English stage, film and television actor. Fox made his theatrical début in 1958 and his first film appearance was as an extra in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), he also had a non speaking part as a waiter in This Sportling Life (1963). Throughout the 1960s he worked mostly on stage, including a turn as Hamlet. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he established himself with roles in major British films including Oh ! What A Lovely War (1969), Battle of Britain (1969) and The Go-Between (1970). In The Go-Between, he played the part of Lord Hugh Trimingham, which later won him a BAFTA for best supporting actor. His acting ability also brought him to the attention of director Fred Zinneman who was looking for an actor who wasn’t well-known and could be believable as the assassin in the upcoming film, The Day of the Jackal. Fox won the role, beating out other contenders such as Roger Moore and Michael Caine. From then onwards, he was much sought after, appearing in such films as A Bridge Too Far (1977) as Lieutenant General Horrocks — a role he has cited as a personal favorite.and for which he won the Best Supporting Actor award at the British Academy Film Awards. He also starred in Force 10 From Navarone (1978), with Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford. He portrayed King Edward VIII in the television drama, Edward and Mrs. Simpson (1978). In the film Gandhi (1982), Fox portrayed Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, responsible for the Amristar Massacre in India. He then appeared as M in the unofficia James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), a remake of Thunderball (1965). He also appeared in The Bounty (1984), with Laurence Olivier, Wild Geese II (1985) and in The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), and Stage Beauty (2004). He has consolidated his reputation with regular appearances on stage in London’s West End. He was seen in Four Quartets, a set of four poems by T.S. Eliot, accompanied by the keyboard music by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by Christine Croshaw. In 2010 Fox was performing a one-man show, An Evening with Anthony Trollope, directed by Richard Digby Day. In 2003, he was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire, for his services to theatre and British cinema.
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