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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Complete Filmography

Johnny English Strikes Again
2018
as Agent Nine
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
2018
as Earl of Caversham
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
2015
as Thornton
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
2014
as Self
The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.

Katherine of Alexandria
2014
as Emperor Constantius
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
2013
as Winston Churchill
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
152-year-old Thomas Parr is taken to meet King Charles I, who orders a celebration of his longevity.

Lassie
2005
as Hulton
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
2004
as Richard
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
2004
as Sir Edward Hyde
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
2002
as Sir Mulberry Hawk
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
2002
as Lane
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
2001
as Aitken
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)
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
1998
as Businessman
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
1997
as Markham
British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.

Prince Valiant
1997
as King Arthur
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
1996
as Archie
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
1995
as Major Wilshaw
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
1994
as Father
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
1993
as Major Luddington
There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.

The Crucifer of Blood
1991
as Alistair Ross
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
1991
as Prince John
The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.

They Never Slept
1991
as Monk Scott
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
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
1991
as Metternich

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
as Captain Barnabas/Butcher
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
1990
as Philip
Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

Return from the River Kwai
1989
as Major Benford
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
1987
as Lord Harry Wrotham
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
1987
as St John Quartermaine
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
1985
as Alex Faulkner
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

The Shooting Party
1985
as Lord Gilbert Hartlip
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
1984
as Captain Greetham
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
1984
as Lord Gilbert Hartlip (archive footage) (uncredited)
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpt...

The Dresser
1983
as Oxenby
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
1983
as M
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
1982
as General Dyer
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
1980
as Inspector Craddock
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
1978
as King Edward VIII
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
1978
as Hendricks
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
1978
as Miller
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
1978
as Joe Brody
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
1977
as Nikolai
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
1977
as Colonel Rafelli
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
1977
as Colonel Perteley
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
1977
as Lt. Gen. Brian G. Horrocks
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
1977
as Foreman
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
1976
as Andrew
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
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
1975
as Cardinal Inquisitor
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
1974
as Dr. Watson
While Holmes is away recuperating, Watson is left to help a damsel in distress.

A Doll's House
1973
as Nils Krogstad
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
1973
as The Jackal
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated genda...

Bermondsey
1972
as Pip
John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1971
as Lysander
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
1971
as Hugh Trimingham
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
1970
as Horwood
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
1970
as Bruce Spofford
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
1969
as Pilot Officer Archie
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
1969
as Aide to Field-Marshal Haig
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
1969
as Sir John Newton
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
1967
as Walter
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
1967
as Ritchie Jackson
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
1967
as Lt. Sprague
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
1966
as Norburg's Brother (Prisoner #3)
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
The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.

Life at the Top
1965
as Office Supervisor (uncredited)
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
1963
as Restaurant Barman (uncredited)
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
1963
as Stewart (uncredited)
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
1962
as Extra (uncredited)
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...