News about Edward Fox

He proved to be a master of smoke and mirrors playing the insufferable MI5 agent Spider Webb in the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses. Now actor Freddie Fox, who is a member of the famous acting dynasty, has demonstrated that he is equally adept at maintaining the low profile of a spy. Freddie, 35, the son of veteran actors Edward Fox and Joanna David, and younger brother of Silent Witness star Emilia, has been dating Sex Education star Tanya Reynolds for almost four years.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS (Japan): The young aristos of England used to be able to rely on one insuperable resource - the gentleman's personal gentleman. Jeeves, the ultimate G.P.G., could solve any crisis. 'Might I suggest, sir,' he'd tell his Young Master, 'that it is ill-advised to wager £2 million on Joey Bang-Bang to beat the Gypsy Kid, particularly so if your former schoolfriend Mr Sticky Pete is the bookmaker?' However, there is no one like the inimitable Jeeves. Instead, there are gangsters and opioid dealers, as well as enough cocaine to fill a country house. ... ... The majority of it is likely to be on the noses of halfwits like Hon Freddy Horniman. The first episode of Guy Ritchie's eight-part crime comedy Freddy, starring Daniel Ings, the disinherited heir to a dukedom, dominates the first episode. ( Netflix ). Freddy discovers he is cut out of the will following his father's death (Edward Fox) resulting in a strop of epic proportions.

Heute, there are persistent allegations that the King is attempting to relocate his younger brother out of his royal Lodge - and that Prince Andrew is somehow holed up there, defying his tormentors. I am not positive this is the case. The Lodge, nestled in its own grounds in Windsor Great Park, is no longer the place of delight, particularly during the long years of the Queen Mother's widowhood, when it became a unique haven of entertainment.

Liz Taylor wore the iconic gown when she won the 33rd Academy Awards for her role in Butterfield 8 in a glittering moment, was stashed in a suitcase at the home of a friend of the actor for decades. Although French fashion house Dior said for years that Taylor's Oscar dress was on display in its Paris archive, an email from a London auction house last year revealed the shocking truth about its whereabouts. The Mail is now telling the tale of how Taylor's gown came out stashed in the wardrobe of a window cleaner's daughter from London, who's likely to sell up to £100,000.

On the set of Sky's latest TV adaptation of The Day of The Jackal in Croatia, Eddie Redmayne was seen for the first time. In scenes as the Jackal, played by Edward Fox in the classic 1973 film, the British actor, 41, cut a suave figure. Eddie was all black and teamed a jacket with smart trousers for the shooting, which took place in a crowded market.

BRIAN VINER: Fred Zinnemann's gripping interpretation of the novel by Frederick Forsyth has been 50 years since the book was published. So film enthusiasts, or more likely assassin buffs, will find a satisfying symmetry in The Killer, which begins with a hitman preparing for a job in Paris. Edward Fox's title character in the 1973 thriller was where he took his first shot at French President Charles de Gaulle. And it's where Michael Fassbender's title character spends days in The Killer, awaiting in the rented apartment opposite for a clear line of sight to his victim, whether he be a politician, an oligarch, or a master criminal. We'll never find out.

Lily James was in good company on Tuesday evening when she attended Stephen Sondheim's musical Old Friends in the West End. When attending the performance at London's Gielgud Theatre, the actress was joined by Freddie Fox, son of legendary actor Edward Fox and her co-star in TV miniseries The Pursuit Of Love. Both were holding hands as they welcomed onlookers at the festival, with Lily, 34, smiling to be reunited with her older sister Emilia Fox, the younger brother of outspoken actress and activist Laurence Fox.

On Wednesday, Bessie Carter and Freddie Fox were upbeat as they went for a lunch date in Soho. Both the boys, who grew up in famous acting families, are from Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Bessie is the niece of actors Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter, while Freddie is the son of actor Edward Fox and Joanna David.

In a beachside cabana next to his posh hotel, the only trace left by the Labour MP for Walsall North was a pile of neatly folded clothing. Theories about the beating father-of-three emerged shortly; it was said he had been assaulted and drowned or eaten by a shark; or, even, been kidnapped by the Mafia. As the rumour mill came to a conclusion, murky information regarding his company ambitions and private life surfaced. But, as it would have become clear when he was discovered alive and well five weeks later, Stonehouse, a high-flying minister in Harold Wilson's government, had faked his own death on November 20, 1974, cruising ashore and changing into clothes he had left earlier in another hotel before heading to Australia under false name.