Bernard Fox (born 11 May 1927) is a British film and television actor.
Fox, a "fifth generation performer", was born Bernard Lawson in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of Queenie (née Barrett) and Gerald Lawson, both of whom were stage actors. He had an older sister, Mavis, and has been married to his wife Jacqueline since 1961. His uncle was veteran film and stage actor Wilfrid Lawson.
His 30 film credits from 1956 to 2004 include two mov...
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Bernard Fox (born 11 May 1927) is a British film and television actor.
Fox, a "fifth generation performer", was born Bernard Lawson in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of Queenie (née Barrett) and Gerald Lawson, both of whom were stage actors. He had an older sister, Mavis, and has been married to his wife Jacqueline since 1961. His uncle was veteran film and stage actor Wilfrid Lawson.
His 30 film credits from 1956 to 2004 include two movies revolving around the sinking of RMS Titanic, separated by 39 years. Fox was in both Titanic (1997) (as Colonel Archibald Gracie) and the earlier version of the tragedy A Night to Remember (1958) (uncredited as Fredrick Fleet). In the latter, he delivered the line, "Iceberg dead ahead, sir!" Other film roles ranged from supporting parts in broad comedies (Yellowbeard, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, and The Private Eyes, playing a homicidal butler in the latter) to supplying the voice of the chairmouse in the Disney animated features The...
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