James Wilby

Known For: Acting
Born: February 20, 1958
Place of Birth: Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]

James Wilby

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

I, Jack Wright

2025 · Max Preston

Mystery at the Prospect Hotel

2024 · Mr. Vincent

Merchant Ivory

2024 · Self

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

2024 · Viscount Algernon

Vindication Swim

2024 · Mr. Havers

The Marlow Murder Club

2024 · Sir Peter Bailey

Masquerade

2022 · Thomas

The Duke

2021 · Judge Aarvold

E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey

2019 · Narrator

Salt

2019 · Conrad

The Sense of an Ending

2017 · David Ford

ChickLit

2016 · Geoffrey

Victoria

2016 · Sir Piers Gifford

Churchill's Secret

2016 · Brendan Bracken

The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells

2016 · Pawkins

Poldark

2015 · Lord Falmouth

Legends

2014 · Headmaster

The Great Train Robbery

2013 · John Wheater

Vincent

2013 · The Man

Father Brown

2013 · Sefton Scott

Ripper Street

2012 · Charles Broadwick

Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

2012 · Wilfred De'Ath

Titanic

2012 · Bruce Ismay

Death in Paradise

2011 · Elias Thomson

We Need to Talk About Kieran

2011 · Professor Hugh Merrill

Shadows in the Sun

2009 · Robert

A Risk Worth Taking

2008 · Patrick Trenchard

Lady Godiva

2008 · Earl of Mercia, Leofric

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

2007 · Henry

Clapham Junction

2007 · Julian Rowan

It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You

2007 · John Locke

The Last Days of the Raj

2007 · Lord Mountbatten

Lewis

2007 · Hugh Mallory

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

2006 · Ofonius Tigellinus

Jericho

2005 · Alan Mills

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004 · Stanley Kirkwood

Island at War

2004 · Sen. James Dorr

De-Lovely

2004 · Edward Thomas

Sparkling Cyanide

2003 · Stephen Farraday

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

2002 · Herbert Spencer

Foyle's War

2002 · Major Cornwall

The Making of Gosford Park

2002 · Self (uncredited)

Bertie and Elizabeth

2002 · King George VI, aka 'Bertie'

Gosford Park

2001 · Freddie Nesbitt

Jump Tomorrow

2001 · Nathan

Murder in Mind

2001 · Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

2001

Cotton Mary

1999 · John MacIntosh

Tom's Midnight Garden

1999 · Uncle Alan Kitson

An Ideal Husband

1999 · Sir Robert Chiltern

The Dark Room

1999 · Dr Alan Protheroe

The Dark Room

1999 · Dr. Alan Protheroe

The Woman In White

1997 · Sir Percival Glyde

The Woman In White

1997 · Sir Percival Glyde

Trial & Retribution

1997 · James McCready

Regeneration

1997 · 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon

Midsomer Murders

1997 · Edward Milton

Original Sin

1997 · Gerard Etienne

The Treasure Seekers

1996 · Henry Carlisle

Witness Against Hitler

1996 · Helmuth James von Moltke

Silent Witness

1996

The Chess Game

1994 · Lord Staunton

Crocodile Shoes

1994

Lady Chatterley

1993 · Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt

Immaculate Conception

1992 · Alistair

Howards End

1992 · Charles Wilcox

Adam Bede

1992 · Arthur Donnithorne

The Siege of Venice

1991 · Milord Runbiff

Tell Me That You Love Me

1991 · Michael Evans

Conspiracy

1989

Mother Love

1989 · Christopher "Kit" Vesey

Screen One

1989 · Arthur Donnithorne, Michael Evans

Tales from the Crypt

1989 · Nick Marvin

A Tale of Two Cities

1989 · Sydney Carton

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989 · Andrew Restarick

A Summer Story

1988 · Frank Ashton

The Storyteller: Sapsorrow

1988 · Prince

A Handful of Dust

1988 · Tony Last

The Storyteller

1988 · Prince

Maurice

1987 · Maurice Hall

Casualty

1986 · Archie Grayling

A Room with a View

1986 · Party Guest (uncredited)

Dutch Girls

1985 · Dundine

Dreamchild

1985 · Baker

The Bill

1984

Sherlock Holmes

1984 · Young Barclay

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1984 · Young James

Privileged

1982 · Jamie

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