Derek Jacobi
Despite growing up working class parents in Essex, he reached the upper echelons of acting when he defined Hamlet for a generation.
Off stage, he is a reliable character actor on film- Othello, The Last Day of the Jackal, The Medusa Touch, The Human Factor, The Secret Life of NIMH, Little Dorrit, Henry V, Dead Again, The Fool, Hamlet, Up at the Villa, Gladiator, Gosford Park, Charles Dickens' England, The Kings Speech, My Week with Marilyn, Tolkien, and many more.
But, he is best known for his tour de force performance in the internationally acclaimed I, Claudius.
Derek Jacobi is one of Britain's greatest actors and deserves more appreciation/recognition.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 27, 2024 9:07 PM
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I also love him as a terrible terrible actor on Frasier
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 27, 2024 3:10 PM
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He never sold out like Ian McKellen
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 27, 2024 3:11 PM
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He narrated/hosted Charles Dickens' England, it was a really cool program on PBS
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 27, 2024 3:14 PM
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R4, are you R2 of the below-linked thread?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 27, 2024 3:15 PM
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Who could forget his Hitler
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 27, 2024 3:23 PM
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Loved him in 'Last Tango in Halifax'.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 27, 2024 5:32 PM
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[quote]He never sold out like Ian McKellen
Didn't they sell out together in "Vicious"?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 27, 2024 7:11 PM
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Get back to us when she presents hole.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 27, 2024 7:17 PM
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Was Vicious a good series?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 27, 2024 8:58 PM
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Was Vicious a good series, a positive series?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 27, 2024 9:05 PM
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Was it good? No. Did I love it? Yes.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 27, 2024 9:07 PM
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