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James Michael Hyde Villiers (29 September 1933 – 18 January 1998) [1] was an English character actor. He was particularly known for his plummy voice and ripe articulation. He was particularly known for his plummy voice and ripe articulation.
For Your Eyes Only (1981) 6 Videos. 9 Photos. Character actor James Villiers was of an aristocratic background - you could half tell, not only from his sardonic looks and precisely modulated voice, but from the roles he played. More often than not, he was typecast as a snobbish, supercilious upper-class twit, effete weakling or comic second ...
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- London, England, UK
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- Arundel, Sussex, England, UK
James Michael Hyde Villiers, actor: born London 29 September 1933; married 1966 Patricia Donovan (marriage dissolved 1984), 1994 Lucy Jex; died Arundel, West Sussex 18 January 1998.
James Villiers. Actor: Repulsion. Character actor James Villiers was of an aristocratic background - you could half tell, not only from his sardonic looks and precisely modulated voice, but from the roles he played. More often than not, he was typecast as a snobbish, supercilious upper-class twit, effete weakling or comic second-string villain. A graduate of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ...
- September 29, 1933
- January 18, 1998
Nov 27, 2023 · One of the most notable aristocratic families in Britain, the Villiers have been a part of history from James I to Boris Johnson's government. Tatler takes you through the dynasty all the way up to the present day. The titular character of Mary & George, George Villiers was notable for being the ‘favourite’ of King James I. Born in 1592, he ...
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James Villiers was an English character actor known for his aristocratic lineage and the precise, even clichéd, articulation often associated with such supreme breeding. A graduate of RADA, where ...
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Villiers as Lord High Admiral, a portrait by Daniel Mytens the Elder, 1619. The last of James's favourites was George Villiers, the son of a Leicestershire knight. Villers was from "minor gentry stock". [28] They had met in 1614, around the same time that the situation with Somerset was deteriorating.
