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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 18, 1948
Place of Birth
Hampstead, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- James Sebastian Faulkner
- 제임스 폴크너
James Faulkner
1.5 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. James Sebastian Faulkner (born 18 July 1948) is a British actor, known for his many various appearance on television and in movies, 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 in BBC's 1976 television adaptation of I, Claudius. In 1988 he portrayed one of the biggest enemies of Sherlock Holmes, as 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 US/UK television show, Covington Cross. He voiced Severus Snape in the video game version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He also starred as Lord Kenworth in the film Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Faulkner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
7.2
Rev. Prentice Wicks
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
6.7
Aaron Tarsky
Hotel Costiera
2025
6.7
Caiaphas
The Last Supper
2025
6.1
Deputy Director Williams
Chief of Station
2024
5.9
Old Druid
Boudica
2023
4.3
Richard Silver
Repeater
2023
6.5
Cardinal Vincini
The Devil Conspiracy
2023
6.7
Simon
Jolly Good Christmas
2022
5.3
Remington Redwick
Hounded
2022
7.3
Dr. Fritz
The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife
2022
Credits
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Rev. Prentice Wicks
2025
7.2
Hotel Costiera
as Aaron Tarsky
2025
6.7
The Last Supper
as Caiaphas
2025
6.7
Chief of Station
as Deputy Director Williams
2024
6.1
Boudica
as Old Druid
2023
5.9
Repeater
as Richard Silver
2023
4.3
The Devil Conspiracy
as Cardinal Vincini
2023
6.5
Jolly Good Christmas
as Simon
2022
6.7
Hounded
as Remington Redwick
2022
5.3
The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife
as Dr. Fritz
2022
7.3
Slow Horses
as Charles Partner
2022
8.0
Never Back Down: Revolt
as Julian
2021
6.4
All Those Small Things
as Jonathan Robbins
2021
6.8
Tribes of Europa
as General Francis F. Cameron
2021
6.9
Wizards: Tales of Arcadia
as King Arthur (voice)
2020
8.2
As I Am
as Mr. Hurt
2019
5.5
Watership Down
as Frith (voice)
2018
6.9
The Sonata
as Sir Victor Ferdinand
2018
4.8
Paul, Apostle of Christ
as Paul
2018
7.6
The Alienist
as Cornelius Vanderbilt
2018
7.5
Final Portrait
as Pierre Matisse
2017
6.0
Atomic Blonde
as Chief "C"
2017
6.4
Underworld: Blood Wars
as Cassius
2016
5.9
Bridget Jones's Baby
as Uncle Geoffrey
2016
6.4
Home & Family
2012
8.2
Death in Paradise
as Frank O'Toole
2011
7.5
X-Men: First Class
as Swiss Bank Manager
2011
7.3
Game of Thrones
as Randyll Tarly
2011
8.5
Downton Abbey
as Lord Sinderby
2010
8.1
Ben Hur
as Marcellus
2010
6.2
Machotaildrop
as The Baron
2009
5.7
The Three Investigators in The Secret of Terror Castle
as Victor Hugenay
2009
6.3
Franklyn
as Pastor Bone
2008
6.0
Der Bibelcode
as Kardinal Emad Rhades
2008
7.0
The Bank Job
as Guy Singer
2008
6.8
Hitman
as Smith Jamison
2007
6.2
The Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island
as Bill/Victor Hugenay
2007
6.0
The Conclave
as Cardinal Guillaume D'Estouteville
2007
5.9
The Good Shepherd
as Lord Cooper
2006
6.4
Day of Wrath
as Friar Anselmo
2006
4.1
Colour Me Kubrick
as Oliver
2005
5.7
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
as Uncle Geoffrey
2004
6.2
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
as Kenworth
2004
5.6
I Capture the Castle
as Aubrey Fox-Cotton
2003
6.7
The Royal
as Sir Charles
2003
7.6
The Piano Player
as Nicholas Farrel
2002
4.1
The Wolf of the West Coast
as Lew Millar
2002
3.8
Spooks
as Robert Westhouse
2002
7.7
Bridget Jones's Diary
as Uncle Geoffrey
2001
6.7
The Lost Empire
as Marcus Harding
2001
4.8
Hell Swarm
as Albion
2000
4.9
Relic Hunter
as Guy Rocher
1999
6.7
All the Little Animals
as Mr. Stuart Whiteside
1999
6.0
The Octopus
as Thomas
1998
6.5
Vigo
as Dr. Gerard
1998
4.1
The Commissioner
as Gordon Cartwright
1998
5.7
Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
as John Aspinall
1998
5.0
A Kid in Aladdin's Palace
as Luxor
1997
5.2
Crimetime
as Crowley
1996
3.9
🎬
Nuremberg
as Narrator
1996
0.0
E=MC²
as Dr. Eric Amore
1996
1.0
Hamish Macbeth
as Colonel Don Maxwell
1995
7.5
The Trial of Lord Lucan
as Sir James Hallows
1994
6.0
Wycliffe
as Steven Lander
1994
6.0
Pie in the Sky
as Ronald Quicke
1994
8.3
The Blackheath Poisonings
as Roger Vandervent
1993
6.0
The Blackheath Poisonings
as Roger Vandervent
1992
0.0
A Touch of Frost
1992
7.5
Highlander: The Series
as Marcus Constantine
1992
7.4
Carry On Columbus
as Torquemada
1992
3.8
Covington Cross
as John Mullens
1992
6.7
Heartbeat
as Ronald Meeks
1992
7.1
The Maid
as Laurent Leclair
1991
6.0
Napoleon
as Maitland
1991
0.0
Devices and Desires
as Dr. Alex Mair
1991
6.4
The Yellow Wallpaper
1989
1.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Major Eustace
1989
8.2
Just Another Secret
as Markus Vogel
1989
0.0
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Stapleton
1988
7.2
Catherine
as John Dunbar
1988
4.0
The Bourne Identity
as D'Anjou
1988
6.5
The Contract
as Charles Mawby
1988
0.0
🎬
Still Crazy Like a Fox
as The Duke of Trent
1987
7.7
Inspector Morse
as Basilios Vasilakis
1987
7.8
First Among Equals
as Simon Kerslake
1986
0.0
Lovejoy
as Alfredo Pereira
1986
7.3
Lace 2
as Charles Chazelle
1985
0.0
Deceptions
as Richard Blackwell
1985
6.3
Deceptions
as Richard Blackwell
1985
6.0
The Bill
1984
6.7
Real Life
as Robin
1984
0.0
Sherlock Holmes
as Stapleton
1984
8.1
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
as Reisman
1984
5.0
Eureka
as Roger
1983
5.3
Muck and Brass
as Maurice Taylor
1982
6.0
Zero Point
as Felix
1982
8.1
Bergerac
as Anton Charet
1981
6.7
Priest of Love
as Aldous Huxley
1981
4.8
Peter and Paul
as Menachem
1981
7.0
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
The Martian Chronicles
as Mr. K
1980
6.9
Flashpoint Africa
as Ramon Funes
1980
0.0
Minder
as Apsimon
1979
6.8
Minder
as Ted Moore
1979
6.8
Zulu Dawn
as Lt. Melvill
1979
6.1
Tales of the Unexpected
as Patrick
1979
6.7
Hazell
as Gordon Gregory
1978
4.8
The Professionals
as Major Nairn
1977
7.5
I, Claudius
as Herod Agrippa
1976
7.8
Death in the Sun
as Terrick
1976
3.9
Conduct Unbecoming
as Tenente Edward Millington
1975
5.7
Chips with Everything
as Pilot Officer
1975
0.0
The Abdication
as Magnus
1974
5.2
🎬
Miss Nightingale
as Henry Nicholson
1974
0.0
Great Expectations
as Bentley Drummle
1974
6.2
The Great Waltz
as Josef Strauss
1972
5.0
Scene of the Crime
as Rupert Farr
1970
6.1
Manipulation
N/A
0.0
Churchill and the Cabinet War Rooms
N/A
7.0
🎬
The Mystery of the Giant Birds
as Narrator
N/A
0.0