James Wilby
Acting1958Rangoon, 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 History
Future
Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
as Mr. Vincent
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
as Prince
2025
The Marlow Murder Club
TVas Sir Peter Bailey• 2 eps
I, Jack Wright
TVas Max Preston
2024
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
as Viscount Algernon
Merchant Ivory
as Self
Vindication Swim
as Mr. Havers
2022
Masquerade
as Thomas
2021
The Duke
as Judge Aarvold
2019
Salt
as Conrad
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
as Narrator
2018
Father Brown
TVas Sefton Scott• 1 eps
2017
The Sense of an Ending
as David Ford
Poldark
TVas Lord Falmouth• 10 eps
2016
ChickLit
as Geoffrey
Churchill's Secret
as Brendan Bracken
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
TVas Pawkins
Victoria
TVas Sir Piers Gifford• 1 eps
2015
Legends
TVas Headmaster• 4 eps
Death in Paradise
TVas Elias Thomson• 1 eps
2013
Vincent
as The Man
The Great Train Robbery
TVas John Wheater• 2 eps
Ripper Street
TVas Charles Broadwick• 1 eps
2012
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
as Wilfred De'Ath
Titanic
TVas Bruce Ismay
2011
We Need to Talk About Kieran
as Professor Hugh Merrill
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
TVas Henry• 1 eps
2010
Midsomer Murders
TVas Edward Milton• 1 eps
2009
Shadows in the Sun
as Robert
2008
Lady Godiva
as Earl of Mercia, Leofric
A Risk Worth Taking
as Patrick Trenchard
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TVas Andrew Restarick• 1 eps
2007
It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
as John Locke
The Last Days of the Raj
as Lord Mountbatten
Clapham Junction
as Julian Rowan
2006
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
TVas Ofonius Tigellinus
Agatha Christie's Marple
TVas Stanley Kirkwood• 1 eps
2005
Jericho
TVas Alan Mills
2004
2003
Sparkling Cyanide
as Stephen Farraday
Murder in Mind
TVas Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton• 1 eps
2002
Bertie and Elizabeth
as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
as Herbert Spencer
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self (uncredited)
2001
1999
The Dark Room
as Dr Alan Protheroe
Tom's Midnight Garden
as Uncle Alan Kitson
Cotton Mary
as John MacIntosh
An Ideal Husband
as Sir Robert Chiltern
The Dark Room
TVas Dr. Alan Protheroe
1997
The Woman In White
as Sir Percival Glyde
Regeneration
as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
1996
The Treasure Seekers
as Henry Carlisle
Witness Against Hitler
as Helmuth James von Moltke
Tales from the Crypt
TVas Nick Marvin• 1 eps
1994
The Chess Game
as Lord Staunton
1993
Lady Chatterley
TVas Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt
1992
1991
Tell Me That You Love Me
as Michael Evans
1989
Screen One
TVas Arthur Donnithorne
Mother Love
TVas Christopher "Kit" Vesey
A Tale of Two Cities
TVas Sydney Carton
1988
1987
Maurice
as Maurice Hall
1986
A Room with a View
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Casualty
TVas Archie Grayling
1985
Dreamchild
as Baker
Dutch Girls
as Dundine
1984
Sherlock Holmes
TVas Young Barclay• 1 eps
1982
Privileged
as Jamie