The British Academy Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles is a discontinued British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) until 1984.
18-712: James William Fox (born William Fox ; 19 May 1939) is an English actor. He won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for The Servant (1963). Other credits include The Miniver Story (1950), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), King Rat (1965), The Chase (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Isadora (1968), and Performance (1970). He quit acting for several years to be an evangelical Christian . On his return to acting in
36-467: A daughter, Lydia. Piper died at their home on 19 April 2020. Through his daughter Lydia, his son-in-law is actor Richard Ayoade . His former daughter-in-law is actress Billie Piper , who was married to his son Laurence from 2007 to 2016. BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles The category has had several name changes throughout its history, as detailed on the recipient's list below: Note: The BAFTA site differs on what
54-545: A genre directed towards women. Historical dramas have also been described as a conservative genre, glorifying an imagined past that never existed. Historical drama may include mostly fictionalized narratives based on actual people or historical events, such as the history plays of Shakespeare , Apollo 13 , The Tudors , Braveheart , Chernobyl , Enemy at the Gates , Les Misérables , and Titanic . Works may include references to real-life people or events from
72-549: A single individual or well-defined group. Historical dramas can include romances , adventure films , and swashbucklers . Historical drama can be differentiated from historical fiction , which generally present fictional characters and events against a backdrop of historical events. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages , or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties , or
90-406: Is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fictional scenes which aim to compress separate events or illustrate a broader factual narrative. The biographical film is a type of historical drama which generally focuses on
108-574: Is actor Edward Fox and his younger brother is film producer Robert Fox . His maternal grandfather was playwright Frederick Lonsdale . Fox first appeared on film as eleven-year-old Toby Miniver in The Miniver Story in 1950. His early screen appearances, both in film and television, were made under his birth name, William Fox. He appeared in the film The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962). Fox's father purportedly attempted to forbid this, fearing his son would lose his job in
126-853: The BBC play by Alan Bennett , A Question of Attribution (1992). He also portrayed the character of Lord Holmes in Patriot Games (1992), as well as Colonel Ferguson in Farewell to the King (1989) and the Nazi-sympathising aristocrat Lord Darlington in The Remains of the Day (1993). He has since appeared in the 2000 film Sexy Beast , the 2001 adaptation of The Lost World as Prof. Leo Summerlee, Agatha Christie's Poirot – Death on
144-603: The 1980s, he starred in Runners (1983), A Passage to India (1984), Comrades (1986), A Question of Attribution (1992), Patriot Games (1992), Farewell to the King (1993), Heart of Darkness (1993), The Remains of the Day (1993), Gulliver's Travels (1996), Anna Karenina (1997), and Mickey Blue Eyes (1999). From 2000 onwards he appeared in Sexy Beast (2000), 2001 adaptation of The Lost World (2001), Agatha Christie's Poirot – Death on
162-681: The Nile (2004) as Colonel Race , and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), playing Mr. Salt , Veruca Salt 's father. He appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama Shada , and in 2007, he guest-starred in the British television crime series Waking the Dead . He also appeared opposite his son Laurence Fox in "Allegory of Love", an episode in the third series of Lewis . He
180-751: The Nile (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Waking the Dead (2007), Lewis (2009), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Cleanskin (2010), The Double (2013), W.E. (2010), Utopia (2013), The Great Train Robbery (2013), Death in Paradise (2015), and Surviving Christmas with the Relatives (2018). Fox was born on 19 May 1939 in London , the second son of theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. His elder brother
198-608: The bank; nevertheless, Fox took the part. In 1964, Fox won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for The Servant (1963), working alongside Dirk Bogarde , Sarah Miles , and Wendy Craig . On 16 June 1965, Ken Annakin 's period aviation film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines was released. In this British period comedy film , Fox is featured among an international ensemble cast including Stuart Whitman , Sarah Miles , Robert Morley , Terry-Thomas , Red Skelton , Benny Hill , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Gert Fröbe and Alberto Sordi . Some of
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#1732791762027216-528: The category title is for the 1980s, with the actors own pages on the site using the titles given above, while other pages use Most Promising Newcomer to Film. A similar award honoring new acting talent, the Rising Star Award , was introduced in 2006. Even though its nominees are selected by the BAFTA juries, the eventual Rising Star winner is decided by public votes via text, internet, or phone. In
234-457: The cinema. In a 2008 interview, he said: "It was just part of my journey...I think my journey was to spend a while away from acting. And I never lost contact with it – watching movies, reading about it ... so I didn't feel I missed it." He became an evangelical Christian, working with the Navigators and devoting himself to the ministry. During this time, the only film in which Fox appeared
252-409: The following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year. Period film A historical drama (also period drama , period piece or just period )
270-477: The other films he acted in during this time are King Rat (1965), The Chase (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Isadora (1968), and Performance (1970). After finishing work on Performance (released 1970, but shot in 1968), Fox suspended his acting career. The film, which starred Fox and Mick Jagger , was deemed so outrageous (at the time) that critics at a preview screening walked out, with one film executive's wife reportedly throwing up in
288-539: The recent past. In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated North American cinema in the 1950s. The costume drama is often separated as a genre of historical dramas. Early critics defined them as films focusing on romance and relationships in sumptuous surroundings, contrasting them with other historical dramas believed to have more serious themes. Other critics have defended costume dramas, and argued that they are disparaged because they are
306-673: Was No Longer Alone (1976), the story of Joan Winmill Brown, a suicidal woman who was led to faith in Jesus Christ by Ruth Bell Graham . After an absence from acting of several years, in 1981 Fox appeared on television in the Play for Today "Country" by Trevor Griffiths , a comedy drama set against the 1945 UK parliamentary elections. On film he starred in Stephen Poliakoff 's Runners (1983), A Passage to India (1984), and Comrades (1986). He played Anthony Blunt in
324-636: Was part of the cast of Sherlock Holmes (2009), as Sir Thomas, leading member of a freemason -like secret society. In 2010, he filmed Cleanskin , a terrorist thriller directed by Hadi Hajaig, and in 2011 he played King George V in the Madonna written and directed film W.E. In 2013, he played a lead role alongside Natalie Dormer , in the movie A Long Way From Home . Fox married Mary Elizabeth Piper in September 1973, with whom he has five children: four sons, Robin, Thomas, Laurence , Jack , and
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