James Fox

I love him in The Remains of the Day.

You are a very good person to post such a picture of a British hottie.

R2 I try

His Wikipedia page says that he left show business for a while to become an evangelical Christian…

R4 I think he got out of that lol

OP Greystoke was a big smelly bomb, baby.

He's excellent in his first starring role in Joseph Losey's brilliant The Servant (1963) with a screenplay by Harold Pinter.

As a young actor, James Fox was brilliant and had far more range than Stamp, Courtney, and Bates. he excelled in playing Americans too. It's the dropping out and finding God that finished him as an actor. He came back and did rejuvenate what he started before he left, but aged out of those parts, and so as interesting parts decreased the boring one-dimensional archetypes increased....stiff upper lip politicians, civil servants, reverends, and the like. Parts with no edge unlike his son, who if his politics hadn't sunk his career, would have revived the early edginess of his father and carried on the legacy

`THE SERVANT needs it's own thread .......

He’s such a good actor that I didn’t know he wasn’t an American when I saw “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in a movie theater when the film first came out. But I sure as hell knew I was attracted to him, closeted gayling that I was.

Meanwhile, Julie Andrews wouldn’t or couldn’t do an American accent, and there was no explanation why a woman from the US Midwest was speaking with a British accent.

R6 Greystoke made $45M and won several Oscars and BAFTA's. A big flop.

His son's a bit loony now.

He was stunning in The Servant, with Dick Bogarde:

R11 It won a Bafta for makeup....WHAT A HUGE SMASH FUCKING HIT.

The Fox family is blessed with big, thick uncut cocks.

James showed his in Performance. Brother Edward showed his in Shaka Zulu.

James's son Laurence (now insane) showed his in The Hole.

The hottest one of all, James's son Jack, posts tons of thirst traps on social media but hasn't gotten his cock out yet. Get to it, Jack; it's family tradition.

It's R10 again, unloading (so to speak) more of my attractions to Fox family men. I first saw James' nephew Freddie Fox in "Cucumber." I was struck by how beautiful he seemed to me. Then I learned that his mother is actress Joanna David, who I had seen for decades on British TV shows that had been imported to the US. She's not a stunning beauty, and she often played mousey characters, but I always felt great empathy for them. I think the combination of her soft facial features with the sharper, more angular facial features of the Fox men is what got to me about Freddie. And then, the scene in "Cucumber" in which nude Freddie is getting plowed pretty much topped things off for me (so to speak).

Laurence is indeed a real nut job:

His daughter Lydia is married to Richard Ayoade who is hot and smart but she is dumb as dirt, blathering on a podcast about being a Christian and how that makes her wonderful and pure and full of grace. I wanted to vomit that Richard was wasting his time with that numbskull and her disturbed family.

I much prefer his grandson, Jamie. He likes to play naked basketball.

His niece, Emilia (daughter of Edward) is the UK's Mariska Hargitay. She's been the star of a procedural ("Silent Witness") that's been on the air for 25 seasons (since 1996), although she didn't come in until season 7.)

James became a great character actor in the 1990's and early 2000's.

Edward Fox's daughter Emilia Fox played Georgiana Darcy in the Colin Firth version of "Pride and Prejudice."

She also played the second Mrs. de Winter to Charles Dance's Maxim de Winter in the 1997 version of "Rebecca".

She used to be married to Jared Harris, son of RIchard Harris.

I've always prefered brother Edward

R23 Honestly they are the same in a lot of ways. Either one could have played the others roles.

I can see Edward Fox as Lord Darlington in The Remains of the Day.

R24 I prefer Edward's films, although I really like James. they're both delicious in their own ways, but THE GO-BETWEEN is the most perfect moving picture ever to me

"THE GO-BETWEEN is the most perfect moving picture ever to me"

I love you, r25! It's one of my favorite stories (the novel is excellent!) and films as well! The entire cast, from Master Dominic Guard to exquisitely gorgeous Julie Christie to exquisitely sexy Alan Bates to stalwart Edward Fox to (God help us!) Margaret Leighton, is superb!

R26 marry me then, because it's been my fav since I was a lad, and I "knew " Alan...

Care to share, mon cher frère, r27? I'm on bended knee....

are you french ?

I am going to have to look up The Go-Between. It sounds right up my alley.

Based on a novel by L.P. Hartley

Directed by Joseph Losey (The Servant)

Screenplay by Harold Pinter

Starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Edward Fox, Margaret Leighton, Michael Gough, AND Sir Michael Redgrave. Wow.

R30 have you not seen it yet ? oh, lucky you, it's a masterppece

R31 I have not! I should read the book first.

Peggy Leighton is a great Mrs Maudsley, but I sometimes wish Vivien had been alive to play her. That would have been a fantastic au revoir

I live The Go-Between, too

[quote] I should read the book first.

Not really, the movie really is perfect, and stands on its own. everything is beyond and above fabulous. The art direction, the acting, the production values, the photography, the score. Everyone is the peak in their field

[quote] James Fox was brilliant and had far more range than Stamp, Courtney, and Bates

Love, nobody had more range than Bates

James Fox was so sexy, even in more recent fare like A Passage to India (I believe he showed off his nice sweaty chest in a brief scene). I love those 60s black and white British films, and the kitchen sink dramas. A few years ago I played the Dirk Bogarde role in a stage production of The Servant, what an amazing piece of work. And Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is perfect too.

R23 gets it!

THE JACKAL 🍆

Still good after all of these years

he was no Michael Craig

Fox in his first American film Arthur Penn's The Chase (1966)

he and Sarah miles appeared together in 1965s

Loved Edward Fox in The Day of the Jackal. He was amoral and sexy, and picked up that guy in a sauna, laying low at his place for a while cohabitating. Unfortunately he had to kill him. Oh well, easy cum easy go.

James and Edward always seemed like classy guys.

I still think Laurence was sexy in Lewis. At his horsey BDF peak. He seems to have gone insane. Could it be drugs?

I'm sure The Servant and The Go Between have been covered on DL

but if any you haven't seen these J Losey gems, don't hesitate!

Learn from my mistakes! This is a different dude than the guy who once married into the Freud family and who wrote "White Mischief" and helped Keith Richards with his autobiography.

^ White Mischief was really good

Oh, I'd love to have another discussion of Harold Pinter's filmed works. I haven't seen The Go-Between, though. Will have to make a note of that. The Homecoming was an incredibly bizarre (in almost a stealthy way) one, and kind of reminds me of The Servant in some respects. That unmooring of morals and descent into dissolution, I guess.

"The Caretaker" (1963) is an excellent film adaptation of Pinter's play (he did the screenplay). Great cast, including Alan Bates and Donald Pleasance (who were in the original London production) and Robert Shaw, plus beautiful b&w cinematography for Nicolas Roeg.

Frankly I prefer 1963s The Caretakers a female Cuckoo's nest with a mute patient who can actually speak, electro shock therapy and Joan Crawford as nurse Ratched

Like the Servant, Performance has Fox undergo a transformation