Portrait of James Wilby

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).

Born: February 20, 1958

Place of Birth: Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]

Filmography

2025
I, Jack Wright

as Max Preston

2024
2024
Vindication Swim

as Mr. Havers

2024
The Marlow Murder Club

as Sir Peter Bailey

2022
Masquerade

as Thomas

2021
The Duke

as Judge Aarvold

2019
Salt

as Conrad

2017
2016
ChickLit

as Geoffrey

2016
Victoria

as Sir Piers Gifford

2016
Churchill's Secret

as Brendan Bracken

2015
Poldark

as Lord Falmouth

2014
Legends

as Headmaster

2013
2013
Father Brown

as Sefton Scott

2012
Ripper Street

as Charles Broadwick

2012
Titanic

as Bruce Ismay

2011
Death in Paradise

as Elias Thomson

2009
2008
A Risk Worth Taking

as Patrick Trenchard

2008
Lady Godiva

as Earl of Mercia, Leofric

2007
Clapham Junction

as Julian Rowan

2005
Jericho

as Alan Mills

2004
Agatha Christie's Marple

as Stanley Kirkwood

2004
Island at War

as Sen. James Dorr

2004
De-Lovely

as Edward Thomas

2003
Sparkling Cyanide

as Stephen Farraday

2002
Foyle's War

as Major Cornwall

2002
The Making of Gosford Park

as Self (uncredited)

2002
Bertie and Elizabeth

as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'

2001
Gosford Park

as Freddie Nesbitt

2001
Jump Tomorrow

as Nathan

2001
Murder in Mind

as Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton

1999
Cotton Mary

as John MacIntosh

1999
Tom's Midnight Garden

as Uncle Alan Kitson

1999
An Ideal Husband

as Sir Robert Chiltern

1999
The Dark Room

as Dr Alan Protheroe

1999
The Dark Room

as Dr. Alan Protheroe

1997
Regeneration

as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Edward Milton

1997
The Woman In White

as Sir Percival Glyde

1996
The Treasure Seekers

as Henry Carlisle

1996
Witness Against Hitler

as Helmuth James von Moltke

1994
The Chess Game

as Lord Staunton

1993
Lady Chatterley

as Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt

1992
1992
Howards End

as Charles Wilcox

1992
Adam Bede

as Arthur Donnithorne

1991
Tell Me That You Love Me

as Michael Evans

1989
Mother Love

as Christopher "Kit" Vesey

1989
Screen One

as Arthur Donnithorne

1989
Tales from the Crypt

as Nick Marvin

1989
A Tale of Two Cities

as Sydney Carton

1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Andrew Restarick

1988
A Summer Story

as Frank Ashton

1988
A Handful of Dust

as Tony Last

1988
1987
Maurice

as Maurice Hall

1986
Casualty

as Archie Grayling

1985
A Room with a View

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1985
Dutch Girls

as Dundine

1985
Dreamchild

as Baker

1984
Sherlock Holmes

as Young Barclay

1982
Privileged

as Jamie