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James Wilby

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James Wilby

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

Feb 20, 1958 (68 years old)

Place of Birth

Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]

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

Acting
2025I, Jack WrightMax Preston
2024Merchant IvorySelf
2024Vindication SwimMr. Havers
2024The Ministry of Ungentlemanly WarfareViscount Algernon
2024Mystery at the Prospect HotelMr. Vincent
2024The Marlow Murder ClubSir Peter Bailey
2022MasqueradeThomas
2021The DukeJudge Aarvold
2019E. M. Forster: His Longest JourneyNarrator
2019SaltConrad
2017The Sense of an EndingDavid Ford
2016Churchill's SecretBrendan Bracken
2016ChickLitGeoffrey
2016VictoriaSir Piers Gifford
2016The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. WellsPawkins
2015PoldarkLord Falmouth
2014LegendsHeadmaster
2013VincentThe Man
2013Father BrownSefton Scott
2013The Great Train RobberyJohn Wheater
2012Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett StoryWilfred De'Ath
2012Ripper StreetCharles Broadwick
2012TitanicBruce Ismay
2011We Need to Talk About KieranProfessor Hugh Merrill
2011Death in ParadiseElias Thomson
2010Third GirlAndrew Restarick
2009Shadows in the SunRobert
2008A Risk Worth TakingPatrick Trenchard
2008Lady GodivaEarl of Mercia, Leofric
2007It's Gradiva Who Is Calling YouJohn Locke
2007Clapham JunctionJulian Rowan
2007The Last Days of the RajLord Mountbatten
2007Secret Diary of a Call GirlHenry
2006Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an EmpireOfonius Tigellinus
2005JerichoAlan Mills
2004De-LovelyEdward Thomas
2004Island at WarSen. James Dorr
2004Agatha Christie's MarpleStanley Kirkwood
2003Sparkling CyanideStephen Farraday
2002George Eliot: A Scandalous LifeHerbert Spencer
2002Bertie and ElizabethKing George VI, aka 'Bertie'
2002The Making of Gosford ParkSelf (uncredited)
2002Foyle's WarMajor Cornwall
2001Gosford ParkFreddie Nesbitt
2001Jump TomorrowNathan
2001Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
2001Murder in MindDaniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton
1999Cotton MaryJohn MacIntosh
1999An Ideal HusbandSir Robert Chiltern
1999The Dark RoomDr Alan Protheroe
1999Tom's Midnight GardenUncle Alan Kitson
1999The Dark RoomDr. Alan Protheroe
1997Regeneration2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
1997The Woman In WhiteSir Percival Glyde
1997Trial & Retribution
1997Midsomer MurdersEdward Milton
1996Witness Against HitlerHelmuth James von Moltke
1996The Treasure SeekersHenry Carlisle
1996Silent Witness
1994The Chess GameLord Staunton
1994Crocodile Shoes
1993Lady ChatterleySir Clifford Chatterley, Bt
1992Adam BedeArthur Donnithorne
1992Howards EndCharles Wilcox
1992Immaculate ConceptionAlistair
1991Tell Me That You Love MeMichael Evans
1991The Siege of Venice
1989Conspiracy
1989Tales from the CryptNick Marvin
1989Mother LoveChristopher "Kit" Vesey
1989Agatha Christie's PoirotAndrew Restarick
1989Screen OneArthur Donnithorne
1989A Tale of Two CitiesSydney Carton
1988A Summer StoryFrank Ashton
1988A Handful of DustTony Last
1988The StorytellerPrince
1987MauriceMaurice Hall
1986A Room with a ViewParty Guest (uncredited)
1986CasualtyArchie Grayling
1985Dutch GirlsDundine
1985DreamchildBaker
1984The Bill
1984Sherlock HolmesYoung Barclay
1982PrivilegedJamie
-The Storyteller: SapsorrowPrince