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Edward Charles Morice Fox OBE (born 13 April 1937) is an English actor and a member of the Fox family.. Fox starred in the film The Day of the Jackal (1973), playing the part of a professional assassin, known only as the "Jackal", who is hired to assassinate the French president, Charles de Gaulle, in the summer of 1963.
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale.Based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.
In the 1973 adaptation of the novel, the Jackal is portrayed by Edward Fox. Some of the Jackal's background details are clarified: the dossier the OAS read from states that the Jackal killed Trujillo and the "fellow in the Congo" (presumably Dag Hammarskjöld or Patrice Lumumba). Within the film, his alias names vary slightly from the ones he ...
Like any remake, the actor, 42, had his concerns about how the Peacock series would live up to Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel and the 1973 film, in which Edward Fox plays the titular assassin.
$15.70 at amazon.com. Loosely based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel of the same name (which was adapted into a 1973 film starring Edward Fox), The Day of the Jackal is a modern remake. “Our ...
Edward Fox (painter) (c. 1788–1875), British impressionist painter Edward Fox (actor) (born 1937), English actor Edward Fox (author) (born 1958), American author
The Fox family is a family with several members in the acting and related professions over a number of generations.Robin Fox (1913–1971), an actor and theatrical agent, and his wife Angela Worthington, an actress, had three sons: the actors Edward and James, and Robert, who became a theatrical agent.
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