James Villiers
Acting
Biography
No biography available for James Villiers.
Born: September 29, 1930
Known For
Pygmalion
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
The Millionairess
One of Shaw's later plays, The Millionairess explores his fascination with the machinations of capitalism. Epifania is glamorous, clever... and also the richest woman in the world. Brought up by a money-mad father, she will only consider a man for marriage if he can convert £150 into £50,000 within six months. But when she meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor, he has his own money-making challenge for her...
The Human Jungle
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
House of Cards
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
The Tichborne Claimant
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
The Avengers
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
Dick Turpin
Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.
Repulsion
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
The Saint
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
Filmography
as Self (Archive)
as Uncle Henry
as Buster Foxe
as Magistrate
as Dr. James Mallinson
as Magistrate (voice)
as Montegrifo
as Penhurst
as Cassels
as Prime Minister Jeffrey Hale
as Charles Collingridge
as Lord Oliphant
as Conservative M.P.
as Tory MP
as Inchcape
as Sir Reginald Manningham-Butler
as Lionel Beckwith
as Brit
as Lord Cantlemere
as Baron de Batz
as Tanner
as Hilary Martin
as Duke Esteban
as Hector Woodville
as Frogget
as Lord Fordingham
as Johnson
as Roper
as Sir Geoffrey Cyon
as Mr. Booby
as Finn
as Sir Arthur Remnant
as Hilary Martin
as Paul
as Parsley-Freck
as Uncle Bertie (Albert)
as Hubert Bland
as George
as Alastair Fitzfassenden
as Dinsdale
as Corbeck
as Hendrickson
as Carl Petersen
as Twyning
as Hubert
as Sydney Whitcombe Sykes
as Franklin
as Lord Strange
as Henry Higgins
as Cecil Graham
as Alastair Fitzfassenden
as Bill Fane
as Bill Simpson
as John
as Man on scooter
as Capt. Midgley
as Brassac / Tallien
as Lord Strange
as Ian Kilbannock
as John Styles
as Hugh
as Benzil Bulstrode
as David Dane
as Blackle
as Michael Shane
as Paul
as Captain Gregory
as Inspector Pryor
as Alan McCormick - a Screenwriter
as Stevens
as English Lieutenant
as Tab Holland
as Simon Trent
as Seventh Recruit
as Lab Assistant (uncredited)