Edward Fox (actor)  

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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 portrayed King Edward VIII in the British television drama series Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978).

Filmography

• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) as Extra (uncredited)
• This Sporting Life (1963) as Restaurant Barman (uncredited)
• The Mind Benders (1963) as Stewart (uncredited)
• Life at the Top (1965) as Office Supervisor (uncredited)
• The Frozen Dead (1966) as Norbugh's Brother (Prisoner #3)
• The Jokers (1967) as Lt. Sprague
• The Naked Runner (1967) as Ritchie Jackson
• The Long Duel (1967) as Hardwicke
• I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) as Waiter
• Journey to Midnight (1968) as Sir Robert Sawyer (segment "Poor Butterfly")
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) as Aide to Field-Marshal Haig
• Battle of Britain (1969) as Pilot Officer Archie
• Skullduggery (1970) as Bruce Spofford
• The Breaking of Bumbo (1970) as Horwood
• The Go-Between (1971) as Hugh Trimingham
• The Day of the Jackal (1973) as The Jackal
• A Doll's House (1973) as Nils Krogstad
• Galileo (1975) as Cardinal Inquisitor
• The Squeeze (1977) as Foreman
• A Bridge Too Far (1977) as Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks
• The Duellists (1977) as Colonel
• Soldaat van Oranje (1977) as Colonel Rafelli
• The Big Sleep (1978) as Joe Brody
• Force 10 from Navarone (1978) as Sgt. Miller
• The Cat and the Canary (1978) as Hendricks
• Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978, TV miniseries) as King Edward VIII
• The Mirror Crack'd (1980) as Inspector Craddock
• Gandhi (1982) as Brigadier General Reginald Dyer
• Never Say Never Again (1983) as M
• The Dresser (1983) as Oxenby
• The Bounty (1984) as Captain Greetham
• The Shooting Party (1985) as Lord Gilbert Hartlip
• Wild Geese II (1985) as Alex Faulkner
• Shaka Zulu (1986, TV) as Lt. Francis Farewell
• Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986, TV) as Dr. Hauser
• A Hazard of Hearts (1987, TV film) as Lord Harry Wrothman
• Return from the River Kwai (1989) as Major Benford
• Robin Hood (1991) as Prince John
• A Feast at Midnight (1994) as Father
• Sherwood's Travels (1994) as Donen
• A Month by the Lake (1995) as Major Wilshaw
• Gulliver's Travels (1996, TV) as General Limtoc
• September (1996, TV film) as Archie
• Prince Valiant (1997) as King Arthur
• A Dance to the Music of Time (1997) as Uncle Giles
• Lost in Space (1998) as Businessman
• All the Queen's Men (2001) as Aitken
• The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) as Lane
• "Foyles War" (2002) as Assistant Commissioner Summers
• Daniel Deronda (2002, TV) as Sir Hugo Mallinger
• Nicholas Nickleby (2002) as Sir Mulberry Hawk
• The Republic of Love (2003) as Richard
• Stage Beauty (2004) as Sir Edward Hyde
• Poirot: The Hollow (2004. TV) as Gudgeon
• Lassie (2005) as Colonel Hulton.
• Oliver Twist (2007, TV) as Mr. Brownlow
• Marple: The Secret of Chimneys (2010, TV) as Lord Caterham
• Midsomer Murders: "Dark Secrets" (2011, TV) as William Bingham
• Lewis: "Intelligent Design" (2013, TV) as Dr. Yardley
• National Theatre Live: The Audience" (2013) as Winston Churchill
• Katherine of Alexandria (2014) as Emperor Constantius
• The Dresser (2015, TV) as Thornton
• Taboo (2017, TV) as Horace Delaney (deceased)