Derek Jacobi
Birthday: 1938-10-22 | Place of Birth: Leytonstone, London, EnglandFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE, (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and film director. A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in Much Ado About Nothing. His stage work also includes playing notable historical figures such as Edward II, Octavius Caesar, Richard III of England, and Cyrano de Bergerac. In addition to being a founder member of the Royal National Theatre and winning several prestigious theatre awards, Jacobi has also enjoyed a successful television career, appearing in the critically praised adaptation I, Claudius, for which he won a BAFTA; the titular role in the acclaimed medieval drama series Brother Cadfael, and Stanley Baldwin in The Gathering Storm. Though principally a stage actor, Jacobi has appeared in a number of films, such as Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), Gladiator (2000), Gosford Park (2001), The Golden Compass (2007), The King's Speech (2010), and the forthcoming Hippie Hippie Shake. Like Laurence Olivier, he holds two knighthoods, Danish and British. Description above from the Wikipedia article Derek Jacobi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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as David
as Father Enoch
as Mr. Brown
as Claudius
as Lord Palmerston
as Professor Joseph Wright
as Mr. Yaffe
as Ross
as Edward Masterman
as Scrooge
as Leopold Gursky
as King
as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
as Travers Twiss
as Self
as Stuart Bixby
as Alan
as Lord Pirrie
as Cornhill
as Honorio
as Sir Owen Morshead
as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
as Mr. Simpson
as Fred Ashton
as Rudolph Agnew
as Dr. Nathan Gross
as Nigel Dewberry
