James Faulkner (actor)
| James Faulkner | |
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| Born |
James Sebastian Faulkner 18 July 1948 Hampstead, London, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
James Sebastian Faulkner (born 18 July 1948) is an English actor, known for his many various appearance on television and in films, usually in supporting roles.
Having trained as a chorister from the age of seven at the Royal College of Church Music at Addington Palace he was a permanent member of the choir and often called upon as a soloist. He also took part in every house play, school play, choral society concert and ran the Puppet Club alongside its founder the journalist Roger Wilkes (Norman House 61 - 66).
On leaving school he worked as Prep schoolmaster, rugby coach, waiter, barman and professional Santa Claus before auditioning for the waiting list of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 1967. After three years of exhaustive training he won the lead role in the final graduation production of "Kiss Me Kate”. The following day the top seven Theatrical Agencies wrote to him and he signed at ICM and joined Prospect Theatre for "Much Ado about Nothing" the main event at the 1970 Edinburgh Festival. A season at Chichester Festival Theatre followed with such luminaries as Sir John Gieguid and Dame Edith Evans and he then transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End with Jean Anouilh's "Dear Antoine" meeting the author on the opening night.
Faulkner made his big screen debut as Josef Strauss in The Great Waltz in 1972.
He appeared in other films such as Whispering Death, Murder 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 and portrayed Aldous Huxley in 1981's Priest of Love.
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.
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