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James Villiers
Actor (1933-1998) · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Died at 64
James Michael Hyde Villiers was an English actor. He was described by The Independent as "one of the country's most distinctive character actors, with ripe articulation and a flair for displaying supercilious arrogance that put him in the Vincent Price class of screen villains".
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The Wind in the WillowsFilm, Magistrate (voice)1990
House of CardsSeries, Charles Collingridge
Mountains of the MoonFilm, 1990Lord Oliphant1987
Running Out of LuckFilm1986
LovejoySeries, Lionel Beckwith1984
Under the VolcanoFilm, Brit1983
The Irish R.M.Series1981
For Your Eyes OnlyFilm, Tanner1978
The Famous FiveSeries, Johnson1977
Joseph AndrewsFilm, Mr. Booby1976
Seven Nights in JapanFilm, Finn1974
PlayhouseSeries, Hilary Martin1973
ThrillerSeries, Paul1972
AsylumFilm, George1969
OtleyFilm, Hendrickson1967
ITV PlayhouseSeries, Lord Darlington
Half a SixpenceFilm, 1967Hubert1965
RepulsionFilm, John1964
The Wednesday PlaySeries, Lt. Cmdr. Paul Williams1963
Girl in the HeadlinesFilm, David Dane1962
The SaintSeries, Inspector Pryor1959
No Hiding PlaceSeries1958
Carry On SergeantFilm, Seventh Recruit1933Born29 September 1933People around James
Joseph Losey Directed King & Country, The Damned and Eva- Lionel Jeffries Directed The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972)
Tom Courtenay Also in King & Country and King and Country
Leslie Phillips Also in You Must Be Joking! and Scandal- Clive Donner Directed The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
Peter Medak Directed The Ruling Class (1972)- Seth Holt Directed The Nanny (1965)
- Michael Carreras Produced The Damned (1965)
Norman Rossington Also in Carry On Sergeant and The Wrong Box- Ronald Fraser Also in Girl in the Headlines and Scandal
Julian Glover Also in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Robert Morley Also in Some Girls Do and Murder at the Gallop
Michael Winner Directed You Must Be Joking! (1965)
Arthur Lowe Also in You Must Be Joking! (1965)
Murray Melvin Also in Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973)
Barry Foster Also in King & Country and King and Country- Graham Crowden Also in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Maurice Denham Also in The Alphabet Murders and The Nanny- Lee Montague Also in Operation Snatch and You Must Be Joking!
- James Cossins Also in Follow Me! and Otley
- Jonathan Cecil Also in Nothing But the Best and Otley
Charles H. Schneer Produced You Must Be Joking! (1965)
Agatha Christie Wrote Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Roman Polanski Directed Repulsion (1965)
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Repulsion 1965
King and Country 1964
Murder at the Gallop 1963
The Nanny 1965
The Scarlet Pimpernel 1982
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