Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 18, 1948
Place of Birth:
Hampstead, London, England, UK
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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.
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Year | Movie | Role |
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2025 | The Last Supper | Caiaphas |
2024 | Chief of Station | Deputy Director Williams |
2023 | Boudica | Old Druid |
2023 | Repeater | Richard Silver |
2023 | The Devil Conspiracy | Cardinal Vincini |
2022 | Hounded | Remington Redwick |
2022 | Jolly Good Christmas | Simon |
2022 | The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife | Dr. Fritz |
2021 | Never Back Down: Revolt | Julian |
2021 | All Those Small Things | Jonathan Robbins |
2019 | As I Am | Mr. Hurt |
2018 | Paul, Apostle of Christ | Paul |
2018 | The Sonata | Sir Victor Ferdinand |
2017 | Atomic Blonde | Chief "C" |
2017 | Final Portrait | Pierre Matisse |
2016 | Underworld: Blood Wars | Cassius |
2016 | Bridget Jones's Baby | Uncle Geoffrey |
2011 | X-Men: First Class | Swiss Bank Manager |
2009 | The Three Investigators in The Secret of Terror Castle | Victor Hugenay |
2009 | Machotaildrop | The Baron |
2008 | The Bank Job | Guy Singer |
2008 | Franklyn | Pastor Bone |
2007 | Hitman | Smith Jamison |
2007 | The Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island | Bill/Victor Hugenay |
2007 | The Conclave | Cardinal Guillaume D'Estouteville |
2006 | Day of Wrath | Friar Anselmo |
2006 | The Good Shepherd | Lord Cooper |
2005 | Colour Me Kubrick | Oliver |
2004 | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | Uncle Geoffrey |
2004 | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | Kenworth |
2003 | I Capture the Castle | Aubrey Fox-Cotton |
2002 | The Piano Player | Nicholas Farrel |
2002 | The Wolf of the West Coast | Lew Millar |
2001 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Uncle Geoffrey |
2000 | Hell Swarm | Albion |
1999 | All the Little Animals | Mr. Stuart Whiteside |
1998 | The Octopus | Thomas |
1998 | The Commissioner | Gordon Cartwright |
1998 | Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord | John Aspinall |
1998 | Vigo | Dr. Gerard |
1997 | A Kid in Aladdin's Palace | Luxor |
1996 | Crimetime | Crowley |
1996 | E=MC² | Dr. Eric Amore |
1996 | Nuremberg | Narrator |
1994 | The Trial of Lord Lucan | Sir James Hallows |
1992 | The Blackheath Poisonings | Roger Vandervent |
1992 | Carry On Columbus | Torquemada |
1991 | The Maid | Laurent Leclair |
1989 | The Yellow Wallpaper | |
1989 | Just Another Secret | Markus Vogel |
1988 | Catherine | John Dunbar |
1988 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Stapleton |
1987 | Still Crazy Like a Fox | The Duke of Trent |
1985 | Lace 2 | Charles Chazelle |
1985 | Deceptions | Richard Blackwell |
1984 | Real Life | Robin |
1983 | Eureka | Roger |
1982 | Zero Point | Felix |
1981 | Priest of Love | Aldous Huxley |
1980 | Flashpoint Africa | Ramon Funes |
1979 | Zulu Dawn | Lt. Melvill |
1976 | Death in the Sun | Terrick |
1975 | Conduct Unbecoming | Tenente Edward Millington |
1974 | Great Expectations | Bentley Drummle |
1974 | Miss Nightingale | Henry Nicholson |
1974 | The Abdication | Magnus |
1972 | The Great Waltz | Josef Strauss |
Churchill and the Cabinet War Rooms | ||
The Mystery of the Giant Birds | Narrator |
Year | TV Show | Role |
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2022 | Slow Horses | Charles Partner |
2021 | Tribes of Europa | General Francis F. Cameron |
2020 | Wizards: Tales of Arcadia | King Arthur (voice) |
2018 | Watership Down | Frith (voice) |
2018 | The Alienist | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
2012 | Home & Family | |
2011 | Game of Thrones | Randyll Tarly |
2011 | Death in Paradise | Frank O'Toole |
2010 | Ben Hur | Marcellus |
2010 | Downton Abbey | Lord Sinderby |
2008 | Der Bibelcode | Kardinal Emad Rhades |
2003 | The Royal | Sir Charles |
2002 | Spooks | Robert Westhouse |
2001 | The Lost Empire | Marcus Harding |
1999 | Relic Hunter | Guy Rocher |
1995 | Hamish Macbeth | Colonel Don Maxwell |
1994 | Wycliffe | Steven Lander |
1994 | Pie in the Sky | Ronald Quicke |
1993 | The Blackheath Poisonings | Roger Vandervent |
1992 | A Touch of Frost | |
1992 | Heartbeat | Ronald Meeks |
1992 | Covington Cross | John Mullens |
1992 | Highlander: The Series | Marcus Constantine |
1991 | Devices and Desires | Dr. Alex Mair |
1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Major Eustace |
1988 | The Contract | Charles Mawby |
1988 | The Bourne Identity | D'Anjou |
1987 | Inspector Morse | Basilios Vasilakis |
1986 | Lovejoy | Alfredo Pereira |
1986 | First Among Equals | Simon Kerslake |
1985 | Deceptions | Richard Blackwell |
1984 | The Bill | |
1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Stapleton |
1982 | Muck and Brass | Maurice Taylor |
1981 | Wetten, dass..? | Self |
1981 | Bergerac | Anton Charet |
1981 | Peter and Paul | Menachem |
1980 | The Martian Chronicles | Mr. K |
1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Patrick |
1979 | Minder | Apsimon |
1979 | Minder | Ted Moore |
1978 | Hazell | |
1977 | The Professionals | Major Nairn |
1976 | I, Claudius | |
1976 | I, Claudius | Herod Agrippa |
1970 | Scene of the Crime | Rupert Farr |