James Fox

Surviving Christmas with the Relatives review

Hugely underwhelming festive shenanigans from director James Dearden.

Allan Hunter, The List, 26th November 2018

The Magnet: Watch clip of the rarely-seen Ealing comedy

An 11-year-old James Fox - later, of course, to make his name in the likes of The Servant and Performance - was given his first starring role in this Ealing comedy set largely in Liverpool and the Wirral. Fox (still acting under his actual first name, William) plays a schoolboy who tricks another kid out of a fancy-looking magnet, and then becomes an inadvertent hero after it ends up in an iron lung. The restored version of The Magnet is out now on DVD.

The Guardian, 2nd July 2015