James Villiers

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James Michael Hyde Villiers was an English character actor and a familiar face on British television. Villiers was particularly memorable for his plummy voice and ripe articulation.

Birth Name

James Michael Hyde Villiers

Born

Friday, 29 September 1933

Died

Sunday, 18 January 1998

Actor Filmography

The Ghost of Peter Sellers	Self / Himself (Archive)	2018
Best Ever Bond	Tanner	2002
Inside 'Octopussy'	Tanner	2000
The Tichborne Claimant	Uncle Henry	1998
A Dance to the Music of Time	Buster Foxe	1997
The Willows in Winter	Magistrate	1996
E=mc2	Dr. James Mallinson	1996
The Wind in the Willows	Magistrate	1995
Uncovered	Montegrifo	1995
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes	Lord Cantlemere	1994

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Actor Filmography

The Ghost of Peter Sellers	Self / Himself (Archive)	2018
Best Ever Bond	Tanner	2002
Inside 'Octopussy'	Tanner	2000
The Tichborne Claimant	Uncle Henry	1998
A Dance to the Music of Time	Buster Foxe	1997
The Willows in Winter	Magistrate	1996
E=mc2	Dr. James Mallinson	1996
The Wind in the Willows	Magistrate	1995
Uncovered	Montegrifo	1995
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes	Lord Cantlemere	1994
The Gravy Train Goes East	Penhurst	1991
Let Him Have It	Cassels	1991
A Perfect Hero	Air Commodore	1991
King Ralph	Hale / Prime Minister Jeffrey Hale	1991
House of Cards	Charles Collingridge	1990
Mountains of the Moon	Lord Oliphant	1990
Scandal	Conservative M.P. / Tory MP	1989
The Dirty Dozen	Lord Welbourne	1988
Hemingway	Perceval	1988
Fortunes of War	Inchcape	1987
Lovejoy	Lionel Beckwith	1986
Ghost in the Noonday Sun	Parsley-Freck	1985
Under the Volcano	Brit	1984
The Irish R.M.	General Portius	1983
ABC Mantrap	Tony Walmsley	1983
The Scarlet Pimpernel	Baron de Batz	1982
For Your Eyes Only	Tanner	1981
The Music Machine	Hector Woodville	1979
Spooner's Patch	Film Producer	1979
Saint Jack	Frogget	1979
Dick Turpin	Lord Fordingham	1979
The Famous Five	Johnson	1978
Spectre	Sir Geoffrey Cyon	1977
Joseph Andrews	Mr. Booby	1977
Seven Nights in Japan	Finn	1976
Rumpole of the Bailey	Sir Arthur Remnant	1975
Two's Company	Peter Boatwright	1975
BBC2 Playhouse	Hilary Martin	1974
Thriller	Paul	1973
The Amazing Mr. Blunden	Uncle Bertie / Uncle Bertie (Albert)	1972
Crown Court	Richard Ireland QC	1972
The Public Eye	Dinner Guest	1972
Asylum	George / George (segment "Lucy Comes to Stay")	1972
The Ruling Class	Dinsdale	1972
Shirley's World	Morgan	1971
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb	Corbeck	1971
A Nice Girl Like Me	Freddie	1969
The First Churchills	Charles II	1969
Counterstrike	Wyatt	1969
Some Girls Do	Carl Petersen	1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre	Philipott	1969
The Touchables	Twyning	1968
Otley	Hendrickson	1968
Half a Sixpence	Hubert	1967
Man in a Suitcase	Peters	1967
The Wrong Box	Sydney Whitcombe Sykes	1966
The Baron	Roddy Harrington	1966
The Alphabet Murders	Franklin	1965
BBC Play of the Month	Professor Henry Higgins, Alastair Fitzfassenden, Cecil Graham	1965
Call My Bluff	Self	1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre	Oscar	1965
The Nanny	Bill Fane	1965
You Must Be Joking!	Bill Simpson	1965
Mogul	Lord Hawdcombe	1965
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes	Yamamoto	1965
Repulsion	John	1965
King & Country	Captain Midgley / Capt. Midgley	1964
Daylight Robbery		1964
The Wednesday Play	Lt. Cmdr. Paul Williams	1964
Theatre 625	Ian Kilbannock, Brassac / Tallien, John Styles, Lord Strange	1964
Nothing But the Best	Hugh	1964
Father Came Too!	Benzil Bulstrode	1964
The Model Murder Case	David Dane	1963
Murder at the Gallop	Michael Shane	1963
The Human Jungle	Paul	1963
The Plane Makers	Harvey 'Smiler' Graves	1963
The Damned	Captain Gregory	1962
The Saint	Inspector Pryor	1962
Eva	Alan McCormick - a screenwriter	1962
Operation Snatch	Lt. Keen	1962
Comedy Playhouse	Jeremy Trout	1961
Bomb in the High Street	Stevens	1961
Petticoat Pirates	English Lieutenant	1961
Clue of the New Pin	Tab Holland	1961
The Avengers	Simon Trent	1961
No Hiding Place	Andrew Thurbank	1959
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre	Tab Holland	1959
Carry on Sergeant	Seventh Recruit	1958
Armchair Theatre	Billy, Blackie, Derek, Robin Fiske	1956