Edward Fox
Birthday: 1937-04-13
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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.
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Soldier of Orange
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
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Lost in Space
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched ...
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Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
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The Big Sleep
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a ri...
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The Old, Old, Very Old Man
152-year-old Thomas Parr is taken to meet King Charles I, who orders a celebration of his longevity....
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The Bounty
An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when t...
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The Day of the Jackal
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill P...
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A Bridge Too Far
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to ...
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Oh! What a Lovely War
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The Mirror Crack'd
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to hav...
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents inte...
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Battle of Britain
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Prince Valiant
An Arthurian legend of young Prince Valiant, son of the King of Scandia. After the King is exiled by...
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All the Queen's Men
A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise...
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A Month by the Lake
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This ye...
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The Dresser
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brillian...
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The Go-Between
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the be...
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Never Say Never Again
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat...
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Wild Geese II
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin....
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Force 10 from Navarone
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Y...
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A Hazard of Hearts
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The Duellists
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Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
Dramatically portraying the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the film reveals the conditions of virtual sla...
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The Republic Of Love
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The Shooting Party
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Return from the River Kwai
A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai ...
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The Cat and the Canary
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The Squeeze
An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved in a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of ...
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The Jokers
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Quartermaine's Terms
TV adaptation of the play set in a Cambridge School of English for Foreigners in 1962. St John Quart...
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The Crucifer of Blood
A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium add...
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The Frozen Dead
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies ...
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The Naked Runner
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an internation...
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Life at the Top
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic ...
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Galileo
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National Theatre Live: The Audience
For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buc...
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A Doll's House
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Circles Of Deceit
Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secre...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: September
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in ...
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They Never Slept
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis...
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Katherine of Alexandria
The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood ...
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Skullduggery
An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may ...
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The Harmfulness of Tobacco
An adaptation of a Chekhov monologue about a hen-pecked schoolmaster forced by his domineering wife ...
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The Strauss Dynasty
A dramatisation of two generations of the Strauss family of Vienna, whose dance music and operettas ...
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The Maitlands
There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times....
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Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery
While Holmes is away recuperating, Watson is left to help a damsel in distress....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set i...
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Bermondsey
John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord....
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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinem...
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Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone
British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone....
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Lassie
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away fro...
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The Dresser
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors...
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Loyalties
During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of thef...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is f...
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Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends ...
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A Feast at Midnight
A new student at a British public school forms a secret society centered around cooking and midnight...
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The Mind Benders
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills him...
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The Breaking of Bumbo
The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in...
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This Sporting Life
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a...
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Stage Beauty
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the mal...
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An Ideal Husband
In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ...
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Robin Hood
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Johnny English Strikes Again
Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents i...
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captai...
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Shooting the Chandelier
During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught be...
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Sea-Change
An elderly man and his only son continue to interact, following the death of the son in World War 2....
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Wilfred
Imagining the unimaginable through the eyes of Wilfred Owen, combining reconstructions of Owen’s war...
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