Bernard Fox is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on May 11, 1927 in Wales, United Kingdom. British actor from the UK who became famous for his performance in the cult 1997 feature film Titanic. He was also as a character in The Hound of the Baskervilles and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo.
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Fox, an apprentice coach builder from the Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, joined the IRA in 1969 aged eighteen. He explained his motivation for joining the IRA in a 1998 interview with the Irish News, stating: “I was almost shot in a gun attack at Norfolk Street. I came away wanting a gun. It was survival. You wanted to protect your own people … my family and myself. When the barricades went up I wanted a gun so I approached this fella who was in the IRA and asked for gun and he said: could I shoot a British soldier? At that time I hadn’t the idea that it was the British government’s fault.” In 1981, Fox, serving a twelve-year sentence in the Maze Prison for possession of explosives and bombing a hotel, joined the hunger strike on 24 August, replacing Paddy Quinn who was taken off the strike by his family. Fox ended his strike after 32 days without food on 24 September after doctors warned him he would be dead within days due to an obstructed kidney.
As a result of his IRA activities, Fox was imprisoned on four occasions and spent over twenty years in prison, before being released in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement resulting from the Northern Ireland peace process. At Easter 2001, Fox was a speaker at the commemoration to mark the 85th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, saying “after spending nearly 22 years in jail, one of the questions I’m most frequently asked is ‘was it worth it’? I can’t answer that question. History will answer that. The question is phrased in the past tense. It’s not over. The struggle continues and will continue until the British are out of Ireland”. In 2005 Fox joined the IRA’s Army Council replacing Brian Keenan who resigned due to ill-health. Fox resigned in September 2006 after accusing Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness of “undemocratically” controlling the organisation.
He got married Jacqueline Fox in 1961 and they had two children together.
