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James Villiers

Acting

Born September 29, 1930 · London

Died January 18, 1998

Biography

James Michael Hyde Villiers was an English actor. He was described by The Independent as "one of the country's most distinctive character actors, with ripe articulation and a flair for displaying supercilious arrogance that put him in the Vincent Price class of screen villains".

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Filmography30 titles

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

1994as Lord Cantlemere

Sherlock Holmes

1984as Lord Cantlemere

House of Cards

1990as Charles Collingridge

The Avengers

1961as Simon Trent

Lovejoy

1986as Lionel Beckwith

Repulsion

1965as John

The Saint

1962as Inspector Pryor

Man in a Suitcase

1967as Peters

King & Country

1964as Capt. Midgley

Rumpole of the Bailey

1975as Sir Arthur Remnant

Murder at the Gallop

1963as Michael Shane

Thriller

1973as Paul

The Willows in Winter

1996as Magistrate

Let Him Have It

1991as Cassels

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1982as Baron de Batz

Saint Jack

1979as Frogget

Under the Volcano

1984as Brit

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

1972as Uncle Bertie (Albert)

Mountains of the Moon

1990as Lord Oliphant

For Your Eyes Only

1981as Tanner

The Ruling Class

1972as Dinsdale

The Damned

1962as Captain Gregory

Asylum

1972as George

Half a Sixpence

1967as Hubert

Eva

1962as Alan McCormick - a Screenwriter

The Ghost of Peter Sellers

2018as Self (archive footage)

Some Girls Do

1969as Carl Petersen

Uncovered

1995as Montegrifo

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

1971as Corbeck

King Ralph

1991as Hale