Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 20, 1958
Place of Birth:
Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]
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James Wilby
Biography
James Wilby (born 20 February 1958) is an English actor, known for Maurice (1987), Gosford Park (2001), Howards End (1992), and A Handful of Dust (1988).
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Merchant Ivory | Self |
| 2024 | Vindication Swim | Mr. Havers |
| 2024 | The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare | Viscount Algernon |
| 2022 | Masquerade | Thomas |
| 2021 | The Duke | Judge Aarvold |
| 2019 | E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey | Narrator |
| 2019 | Salt | Conrad |
| 2017 | The Sense of an Ending | David Ford |
| 2016 | Churchill's Secret | Brendan Bracken |
| 2016 | ChickLit | Geoffrey |
| 2013 | Vincent | The Man |
| 2012 | Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story | Wilfred De'Ath |
| 2009 | Shadows in the Sun | Robert |
| 2008 | A Risk Worth Taking | Patrick Trenchard |
| 2008 | Lady Godiva | Earl of Mercia, Leofric |
| 2007 | It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You | John Locke |
| 2007 | Clapham Junction | Julian Rowan |
| 2007 | The Last Days of the Raj | Lord Mountbatten |
| 2004 | De-Lovely | Edward Thomas |
| 2003 | Sparkling Cyanide | Stephen Farraday |
| 2002 | George Eliot: A Scandalous Life | Herbert Spencer |
| 2002 | Bertie and Elizabeth | King George VI, aka 'Bertie' |
| 2002 | The Making of Gosford Park | Self (uncredited) |
| 2001 | Gosford Park | Freddie Nesbitt |
| 2001 | Jump Tomorrow | Nathan |
| 1999 | Cotton Mary | John MacIntosh |
| 1999 | An Ideal Husband | Sir Robert Chiltern |
| 1999 | The Dark Room | Dr Alan Protheroe |
| 1999 | Tom's Midnight Garden | Uncle Alan Kitson |
| 1997 | Regeneration | 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon |
| 1997 | The Woman In White | Sir Percival Glyde |
| 1996 | Witness Against Hitler | Helmuth James von Moltke |
| 1996 | The Treasure Seekers | Henry Carlisle |
| 1994 | The Chess Game | Lord Staunton |
| 1992 | Adam Bede | Arthur Donnithorne |
| 1992 | Howards End | Charles Wilcox |
| 1992 | Immaculate Conception | Alistair |
| 1991 | Tell Me That You Love Me | Michael Evans |
| 1991 | The Siege of Venice | |
| 1989 | Conspiracy | |
| 1988 | A Summer Story | Frank Ashton |
| 1988 | A Handful of Dust | Tony Last |
| 1987 | Maurice | Maurice Hall |
| 1985 | A Room with a View | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1985 | Dutch Girls | Dundine |
| 1985 | Dreamchild | Baker |
| 1982 | Privileged | Jamie |
| Mystery at the Prospect Hotel | Mr. Vincent |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | I, Jack Wright | Max Preston |
| 2024 | The Marlow Murder Club | Sir Peter Bailey |
| 2016 | Victoria | Sir Piers Gifford |
| 2016 | The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells | Pawkins |
| 2015 | Poldark | Lord Falmouth |
| 2014 | Legends | Headmaster |
| 2013 | Father Brown | Sefton Scott |
| 2013 | The Great Train Robbery | John Wheater |
| 2012 | Ripper Street | Charles Broadwick |
| 2012 | Titanic | Bruce Ismay |
| 2011 | Death in Paradise | Elias Thomson |
| 2007 | Secret Diary of a Call Girl | Henry |
| 2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Ofonius Tigellinus |
| 2005 | Jericho | Alan Mills |
| 2004 | Island at War | Sen. James Dorr |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Stanley Kirkwood |
| 2002 | Foyle's War | Major Cornwall |
| 2001 | Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years | |
| 2001 | Murder in Mind | Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton |
| 1999 | The Dark Room | Dr. Alan Protheroe |
| 1997 | Trial & Retribution | |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Edward Milton |
| 1996 | Silent Witness | |
| 1994 | Crocodile Shoes | |
| 1993 | Lady Chatterley | Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt |
| 1989 | Tales from the Crypt | Nick Marvin |
| 1989 | Mother Love | Christopher "Kit" Vesey |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Andrew Restarick |
| 1989 | Screen One | Arthur Donnithorne |
| 1989 | A Tale of Two Cities | Sydney Carton |
| 1988 | The Storyteller | Prince |
| 1986 | Casualty | Archie Grayling |
| 1984 | The Bill | |
| 1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Young Barclay |