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James Fox
Highest Rated: 100% King Rat (1965)
Lowest Rated: 0% Christmas Survival (2018)
Birthday: May 19, 1939
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Lanky blond British lead of the 1960s who began as a child actor in the early 50s. Fox's career showed great promise with his role as a boy whose life gets complicated once he acquires "The Magnet" (1951), but he soon gave up acting to finish school. He did not return to acting until a decade later, but quickly enjoyed success in the role of a haughty but ultimately malleable aristocrat strangely corrupted by his butler (Dirk Bogarde) in Joseph Losey's striking drama, "The Servant" (1963). This part, one of Fox's finest, typified many of his subsequent roles: classy yet often duplicitous, prone to weakness, decadence, and bad judgment.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0% |
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Christmas Survival | Uncle John (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 43% |
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Effie Gray | Sir Charles Eastlake (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 33% |
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A Long Way From Home | Joseph (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 83% |
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The Double | The Colonel (Character) | $200.3K | 2013 |
| 53% |
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Cleanskin | Scott Catesby (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 12% |
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W.E. | King George (Character) | $582.1K | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All At Sea | George (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 50% |
|
The Kid | Alan (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 93% |
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Red Riding: 1980 | Philip Evans (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 70% |
|
Sherlock Holmes | Sir Thomas Rotheram (Character) | $209.0M | 2009 |
| 46% |
|
Mister Lonely | The Pope (Character) | $165.8K | 2007 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Colditz | Lt. Colonel Fordham (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 83% |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Mr. Salt (Character) | $206.5M | 2005 |
| 29% |
|
The Prince & Me | King Haraald (Character) | $28.2M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Freediver | Sebastian Nagel (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet |
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Poirot: Death on the Nile | Colonel Race (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marple: The Body in the Library | Colonel Arthur Bantry (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Falklands Play | Rt Hon Pete 6th Baron Carrington KCMG MC (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Shaka Zulu: The Citadel | Captain Farewell (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 51% |
|
The Mystic Masseur | Mr. Stewart (Character) | $398.6K | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Armadillo | Sir Simon Sherrifmuir (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet |
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All Forgotten | Narrator | - | 2000 |
| 87% |
|
Sexy Beast | Harry (Character) | $6.9M | 2000 |
| 54% |
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The Golden Bowl | Colonel Assingham (Character) | $3.0M | 2000 |
| 45% |
|
Up at the Villa | Sir Edgar Swift (Character) | $2.9M | 2000 |
| 45% |
|
Mickey Blue Eyes | Philip Cromwell (Character) | $33.9M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kings in Grass Castles | Longman (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet |
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Shadow Run | Landon-Higgins (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet |
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Jinnah | Mountbatten (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 26% |
|
Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina | Karenin (Character) | $791.8K | 1997 |
| No Score Yet |
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Never Ever | Arthur Trevane (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Old Curiosity Shop | Single Gentleman (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 50% |
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Heart of Darkness | Gosse (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet |
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Doomsday Gun | Sir James Whittington (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 96% |
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The Remains of the Day | Lord Darlington (Character) | $23.0M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Question of Attribution | Sir Anthony Blunt (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 20% |
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Afraid of the Dark | Afraid of the Dark (Character) | $52.7K | 1992 |
| 72% |
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Patriot Games | Lord Holmes (Character) | $82.7M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet |
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Hostage | Hugo Paynter (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | As You Like It | Jaques (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 70% |
|
The Russia House | Ned (Character) | $22.6M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Boys in the Island | George Farrell (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She's Been Away | Hugh Ambrose (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 89% |
|
The Mighty Quinn | Thomas Elgin (Character) | $4.0M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Never Come Back | Foster (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sun Child | Robert Harris (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 90% |
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The Whistle Blower | Lord (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 67% |
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High Season | Patrick (Character) | $29.2K | 1987 |
| 70% |
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Absolute Beginners | Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen (Character) | $278.9K | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New World | Unknown (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 73% |
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Lord Charles Esker (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 76% |
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A Passage to India | Fielding (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Road to 1984 | George Orwell (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pavlova: A Woman for All Time | Victor D'Andre (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Runners | Tom Lindsay (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Longer Alone | Alan Richards (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet |
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Guru, the Mad Monk | Set Decoration | - | 1970 |
| 82% |
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Performance | Chas (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Arabella | Giorgio (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet |
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Duffy | Stefane Calvert (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 80% |
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Isadora | Gordon Craig (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 86% |
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Thoroughly Modern Millie | Jimmy (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 80% |
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The Chase | Jason "Jake" Rogers (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 80% |
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines | Richard Mays (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 100% |
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King Rat | Peter Marlowe (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 90% |
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The Servant | Tony (Character) | $20.7K | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tamahine | Oliver (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What Every Woman Wants | Philip Goodwin (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Timbuktu | Lt. Victor Marat (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Magnet | Johnny Brent (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All Women Are Bad | Producer | - | 1931 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88% | 93% | Downton Abbey | Lord Aysgarth (Character) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great Train Robbery | Henry Brooke (Character) | 2013 |
| 85% | 88% | The Adventures of Merlin | King Rodor (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Red Riding | Unknown (Character) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Midsomer Murders | Sir Michael Fielding (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale | Unknown (Character) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lost World | Unknown (Character) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Armadillo | Sir Simon (Character) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Yes, Minister | The Bursar of Ballie College (Character) | 1981 |