Edward Fox
Edward Fox was born in Chelsea, England, United Kingdom on April 13th, 1937 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 87, Edward Fox biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Edward Charles Morice Fox, (born 13 April 1937) is an English stage, film and television actor.He played the part of the professional assassin, known only as the "Jackal", who is hired to assassinate the French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963, 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, Fox has also garnered acclaim as a stage actor.
Early life and education
Fox was born the first of three sons on 13 April 1937 in Chelsea, London, the son of Robin Fox, a theatrical agent, and Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, an actress and writer. He is the father of actors Emilia Fox and Freddie Fox, the elder brother of actor James Fox and film producer Robert Fox, and an uncle of actor Laurence Fox. His paternal great-grandfather was industrialist and inventor Samson Fox, and his paternal grandmother was Hilda Hanbury, sister of stage performer Lily Hanbury. His maternal grandfather was dramatist Frederick Lonsdale, and his maternal grandmother was the daughter of football player and stockbroker Charles Morice. Fox was educated at Harrow School and completed his National Service in the Loyals, having failed to gain a commission in the Coldstream Guards.
Personal life
From 1958 until their 1961 divorce, Fox was married to actress Tracy Reed with whom he has a daughter, Lucy Arabella (born 1960), who became the Viscountess Gormanston upon her marriage to Nicholas Preston, Viscount Gormanston. In 1971, he began a relationship with actress Joanna David; they married in July 2004. They have two children together, actors Emilia (born 1974) and Frederick "Freddie" (born 1989).
He has two grandchildren through his daughters: Harry Grenfell from Lucy's marriage to David Grenfell, and Rose Gilley from Emilia's relationship with actor Jeremy Gilley.
Fox has residences in London and Wareham, Dorset.
Career
Fox made his theatrical debut in 1958, and his first film appearance in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) was as an extra. In This Sporting Life (1963), he appeared non-speaking as a waiter. He appeared on stage for the majority of the 1960s, with a role as Hamlet. He made his name in major British films, including Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) (1969) and The Go-Between (1971). He appeared in The Go-Between as Lord Hugh Trimingham, for which he received a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor. His acting skills attracted also the attention of director Fred Zinnemann, who was looking for an actor who was not well known and could be convincing as the assassination in the film The Day of the Jackal (1973). Fox gained the role after defeating other contenders, including Roger Moore and Michael Caine.
From then on, he was highly sought after appearing in films as A Bridge Too Far (1977) as Lieutenant General Horrocks, a role he has referenced as a personal favorite and for which he received the Best Supporting Actor award at the British Academy Film Awards. He appeared in Force 10 from Navarone (1978), as Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford.
He appeared on Cluedo in 1990 as a contestant facing fellow actor Joanna David.
In Edward & Mrs. Simpson's television drama, he portrayed King Edward VIII. Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, who was responsible for the Amritsar massacre in India, was depicted in the film Gandhi (1982). He then appeared as M in the unofficial Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), a recreation of Thunderball (1965). He appeared in The Bounty (1984) and Wild Geese II (1985), both opposite Laurence Olivier, and The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), and Stage Beauty (2004).
Fox has solidified his name by appearing on stage in London's West End on a regular basis. He was featured in Four Quartets, a series of four poems by T. S. Eliot, accompanied by Johann Sebastian Bach's keyboard music. An Evening with Anthony Trollope, a one-man show starring Richard Digby Day, was produced in 2010. In 2013, he brought Robert Hardy back to the role of Winston Churchill in the premiere of The Audience after Hardy had to pull out for health reasons. In an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, he appeared with his son Freddie Fox in 2018.