James Faulkner

I know James Faulkner the way a lot of people do, through the slow burn of recognition rather than one breakout role. He's been working since the 1970s, but it was that run of imposing older men, Pope Sixtus IV in Da Vinci's Demons, Randyll Tarly in Game of Thrones, then Saint Paul in Paul, Apostle of Christ, that finally made his face click for me. What I admire is the patience of it: a British actor who spent decades being quietly reliable and got his richest parts in his late sixties. There's something reassuring about a career that keeps deepening instead of fading.

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Name (English)

James Faulkner

Name (Japanese)

ジェームズ・フォークナー

Reading

じぇーむず・ふぉーくなー

Born

July 18, 1948 (age 78)

Origin

Hampstead, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / voice actor / film actor / stage actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Faulkner%20(actor)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%20(%E4%BF%B3%E5%84%AA)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1343000

Tags

• actor
• voice actor
• film actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.