James Fox
English actor (born 1939)
- Fame61.7
- Momentum9.5
- United Kingdom rank#250
Source-basedRising
- Fame61.7
- Momentum9.5
- United Kingdom rank#250
- Actors rank#229
- Wikipedia57.8K
Born 1939 · age 87United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-06-09
He was the golden boy of 1960s British cinema — The Servant, Performance — then disappeared for a decade into spiritual retreat, returning quieter and older to play butlers, spies, and upper-class ruins across forty more years of film.
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Born William Fox in 1939, he belonged to a family of actors and came up fast in the 1960s with The Servant, King Rat, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Performance. In the 1970s he stopped acting entirely, turning to personal and spiritual matters. He came back in the early 1980s and rebuilt his career around a different register: upper-class figures and serious character work in A Passage to India, Patriot Games, The Remains of the Day, Jinnah, Sherlock Holmes, and Effie Gray. He won the BAFTA for Most Promising Newcomer for The Servant and was nomi…
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- BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
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Momentum9.5
Historical25.2
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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