
James Fleet
Biography
​James Edward Fleet (born 11 March 1952) is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.
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Acting History
2025
My Mother's Wedding as Geoff
2025I, Jack Wright as Bobby Botham
2025The Feud as Derek Abshire
2025Brian and Maggie as Ronald Millar
2024A Very British Hotel at Christmas as Narrator
2024Broken Bird
2023Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story as King George
2023Tom Jones as Squire Allworthy
2023Dodger Special: Bad Egg as Judge Fang
2022Dodger Special: Christmas as Judge Fang
2022Dodger Special: Train as Judge Fang
2022The Lost King as John Ashdown-Hill
2022Karen Pirie as Mick Prentice Snr
2022Wolf Manor as Oliver Lawrence
2022Operation Mincemeat as Charles Fraser-Smith
2021The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out as Self
2021The Watch as Archchancellor of Unseen University
2020Bridgerton as King George III
2020The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown as Hugo Horton
2020Blithe Spirit as Harry Price
2020All Creatures Great & Small as Colonel Merrick
2020The Pale Horse as Oscar Venables
2019Thanks for the Memories as Patrick Conway
2019National Theatre Live: Les Blancs as Dr. Willy Dekoven
2019Born a King as George V
2019One Red Nose Day and a Wedding as Tom
2018Death on the Tyne as Captain Jack Pearson
2018The Spy Who Dumped Me as Tom
2018Patrick Melrose as Sir Victor Eisen
2017Revolution: New Art for a New World as Wassily Kandinsky (voice)
2017Love of My Life as Tom
2017Urban Myths as The Professor
2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves as Hugo Horton (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016Love & Friendship as Sir Reginald DeCourcy
2016Houdini & Doyle as Dr. Pilsen
2016Billionaire Boy as Mr Darrow
2015Unforgotten as Chris Lowe
2015Partners in Crime as Carter
2015Indian Summers as Lord Hawthorne
2014Mr. Turner as John Constable
2014Outlander as Reverend Wakefield
2013Death Comes to Pemberley as Mr Bennet
2013Murder on the Home Front as Professor Stephens
2013Murder on the Home Front as Professor Stephens
2013Plebs
2013It's Kevin as Various
2013Father Brown as Dr. Adam Crawford
2013Blandings as Colonel Fanshawe
2012Bad Education as Richard
2012The Hollow Crown as Hastings
2011Death in Paradise as Jeremy Tipping
2011The Decoy Bride as William
2009Micro Men as Kenneth Baker
2009Being Human as George Senior
2008Little Dorrit as Frederick Dorrit
2007Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle as Alan Jenkins
2007Lewis as Dr. Alex Falconer
2007Skins as Martin
2006Legit
2006School's Out as Self
2006Hotel Babylon
2005A Cock and Bull Story as Simon
2004The Phantom of the Opera as Lefevre
2004Murder in Suburbia
2004Sea of Souls as Findlay Morrison
2003Promoted to Glory as Michael Prendergast
2003Blackball as Alan the Pipe
2003Three Sisters as Kulygin
2003South from Granada as Lytton Strachey
2002Two Men Went To War as Maj. Bates
2002Fields of Gold as Alan Buckley
2002Young Arthur as Merlin
2002Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime as Alderman Fitzwarren
2001Charlotte Gray as Richard Cannerly
2000Brotherly Love
2000Chambers
2000Kevin & Perry Go Large as Dad
2000Monarch of the Glen
2000The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
1999Milk as Adrian
1998Frenchman's Creek as Sir Harry
1997Spark as Ashley Parkerwell
1997Underworld
1997A Dance to the Music of Time as Moreland
1997Midsomer Murders as Ralph Plummer
1997Midsomer Murders as Michael Falconer
1997Remember Me? as Donald
1996The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders as James Bland
1996The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders as James Bland
1996Crossing the Floor as Prime Minister
1996Lord of Misrule as Prime Minister
1996Eskimo Day as Simon
1995The Butterfly Effect as Oswald
1995Sense and Sensibility as John Dashwood
1995The Grotesque as Inspector Limp
19953 Steps to Heaven as Harry Roberts
1994Milner as Hugh Bonning
1994The Vicar of Dibley as Hugo Horton
1994Harry Enfield and Chums as Teacher Mr. Banks
1994Four Weddings and a Funeral as Tom
1993Cracker as Michael Trant
1993An Exchange of Fire as Michael Shanks
1993A Year in Provence as Hugo Compton
1993Femme Fatale as Algie
1992Electric Moon as Simon Lidell
1992Common Pursuit
1992Running Late as James Grahame
1992Blue Black Permanent as Jim Thorburn
1991Murder Most Horrid as Tom
1991The Advocates
1991They Never Slept as Bob
1987The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Neil Fairfax (uncredited)
1987The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Neil Fairfax
1987Still Crazy Like a Fox as Bellhop
1986Defence of the Realm as Ministry Man
1985Screen Two as Peter Wentworth
1985Screen Two as Bob
1985Screen Two as Prime Minister
1985Screen Two as Algie
1984The Bill as Paul Morgan
1979The Omega Factor
1978Grange Hill as Mr. Perkins








