James Fox - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, music videos.
Real name - William Fox. Born May 19, 1939 in London. His mother, the illegitimate daughter of playwright Frederick Lonsdale, Angela Fox (nee Worthington), was an actress, and his father, Robin Fox, worked as a theater agent. He came to the cinema quite early - at the age of eleven he starred in his first film, and soon played the main role in Charles Friend's comedy "Magnet" (1950). Fox became widely known in 1963 with the film "Servant" by Joseph Losey based on the play by Harold Pinter. By this time, he had already served in the army, graduated from the Central School of Diction and Dramatic Arts and appeared in a small role in Tony Richardson's film "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" .
In "Servant" Fox appeared in the role of Tony, a weak-willed rich young man who became dependent on his own servant (actor Dirk Bogard), who gradually almost completely suppresses the owner and subordinates him to his will. It was this complex psychological drama, mixed with the traditional class tensions of British society, that became Fox's best-known film of his career and earned him the British Academy Award for Best Up-and-coming New Actor in a Leading Role.
Like his older brother, the famous character actor Edward Fox, James, thanks to his aristocratic appearance and always a little haughty gaze, played many roles of elderly aristocrats - Lord Holmes in the political thriller "Games of the Patriots" (1992, directed by Phillip Noyce), Lord Darlington in psychological drama "At the End of the Day" (1993, directed by James Ivory), Karenin in the film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina" (1997, directed by Bernard Rose), Sir Edgar Swift in the melodrama "In the Villa" (2000, directed by Philip Haas ). In addition to his older brother Edward, most of James Fox's closest relatives are also directly related to cinema - his second brother, Robert, became a producer, and his son Lawrence and niece Emilia also chose an acting career.
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