Acting · Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar] · Born February 20, 1958
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).
TVI, Jack Wright
2025
as Max Preston
MovieMystery at the Prospect Hotel
2024
as Mr. Vincent
MovieMerchant Ivory
2024
as Self
MovieThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2024
as Viscount Algernon
MovieVindication Swim
2024
as Mr. Havers
TVThe Marlow Murder Club
2024
as Sir Peter Bailey
MovieMasquerade
2022
as Thomas
MovieThe Duke
2021
as Judge Aarvold
MovieE. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
2019
as Narrator
MovieSalt
2019
as Conrad
MovieThe Sense of an Ending
2017
as David Ford
MovieChickLit
2016
as Geoffrey
TVVictoria
2016
as Sir Piers Gifford
MovieChurchill's Secret
2016
as Brendan Bracken
TVThe Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016
as Pawkins
TVPoldark
2015
as Lord Falmouth
TVLegends
2014
as Headmaster
TVThe Great Train Robbery
2013
as John Wheater
Vincent
2013
as The Man
TVFather Brown
2013
as Sefton Scott
TVRipper Street
2012
as Charles Broadwick
MovieBest Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
2012
as Wilfred De'Ath
TVTitanic
2012
as Bruce Ismay
TVDeath in Paradise
2011
as Elias Thomson
MovieWe Need to Talk About Kieran
2011
as Professor Hugh Merrill
MovieShadows in the Sun
2009
as Robert
MovieA Risk Worth Taking
2008
as Patrick Trenchard
MovieLady Godiva
2008
as Earl of Mercia, Leofric
TVSecret Diary of a Call Girl
2007
as Henry
MovieClapham Junction
2007
as Julian Rowan
MovieIt's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
2007
as John Locke
MovieThe Last Days of the Raj
2007
as Lord Mountbatten
TVLewis
2007
as Hugh Mallory
TVAncient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
as Ofonius Tigellinus
TVJericho
2005
as Alan Mills
TVAgatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Stanley Kirkwood
TVIsland at War
2004
as Sen. James Dorr
MovieDe-Lovely
2004
as Edward Thomas
MovieSparkling Cyanide
2003
as Stephen Farraday
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
as Herbert Spencer
TVFoyle's War
2002
as Major Cornwall
MovieThe Making of Gosford Park
2002
as Self (uncredited)
MovieBertie and Elizabeth
2002
as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
MovieGosford Park
2001
as Freddie Nesbitt
MovieJump Tomorrow
2001
as Nathan
TVMurder in Mind
2001
as Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton
TVAdrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
2001
MovieCotton Mary
1999
as John MacIntosh
MovieTom's Midnight Garden
1999
as Uncle Alan Kitson
MovieAn Ideal Husband
1999
as Sir Robert Chiltern
MovieThe Dark Room
1999
as Dr Alan Protheroe
TVThe Dark Room
1999
as Dr. Alan Protheroe
MovieThe Woman In White
1997
as Sir Percival Glyde
TVThe Woman In White
1997
as Sir Percival Glyde
TVTrial & Retribution
1997
as James McCready
MovieRegeneration
1997
as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
TVMidsomer Murders
1997
as Edward Milton
TVOriginal Sin
1997
as Gerard Etienne
MovieThe Treasure Seekers
1996
as Henry Carlisle
MovieWitness Against Hitler
1996
as Helmuth James von Moltke
TVSilent Witness
1996
MovieThe Chess Game
1994
as Lord Staunton
TVCrocodile Shoes
1994
TVLady Chatterley
1993
as Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt
You, Me and It
1993
as Charles Henderson
MovieImmaculate Conception
1992
as Alistair
MovieHowards End
1992
as Charles Wilcox
MovieAdam Bede
1992
as Arthur Donnithorne
MovieThe Siege of Venice
1991
as Milord Runbiff
MovieTell Me That You Love Me
1991
as Michael Evans
Conspiracy
1989
TVMother Love
1989
as Christopher "Kit" Vesey
TVScreen One
1989
as Arthur Donnithorne
TVTales from the Crypt
1989
as Nick Marvin
TVA Tale of Two Cities
1989
as Sydney Carton
TVAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Andrew Restarick
MovieA Summer Story
1988
as Frank Ashton
MovieThe Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988
as Prince
MovieA Handful of Dust
1988
as Tony Last
TVThe Storyteller
1988
as Prince
MovieMaurice
1987
as Maurice Hall
TVCasualty
1986
as Archie Grayling
MovieA Room with a View
1986
as Party Guest (uncredited)
MovieDutch Girls
1985
as Dundine
MovieDreamchild
1985
as Baker
TVThe Bill
1984
TVSherlock Holmes
1984
as Young Barclay
TVThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Young James
MoviePrivileged
1982
as Jamie
