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| Born | James Edward Fleet 1 January 1954 Wolverhampton |
James Edward Fleet (born January 1, 1954) is a British actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.
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Personal life
Fleet was born in Bilston, Staffordshire[1] to a Scottish mother and an English father. He lived in Wolverhampton until he was ten, but when his father died, he moved to Aberdeenshire with his mother.[2] He studied engineering at university in Aberdeen, where he joined the university dramatic society.[3] Afterwards, he studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. He lives in Sibford Gower, Oxfordshire with his wife, Jane, and their one son, Hamish. He is a keen biker.[2]
Career
Stage
Fleet began his career in the RSC, appearing in several plays in the early 1980s.[4][5][6] He has since appeared in touring productions of, among others, Habeas Corpus[7] and In the Club[8], as well as in Festen and Mary Stuart[9] and others in the West End. He also played Alderman Fitzwarren in Dick Whittington in 2002. In 2009 he potrayed Sir Andrew Augecheek in the RSC Production of twelve night.
Radio
Between 2000 and 2006, Fleet played the painfully upright and decent Captain Brimshaw in Revolting People, a BBC Radio 4 comedy set in pre-revolutionary America. He also appeared in the radio legal sitcom Chambers, which later moved onto television. As of 2005, he has starred as Duncan Stonebridge MP in the topical radio sitcom The Party Line. .[10]
Television
Probably his most famous role is that of Hugo in The Vicar of Dibley ; he appeared in all 24 episodes, broadcast between 1994 and 2007. In 2007 he was a guest star in one episode of the sitcom Legit. He has appeared as Frederick Dorrit in the BBC's new production of Little Dorrit.[11] When Fleet appeared on the quiz show School's Out[12], it was revealed that one of his teachers at Banff Academy had written in his school report that "[James] is the stupidest boy I have ever had to teach, out of all the stupid boys I have ever had to teach", and that he was the only student in his sixth form not to have been made a prefect. Despite his apparent lack of scholastic ability, he still won the show. Recently in 2009, Fleet appeared in a cameo role in the third series of Skins.
Film
Fleet has starred in numerous films. He played the role of Lefevre in the 2004 film adaptation of Phantom of the Opera, John Dashwood in 1995's Sense and Sensibility and that of Lytton Strachey in the 2003 film Al Sur de Granada (South from Granada).
Select Filmography
- Still Crazy Like a Fox (1987) (TV)
- Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
- The Vicar of Dibley (1994–2007) (TV series)
- El efecto mariposa (film) (1995, directed by Fernando Colomo)
- Sense and Sensibility (1995)
- Chambers (1996) (Radio)
- A Dance to the Music of Time (1997) (miniseries)
- Chambers (2000) (TV)
- Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000)
- Young Arthur (2002)
- The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
- A Cock and Bull Story (2006)
- Harley Street (2008)
References
- ^ http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8821185281435
- ^ a b James Fleet 'in his own words' http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2008/05/15/james_fleet_interview_feature.shtml
- ^ 20 questions at whatsonstage.comhttp://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8821185281435
- ^ Cast list of RSC productions of The Taming of the Shrew www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/tamingOfTheShrew.html
- ^ Cast list of RSC productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/midSummerNightsDream.html
- ^ Cast list of RSC productions of Henry IV, Part Two www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/Henry4th_part2.html
- ^ Review in The Stage http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/13225/habeas-corpus
- ^ Cast list in The Stage http://www.thestage.co.uk/listings/production.php/22083/in-the-club-tour
- ^ Review in The Stage www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/8761/mary-stuart
- ^ List of Radio appearances http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/candc/fleet_james.html
- ^ BBC Press Pack for Little Dorrit http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/10_october/13/dorrit7.shtml
- ^ Series Two, Episode Seven, originally broadcast 25 August, 2007
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