Philip Fox

Philip Fox

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Philip "Phil" Fox (Edinburgh) is an English film and television actor, known particularly for comic roles. His appearances include Genie in the House, Maurice, People Like Us, Waking the Dead, Maxwell, Midsummer Murders and Foyle's War. He also appeared in the film Venus alongside Peter O'Toole.

He has also appeared in many children's programmes and has a long association with producer Clive Doig, who cast him in the children's shows Eureka, The Album, Eat Your Words and See It Saw It.

He has also appeared in very many productions for BBC Radio 4, most notably in a dramatisation of the Terry Pratchett books Mort and Small Gods.

Fox played the character Baldrick in the unbroadcast pilot of the Blackadder series, before being replaced by Tony Robinson in the role for the series itself.

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Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
Title: Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
Character: Baldrick
Released: June 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Sir Tony Robinson takes a journey back in time to find out where Blackadder really began, and to uncover the story of the previously-unseen pilot episode.
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Maxwell
Title: Maxwell
Character: Trevor Cook
Released: May 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Basil Brookes joins "Captain Bob" - press mogul Robert Maxwell - as financial director and witnesses Maxwell's financial shenanigans as he contests status with fellow mogul Rupert Murdoch and descends into marital and monetary chaos.
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Venus
Title: Venus
Character: Doctor
Released: September 2, 2006
Type: Movie
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.
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Carla
Title: Carla
Character: Mr. Carter
Released: September 15, 2003
Type: Movie
The meeting of the quiet Helen North and the charismatic Carla on a beautiful Greek island leads to tragic consequences.
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Gypsy Woman
Title: Gypsy Woman
Character: Jones
Released: September 12, 2002
Type: Movie
A ruthless property developer investigates a builder's death and meets the dead man's wife. Recently widowed himself, he falls for her and is drawn into the secretive world of Gypsies.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Dr. Roberts
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Reynolds
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Title: I'm Alan Partridge
Released: November 3, 1997
Type: TV
The fortunes of a former chat show host who is reduced to a lowly slot on Radio Norwich. Alan Partridge is divorced, living in a travel tavern, and desperate for a return to television.
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Solitaire for 2
Title: Solitaire for 2
Character: Businessman
Released: February 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Katie can read minds. Being desirable, the male minds she reads are all thinking of one thing. She always responds by hitting them and storming off without explanation. Daniel is an expert in body language and interprets this as a sign she wants to be pursued. Since Daniel spends most of his time, when not terrorizing his students, pursuing women, Katie gets ever more exasperated that he is treating her exactly as he treats every presentable female from the motorcycle cop to the squeegee girl. She cannot read minds when her eyes are covered, or when minds are thinking in a foreign language, so she misinterprets Sandip's desire for hunger. She also holds Daniel responsible for his subconscious desire for his friend's wife (Caroline).
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Brian Wood
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Wells
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Selling Hitler
Title: Selling Hitler
Character: Leo Pesch
Released: June 11, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
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Paper Mask
Title: Paper Mask
Character: Anaesthetist
Released: September 14, 1990
Type: Movie
A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.
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Title: Birds of a Feather
Character: Rodney
Released: October 16, 1989
Type: TV
Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote some of the episodes along with many other writers. The first episode sees sisters Tracey Stubbs and Sharon Theodopolopodos brought together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon, who lived in an Edmonton council flat, moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green is a middle-aged married woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the later series the location is changed to Hainault. The series ended on Christmas Eve 1998 after a 9-year-run.
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Maurice
Title: Maurice
Character: Dr. Jowitt
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
After his lover rejects him, Maurice, a young man in early 20th-century England, trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society, tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Title: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Character: Husband - Great Wall of China
Released: July 24, 1987
Type: Movie
With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, recently sprung from jail, is declaring war on the Man of Steel and his quest to save the planet. Using a strand of Superman's hair, Luthor synthesizes a powerful ally known as Nuclear Man and ignites an epic battle spanning Earth and space.
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Title: Watching
Character: Sidney Clough
Released: July 5, 1987
Type: TV
A British television sitcom set on Merseyside that revolves around the relationship between Malcolm, a polite and friendly but dull man from middle-class Meols, and Brenda, a sharp-tongued, rough-around-the-edges working-class girl from Liverpool. Instead of the typical 'will they, won't they get together?', after getting together in the first episode, the show is more 'will they, won't they break up?' Watching refers to both the acerbic people watching that Brenda does and the bird watching that Malcolm enjoys, much to the disappointment of Brenda.
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How Many Miles to Babylon?
Title: How Many Miles to Babylon?
Character: Padre
Released: February 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.
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Title: Last of the Summer Wine
Character: Mervin
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: TV
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.