Acting

James Wilby

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

Newest first

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