James Fox — Actor (42)

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A Passage to India (1984)
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other title: Passaggio in India / Vejen til Indien …
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

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W.E. (2011)
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other title: W.E. - Edward e Wallis / Wallis & Edward …
In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.

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The Prince & Me (2004)
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Martha Coolidge actor: Julia Stiles / Luke Mably …
other title: Un principe tutto mio / Um Príncipe em Minha Vida …
A fairy tale love-story about pre-med student Paige who falls in love with a Danish Prince "Eddie" who refused to follow the traditions of his parents and has come to the US to quench his thirst for rebellion. Paige and Edward come from two different worlds, but there is an undeniable attraction between them.

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Tony Richardson actor: Michael Redgrave / Tom Courtenay …
other title: Gioventù amore e rabbia / Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers …
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long distance runner. He is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.

TV

Age of the Image (2020)
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actor: James Fox
Documentary series in which art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world.

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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
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Hugh Hudson actor: Ralph Richardson / Ian Holm …
other title: Greystoke - La leggenda di Tarzan, il signore delle scimmie / Greystoke: Beretningen om Tarzan, abernes konge …
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

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Forest, Field & Sky: Art Out of Nature (2016)
Forest, Field & Sky: Art Out of Nature
Dr James Fox takes a journey through six different landscapes across Britain, meeting artists whose work explores our relationship to the natural world. From Andy Goldsworthy's beautiful stone sculptures to James Turrell's extraordinary sky spaces, this is a film about art made out of nature itself. Featuring spectacular images of landscape and art, James travels from the furthest reaches of the Scottish coast and the farmlands of Cumbria to woods of north Wales. In each location he marvels at how artists' interactions with the landscape have created a very different kind of modern art - and make us look again at the world around us.

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The Servant (1963)
The Servant
★ 8.0 5 ratings
Joseph Losey actor: Dirk Bogarde / James Fox …
other title: Il servo / O Criado …
Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister as a live-in maid.

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Ken Annakin actor: Stuart Whitman / Sarah Miles …
other title: Quei temerari sulle macchine volanti / Disse prægtige mænd i deres flyvende maskiner …
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

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Sexy Beast (2001)
Sexy Beast
★ 8.0 5 ratings
other title: Sexy Beast - L'ultimo colpo della bestia
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.

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The Russia House (1990)
The Russia House
other title: La casa Russia / Det russiske hus …
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

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The Remains of the Day (1993)
The Remains of the Day
★ 7.8 9 ratings
other title: Quel che resta del giorno / Resten af dagen …
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.