madson

The Fool

Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Discovering Hamlet

Himself

Henry V

Chorus

The Congress

(voice)

The Tenth Man

The Imposter

Little Dorrit

Arthur Clennam

The Secret Garden

Archibald Craven

On Wings of Fire

Self

Mr. Pye

Mr. Pye

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Enigma

Kurt Limmer

The Secret of NIMH

Nicodemus (voice)

Stranger in Town

The Stranger

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Dom Claude Frollo

Charlotte

Daberlohn

Hamlet

Hamlet

The Human Factor

Arthur Davis

The Medusa Touch

Townley - Publisher

Philby, Burgess and Maclean

Guy Burgess

The Odessa File

Klaus Wenzer

The Day of the Jackal

Inspector Caron

Venom! Nine Ways to Die

Narrator

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

Martin Beck

Richard II

King Richard II

Blue Blood

Gregory

Three Sisters

Andrei

Much Ado About Nothing

Don John

Othello

Cassio

The Fishing Match

Eric

The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island

Narrator

Tinsel Town

Albert

Broken English

The Narrator

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

Self

A Bird Flew In

David

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Say Your Prayers

Father Enoch

Coronation Street: Queens of the Street

Himself

Breaking The Codes

The Host

Dr. Hobson

Muse

The Lawyer

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

The Devil of Christmas

Venom

Narrator

Cinderella

King

You

Man

My Week with Marilyn

Sir Owen Morshead

Charles Dickens's England

Himself - Presenter

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

Narrator

The Ties That Bind Us

The Master (archive footage)

The Art of Francis Bacon

Derek Jacobi

Mist: The Story of a Sheepdog Puppy

Narrator(voice)

Strength and Honor: Production Pods

Self

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

Mr. Operatski (voice)

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Victor

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

Self

The Making of Gosford Park

Self

Basil

Father Frederick

The Virgin in the Ice

Brother Cadfael

Monk's Hood

Brother Cadfael

The Leper of St. Giles

Brother Cadfael

The Sanctuary Sparrow

Brother Cadfael

One Corpse Too Many

Brother Cadfael

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher

Jeremy Fisher (voice)

David Macaulay: Pyramid

Hordedef (voice)

David Macaulay: Cathedral

Pierre (voice)

The Statue of Liberty

Self (voice)

Mysterious Castles of Clay

Narrator

Olivier Talks About Othello

(archive footage)

Lead Heads

Frank and Percy