James Faulkner
Actor, Film actor
1948 –
Who is James Faulkner?
James Sebastian Faulkner is an English actor, known for his many various appearance on television and in films, usually in supporting roles.
Faulkner made his big screen debut as Josef Strauss in The Great Waltz in 1972. He appeared in other films such as Whispering Death, Minder on the Orient Express, played Lt. Teignmouth Melvill in Zulu Dawn that he co-produced, and appeared as Uncle Geoffrey in both Bridget Jones films. He played Herod Agrippa in the BBC's 1976 television adaptation of I, Claudius.
In 1988 he portrayed one of the biggest enemies of Sherlock Holmes, Stapleton in Granada Television's production of The Hound of the Baskervilles, opposite Jeremy Brett. In 1991, he played Alex Mair, the manager of the Larksoken nuclear power plant, in an Anglia production of the P.D. James novel featuring her character Inspector Adam Dalgleish, Devices and Desires. He has also portrayed Agent Smith in the film Hitman. He was also the principal antagonist Baron Mullins in the short-lived Anglo-American television show, Covington Cross. He voiced Severus Snape in the video game version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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- Born
- Jul 18, 1948
Hampstead - Also known as
- James Reed Faulkner
- James Sebastian Faulkner
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Central School of Speech and Drama
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on July 23, 2013
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