James Wilby

Acting

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).

Filmography 88

Movies (50)

Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
2024
Mr. Vincent
Merchant Ivory
2024
Self
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2024
Viscount Algernon
Vindication Swim
2024
Mr. Havers
Masquerade
2022
Thomas
The Duke
2021
Judge Aarvold
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
2019
Narrator
Salt
2019
Conrad
The Sense of an Ending
2017
David Ford
ChickLit
2016
Geoffrey
Churchill's Secret
2016
Brendan Bracken
Vincent
2013
The Man
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
2012
Wilfred De'Ath
We Need to Talk About Kieran
2011
Professor Hugh Merrill
Shadows in the Sun
2009
Robert
A Risk Worth Taking
2008
Patrick Trenchard
Lady Godiva
2008
Earl of Mercia, Leofric
Clapham Junction
2007
Julian Rowan
It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
2007
John Locke
The Last Days of the Raj
2007
Lord Mountbatten
De-Lovely
2004
Edward Thomas
Sparkling Cyanide
2003
Stephen Farraday
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
Herbert Spencer
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
Self (uncredited)
Bertie and Elizabeth
2002
King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
Gosford Park
2001
Freddie Nesbitt
Jump Tomorrow
2001
Nathan
Cotton Mary
1999
John MacIntosh
Tom's Midnight Garden
1999
Uncle Alan Kitson
An Ideal Husband
1999
Sir Robert Chiltern

Shows (38)

I, Jack Wright
2025
Max Preston
The Marlow Murder Club
2024
Sir Peter Bailey
Victoria
2016
Sir Piers Gifford
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
Titanic
2012
Bruce Ismay
Death in Paradise
2011
Elias Thomson
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
2007
Henry
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
Foyle's War
2002
Major Cornwall
Murder in Mind
2001
Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
2001
The Dark Room
1999
Dr. Alan Protheroe
The Woman In White
1997
Sir Percival Glyde
Trial & Retribution
1997
James McCready
Midsomer Murders
1997
Edward Milton
Original Sin
1997
Gerard Etienne
Silent Witness
1996
Crocodile Shoes
1994
Lady Chatterley
1993
Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt
Mother Love
1989
Christopher "Kit" Vesey
Screen One
1989
Arthur Donnithorne