James Fox

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Magnet, The (1950): Dir. Charles Frend
Feat. Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox; After tricking a school–chum out of a toy magnet, an 11yr–old James Fox gets the guilts and resolves to 'do good'. Quirkily…
Servant, The (1963): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles; First collaboration between playwright Harold Pinter and dir. Losey is an elegant diagram of English class cruelties, with man–servant Dirk…
King Rat (1965): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. George Segal, James Fox, Tom Courtenay…; Star–studded adaption of James Clavell's novel, set in a Japanese POW camp during WWII. At the darker end of the genre, with 'hero' George…
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox…; Great theme tune sets the tone of this large–scale, rip–roaring comedy about a 1910 aeroplane race, rife with international conflicts,…
Chase, The (1966): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda…; Action–packed Southern potboiler set around the attempts of a sheriff to protect an escaped convict from mob–justice in smalltown…
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing…; Likeable, though overlong musical set in the swinging 20s and something of a sequel to Andrew's "The Boyfriend". Harebrained farce predominates…
Isadora (1968): Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser, James Fox…; Vanessa Redgrave is memorable as Isadora Duncan in this watchable biopic of the iconic free–style dancer's flamboyant youth and radical…
Performance (1970): Dir. Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
Feat. Mick Jagger, James Fox, Anita Pallenberg…; Mick Jagger plays a reclusive rock star in this notorious film that bedazzled an entire hippy generation with its penchant for tits, bums, violence,…
Alan Bennett at the BBC (1978-1992): Dir. Stuart Burge, John Schlesinger, Richard Eyre
Feat. James Fox, Alan Bates, Prunella Scales…; An exceptional anthology of previously unreleased BBC productions from revered playwright Alan Bennett. Collection includes: – A Day Out…
Passage to India, A (1984): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft…; Judy Davis leads a troupe of perenial British actors in this, the legendary director's final film – an immaculate production of E.M. Forster's…
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan (1984): Dir. Hugh Hudson
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm…; Tale of Tarzan (Christopher Lambert), is here evoked with a suitably steamy jungle atmosphere and festooned with Edwardian theories of 'social…
Whistle Blower, The (1986): Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers…; Michael Caine gives one of his best performances in a reasonably realistic spy drama, as the father of a GCHQ officer bumped off during a Cold War…
She's Been Away (1989): Dir. Peter Hall
Feat. Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox; After a lifetime in mental institutions, an elderly Peggy Ashcroft is released into the care of her liberal nephew James Fox. A disarming and…
Farewell to the King (1989): Dir. John Milius
Feat. Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae…; Half–successful attempt to fashion a mythic tale from the Japanese invasion of Borneo in WW2, with a US Army deserter (Nolte) and a British…
Mighty Quinn, The (1989): Dir. Carl Schenkel
Feat. Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, Mimi Rogers…; Entertaining Caribbean caper stars Denzel as the chief of police on a tropical island who is suddenly thrust into action when his crooked best friend…
Afraid of the Dark (1992): Dir. Mark Peploe
Feat. James Fox, Fanny Ardant, Paul McGann; A bespectacled youngster bares witness to a number of killings on blind women in this bizarre, stylised British entry which uses the mind of a child…
Remains of the Day (1993): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve…; Note–perfect adaptation of the Booker–winning novel plays out its key themes of duty and betrayal, love and loss with effortless class,…
Gulliver's Travels (1995): Dir. Charles Sturridge
Feat. Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Peter O'Toole…; Epic, state–of–the–art version of Jonathan Swift's classic fairytale stars Ted Danson as the long–shipwrecked doctor who must…
Old Curiosity Shop, The (1995): Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Tom Courtenay, Peter Ustinov, Sally Walsh…; Stead adaptation of the Dicken's serial – the Harry Potter of its day – with Ustinov as the gambling addict forced to go on the run with…
Choir, The (1995): Feat. David Warner, James Fox; TV miniseries based on the novel by Joanna Trollope exploring the internal politics and scandals of a British cathedral choir school.
Anna Karenina (1996): Dir. Bernard Rose
Feat. Sophie Marceau, James Fox, Sean Bean…; Glitzy version of Tolstoy's novel has a great cast mingling and canoodling in the corridors of the 19th century Russian aristocracy. Lavish period…
Elgar's Tenth Muse (1996): Dir. Paul Yule
Feat. James Fox, Selma Alisaphic; Slight, but well–dramatised snippet from the life of composer Sir Edward Elgar (James Fox). Inspired by Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Aranyi,…
Never Ever (Circle of Passion) (1998): Dir. Charles Finch
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Jane March, Charles Finch…; Mediocre, if elegantly framed, this drama has an American couple (Finch and March) move to Paris and diverging into romance (with Sandrine Bonnaire)…
Kings in Grass Castles (TV Mini-series) (1998): Dir. John Woods
Feat. Max Cullen, Fionnula Flanagan, Essie Davis…; Chronicles the hard life of an Irish peasant family who flee the potato famine and emigrate to Australia in the second half of the 19th century.…
Sexy Beast (2001): Dir. Jonathan Glazer
Feat. Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane…; Retirement in sunbaked Spain is going nicely for mellowed–out ex–crim Ray Winstone, that is, until a poison–tongued Ben Kingsley…
Lost World, The (TV Mini-series) (2002): Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Peter Falk, James Fox…; Sterling BBC adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventure novel, where an intrepid bunch of Victorians explore the Amazon jungle for dinosaurs…
Mystic Masseur, The (2002): Dir. Ismail Merchant
Feat. Om Puri, James Fox; An ambitious adaptation of V.S. Naipul’s first novel, that traces the rise of a poor Indian student in 1950s Trinidad who emigrates to Oxford…
Prince and Me, The (2004): Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Julia Stiles, Miranda Richardson, James Fox; Solid 'Cinderella' updating, with Stiles playing a student who becomes romantically entwined with Crown Prince of Denmark. Fairly playful, and Stiles…
Sherlock Holmes (2009): Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams…; Blockbuster makeover of the famous sleuth has Holmes re–imagined as a brawny, off–beat super–hero type, battling a fiendish villain…
Effie Gray (2014): Dir. Richard Laxton
Feat. Dakota Fanning, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge…; Written by Emma Thompson, this highly respectable period drama looks at the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin, his…

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