Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi
Birth date:	22 October 1938
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	War Master
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	2003, 2007, 2017-present
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Sir Derek Jacobi, CBE (born 22 October 1938) voiced an alternative Master in the animated webcast Scream of the Shalka before returning as a version of the Master (billed as "Professor Yana") in the televised Doctor Who episode Utopia. He reprised his role as the Master at Big Finish, in The War Master.

Jacobi also voiced Martin Bannister and Doctor Who in the Doctor Who Unbound audio drama Deadline.

He was one of many names put forward for the part of the Eighth Doctor. Jacobi finally did get to play the Eighth Doctor when he and the Master swapped bodies in the audio anthology Hearts of Darkness.

He was also considered for the role of Captain Rorvik in Warriors' Gate. (TCH 33)

Career

According to an interview he gave for Doctor Who Confidential, being on Doctor Who was a long term goal of his, ever since the 1960s, as was playing a part on Coronation Street. He has also played the Roman Emperor Claudius in I, Claudius and Ellis Peters' medieval-detective Brother Cadfael on ITV Television in the 1990s (interestingly, in season 1 the other main character of the series was played by Sean Pertwee, son of Jon Pertwee). Cadfael's role has also been played on radio by Philip Madoc and Glyn Houston. He also voiced Ivor Operatski in the children's TV series Angelina Ballerina alongside Finty Williams.

Philip Purser-Hallard said he pictured Derek Jacobi as Claudius whilst writing Of the City of the Saved.... He also pictured Jacobi as Alan Turing, which he said made writing parts where the two were together rather odd.

He appeared in the BAFTA award-winning series Last Tango in Halifax, alongside Anne Reid, Sarah Lancashire, Nicola Walker and Tony Gardner.

Personal life

He is the partner of Richard Clifford, who co-starred with Derek in Big Finish's audio anthology Anti-Genesis.

Credits

As the War Master

Television

Doctor Who

• Utopia - Professor Yana

Webcasts

The War Master

• The Legend of... the Master? - "War Master" (uncredited)

Audio

Special Releases

• Masterful

Ravenous

• Day of the Master

The War Master

• Only the Good
  • Beneath the Viscoid
  • The Good Master
  • The Sky Man
  • The Heavenly Paradigm
• The Master of Callous
  • Call for the Dead
  • The Glittering Prize
  • The Persistence of Dreams
  • Sins of the Father
• Rage of the Time Lords
  • The Survivor
  • The Coney Island Chameleon
  • The Missing Link
  • Darkness and Light
• Anti-Genesis
  • From the Falmes
  • The Master's Dalek Plan
  • Shockwave
  • He Who Wines
• Hearts of Darkness
  • The Edge of Redemption - "The Master"
  • The Scaramancer - "The Master"
  • The Castle of Kurnos 5 - War Master / The Doctor
  • The Cognition Shift - War Master / The Doctor
• Killing Time
  • The Sincerest Form of Flattery
  • A Quiet Night In
  • The Orphan
  • Unfinished Business
• Self-Defence
  • The Forest of Penitence
  • The Players
  • Boundaries
  • The Last Line

Gallifrey: Time War

• The Devil You Know

UNIT: The New Series

• Master of Worlds

The Diary of River Song

• Concealed Weapon

Other Roles

Webcasts

Doctor Who

• Scream of the Shalka - The Master

Audio

Doctor Who Unbound

• Deadline - Martin Bannister / Doctor Who

Audiobook Readings

Target Novelisations

• The Mind Robber

Tales of Terror

• The Monster in the Woods
• Baby Sleepy Face

External links

• Derek Jacobi at the Internet Movie Database
• Derek Jacobi at the Internet Broadway Database