Acting
James Wilby
Acting · Born 1958-02-20 · Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]
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).
Credits · 85
I, Jack Wright
2025 · Max Preston
FilmMerchant Ivory
2024 · Self
FilmThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2024 · Viscount Algernon
FilmVindication Swim
2024 · Mr. Havers
The Marlow Murder Club
2024 · Sir Peter Bailey
The Famous Five
2023 · Mr. Vincent
FilmMasquerade
2022 · Thomas
FilmThe Duke
2021 · Judge Aarvold
FilmE. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
2019 · Narrator
FilmThe Sense of an Ending
2017 · David Ford
FilmChickLit
2016 · Geoffrey
Victoria
2016 · Sir Piers Gifford
FilmChurchill'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
Father Brown
2013 · Sefton Scott
Ripper Street
2012 · Charles Broadwick
FilmBest Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
2012 · Wilfred De'Ath
Titanic
2012 · Bruce Ismay
Death in Paradise
2011 · Elias Thomson
FilmWe Need to Talk About Kieran
2011 · Professor Hugh Merrill
FilmShadows in the Sun
2009 · Robert
FilmA Risk Worth Taking
2008 · Patrick Trenchard
FilmLady Godiva
2008 · Earl of Mercia, Leofric
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
2007 · Henry
FilmClapham Junction
2007 · Julian Rowan
FilmIt's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
2007 · John Locke
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
FilmDe-Lovely
2004 · Edward Thomas
FilmSparkling Cyanide
2003 · Stephen Farraday
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
FilmGeorge Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002 · Herbert Spencer
Foyle's War
2002 · Major Cornwall
FilmThe Making of Gosford Park
2002 · Self (uncredited)
FilmBertie and Elizabeth
2002 · King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
FilmGosford Park
2001 · Freddie Nesbitt
FilmJump Tomorrow
2001 · Nathan
Murder in Mind
2001 · Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
2001
FilmCotton Mary
1999 · John MacIntosh
FilmTom's Midnight Garden
1999 · Uncle Alan Kitson
FilmAn Ideal Husband
1999 · Sir Robert Chiltern
FilmThe Dark Room
1999 · Dr Alan Protheroe
The Dark Room
1999 · Dr. Alan Protheroe
FilmThe Woman In White
1997 · Sir Percival Glyde
The Woman In White
1997 · Sir Percival Glyde
Trial & Retribution
1997 · James McCready
FilmRegeneration
1997 · 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Edward Milton
Original Sin
1997 · Gerard Etienne
FilmThe Treasure Seekers
1996 · Henry Carlisle
FilmWitness Against Hitler
1996 · Helmuth James von Moltke
Silent Witness
1996
FilmThe Chess Game
1994 · Lord Staunton
Crocodile Shoes
1994
Lady Chatterley
1993 · Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt
You, Me and It
You, Me and It
1993 · Charles Henderson
FilmImmaculate Conception
1992 · Alistair
FilmHowards End
1992 · Charles Wilcox
FilmAdam Bede
1992 · Arthur Donnithorne
FilmThe Siege of Venice
1991 · Milord Runbiff
FilmTell Me That You Love Me
1991 · Michael Evans
Conspiracy
FilmConspiracy
1989 · Stringer
Mother Love
1989 · Christopher "Kit" Vesey
Screen One
1989 · Arthur Donnithorne
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Nick Marvin
A Tale of Two Cities
1989 · Sydney Carton
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Andrew Restarick
FilmA Summer Story
1988 · Frank Ashton
FilmA Handful of Dust
1988 · Tony Last
The Storyteller
1988 · Prince
FilmMaurice
1987 · Maurice Hall
Casualty
1986 · Archie Grayling
FilmA Room with a View
1986 · Party Guest (uncredited)
FilmDutch Girls
1985 · Dundine
FilmDreamchild
1985 · Baker
The Bill
1984
Sherlock Holmes
1984 · Young Barclay
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1984 · Young James
FilmPrivileged
1982 · Jamie