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| Born | Edward Charles Morrice Fox 13 April 1937 Chelsea, London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1958–present |
| Spouse | Tracy Reed (1958–1961) Joanna David (2004–present) |
Edward Charles Morrice Fox, OBE (born 13 April 1937) is an English stage, film and television actor.
He is generally associated with the role of an upper-class Englishman. He is known particularly for playing the title role in the film The Day of the Jackal (1973) and for his portrayal of King Edward VIII in the television serial Edward and Mrs. Simpson (1978).
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Fox was born in Chelsea, London, United Kingdom, the son of Robin Fox, a theatrical agent, and Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, an actress and writer.[1] He is the elder brother of actor James Fox and film producer Robert Fox, and an uncle of actor Laurence Fox. He is also a paternal half-brother of Daniel Chatto and therefore a half-brother-in-law of Lady Sarah Chatto. (Fox and Daniel Chatto's father, Thomas Chatto, both had bit parts in the horror film The Frozen Dead (1966).)[2] His maternal grandfather was the dramatist Frederick Lonsdale. Fox is also the great grandson of industrialist Samson Fox.
He was educated at the Harrow School in northwest London and served as a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, a regiment of the British Army.
Fox's made his theatrical début in 1958, and his first film appearance was as an extra in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962). Throughout the 1960s he worked mostly on stage, including an acclaimed turn as Hamlet, although he also did modern works. 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). It was, however, his appearance as the assassin in The Day of the Jackal (1973) that he made his greatest impression.
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.[3] 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 Amritsar Massacre in India. He then appeared as M in the unofficial James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), a remake of Thunderball (1965), and then in The Bounty (1984), with Laurence Olivier, and Wild Geese II (1985).
More recently, Fox has appeared 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 has received particular acclaim for his rendition of the Four Quartets, a set of four poems by T. S. Eliot, at major festivals worldwide. His renditions have been 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.
For his role as Lieutenant General Horrocks in A Bridge too Far (1977), he won the Best Supporting Actor award at the British Academy Film Awards.
In 2003, he was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire, a chivalric order.
Fox has been married twice, to actresses Tracy Reed (1958–1961) and Joanna David (from July 2004, after a long-standing relationship). He has a daughter, Lucy, Viscountess Gormanston, by Reed, and two children, actress Emilia Fox and Freddie Fox, with David.
Fox joined the Countryside March to support hunting rights in the U.K.,[4] and is a member of the Savile Club, a London gentlemen's club.
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