Edward Fox
Acting
Biography
Edward Charles Morice Fox (born 13 April 1937) is an English stage, film and television actor. He is the older brother of actor James Fox. He played the part of the professional assassin who is hired to assassinate the French president Charles de Gaulle in the film The Day of the Jackal (1973). He is also known for his roles in Battle of Britain (1969), The Go-Between (1971), for which he won a BAFTA award, and The Bounty (1984). He also collaborated with director Richard Attenborough, appearing in his films Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Gandhi (1982). He portrayed Edward VIII in the British television drama series Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978) and appeared in the historical series Taboo (2017). In addition to film and television work, he has also garnered acclaim as a stage actor. In 2003, Fox was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to Drama.
Born: April 13, 1937
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
The Expert
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
National Theatre Live: The Audience
For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.
The Strauss Dynasty
A dramatisation of two generations of the Strauss family of Vienna, whose dance music and operettas dominated much of Europe and beyond for most of the 19th century.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Foyle's War
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
Taboo
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
The Gentlemen
When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to an enormous weed empire — and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.
Rosamunde Pilcher: September
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all their guilty secrets...
A Hazard of Hearts
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.
Filmography
as Archibald Horatio Landrover Horniman
as Agent Nine
as Earl of Caversham
as Horace Delaney
as Thornton
as Emperor Constantius
as Winston Churchill
as Mr Brownlow
as Dr. Yardley
as Hulton
as Caterham
as Richard
as Sir Edward Hyde
as Sir Mulberry Hawk
as Sir Hugo Mallinger
as Asst. Commissioner Summers
as Aitken
as Businessman
as Uncle Giles
as King Arthur
as William Bingham
as Archie
as General Limtoc
as Archie
as Major Wilshaw
as Father
as Major Luddington
as Michael Herbert
as Metternich
as Alistair Ross
as Major Luddington
as Prince John
as Monk Scott
as Metternich
as Captain Barnabas/Butcher
as Himself
as Philip
as Major Benford
as Gudgeon
as Reader
as Lord Harry Wrotham
as St John Quartermaine
as Dr. Hauser
as Lt. Francis Farewell
as Alex Faulkner
as Lord Gilbert Hartlip
as Monk Scott
as Captain Greetham
as Lord Gilbert Hartlip (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Oxenby
as General Dyer
as Self
as Inspector Craddock
as Colonel Rafelli
as King Edward VIII
as King Edward VIII
as Hendricks
as Miller
as Joe Brody
as Nikolai
as Captain James Harthouse
as Colonel Rafelli
as Nikolai
as Colonel Perteley
as Lt. Gen. Brian G. Horrocks
as Foreman
as Andrew
as Cardinal Inquisitor
as Aaron Graham
as Dr. Watson
as Nils Krogstad
as The Jackal
as Pip
as Lysander
as Hugh Trimingham
as Horwood
as John Parker
as Bruce Spofford
as Pilot Officer Archie
as Sir Harry Carlin
as Aide to Field-Marshal Haig
as Sir John Newton
as Sir Robert Sawyer
as Tony Davis-Jones
as Walter
as Self
as Ritchie Jackson
as Lt. Sprague
as Norburg's Brother (Prisoner #3)
as Office Supervisor (uncredited)
as Charles Surface
as Captain Dancy, DSO
as Flt. Lieutenant Stoker
as Lysander
as Pip Lester
as Ronnie Lovell
as Trevor
as George Barrington
as Restaurant Barman (uncredited)
as Stewart (uncredited)
as Extra (uncredited)
as Charles Marten
as Chilcott