James Fleet

Actor Mar 11 (age 74) Bilston, Staffordshire, England, UK 1978–2025 (47 year career)

6.5 avg rating

Biography

James Edward Fleet (born 11 March 1952) is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.

Known For

Film

Sense and Sensibility

John Dashwood

Film

The Phantom of the Opera

Lefevre

Film

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Tom

Film

The Spy Who Dumped Me

Tom

Film

Operation Mincemeat

Charles Fraser-Smith

Film

Mr. Turner

John Constable

Film

Unforgotten

Chris Lowe

Film

Love & Friendship

Sir Reginald DeCourcy

Filmography

Acting (121)

Movies (62)

My Mother's Wedding

as Geoff

Broken Bird

A Very British Hotel at Christmas

2024

as Narrator

8.0

Dodger Special: Bad Egg

2023

as Judge Fang

Operation Mincemeat

2022

as Charles Fraser-Smith

6.5

The Lost King

2022

as John Ashdown-Hill

6.5

Dodger Special: Train

2022

as Judge Fang

Dodger Special: Christmas

2022

as Judge Fang

Wolf Manor

2022

as Oliver Lawrence

5.6

The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out

2021

as Self

Blithe Spirit

2020

as Harry Price

5.7

The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown

2020

as Hugo Horton

6.0

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

as Tom

Born a King

as George V

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

2019

as Dr. Willy Dekoven

6.0

Carry Ons at the Castle

2019

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Spy Who Dumped Me

2018

as Tom

6.4

Death on the Tyne

2018

as Captain Jack Pearson

5.8

Revolution: New Art for a New World

2017

as Wassily Kandinsky (voice)

Love of My Life

as Tom

Billionaire Boy

as Mr Darrow

Love & Friendship

as Sir Reginald DeCourcy

6.1

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

2016

as Hugo Horton (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.7

Mr. Turner

2014

as John Constable

6.5

Murder on the Home Front

2013

as Professor Stephens

The Decoy Bride

as William

Micro Men

as Kenneth Baker

Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle

2007

as Alan Jenkins

5.0

A Cock and Bull Story

2005

as Simon

6.1

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

2005

as Hugo Horton (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.0

The Phantom of the Opera

as Lefevre

Blackball

as Alan the Pipe

Three Sisters

as Kulygin

Promoted to Glory

2003

as Michael Prendergast

South from Granada

2003

as Lytton Strachey

5.7

Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime

2002

as Alderman Fitzwarren

Two Men Went To War

as Maj. Bates

Young Arthur

as Merlin

Fields of Gold

2002

as Alan Buckley

Charlotte Gray

2001

as Richard Cannerly

6.1

Kevin & Perry Go Large

as Dad

Milk

as Adrian

Frenchman's Creek

as Sir Harry

Remember Me?

as Donald

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

as James Bland

Crossing the Floor

as Prime Minister

Lord of Misrule

as Prime Minister

Eskimo Day

1996

as Simon

7.5

Sense and Sensibility

as John Dashwood

3 Steps to Heaven

as Harry Roberts

The Grotesque

as Inspector Limp

The Butterfly Effect

as Oswald

Four Weddings and a Funeral

as Tom

Milner

as Hugh Bonning

Femme Fatale

as Algie

Common Pursuit

1992

Electric Moon

1992

as Simon Lidell

Running Late

1992

as James Grahame

Blue Black Permanent

1992

as Jim Thorburn

5.5

They Never Slept

1991

as Bob

Still Crazy Like a Fox

as Bellhop

Defence of the Realm

as Ministry Man

Television (59)

I, Jack Wright

as Bobby Botham

The Feud

as Derek Abshire

Brian and Maggie

as Ronald Millar

Beyond Paradise

as Ernest

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

as King George

Tom Jones

as Squire Allworthy

Karen Pirie

as Mick Prentice Snr

The Watch

as Archchancellor of Unseen University

5.3

Bridgerton

2020

as King George III

8.1

All Creatures Great & Small

as Colonel Merrick

The Pale Horse

as Oscar Venables

Thanks for the Memories

as Patrick Conway

Patrick Melrose

as Sir Victor Eisen

Urban Myths

as The Professor

Houdini & Doyle

as Dr. Pilsen

Unforgotten

as Chris Lowe

Partners in Crime

as Carter

The Great Pottery Throw Down

as Self

Indian Summers

as Lord Hawthorne

Outlander

as Reverend Wakefield

Father Brown

as Dr. Adam Crawford

Plebs

Death Comes to Pemberley

as Mr Bennet

Blandings

as Colonel Fanshawe

It's Kevin

as Various

Murder on the Home Front

2013

as Professor Stephens

The Hollow Crown

as Hastings

Bad Education

as Richard

Death in Paradise

as Jeremy Tipping

Being Human

as George Senior

Little Dorrit

as Frederick Dorrit

Skins

as Martin

Lewis

as Dr. Alex Falconer

Hotel Babylon

School's Out

as Self

Legit

Murder in Suburbia

Sea of Souls

as Findlay Morrison

Monarch of the Glen

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

Chambers

Brotherly Love

Midsomer Murders

as Ralph Plummer

A Dance to the Music of Time

as Moreland

Underworld

Spark

as Ashley Parkerwell

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

as James Bland

The Vicar of Dibley

as Hugo Horton

Harry Enfield and Chums

as Teacher Mr. Banks

Cracker

as Michael Trant

A Year in Provence

as Hugo Compton

An Exchange of Fire

as Michael Shanks

Murder Most Horrid

as Tom

The Advocates

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

1987

as Neil Fairfax (uncredited)

Screen Two

as Bob

The Bill

as Paul Morgan

The Omega Factor

Grange Hill

as Mr. Perkins