Derek Jacobi
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 85 |
Date of birth | October 22,1938 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Leytonstone |
London | |
United Kingdom | |
Height | 178 (cm) |
Partner | Richard Clifford |
Job | Film director |
Voice acting | |
Theatre Director | |
Narrator | |
Education | University of Cambridge |
St John's College, Cambridge | |
Current partner | Richard Clifford |
Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
St John's College | |
Cambridge | |
Parents | Alfred George Jacobi |
Daisy Gertrude Jacobi | |
Spouse | Richard Clifford |
Nominations | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 404316 |
Tales of the Unexpected
Derek Jacobi on Malvolio (Shakespeare on Stage)
The Hobbit: Roverandom
In the Night Garden: Wake Up, Upsy Daisy!.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Faust: Full Dramatization
The Hound Of The Baskervilles
Collected Authors: Murder Most Foul. . . the Collection
Brother Cadfael Audio Collection
I, Claudius
Le Morte D'Arthur Video Enhanced: Abridged Version
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Cinderella
Cadfael
Murder on the Orient Express
Last Tango in Halifax
The King's Speech
Dead Again
Henry V
Gosford Park
Nanny McPhee
The Secret of NIMH
Tomb Raider
The Day of the Jackal
Underworld: Evolution
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
The Odessa File
The Gathering Storm
My Week with Marilyn
Pinochet in Suburbia
The Golden Compass
Titanic: Blood and Steel
In the Night Garden. . .
Grace of Monaco
There Be Dragons
Adam Resurrected
Little Dorrit
Breaking the Code
The Borgias
Two Men Went to War
The Strauss Family
Ironclad
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Jason and the Argonauts
The Human Factor
The Pallisers
Up at the Villa
The Tenth Man
Effie Gray
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Wyvern Mystery
StringCaesar
The Medusa Touch
Inside the Third Reich
A Bunch of Amateurs
Three Sisters
Scream of the Shalka
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
The Jury
I, Claudius
Vicious
Hamlet
Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble
British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Satellite Award for Best Ensemble – Motion Picture
John and Wendy Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance
Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival
The Helen Hayes Tribute, sponsored by Jaylee Mead
Audie Award for Multi-voiced Performance
Shakespeare Prize
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play
Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Visiting Production
Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor
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Derek Jacobi Life story
Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE 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.
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Obituary: Sir Michael Gambon, star of The Singing Detective and Harry Potter
Sir Michael Gambon was one of Britain's most versatile performers.
While he achieved success on both TV and in The Cinema , it was The Theatre that was his greatest love.
He played many of The Great Shakespearean parts, appeared on TV as Inspector Maigret and once auditioned for The Role of James Bond .
And he gained an international following when he took over the part of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.
Michael John Gambon was born in Dublin on 19 Oct 1940, The Son of an engineer and a seamstresss.
When he was five his father moved to London to work on the reconstruction of the capital after The Blitz and Gambon attended St Aloysius' College in Highgate before The Family moved again, This Time to Kent.
His father made him a British citizen, something that meant his future knighthood would be a substantive rather than honorary one.
School was something of a trial for him. " I have no happy memories whatsoever, " He Said , and he quit at 15 to take up a job as an apprentice toolmaker with Vickers.
Something in him had always been drawn towards acting, and he became an avid cinemagoer. But it was not until his early 20s that he began actively pursuing a stage career.
'A bit fat'He began writing letters to various theatrical companies, enclosing The Most outrageous CVs detailing his fictional prowess as a performer. He was eventually offered a junior job at the Gate Theatre in his native Dublin, which had failed to check his claim that he had taken The Lead role in a George Bernard Shaw play in London.
After touring Europe in a production of Othello, Gambon moved on to the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier where he appeared in A Number of spear-carrying roles alongside other future stars including Derek Jacobi and Frank Finlay .
It was Olivier who suggested that the young Gambon needed to broaden his experience so, in 1967, he joined the Birmingham Repertory Company where he started picking up meatier parts including The Lead in productions of Othello, Macbeth and Coriolanus.
It was while buckling his swash in a BBC TV series, The Borderers , set in 16Th Century Scotland, that he was spotted by Cubby Broccoli and asked to audition for the new Bond film, On Her Majesty 's Secret Service , Following Sean Connery's decision to quit The Franchise .
While it may be amusing to reflect on how Gambon's Bond might have looked - More George Smiley than 007 - he was not enthusiastic about taking it on. " I haven't got nice hair and I'm a bit fat, " he told Broccoli, and the part went to George Lazenby .
His devotion to The Stage paid off in 1974 when he was cast as Tom in Alan Ayckbourn 's trilogy, The Norman Conquests. The rave reviews for the production in The West End established his reputation as a comic actor of great merit.
Fantasy worldAnd there was further acclaim for his role as Jerry in Peter Hall 's production of Harold Pinter 's Betrayal, which opened on the South Bank in 1978.
Two years later there was a masterly performance in The Life of Galileo, Berthold Brecht's take on The Life of the 17Th Century Italian scientist. One critic described his performance as " unsentimental, dangerous and immensely powerful" and it was reported that his fellow cast members clapped him back to the dressing room.
The Bbc production of Dennis Potter 's drama The Singing Detective, brought him to a wider audience when it was screened in 1986. A complex and Dark Tale , it is now seen as a landmark in British TV.
Gambon won a Bafta for his role as The Mystery writer confined to bed with a crippling skin and joint disease, who dreams of A Fantasy world in which he also played his character's alter-ego, the eponymous sleuth.
He played the violent gangster Albert Spica in Peter Greenaway 's dark crime comedy The Cook , The Thief . his Wife & her Lover in 1989, and throughout the 1990s there were A Number of other leading film roles. These included Toys, in which he played alongside Robin Williams , as well as Plunkett & Macleane, Sleepy Hollow and Gosford Park .
He also appeared as Inspector Maigret in an ITV adaptation of Georges Simenon 's books which ran for two series.
Two penguinsBut he never took film as seriously as he did his stage work, even his appearance as Professor Dumbledore in six Harry Potter films, a role he inherited after the death of Richard Harris .
" I can't remember any of The Films I've done, " he once said. " You go from one to The Other and they all blend into a big mass. I remember Harry Potter because of the costume I wore, just two layers of silk and carpet slippers. Very comfortable. "
He continued to delight on The Stage . There was an appearance as Davies in a 2001 revival of Harold Pinter 's The Caretaker and, in 2005, he finally achieved his ambition to play Falstaff in Henry Iv , Parts 1 & 2 at the National Theatre .
In 2010 he was back where he had started, at Dublin's Gate Theatre , to star in Becket's Krapp's Last Tape, a production that eventually transferred to London's West End .
There were also TV appearances including The Role of Mr Woodhouse, in a BBC adaptation of Jane Austen 's Emma, for which he received an Emmy.
He was much in demand for voiceovers. He was The Narrator of an iconic Guinness advert featuring two penguins, lent his distinctive tones to A Number of Video Games and provided The Voice for Paddington's Uncle Pastuzo when that character was introduced in the 2017 sequel.
Fell off The StageIn 2015 he announced he was retiring from The Stage because he was finding it increasingly difficult to memorise his lines. He had experimented with using an earpiece to hear prompts from the wings but found it impossible to concentrate on his acting.
However, his TV and film work continued, including The Role of Private Godfrey in a 2016 film version of Dad's Army, as Agent Five in slapstick spy comedy Johnny English Strikes Again, another TV Shakespearean turn as Mortimer in The Hollow Crown , and in his final role as Moses in the 2019 film Cordelia.
Away from acting, he collected and restored antique guns and clocks and was a classic car enthusiast, making an appearance on Top Gear in 2002. His Drive In the famous " reasonably priced car" saw him take The Final corner on two wheels. The Producers were so impressed they named The Corner after him.
He was knighted in 1998 although, unlike some fellow actors, he never used the title. Fame meant little to him and he never sought the limelight, avoiding interviews whenever possible.
When cornered by A Journalist , he was likely to spin tall stories about his life, including telling The Times that a new girlfriend was the 6ft tall daughter of a Botswanan chief and once informing one hapless interrogator that his career with The Royal Ballet ended when he fell off The Stage .
Many critics have dubbed Michael Gambon As One of The Great character actors but it's an epithet he dismissed. " Every part I play is just a variant of My Own personality,. " he once said. " No real character actor, Just Me . "
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