Career
Faulkner made his big screen debut as Josef Strauss in The Great Waltz in 1972. He played Herod Agrippa in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s 1976 television adaptation of I, Claudius and portrayed Aldous Huxley in 1981"s Priest of Love. In 1988 he portrayed one of the biggest enemies of Sherlock Holmes, Stapleton in Granada "s production of The Hound of the Baskervilles, opposite Jeremy Brett.
In 1991, he played Alex Mair, the manager of the Larksoken nuclear power plant, in an Anglia production of the P.D. James novel featuring her character Inspector Adam Dalgleish, Devices and Desires.
He has also portrayed Agent Smith in the film Hitman. He was also the principal antagonist Baron Mullins in the short-lived Anglo-American television show, Covington Cross.
He voiced Severus Snape in the video game version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He also starred as Lord Kenworth in the film Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London.
Faulkner played Cardinal Rhades in the German thriller Bibelkode (The Bible Code) 2008.
James Faulkner was cast as Pope Sixtus IV - Francesco & Alessandro della Rovere in British Broadcasting Corporation Worldwide"s historical fantasy drama series Da Vinci"s Demons in 2013. He was also cast to play Lord Daniel Sinderby in the highly acclaimed Edwardian costume drama Downton Abbey produced by Independent Television in 2014. In 2016 he will join the Home Box Office series Game of Thrones in Season 6 as Randyll Tarly, the father of Samwell Tarly.
