7.0
Movie
Acting
James Wilby
- Born
- (age 68)
- Birthplace
- Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]
- Credits
- 90 titles
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).
Signature work
Known For
7.0
Movie
6.8
Movie
Gosford Park
8.0
TV
Tales from the Crypt
7.6
Movie
Maurice
7.0
Movie
Howards End
8.2
TV
Agatha Christie's Poirot
6.8
Movie
Masquerade
6.9
Movie
The Duke
7.5
TV
Midsomer Murders
7.5
TV
Death in Paradise
7.8
TV
Poldark
7.4
TV
Victoria
8.2
TV
Sherlock Holmes
8.2
TV
The Storyteller
6.3
Movie
The Sense of an Ending
7.4
TV
Ripper Street
6.4
TV
Legends
6.1
Movie
De-Lovely
Acting credits 90
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | I, Jack Wright TV | Max Preston (5 ep) |
| 2024 | Mystery at the Prospect Hotel Film | Mr. Vincent |
| 2024 | Merchant Ivory Film | Self |
| 2024 | The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Film | Viscount Algernon |
| 2024 | Vindication Swim Film | Mr. Havers |
| 2024 | The Marlow Murder Club TV | Sir Peter Bailey (2 ep) |
| 2023 | The Famous Five TV | Mr. Vincent (1 ep) |
| 2022 | Masquerade Film | Thomas |
| 2021 | The Duke Film | Judge Aarvold |
| 2019 | E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey Film | Narrator |
| 2019 | Salt Film | Conrad |
| 2017 | The Sense of an Ending Film | David Ford |
| 2016 | ChickLit Film | Geoffrey |
| 2016 | Victoria TV | Sir Piers Gifford (1 ep) |
| 2016 | Churchill's Secret Film | Brendan Bracken |
| 2016 | The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells TV | Pawkins (1 ep) |
| 2015 | Poldark TV | Lord Falmouth (10 ep) |
| 2014 | Legends TV | Headmaster (4 ep) |
| 2013 | The Great Train Robbery TV | John Wheater (2 ep) |
| 2013 | Vincent Film | The Man |
| 2013 | Father Brown TV | Sefton Scott (1 ep) |
| 2012 | Ripper Street TV | Charles Broadwick (1 ep) |
| 2012 | Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story Film | Wilfred De'Ath |
| 2012 | Titanic TV | Bruce Ismay (4 ep) |
| 2011 | Death in Paradise TV | Elias Thomson (1 ep) |
| 2011 | We Need to Talk About Kieran Film | Professor Hugh Merrill |
| 2009 | Shadows in the Sun Film | Robert |
| 2008 | A Risk Worth Taking Film | Patrick Trenchard |
| 2008 | Lady Godiva Film | Earl of Mercia, Leofric |
| 2007 | Secret Diary of a Call Girl TV | Henry (1 ep) |
| 2007 | Clapham Junction Film | Julian Rowan |
| 2007 | It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You Film | John Locke |
| 2007 | The Last Days of the Raj Film | Lord Mountbatten |
| 2007 | Lewis TV | Hugh Mallory (1 ep) |
| 2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire TV | Ofonius Tigellinus (1 ep) |
| 2005 | Jericho TV | Alan Mills (1 ep) |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple TV | Stanley Kirkwood (1 ep) |
| 2004 | Island at War TV | Sen. James Dorr (6 ep) |
| 2004 | De-Lovely Film | Edward Thomas |
| 2003 | Sparkling Cyanide Film | Stephen Farraday |
| 2002 | George Eliot: A Scandalous Life Film | Herbert Spencer |
| 2002 | Foyle's War TV | Major Cornwall (1 ep) |
| 2002 | The Making of Gosford Park Film | Self (uncredited) |
| 2002 | Bertie and Elizabeth Film | King George VI, aka 'Bertie' |
| 2001 | Gosford Park Film | Freddie Nesbitt |
| 2001 | Jump Tomorrow Film | Nathan |
| 2001 | Murder in Mind TV | Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton (1 ep) |
| 2001 | Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years TV | (1 ep) |
| 1999 | Cotton Mary Film | John MacIntosh |
| 1999 | Tom's Midnight Garden Film | Uncle Alan Kitson |
| 1999 | An Ideal Husband Film | Sir Robert Chiltern |
| 1999 | The Dark Room Film | Dr Alan Protheroe |
| 1999 | The Dark Room TV | Dr. Alan Protheroe (2 ep) |
| 1997 | The Woman In White Film | Sir Percival Glyde |
| 1997 | The Woman In White TV | Sir Percival Glyde (2 ep) |
| 1997 | Trial & Retribution TV | James McCready (1 ep) |
| 1997 | Regeneration Film | 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders TV | Edward Milton (1 ep) |
| 1997 | Original Sin TV | Gerard Etienne (2 ep) |
| 1996 | The Treasure Seekers Film | Henry Carlisle |