James Wilby

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).

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

66

Birth Date

1958-02-20 00:00:00

Birth Place

Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]

Known For

• 

  Maurice
• 

  Bertie and Elizabeth
• 

  A Summer Story
• 

  A Handful of Dust
• Vincent
• 

  It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You

Credits

• actors (66 credits)

  • I, Jack Wright

    - Testament (2025) ... Max Preston actor actors

    - Salt in the Wound (2025) ... Max Preston actor actors

    - Juggling Snakes (2025) ... Max Preston actor actors

    - A Tougher Love (2025) ... Max Preston actor actors

    - Fight Like Hell (2025) ... Max Preston actor actors
    2025
  • Mystery at the Prospect Hotel

    Mr. Vincent

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Merchant Ivory

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

    Viscount Algernon

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Vindication Swim

    Mr. Havers

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • The Marlow Murder Club

    - Death Comes to Marlow (2) (2025) ... Sir Peter Bailey actor actors

    - Death Comes to Marlow (1) (2025) ... Sir Peter Bailey actor actors
    2024
  • Masquerade

    Thomas

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • The Duke

    Judge Aarvold

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Salt

    Conrad

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • The Sense of an Ending

    David Ford

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • ChickLit

    Geoffrey

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Churchill's Secret

    Brendan Bracken

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Victoria

    - The Engine of Change (2016) ... Sir Piers Gifford actor actors
    2016
  • Poldark

    - Episode 8 (2018) ... Lord Falmouth actor actors

    - Episode 6 (2018) ... Lord Falmouth actor actors

    - Episode 5 (2018) ... Lord Falmouth actor actors

    - Episode 4 (2018) ... Lord Falmouth actor actors

    - Episode 3 (2018) ... Lord Falmouth actor actors
    2015
  • Legends

    - The Legend of Alexei Volkov (2015) ... Headmaster actor actors

    - The Legend of Tamir Zakayev (2015) ... Headmaster actor actors

    - The Legend of Kate Crawford (2015) ... Headmaster actor actors

    - The Legend of Dmitry Petrovich (2015) ... Headmaster actor actors
    2014
  • Vincent

    The Man

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Father Brown

    - The Cat of Mastigatus (2018) ... Sefton Scott actor actors
    2013
  • Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

    Wilfred De'Ath

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Ripper Street

    - Dynamite and a Woman (2013) ... Charles Broadwick actor actors
    2012
  • We Need to Talk About Kieran

    Professor Hugh Merrill

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Death in Paradise

    - Stab in the Dark (2015) ... Elias Thomson actor actors
    2011
  • Shadows in the Sun

    Robert

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • A Risk Worth Taking

    Patrick Trenchard

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Lady Godiva

    Earl of Mercia, Leofric

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Clapham Junction

    Julian Rowan

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You

    John Locke

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • The Last Days of the Raj

    Lord Mountbatten

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • De-Lovely

    Edward Thomas

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Agatha Christie's Marple

    - The Sittaford Mystery (2006) ... Stanley Kirkwood actor actors
    2004
  • Sparkling Cyanide

    Stephen Farraday

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

    Herbert Spencer

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • The Making of Gosford Park

    Self (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Bertie and Elizabeth

    King George VI, aka 'Bertie'

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Foyle's War

    - They Fought in the Fields (2004) ... Major Cornwall actor actors
    2002
  • Gosford Park

    Freddie Nesbitt

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Jump Tomorrow

    Nathan

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Cotton Mary

    John MacIntosh

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Tom's Midnight Garden

    Uncle Alan Kitson

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • An Ideal Husband

    Sir Robert Chiltern

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • The Dark Room

    Dr Alan Protheroe

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • The Woman In White

    Sir Percival Glyde

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • Regeneration

    2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • Midsomer Murders

    - The Made-to-Measure Murders (2010) ... Edward Milton actor actors
    1997
  • The Treasure Seekers

    Henry Carlisle

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Witness Against Hitler

    Helmuth James von Moltke

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Silent Witness

    - Nowhere Fast (2) (2004) ... actor actors

    - Nowhere Fast (1) (2004) ... actor actors
    1996
  • The Chess Game

    Lord Staunton

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Immaculate Conception

    Alistair

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Howards End

    Charles Wilcox

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Adam Bede

    Arthur Donnithorne

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • The Siege of Venice

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Tell Me That You Love Me

    Michael Evans

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Conspiracy

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Agatha Christie's Poirot

    - Third Girl (2008) ... Andrew Restarick actor actors
    1989
  • Tales from the Crypt

    - Horror in the Night (1996) ... Nick Marvin actor actors
    1989
  • A Summer Story

    Frank Ashton

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • The Storyteller: Sapsorrow

    Prince

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • A Handful of Dust

    Tony Last

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • Maurice

    Maurice Hall

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • A Room with a View

    Party Guest (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Casualty

    - What Lurks in the Heart (2017) ... Archie Grayling actor actors

    - About My Mother (2016) ... Archie Grayling actor actors

    - Thirty Years (2016) ... Archie Grayling actor actors
    1986
  • Dutch Girls

    Dundine

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • Dreamchild

    Baker

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • Sherlock Holmes

    - The Crooked Man (1984) ... Young Barclay actor actors
    1984
  • Privileged

    Jamie

    actor

    actors
    1982