James Wilby
Acting
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Acting Credits
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).
Known For
Filmography
I, Jack Wright
2025
as Max Preston
Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self
Vindication Swim
2024
as Mr. Havers
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2024
as Viscount Algernon
Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
2024
as Mr. Vincent
The Marlow Murder Club
2024
as Sir Peter Bailey
The Famous Five
2023
as Mr. Vincent
Masquerade
2022
as Thomas
The Duke
2021
as Judge Aarvold
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
2019
as Narrator
Salt
2019
as Conrad
The Sense of an Ending
2017
as David Ford
Churchill's Secret
2016
as Brendan Bracken
ChickLit
2016
as Geoffrey
Victoria
2016
as Sir Piers Gifford
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016
as Pawkins
Poldark
2015
as Lord Falmouth
Legends
2014
as Headmaster
Vincent
2013
as The Man
Father Brown
2013
as Sefton Scott
The Great Train Robbery
2013
as John Wheater
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
2012
as Wilfred De'Ath
Ripper Street
2012
as Charles Broadwick
Titanic
2012
as Bruce Ismay
We Need to Talk About Kieran
2011
as Professor Hugh Merrill
Death in Paradise
2011
as Elias Thomson
Shadows in the Sun
2009
as Robert
A Risk Worth Taking
2008
as Patrick Trenchard
Lady Godiva
2008
as Earl of Mercia, Leofric
It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
2007
as John Locke
Clapham Junction
2007
as Julian Rowan
The Last Days of the Raj
2007
as Lord Mountbatten
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
2007
as Henry
Lewis
2007
as Hugh Mallory
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
as Ofonius Tigellinus
Jericho
2005
as Alan Mills
De-Lovely
2004
as Edward Thomas
Island at War
2004
as Sen. James Dorr
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Stanley Kirkwood
Sparkling Cyanide
2003
as Stephen Farraday
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
as Herbert Spencer
Bertie and Elizabeth
2002
as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
as Self (uncredited)
Foyle's War
2002
as Major Cornwall
Gosford Park
2001
as Freddie Nesbitt
Jump Tomorrow
2001
as Nathan
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
2001
Murder in Mind
2001
as Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton
Cotton Mary
1999
as John MacIntosh
An Ideal Husband
1999
as Sir Robert Chiltern
The Dark Room
1999
as Dr Alan Protheroe
Tom's Midnight Garden
1999
as Uncle Alan Kitson
The Dark Room
1999
as Dr. Alan Protheroe
Regeneration
1997
as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
The Woman In White
1997
as Sir Percival Glyde
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Edward Milton
Original Sin
1997
as Gerard Etienne
Trial & Retribution
1997
as James McCready
The Woman In White
1997
as Sir Percival Glyde
Witness Against Hitler
1996
as Helmuth James von Moltke
The Treasure Seekers
1996
as Henry Carlisle
Silent Witness
1996
The Chess Game
1994
as Lord Staunton
Crocodile Shoes
1994
Lady Chatterley
1993
as Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt
You, Me and It
1993
as Charles Henderson
Adam Bede
1992
as Arthur Donnithorne
Howards End
1992
as Charles Wilcox
Immaculate Conception
1992
as Alistair
Tell Me That You Love Me
1991
as Michael Evans
The Siege of Venice
1991
as Milord Runbiff
Conspiracy
1989
as Stringer
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Nick Marvin
Mother Love
1989
as Christopher "Kit" Vesey
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Andrew Restarick
Screen One
1989
as Arthur Donnithorne
A Tale of Two Cities
1989
as Sydney Carton
Screen One
1989
as Michael Evans
A Summer Story
1988
as Frank Ashton
A Handful of Dust
1988
as Tony Last
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988
as Prince
The Storyteller
1988
as Prince
Maurice
1987
as Maurice Hall
A Room with a View
1986
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Casualty
1986
as Archie Grayling
Dutch Girls
1985
as Dundine
Dreamchild
1985
as Baker
The Bill
1984
Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Young Barclay
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Young James
Privileged
1982
as Jamie