Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. James Sebastian Faulkner (born 18 July 1948) is a British actor, known for his many various appearance on television and in movies, usually in supporting roles. Faulkner made his big screen debut as Josef Strauss in The Great Waltz in 1972. He appeared in other films such as Whispering Death, Minder on the Orient Express, played Lt Teignmouth Melvill in Zulu Dawn that he co-produced, and appeared as Uncle Geoffrey in both Bridget Jones films. He played He...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Last Supper
2025
as Caiaphas
In the days leading to betrayal, a gathering of disciples unravels into a web of secrets and hidden motives. As tensions simmer beneath the surface, t...
Chief of Station
2024
as Deputy Director Williams
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up wit...
Boudica
2023
as Old Druid
Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies ...
Repeater
2023
as Richard Silver
A hired hitman is in the crosshairs when rival contract killers come gunning for him. For hired hitman John Smith, his directive is straightforward: s...
The Devil Conspiracy
2023
as Cardinal Vincini
A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behi...
Jolly Good Christmas
2022
as Simon
David is an American architect who relocates across the pond to take up a job at a prestigious London firm. As the clock counts down to Christmas Day,...
Hounded
2022
as Remington Redwick
A stately home robbery takes an evil turn one night when a gang of young thieves are caught by the owners of the house and then hunted across the esta...
The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife
2022
as Dr. Fritz
José Pedro de Freitas, better known as Zé Arigó, was a simple man who lived with his wife Arlete in Congonhas, Minas Gerais. During the 1950s, a time ...
Never Back Down: Revolt
2021
as Julian
An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face ...
All Those Small Things
2021
as Jonathan Robbins
Long time British game show host, Jonathan Robbins, finds himself questioning his mortality and legacy after the recent death of a close friend. When ...
As I Am
2019
as Mr. Hurt
Set in the rolling hills of the English countryside, one week of school remains for Kai, an aspiring writer, and his friends. How they choose to spend...
The Sonata
2018
as Sir Victor Ferdinand
After a gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances, she discovers his last musical masterpiece ...
Paul, Apostle of Christ
2018
as Paul
Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell...
Final Portrait
2017
as Pierre Matisse
Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend,...
Atomic Blonde
2017
as Chief "C"
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016
as Cassius
Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David a...
Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
as Uncle Geoffrey
After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single...
X-Men: First Class
2011
as Swiss Bank Manager
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. B...
Machotaildrop
2009
as The Baron
Walter Rhum, an amateur skateboarder, realizes his dream of turning pro and riding for the world's greatest skateboard company, Machotaildrop. Set in ...
The Three Investigators in The Secret of Terror Castle
2009
as Victor Hugenay
A new case for the cult detectives! Not by coincidence, a mysterious videotape falls into the hands of Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw and Bob Andrews du...
Franklyn
2008
as Pastor Bone
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four...
The Bank Job
2008
as Guy Singer
Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood...
Hitman
2007
as Smith Jamison
A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's ...
The Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island
2007
as Bill/Victor Hugenay
The hobby detectives “The Three Investigators” want to take a little break. So they take advantage of an offer from Peter's father, who has accepted a...
The Conclave
2007
as Cardinal Guillaume D'Estouteville
In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Rodrigo Borgia, a 27 year old cardinal ...
The Good Shepherd
2006
as Lord Cooper
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young ...
Day of Wrath
2006
as Friar Anselmo
At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, high-ranking noblemen begin dropping like flies, with alarming frequency and unexplained violence. But can l...
Colour Me Kubrick
2005
as Oliver
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very littl...
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
as Uncle Geoffrey
Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time...
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004
as Kenworth
With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device be...
I Capture the Castle
2003
as Aubrey Fox-Cotton
A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a de...
The Piano Player
2002
as Nicholas Farrel
A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.
The Wolf of the West Coast
2002
as Lew Millar
James Faulkner plays Lew Millar, a renowned private eye who is hired by a gangster to be his bodyguard. When Millar arrives at the criminal's French h...
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
as Uncle Geoffrey
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's r...
Hell Swarm
2000
as Albion
An ex-convict teams with government agents to battle an advanced race bent on conquering Earth.
All the Little Animals
1999
as Mr. Stuart Whiteside
An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has killed his pets. He meets an old...
The Octopus
1998
as Thomas
Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire V...
Vigo
1998
as Dr. Gerard
Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. ...
The Commissioner
1998
as Gordon Cartwright
John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for hi...
Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
1998
as John Aspinall
Follows the discoveries of reporters after the disappearance of the 7th Earl of Lucan, Richard John Bingham after the murder of his children's nanny.
A Kid in Aladdin's Palace
1997
as Luxor
Calvin, a young pizza delivery boy, is mistaken for the "Great Deliverer" by Aladdin, an eighth century genie imprisoned in a lamp. Thinking that the ...
Crimetime
1996
as Crowley
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.
Nuremberg
1996
as Narrator
On 20 November 1945, in what had once been the spiritual centre of the Nazi Empire, the first Nuremberg trial opened. Nuremberg examines the first tra...
E=MC²
1996
as Dr. Eric Amore
A physicist struggling to prove one of Einstein's theories still finds time to dabble in an extra-curricular relationship with one of his lab assistan...
The Trial of Lord Lucan
1994
as Sir James Hallows
An imagined trial of a man who, in 1974 London, is thought to have killed a woman he mistook for his wife in order to regain custody of his children. ...
The Blackheath Poisonings
1992
as Roger Vandervent
The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in busine...
Carry On Columbus
1992
as Torquemada
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
The Maid
1991
as Laurent Leclair
A man goes off to Paris to start his new job at a bank. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman, he decides to work as her maid -- until he disco...
The Yellow Wallpaper
1989
A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband.
Just Another Secret
1989
as Markus Vogel
An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1988
as Stapleton
Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the moor under mysterious circumstances and rumors abound about a demonic hound. When the American heir arrives to tak...
Catherine
1988
as John Dunbar
The true story of Catherine Dunbar's struggle with anorexia, that began when she was 15.
Still Crazy Like a Fox
1987
as The Duke of Trent
Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.
Lace 2
1985
as Charles Chazelle
While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
Deceptions
1985
as Richard Blackwell
Twin sisters -- one a European jet-setter, the other an unhappy New Jersey housewife -- impulsively decide to swap lives and identities for a week, wi...
Real Life
1984
as Robin
A comedy about a dreamer whose Walter Mitty-like fantasies turn his world of make-believe into a world of trouble.
Eureka
1983
as Roger
After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoholic wife,...
Zero Point
1982
as Felix
A corrupt lawyer hires a killer to murder his client's divorced ex-wife. The start of a true love story.
Priest of Love
1981
as Aldous Huxley
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When...
Flashpoint Africa
1980
as Ramon Funes
A black revolutionary group kidnaps a couple of young white women in a southern African state in the 1970s. They ask for a specific female reporter to...
Zulu Dawn
1979
as Lt. Melvill
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
Zulu Dawn
1979
Co-Producer
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
Death in the Sun
1976
as Terrick
A colonial police officer in Rhodesia hunts down the albino terrorist who raped and murdered his fiancee.
Conduct Unbecoming
1975
as Tenente Edward Millington
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow...
The Abdication
1974
as Magnus
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.
Great Expectations
1974
as Bentley Drummle
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Miss Nightingale
1974
as Henry Nicholson
The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.
The Great Waltz
1972
as Josef Strauss
A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr.
Churchill and the Cabinet War Rooms
N/A
This drama-documentary evokes what it was like to work closely with Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms during the dark days of the Blitz and the later...
The Mystery of the Giant Birds
N/A
as Narrator
Journey to far-flung islands off Africa, South America, Australia and Oceania for a look at the bird species that lived alongside our ancestors.