Biography: Edward Charles Morice Fox (born 13 April 1937) is an English stage, film and television actor. He is the older brother of actor James Fox. He played the part of the professional assassin who is hired to assassinate the French president Charles de Gaulle in the film The Day of the Jackal (1973). He is also known for his roles in Battle of Britain (1969), The Go-Between (1971), for which he won a BAFTA award, and The Bounty (1984). He also collaborated with director Richard Attenborough, appearing in his films Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Gandhi (1982). He portrayed Edward VIII in the British television drama series Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978) and appeared in the historical series Taboo (2017). In addition to film and television work, he has also garnered acclaim as a stage actor. In 2003, Fox was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to Drama. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Fox (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 13, 1937
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
1977-09-22
Overview: The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1977-09-22
Popularity:
1998-04-03
Overview: The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-03
Popularity:
1982-12-01
Overview: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
Popularity:
1978-03-13
Overview: Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-13
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2007-01-01
Overview: 152-year-old Thomas Parr is taken to meet King Charles I, who orders a celebration of his longevity.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
Popularity:
1984-05-04
Overview: The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-04
Popularity:
1973-05-16
Overview: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-16
Popularity:
1977-06-15
Overview: The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
Popularity:
1969-03-10
Overview: The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-10
Popularity:
1980-09-19
Overview: Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
Popularity:
1984-01-01
Overview: Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
Popularity:
1969-09-15
Overview: In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Genres: War History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-15
Popularity:
1997-07-24
Overview: An Arthurian legend of young Prince Valiant, son of the King of Scandia. After the King is exiled by an evil leader, the Prince travels to Camelot to secure the aid of King Arthur in helping restore his family to power and prevent a plot by the Black Knight.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-24
Popularity:
2001-10-14
Overview: A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-14
Popularity:
1995-09-11
Overview: For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-11
Popularity:
1983-12-06
Overview: In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-06
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1971-06-16
Overview: British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-16
Popularity:
1983-10-07
Overview: James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-07
Popularity:
1985-10-18
Overview: A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-18
Popularity:
1978-08-16
Overview: World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-16
Popularity:
1987-12-27
Overview: When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-27
Popularity:
1977-08-31
Overview: In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-31
Popularity:
1969-01-01
Overview: Dramatically portraying the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the film reveals the conditions of virtual slavery which persisted throughout the Middle Ages, and the weaknesses of the feudal system; its oppressive tax structure, its cruelty and its social inequality
Genres: History Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
Popularity:
2004-10-31
Overview: A thrice-divorced radio DJ meets the woman of his dreams but can he convince her of the truth of his feelings? An exploration of love, adapted from the novel by Pulitzer prize winning author Carol Shields.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-31
Popularity:
1985-02-01
Overview: 1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal decrepitude of a dying class is reflected in the social interactions and hypocrisy of its members, only world weary Sir Randolph seems to realise that the sun is setting.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-01
Popularity:
1989-04-07
Overview: A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that some of the prisoners must be executed. Just in time major Harada arrives with orders that the healthiest prisoners must be transported to Japan by train and boat. A treacherous journey since the allied forces keep a close eye on railroads and practically own the seas.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-07
Popularity:
1978-11-01
Overview: A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
Genres: Horror Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-01
Popularity:
1977-03-20
Overview: An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved in a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-20
Popularity:
1967-05-15
Overview: Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-15
Popularity:
1987-03-29
Overview: TV adaptation of the play set in a Cambridge School of English for Foreigners in 1962. St John Quartermaine is a rather ineffective but kindly teacher at the school who, becuase of his gentle character, has hardly any enemies - in fact, the rest of the staff confide in him or generally pplay on his good nature. Then Derek Meadle arrives on the scene. He is a new part-time teacher who really wants to be full-time, but people like Quartermaine are in the way.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-29
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1991-11-04
Overview: A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-04
Popularity:
1966-10-15
Overview: A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-15
Popularity:
1967-07-19
Overview: Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old son with him for a holiday. Meanwhile a British Intelligence officer who served with Laker in the Second World War decides to use the opportunity of Laker's trip and his lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an assassination.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-19
Popularity:
1965-12-14
Overview: Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-14
Popularity:
1967-12-18
Overview: Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-18
Popularity:
1975-01-27
Overview: Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-27
Popularity:
2013-06-12
Overview: For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-12
Popularity:
1973-08-16
Overview: Nora Helmer lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald, in a small Norwegian town. While he works diligently at a bank, she looks after their children. But Torvald doesn't know that several years ago, when he was very ill and she was desperate for money, Nora forged a loan document and has been secretly working to pay the money back ever since. The arrival of her friend Kristine prompts Nora to re-evaluate her life and confront Torvald.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-16
Popularity:
1990-04-11
Overview: Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-11
Popularity:
1996-04-07
Overview: Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all their guilty secrets...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-07
Popularity:
1991-01-20
Overview: When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the French Resistance.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-20
Popularity:
1978-11-06
Overview: While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-06
Popularity:
2014-02-01
Overview: The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East and the West. Contains the last film role of Peter O'Toole, who died before the film was released.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
Popularity:
1970-03-06
Overview: An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-06
Popularity:
1991-01-01
Overview: An adaptation of a Chekhov monologue about a hen-pecked schoolmaster forced by his domineering wife to lecture at a Women's Institute meeting on the evils of smoking, but instead finds himself looking back on his failed life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Popularity:
1991-01-01
Overview:
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Popularity:
1993-11-13
Overview: There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-13
Popularity:
1974-12-27
Overview: While Holmes is away recuperating, Watson is left to help a damsel in distress.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-27
Popularity:
1971-09-26
Overview: Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-26
Popularity:
1972-06-19
Overview: John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-19
Popularity:
2014-08-25
Overview: The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-25
Popularity:
1997-12-07
Overview: British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.
Genres: Adventure Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-07
Popularity:
2005-12-16
Overview: A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-16
Popularity:
2015-10-31
Overview: One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-31
Popularity:
1966-07-11
Overview: The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-11
Popularity:
1976-02-29
Overview: During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of theft, setting off a tragic chain of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-29
Popularity:
1962-09-20
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-20
Popularity:
2002-05-17
Overview: Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...
Genres: Comedy Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-17
Popularity:
2002-12-27
Overview: Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-27
Popularity:
1994-11-01
Overview: A new student at a British public school forms a secret society centered around cooking and midnight feasting with other school misfits and outcasts.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-01
Popularity:
1963-02-01
Overview: A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-01
Popularity:
1970-09-28
Overview: The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in the Swinging Sixties. He regards his social life as important as his military.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-28
Popularity:
1963-02-07
Overview: In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-07
Popularity:
2004-09-03
Overview: Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of acting. But when powerful people support her, King Charles II lifts the ban on female stage performers. And just as Maria aided Ned, she needs his help to learn her new profession.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-03
Popularity:
2018-06-05
Overview: In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his previous financial chicanery, that is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-05
Popularity:
1991-05-13
Overview: The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-13
Popularity:
2018-09-13
Overview: Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker. For this mission to succeed, he’ll need all of his skills - what few he has - as the man with yesterday’s analogue methods faces off against tomorrow’s digital technology.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-13
Popularity:
1990-12-26
Overview: Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believing he is being taken on a trip to visit the land of the Bong tree; the truth of the matter is more sinister.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
Popularity:
1977-10-26
Overview: During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC2 Play of the Week.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-26
Popularity:
1976-09-10
Overview: An elderly man and his only son continue to interact, following the death of the son in World War 2.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-10
Popularity: