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

Filmography

• 2026A Talent for Murder — Douglas Balfour
• 2026Manipulation — Archbishop
• Hotel Costiera — Aaron Tarsky
• 2025The Last Supper — Caiaphas
• 2025Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery — Rev. Prentice Wicks
• 2024Chief of Station — Deputy Director Williams
• 2023Boudica — Old Druid
• 2023Repeater — Richard Silver
• 2023The Devil Conspiracy — Cardinal Vincini
• 2022Hounded — Remington Redwick
• 2022Jolly Good Christmas — Simon
• Slow Horses — Charles Partner
• 2022The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife — Dr. Fritz
• 2021All Those Small Things — Jonathan Robbins
• 2021Never Back Down: Revolt — Julian
• Tribes of Europa — General Francis F. Cameron
• Wizards: Tales of Arcadia — King Arthur / Green Knight (voice)
• 2019As I Am — Mr. Hurt
• 2018Paul, Apostle of Christ — Paul
• The Alienist — Cornelius Vanderbilt
• 2018The Sonata — Sir Victor Ferdinand
• Watership Down — Frith (voice)
• 2017Atomic Blonde — Chief "C"
• 2017Final Portrait — Pierre Matisse
• 2016Bridget Jones's Baby — Uncle Geoffrey
• 2016Underworld: Blood Wars — Cassius
• Home & Family
• Death in Paradise — Frank O'Toole
• Game of Thrones — Randyll Tarly
• 2011X-Men: First Class — Swiss Bank Manager
• Ben Hur — Marcellus
• Downton Abbey — Lord Sinderby
• 2009Machotaildrop — The Baron
• 2009The Three Investigators in The Secret of Terror Castle — Victor Hugenay
• Der Bibelcode — Kardinal Emad Rhades
• 2008Franklyn — Pastor Bone
• 2008The Bank Job — Guy Singer
• 2007Hitman — Smith Jamison
• 2007The Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island — Bill/Victor Hugenay
• 2006Day of Wrath — Friar Anselmo
• 2006The Conclave — Cardinal Guillaume D'Estouteville
• 2006The Good Shepherd — Lord Cooper
• 2005Colour Me Kubrick — Oliver
• 2004Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London — Kenworth
• 2004Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason — Uncle Geoffrey
• 2003I Capture the Castle — Aubrey Fox-Cotton
• The Royal — Sir Charles
• Spooks — Robert Westhouse
• 2002The Piano Player — Nicholas Farrel
• 2002The Wolf of the West Coast — Lew Millar
• 2001Bridget Jones's Diary — Uncle Geoffrey
• The Lost Empire — Marcus Harding
• 2000Hell Swarm — Albion
• 1999All the Little Animals — Mr. Stuart Whiteside
• Relic Hunter — Guy Rocher
• 1998Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord — John Aspinall
• 1998The Commissioner — Gordon Cartwright
• 1998The Octopus — Thomas
• 1998Vigo — Dr. Gerard
• 1997A Kid in Aladdin's Palace — Luxor
• La Femme Nikita — Dominic/Inquisitor
• 1996Crimetime — Crowley
• 1996E=MC² — Dr. Eric Amore
• 1996Nuremberg — Narrator
• Hamish Macbeth — Colonel Don Maxwell
• Chandler & Co — Giles Cotham
• Pie in the Sky — Ronald Quicke
• 1994The Trial of Lord Lucan — Sir James Hallows
• Wycliffe — Steven Lander
• The Blackheath Poisonings — Roger Vandervent
• A Touch of Frost — Clifford Hastings
• 1992Carry On Columbus — Torquemada
• Covington Cross — John Mullens
• Heartbeat — Ronald Meeks
• Highlander: The Series — Marcus Constantine
• 1992The Blackheath Poisonings — Roger Vandervent
• Devices and Desires — Dr. Alex Mair
• Napoleon — Maitland
• 1991The Maid — Laurent Leclair
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Major Eustace
• 1989Just Another Secret — Markus Vogel
• 1989The Yellow Wallpaper — Charles Stark
• 1988Catherine — John Dunbar
• The Bourne Identity — D'Anjou
• The Contract — Charles Mawby
• 1988The Hound of the Baskervilles — Stapleton
• Inspector Morse — Basilios Vasilakis
• 1987Still Crazy Like a Fox — The Duke of Trent
• First Among Equals — Simon Kerslake
• Lovejoy — Alfredo Pereira
• 1985Deceptions — Richard Blackwell
• Deceptions — Richard Blackwell
• 1985Lace 2 — Charles Chazelle
• Mr. Palfrey of Westminster — Reisman
• 1984Real Life — Robin
• Sherlock Holmes — Stapleton
• The Bill
• 1983Eureka — Roger
• Muck and Brass — Maurice Taylor
• 1982Zero Point — Felix
• Bergerac — Anton Charet
• Peter and Paul — Menachem
• 1981Priest of Love — Aldous Huxley
• 1980Flashpoint Africa — Ramon Funes
• The Martian Chronicles — Mr. K
• Minder — Apsimon, Ted Moore
• Tales of the Unexpected — Patrick
• 1979Zulu Dawn — Lt. Melvill, Co-Producer
• Hazell — Gordon Gregory
• The Professionals — Major Nairn
• 1976Albino — Terrick
• I, Claudius — Herod Agrippa
• 1975Chips with Everything — Pilot Officer
• 1975Conduct Unbecoming — 2nd Lieutenant Edward Millington
• 1974Great Expectations — Bentley Drummle
• 1974Miss Nightingale — Henry Nicholson
• 1974The Abdication — Magnus
• 1972The Great Waltz — Josef Strauss
• Scene of the Crime — Rupert Farr
• Softly Softly: Task Force — Clive Hornsby-Hyatt
• Churchill and the Cabinet War Rooms
• The Mystery of the Giant Birds — Narrator
• Uncle Douglas — Douglas Phillips

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Wetten, dass..? — Self