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