James Fleet
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James Fleet (born 1954) is an English 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.
He has starred in numerous film, television, radio and stage productions. He played the role of Lefevre in the 2004 film adaptation of Phantom of the Opera, James Dashwood in 1995's Sense and Sensibility and that of Lytton Strachey in the 2003 film Al Sur de Granada (South from Granada).
Between 2000 and 2004, 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.
[edit] Selected filmography
- A Cock and Bull Story (2006)
- The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
- Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000)
- Chambers (2000) (TV)
- A Dance to the Music of Time (1997) (miniseries)
- Chambers (1996) (Radio)
- Sense and Sensibility (1995)
- The Vicar of Dibley (1994–2007) (TV series)
- Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
- Still Crazy Like a Fox (1987) (TV)
[edit] Background
Fleet was born in Wolverhampton to a Scottish mother and an English father, and raised in Aberdeenshire. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
