Edward Fox

Edward Fox

1937-04-13 London, England, UK 71 Credits

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, appearin...

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Johnny English Strikes Again

Johnny English Strikes Again

2018

as Agent Nine

6.3
Acting

Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only...

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

2018

as Earl of Caversham

7.5
Acting

In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in L...

The Dresser

The Dresser

2015

as Thornton

6.2
Acting

One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bom...

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

2014

as Self

4.8
Acting

The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.

Katherine of Alexandria

Katherine of Alexandria

2014

as Emperor Constantius

2.7
Acting

The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, ...

National Theatre Live: The Audience

National Theatre Live: The Audience

2013

as Winston Churchill

8.3
Acting

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...

The Old, Old, Very Old Man

2007

as All

Acting

152-year-old Thomas Parr is taken to meet King Charles I, who orders a celebration of his longevity.

Lassie

Lassie

2005

as Hulton

6.4
Acting

A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on ...

The Republic Of Love

The Republic Of Love

2004

as Richard

4.9
Acting

A thrice-divorced radio DJ meets the woman of his dreams but can he convince her of the truth of his feelings? An exploration of love, adapted from th...

Stage Beauty

Stage Beauty

2004

as Sir Edward Hyde

6.7
Acting

Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because th...

Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

2002

as Sir Mulberry Hawk

6.9
Acting

Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly...

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

2002

as Lane

6.9
Acting

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using ...

All the Queen's Men

All the Queen's Men

2001

as Aitken

4.9
Acting

A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring ...

Wilfred

2000

as (voice)

Acting

Imagining the unimaginable through the eyes of Wilfred Owen, combining reconstructions of Owen’s war experiences with animation and readings from his ...

Lost in Space

Lost in Space

1998

as Businessman

5.4
Acting

The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other...

Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone

Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone

1997

as Markham

6.0
Acting

British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.

Prince Valiant

Prince Valiant

1997

as King Arthur

5.2
Acting

An Arthurian legend of young Prince Valiant, son of the King of Scandia. After the King is exiled by an evil leader, the Prince travels to Camelot to ...

Rosamunde Pilcher: September

Rosamunde Pilcher: September

1996

as Archie

7.8
Acting

Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all the...

A Month by the Lake

A Month by the Lake

1995

as Major Wilshaw

5.8
Acting

For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has rec...

A Feast at Midnight

A Feast at Midnight

1994

as Father

6.0
Acting

A new student at a British public school forms a secret society centered around cooking and midnight feasting with other school misfits and outcasts.

The Maitlands

The Maitlands

1993

as Major Luddington

Acting

There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.

The Crucifer of Blood

The Crucifer of Blood

1991

as Alistair Ross

6.5
Acting

A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen t...

Robin Hood

Robin Hood

1991

as Prince John

5.7
Acting

The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.

They Never Slept

They Never Slept

1991

as Monk Scott

Acting

When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the Fre...

The Harmfulness of Tobacco

1991

Acting

An adaptation of a Chekhov monologue about a hen-pecked schoolmaster forced by his domineering wife to lecture at a Women's Institute meeting on the e...

The Strauss Dynasty

The Strauss Dynasty

1991

as Metternich

8.2
Acting
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

1990

as Captain Barnabas/Butcher

Acting

Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believi...

Circles Of Deceit

Circles Of Deceit

1990

as Philip

Acting

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

Return from the River Kwai

Return from the River Kwai

1989

as Major Benford

5.0
Acting

A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an Ame...

A Hazard of Hearts

A Hazard of Hearts

1987

as Lord Harry Wrotham

8.1
Acting

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: ...

Quartermaine's Terms

Quartermaine's Terms

1987

as St John Quartermaine

Acting

TV adaptation of the play set in a Cambridge School of English for Foreigners in 1962. St John Quartermaine is a rather ineffective but kindly teacher...

Wild Geese II

Wild Geese II

1985

as Alex Faulkner

4.9
Acting

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

The Shooting Party

The Shooting Party

1985

as Lord Gilbert Hartlip

6.6
Acting

1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal d...

The Bounty

The Bounty

1984

as Captain Greetham

6.7
Acting

The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to ...

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

1984

as Lord Gilbert Hartlip (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpt...

The Dresser

The Dresser

1983

as Oxenby

6.7
Acting

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles...

Never Say Never Again

Never Say Never Again

1983

as M

6.1
Acting

James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuc...

Gandhi

Gandhi

1982

as General Dyer

7.6
Acting

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian ...

The Mirror Crack'd

The Mirror Crack'd

1980

as Inspector Craddock

6.1
Acting

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

1978

as King Edward VIII

10.0
Acting

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the p...

The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary

1978

as Hendricks

5.8
Acting

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending mani...

Force 10 from Navarone

Force 10 from Navarone

1978

as Miller

6.2
Acting

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

1978

as Joe Brody

5.9
Acting

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.

Shooting the Chandelier

Shooting the Chandelier

1977

as Nikolai

Acting

During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC...

Soldier of Orange

Soldier of Orange

1977

as Colonel Rafelli

7.1
Acting

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resista...

The Duellists

The Duellists

1977

as Colonel Perteley

7.3
Acting

In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perce...

A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far

1977

as Lt. Gen. Brian G. Horrocks

7.2
Acting

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in H...

The Squeeze

The Squeeze

1977

as Foreman

5.8
Acting

An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved in a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob.

Sea-Change

Sea-Change

1976

as Andrew

Acting

An elderly man and his only son continue to interact, following the death of the son in World War 2.

Loyalties

1976

as Captain Dancy, DSO

Acting

During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of theft, setting off a tragic chain of events.

Galileo

Galileo

1975

as Cardinal Inquisitor

5.9
Acting

Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion ...

Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery

Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery

1974

as Dr. Watson

Acting

While Holmes is away recuperating, Watson is left to help a damsel in distress.

A Doll's House

A Doll's House

1973

as Nils Krogstad

4.8
Acting

Nora Helmer lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald, in a small Norwegian town. While he works diligently at a bank, she looks after their childr...

The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal

1973

as The Jackal

7.5
Acting

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated genda...

Bermondsey

Bermondsey

1972

as Pip

Acting

John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1971

as Lysander

Acting

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

The Go-Between

The Go-Between

1971

as Hugh Trimingham

6.8
Acting

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress ...

The Breaking of Bumbo

The Breaking of Bumbo

1970

as Horwood

2.0
Acting

The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in ...

Skullduggery

Skullduggery

1970

as Bruce Spofford

4.5
Acting

An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.

Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain

1969

as Pilot Officer Archie

6.9
Acting

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the N...

Oh! What a Lovely War

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969

as Aide to Field-Marshal Haig

6.8
Acting

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warf...

Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt

Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt

1969

as Sir John Newton

Acting

Dramatically portraying the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the film reveals the conditions of virtual slavery which persisted throughout the Middle Ages, a...

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

1967

as Walter

5.6
Acting

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for...

The Naked Runner

The Naked Runner

1967

as Ritchie Jackson

6.0
Acting

Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to ...

The Jokers

The Jokers

1967

as Lt. Sprague

6.0
Acting

Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famou...

The Frozen Dead

The Frozen Dead

1966

as Norburg's Brother (Prisoner #3)

5.0
Acting

A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third...

Shotgun

1966

as David

Acting

The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.

Life at the Top

Life at the Top

1965

as Office Supervisor (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But hi...

This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life

1963

as Restaurant Barman (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by l...

The Mind Benders

The Mind Benders

1963

as Stewart (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might ha...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

1962

as Extra (uncredited)

7.2
Acting

A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor throu...