Acting · Hampstead, London, England, UK · Born July 18, 1948
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
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as Archbishop
MovieWake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
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as Rev. Prentice Wicks
TVHotel Costiera
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as Aaron Tarsky
MovieThe Last Supper
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as Caiaphas
MovieChief of Station
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as Deputy Director Williams
MovieBoudica
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as Old Druid
MovieRepeater
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as Richard Silver
MovieThe Devil Conspiracy
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as Cardinal Vincini
MovieJolly Good Christmas
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as Simon
MovieHounded
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as Remington Redwick
MovieThe Surgeon of the Rusty Knife
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as Dr. Fritz
TVSlow Horses
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as Charles Partner
MovieNever Back Down: Revolt
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as Julian
MovieAll Those Small Things
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as Jonathan Robbins
TVTribes of Europa
2021
as General Francis F. Cameron
TVWizards: Tales of Arcadia
2020
as King Arthur (voice)
MovieAs I Am
2019
as Mr. Hurt
TVWatership Down
2018
as Frith (voice)
MovieThe Sonata
2018
as Sir Victor Ferdinand
MoviePaul, Apostle of Christ
2018
as Paul
TVThe Alienist
2018
as Cornelius Vanderbilt
MovieFinal Portrait
2017
as Pierre Matisse
MovieAtomic Blonde
2017
as Chief "C"
MovieUnderworld: Blood Wars
2016
as Cassius
MovieBridget Jones's Baby
2016
as Uncle Geoffrey
TVHome & Family
2012
TVDeath in Paradise
2011
as Frank O'Toole
MovieX-Men: First Class
2011
as Swiss Bank Manager
TVGame of Thrones
2011
as Randyll Tarly
TVDownton Abbey
2010
as Lord Sinderby
TVBen Hur
2010
as Marcellus
MovieMachotaildrop
2009
as The Baron
MovieThe Three Investigators in The Secret of Terror Castle
2009
as Victor Hugenay
MovieFranklyn
2008
as Pastor Bone
TVDer Bibelcode
2008
as Kardinal Emad Rhades
MovieThe Bank Job
2008
as Guy Singer
MovieHitman
2007
as Smith Jamison
MovieThe Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island
2007
as Bill/Victor Hugenay
MovieThe Good Shepherd
2006
as Lord Cooper
MovieThe Conclave
2006
as Cardinal Guillaume D'Estouteville
MovieDay of Wrath
2006
as Friar Anselmo
MovieColour Me Kubrick
2005
as Oliver
MovieBridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
as Uncle Geoffrey
MovieAgent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004
as Kenworth
MovieI Capture the Castle
2003
as Aubrey Fox-Cotton
TVThe Royal
2003
as Sir Charles
MovieThe Piano Player
2002
as Nicholas Farrel
MovieThe Wolf of the West Coast
2002
as Lew Millar
TVSpooks
2002
as Robert Westhouse
MovieBridget Jones's Diary
2001
as Uncle Geoffrey
TVThe Lost Empire
2001
as Marcus Harding
MovieHell Swarm
2000
as Albion
TVRelic Hunter
1999
as Guy Rocher
MovieAll the Little Animals
1999
as Mr. Stuart Whiteside
MovieThe Octopus
1998
as Thomas
MovieVigo
1998
as Dr. Gerard
MovieThe Commissioner
1998
as Gordon Cartwright
MovieBloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
1998
as John Aspinall
MovieA Kid in Aladdin's Palace
1997
as Luxor
MovieCrimetime
1996
as Crowley
Nuremberg
1996
as Narrator
MovieE=MC²
1996
as Dr. Eric Amore
TVHamish Macbeth
1995
as Colonel Don Maxwell
MovieThe Trial of Lord Lucan
1994
as Sir James Hallows
TVWycliffe
1994
as Steven Lander
TVChandler & Co
1994
as Giles Cotham
TVPie in the Sky
1994
as Ronald Quicke
TVThe Blackheath Poisonings
1993
as Roger Vandervent
MovieThe Blackheath Poisonings
1992
as Roger Vandervent
TVA Touch of Frost
1992
as Clifford Hastings
TVHighlander: The Series
1992
as Marcus Constantine
MovieCarry On Columbus
1992
as Torquemada
TVCovington Cross
1992
as John Mullens
TVHeartbeat
1992
as Ronald Meeks
MovieThe Maid
1991
as Laurent Leclair
TVNapoleon
1991
as Maitland
TVDevices and Desires
1991
as Dr. Alex Mair
MovieThe Yellow Wallpaper
1989
as Charles Stark
TVAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Major Eustace
MovieJust Another Secret
1989
as Markus Vogel
MovieThe Hound of the Baskervilles
1988
as Stapleton
MovieCatherine
1988
as John Dunbar
TVThe Bourne Identity
1988
as D'Anjou
TVThe Contract
1988
as Charles Mawby
Still Crazy Like a Fox
1987
as The Duke of Trent
TVInspector Morse
1987
as Basilios Vasilakis
TVFirst Among Equals
1986
as Simon Kerslake
TVLovejoy
1986
as Alfredo Pereira
MovieLace 2
1985
as Charles Chazelle
MovieDeceptions
1985
as Richard Blackwell
TVDeceptions
1985
as Richard Blackwell
TVThe Bill
1984
MovieReal Life
1984
as Robin
TVSherlock Holmes
1984
as Stapleton
TVMr. Palfrey of Westminster
1984
as Reisman
MovieEureka
1983
as Roger
TVMuck and Brass
1982
as Maurice Taylor
MovieZero Point
1982
as Felix
TVBergerac
1981
as Anton Charet
MoviePriest of Love
1981
as Aldous Huxley
TVPeter and Paul
1981
as Menachem
TVWetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
TVThe Martian Chronicles
1980
as Mr. K
MovieFlashpoint Africa
1980
as Ramon Funes
TVMinder
1979
as Apsimon
MovieZulu Dawn
1979
as Lt. Melvill
TVTales of the Unexpected
1979
as Patrick
TVHazell
1978
as Gordon Gregory
TVThe Professionals
1977
as Major Nairn
TVI, Claudius
1976
as Herod Agrippa
MovieAlbino
1976
as Terrick
MovieConduct Unbecoming
1975
as 2nd Lieutenant Edward Millington
MovieChips with Everything
1975
as Pilot Officer
MovieThe Abdication
1974
as Magnus
MovieGreat Expectations
1974
as Bentley Drummle
Miss Nightingale
1974
as Henry Nicholson
MovieThe Great Waltz
1972
as Josef Strauss
TVScene of the Crime
1970
as Rupert Farr
MovieChurchill and the Cabinet War Rooms
The Mystery of the Giant Birds
as Narrator
MovieUncle Douglas
as Douglas Phillips
