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Other personsInfobox person| image =| name = James Fox| birth_name = William Fox| birth_date = Birth date and age|1939|5|19|df=y| birth_place = London , England | death_date =| death_place =| other_names =| years_active = 1950 & ndash; 1970, 1983 & ndash; present| spouse = Mary Elizabeth Piper (1973 & ndash; present)| website =unreliable|date=January 2012 James Fox , Order of the British Empire|OBE (born William Fox ; 19 May 1939) is an England|English actor .
Early life
James Fox was born in London , England to theatrical agent Robin Fox family|Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is the brother of actor Edward Fox (actor)|Edward Fox and film producer Robert Fox (producer)|Robert Fox . The actress Emilia Fox is his niece and the actor Laurence Fox is his son. His grandfather was playwright Frederick Lonsdale . Like his brother, Fox served with the Coldstream Guards . Like several members of the Fox family, including his brothers and his son, James was educated at Harrow School|Harrow .
Acting career
James Fox first appeared on film in The Miniver Story in 1950. His other early film appearances were made under the name William Fox .
During the 1960s he gained popularity and appeared to be heading for stardom. In 1964, he won a BAFTA for Most Promising Newcomer in The Servant (1963 film)|The Servant (1963).cite web|url= http://we-movie.com/m/cast.html |title=W./E. & #124; Cast |publisher=We-movie.com |date=2011-03-18 |accessdate=2012-05-13 His roles in films such as Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), King Rat (film)|King Rat (1965), The Chase (1966 film)|The Chase (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Isadora (1968) and Performance (film)|Performance (1970) (alongside Mick Jagger ), as well as his relationship with actress Sarah Miles , had made him a media personality.
Spiritual life and break from acting
After finishing work on Performance (film)|Performance , and following his father's death, Fox suspended his acting career. The strain of filming, his father's death and smoking the hallucinogen Dimethyltryptamine|DMT led to a nervous breakdown . http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289038/bio IMDB.com, James Fox: Biography. On his break from acting, Fox has commented that "people think Performance blew my mind... my mind was blown long before that."
He has also said that: " Performance gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that everything changed.'
In a 2008 interview, he said: "It was just part of my journey...I think my journey was to spend a while away from acting. And I never lost contact with it - watching movies, reading about it ... so I didn't feel I missed it."cite web|author=Jeeves |url= http://tweedlandthegentlemansclub.blogspot.com/2010/11/james-fox.html |title="Tweedland" The Gentlemen's club: JAMES FOX |publisher=Tweedlandthegentlemansclub.blogspot.com |date=2010-11-22 |accessdate=2012-05-13
He became an evangelicalism|evangelical Christian , working with The Navigators (organization)|The Navigators and devoting himself to the ministry.cite web|url= http://www.britishcinemagreats.com/Actors_page/james_fox/james_fox_page_2.htm |title=Biography at British Cinema Greats|accessdate=2006-07-31 During this time, the only film in which Fox appeared was No Longer Alone (1978), the story of a suicidal woman saved by Christianity .
Return to acting
After an absence of almost 10 years from mainstream cinema, Fox gradually returned to the screen, appearing in A Passage to India (film)|A Passage to India (1984) and playing Anthony Blunt in the acclaimed BBC play by Alan Bennett , A Question of Attribution (1992). He also portrayed the character of Colonel Ferguson in Farewell to the King .
More recently, he has appeared in The Lost World (2001 film)|the 2001 adaption of The Lost World as Prof. Leo Summerlee, '' Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death on the Nile (2004 film)|Death on the Nile (2004) as Colonel Race and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005 film)|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory '' (2005) playing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|Mr. Salt , Veruca Salt 's father. He appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama Shada , and in 2007, he guest-starred in the British television crime series Waking the Dead (TV series)|Waking the Dead . He also appeared opposite his son, Laurence Fox in "Allegory of Love," an episode in the third season of Lewis (TV series)|Lewis . He was part of the cast of Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)|Sherlock Holmes , as Sir Thomas, leading member of a freemason-like secret society.
In 2010, he filmed Cleanskin (film)|Cleanskin , a terrorist thriller directed by Hadi Hajaig. http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/16492 Bean, Rampling Join Terrorist Thriller "Cleanskin" Dark Horizons . 2 March 2010; and in 2011 he played King George V in Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna 's film "W.E."cite web|url= http://we-movie.com/m/cast.html |title=W./E. & #124; Cast |publisher=We-movie.com |date=2011-03-18 |accessdate=2012-05-13
Personal life
In the 1960s, Fox had a relationship with actress Sarah Miles . James Fox has five children with his wife Mary Elizabeth Piper, whom he married in 1973. He is the father of Laurence Fox , as well as three other sons and one daughter, Lydia Fox . Both Laurence and Lydia were married to fellow actors in 2007, making James the father-in-law of both Richard Ayoade and Billie Piper . He is also grandfather to Laurence's two sons with Piper.
Film and television appearances
The Miniver Story (1950) - Toby Miniver
The Magnet (1950 film)|The Magnet (1950) - Johnny Brent
One Wild Oat (1951) - Porter
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) - Gunthorpe
Tamahine (1963) - Oliver
The Servant (1963 film)|The Servant ) (1963) - Tony
King Rat (1965 film)|King Rat (1965) - Peter Marlowe
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) - Richard Mays
The Chase (1966 film)|The Chase - Jason 'Jake' Rogers
'' Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death on the Nile (2004 film)|Death on the Nile (2004) - Colonel Race
Marple (ITV TV series)|Marple : The Body in the Library (2004) - Colonel Arthur Bantry
Colditz (2005) - Lt. Colonel Jimmy Fordham
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - Mr. Salt
'' Absolute Power (series)|Absolute Power - The Nation's Favourite (2005) - Gerald Thurnham
Suez Crisis|Suez: A Very British Crisis (2006) - Anthony Eden
Mister Lonely (2007) - The Pope
Margaret (television film)|Margaret (2009) - Charles Powell
Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)|Sherlock Holmes (2009) - Sir Thomas
Cleanskin (film)|Cleanskin (2011) - Scott Catesby
Midsomer Murders (2011–present) "Master Class" - Sir Michael Fielding
W.E (film)|W.E (2011) - King George V
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External links
imdb name|289038|James Fox
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http://www.britishcinemagreats.com/Actors_page/james_fox/james_fox_page_2.htm Biography at British Cinema Greats
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