another commented. The book was also made into an acclaimed 1976 BBC TV adaptation, starring Derek Jacobi as Claudius, which brought the story to life for a new generation of viewers.

For one, there’s Sir Derek Jacobi, reprising his role as Senator ... like whodunit Gosford Park and the BBC’s prestigious I, Claudius series, as well as his lifelong friendship with Sir ...

My favorite aspect of “Gladiator II” is the presence of Derek Jacobi. Twenty-four years after “Gladiator,” and 48 after “I, Claudius,” he still looks stately in a toga, returning as ...

I’m also a big Derek Jacobi fan (even if this movie is not ... to a military man and politician named Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus. Interestingly, while the movie version gives us a more ...

Sir Derek Jacobi reprises his role in the film Gladiator. Jacobi is also known for roles in the likes of Roman drama series I, Claudius, The Tenth Man, Last Tango in Halifax, Doctor Who ...

Derek Jacobi has become the latest recipient of the Critics’ Circle’s prestigious Rosebowl award for his "exceptional" contribution to the arts. The annual Rosebowl Award for Distinguished ...

I have seen (among others) Derek Jacobi, David Tennant and Maxine Peake as Hamlet – curiously, Patrick Stewart, as well as playing Karla was Claudius against Jacobi and Tennant’s Hamlets ...

Unravelling the mystery of the tome handed down from one great actor to the next The ‘red book’ was bought by the actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson from a West End bookshop and has since been ...

Derek Jacobi gives the performance of his career as the stuttering, deformed & supposedly dim-witted Claudius, as the rule of empire claims life upon life in his extended family, yet he survives by ...

John Hurt as Caligula and of course Derek Jacobi in the title role as eventually-Emperor Claudius. But the fact that the cast is drawn mostly from the Royal Shakespeare Company means that everyone ...