James Wilby
Born: 1958-02-20 in Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2025
- I, Jack Wright as Max Preston
2024
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare as Viscount Algernon
- Merchant Ivory as Self
- The Marlow Murder Club as Sir Peter Bailey
- Vindication Swim as Mr. Havers
2022
- Masquerade as Thomas
2021
- The Duke as Judge Aarvold
2019
- Salt as Conrad
- E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey as Narrator
2017
- The Sense of an Ending as David Ford
2016
- Victoria as Sir Piers Gifford
- Churchill's Secret as Brendan Bracken
- ChickLit as Geoffrey
- The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells as Pawkins
2015
- Poldark as Lord Falmouth
2014
- Legends as Headmaster
2013
- Father Brown as Sefton Scott
- The Great Train Robbery as John Wheater
- Vincent as The Man
2012
- Ripper Street as Charles Broadwick
- Titanic as Bruce Ismay
- Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story as Wilfred De'Ath
2011
- Death in Paradise as Elias Thomson
2009
- Shadows in the Sun as Robert
2008
- Lady Godiva as Earl of Mercia, Leofric
- A Risk Worth Taking as Patrick Trenchard
2007
- Clapham Junction as Julian Rowan
- Secret Diary of a Call Girl as Henry
- It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You as John Locke
- The Last Days of the Raj as Lord Mountbatten
2006
- Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Ofonius Tigellinus
2005
- Jericho as Alan Mills
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Stanley Kirkwood
- De-Lovely as Edward Thomas
- Island at War as Sen. James Dorr
2003
- Sparkling Cyanide as Stephen Farraday
2002
- Foyle's War as Major Cornwall
- Bertie and Elizabeth as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
- The Making of Gosford Park as Self (uncredited)
- George Eliot: A Scandalous Life as Herbert Spencer
2001
- Murder in Mind as Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton
- Gosford Park as Freddie Nesbitt
- Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
- Jump Tomorrow as Nathan
1999
- Tom's Midnight Garden as Uncle Alan Kitson
- The Dark Room as Dr Alan Protheroe
- An Ideal Husband as Sir Robert Chiltern
- The Dark Room as Dr. Alan Protheroe
- Cotton Mary as John MacIntosh
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Edward Milton
- Trial & Retribution
- The Woman In White as Sir Percival Glyde
- Regeneration as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
1996
- Silent Witness
- The Treasure Seekers as Henry Carlisle
- Witness Against Hitler as Helmuth James von Moltke
1994
- The Chess Game as Lord Staunton
- Crocodile Shoes
1993
- Lady Chatterley as Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt
1992
- Howards End as Charles Wilcox
- Adam Bede as Arthur Donnithorne
- Immaculate Conception as Alistair
1991
- The Siege of Venice
- Tell Me That You Love Me as Michael Evans
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Andrew Restarick
- Screen One as Arthur Donnithorne
- Tales from the Crypt as Nick Marvin
- Mother Love as Christopher "Kit" Vesey
- A Tale of Two Cities as Sydney Carton
- Conspiracy
1988
- The Storyteller as Prince
- A Summer Story as Frank Ashton
- A Handful of Dust as Tony Last
1987
- Maurice as Maurice Hall
1986
- Casualty as Archie Grayling
1985
- A Room with a View as Party Guest (uncredited)
- Dreamchild as Baker
- Dutch Girls as Dundine
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Young Barclay
- The Bill
1982
- Privileged as Jamie