James Wilby

Actor Feb 20 (age 68) Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar] 1982–2025 (43 year career)

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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

Film

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Viscount Algernon

Film

Maurice

Maurice Hall

Film

Gosford Park

Freddie Nesbitt

Film

A Room with a View

Party Guest (uncredited)

Film

Howards End

Charles Wilcox

Film

Masquerade

Thomas

Film

The Duke

Judge Aarvold

Film

The Sense of an Ending

David Ford

Filmography

Acting (84)

Movies (50)

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

as Viscount Algernon

Merchant Ivory

as Self

Mystery at the Prospect Hotel

2024

as Mr. Vincent

Vindication Swim

as Mr. Havers

Masquerade

as Thomas

The Duke

as Judge Aarvold

Salt

as Conrad

E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey

2019

as Narrator

7.0

The Sense of an Ending

as David Ford

Churchill's Secret

as Brendan Bracken

ChickLit

as Geoffrey

Vincent

as The Man

Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

2012

as Wilfred De'Ath

4.0

We Need to Talk About Kieran

2011

as Professor Hugh Merrill

Shadows in the Sun

2009

as Robert

4.6

Lady Godiva

2008

as Earl of Mercia, Leofric

1.0

A Risk Worth Taking

2008

as Patrick Trenchard

3.5

The Last Days of the Raj

2007

as Lord Mountbatten

Clapham Junction

2007

as Julian Rowan

6.5

It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You

as John Locke

De-Lovely

as Edward Thomas

Sparkling Cyanide

as Stephen Farraday

Bertie and Elizabeth

as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'

5.9

The Making of Gosford Park

2002

as Self (uncredited)

5.0

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

as Herbert Spencer

Gosford Park

as Freddie Nesbitt

Jump Tomorrow

as Nathan

Tom's Midnight Garden

as Uncle Alan Kitson

The Dark Room

as Dr Alan Protheroe

An Ideal Husband

as Sir Robert Chiltern

Cotton Mary

as John MacIntosh

Regeneration

as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon

5.5

The Woman In White

1997

as Sir Percival Glyde

6.6

The Treasure Seekers

1996

as Henry Carlisle

5.3

Witness Against Hitler

1996

as Helmuth James von Moltke

The Chess Game

as Lord Staunton

Howards End

as Charles Wilcox

Adam Bede

as Arthur Donnithorne

7.2

Immaculate Conception

as Alistair

The Siege of Venice

Tell Me That You Love Me

1991

as Michael Evans

Conspiracy

A Summer Story

as Frank Ashton

A Handful of Dust

as Tony Last

Maurice

as Maurice Hall

A Room with a View

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Dreamchild

as Baker

Dutch Girls

as Dundine

Privileged

as Jamie

The Storyteller: Sapsorrow

as Prince

Television (34)

I, Jack Wright

2025

as Max Preston

5.4

The Marlow Murder Club

as Sir Peter Bailey

Victoria

as Sir Piers Gifford

The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells

as Pawkins

Poldark

as Lord Falmouth

Legends

as Headmaster

Father Brown

as Sefton Scott

The Great Train Robbery

as John Wheater

Ripper Street

as Charles Broadwick

Titanic

as Bruce Ismay

Death in Paradise

as Elias Thomson

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

2007

as Henry

6.8

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

2006

as Ofonius Tigellinus

7.4

Jericho

2005

as Alan Mills

6.8

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Stanley Kirkwood

Island at War

as Sen. James Dorr

Foyle's War

as Major Cornwall

Murder in Mind

as Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton

8.4

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

2001

4.5

The Dark Room

1999

as Dr. Alan Protheroe

Midsomer Murders

as Edward Milton

Trial & Retribution

Silent Witness

Crocodile Shoes

Lady Chatterley

as Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt

6.2

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Andrew Restarick

Tales from the Crypt

as Nick Marvin

Screen One

as Arthur Donnithorne

A Tale of Two Cities

as Sydney Carton

Mother Love

as Christopher "Kit" Vesey

The Storyteller

as Prince

Casualty

as Archie Grayling

The Bill

Sherlock Holmes

as Young Barclay