James Wilby
Known for acting · Born 20 February 1958 · 68 · Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]
90 credits
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
Maurice
1987
Poldark
2015
A Handful of Dust
1988
It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
2007
Regeneration
1997
A Summer Story
1988
Howards End
1992
Crocodile Shoes
1994
Masquerade
2022
Clapham Junction
2007
Immaculate Conception
1992
Bertie and Elizabeth
2002
Acting (90)
2025I, Jack WrightMax Preston · 5 episodesSeries
2024The Ministry of Ungentlemanly WarfareViscount AlgernonFilm
2024The Marlow Murder ClubSir Peter Bailey · 2 episodesSeries
2024Vindication SwimMr. HaversFilm
2024Merchant IvorySelfFilm
2024Mystery at the Prospect HotelMr. VincentFilm
2023The Famous FiveMr. VincentSeries
2022MasqueradeThomasFilm
2021The DukeJudge AarvoldFilm
2019E. M. Forster: His Longest JourneyNarratorFilm
2019SaltConradFilm
2017The Sense of an EndingDavid FordFilm
2016VictoriaSir Piers GiffordSeries
2016Churchill's SecretBrendan BrackenFilm
2016ChickLitGeoffreyFilm
2016The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. WellsPawkinsSeries
2015PoldarkLord Falmouth · 10 episodesSeries
2014LegendsHeadmaster · 4 episodesSeries
2013Father BrownSefton ScottSeries
2013The Great Train RobberyJohn Wheater · 2 episodesSeries
2013VincentThe ManFilm
2012Ripper StreetCharles BroadwickSeries
2012TitanicBruce Ismay · 4 episodesSeries
2012Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett StoryWilfred De'AthFilm
2011Death in ParadiseElias ThomsonSeries
2011We Need to Talk About KieranProfessor Hugh MerrillFilm
2009Shadows in the SunRobertFilm
2008A Risk Worth TakingPatrick TrenchardFilm
2008Lady GodivaEarl of Mercia, LeofricFilm
2007Secret Diary of a Call GirlHenrySeries
2007LewisHugh MallorySeries
2007Clapham JunctionJulian RowanFilm
2007It's Gradiva Who Is Calling YouJohn LockeFilm
2007The Last Days of the RajLord MountbattenFilm
2006Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an EmpireOfonius TigellinusSeries
2005JerichoAlan MillsSeries
2004De-LovelyEdward ThomasFilm
2004Agatha Christie's MarpleStanley KirkwoodSeries
2004Island at WarSen. James Dorr · 6 episodesSeries
2003Sparkling CyanideStephen FarradayFilm
2002Foyle's WarMajor CornwallSeries
2002Bertie and ElizabethKing George VI, aka 'Bertie'Film
2002The Making of Gosford ParkSelf (uncredited)Film
2002George Eliot: A Scandalous LifeHerbert SpencerFilm
2001Gosford ParkFreddie NesbittFilm
2001Jump TomorrowNathanFilm
2001Murder in MindDaniel Morton / Sir Richard MortonSeries
2001Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino YearsSeries
1999Tom's Midnight GardenUncle Alan KitsonFilm
1999Cotton MaryJohn MacIntoshFilm
1999An Ideal HusbandSir Robert ChilternFilm
1999The Dark RoomDr Alan ProtheroeFilm
1999The Dark RoomDr. Alan Protheroe · 2 episodesSeries
1997Midsomer MurdersEdward MiltonSeries
1997Regeneration2nd Lt. Siegfried SassoonFilm
1997The Woman In WhiteSir Percival GlydeFilm
1997Trial & RetributionJames McCreadySeries
1997Original SinGerard Etienne · 2 episodesSeries
1997The Woman In WhiteSir Percival Glyde · 2 episodesSeries
1996Silent Witness · 2 episodesSeries
1996The Treasure SeekersHenry CarlisleFilm
1996Witness Against HitlerHelmuth James von MoltkeFilm
1994The Chess GameLord StauntonFilm
1994Crocodile Shoes · 13 episodesSeries
1993Lady ChatterleySir Clifford Chatterley, Bt · 4 episodesSeries
1993You, Me and ItCharles Henderson · 3 episodesSeries
1992Howards EndCharles WilcoxFilm
1992Adam BedeArthur DonnithorneFilm
1992Immaculate ConceptionAlistairFilm
1991The Siege of VeniceMilord RunbiffFilm
1991Tell Me That You Love MeMichael EvansFilm
1989Tales from the CryptNick MarvinSeries
1989Agatha Christie's PoirotAndrew RestarickSeries
1989Mother LoveChristopher "Kit" Vesey · 4 episodesSeries
1989Screen OneArthur Donnithorne, Michael EvansSeries
1989A Tale of Two CitiesSydney Carton · 2 episodesSeries
1989ConspiracyStringerFilm
1988The StorytellerPrinceSeries
1988A Handful of DustTony LastFilm
1988A Summer StoryFrank AshtonFilm
1988The Storyteller: SapsorrowPrinceFilm
1987MauriceMaurice HallFilm
1986A Room with a ViewParty Guest (uncredited)Film
1986CasualtyArchie Grayling · 3 episodesSeries
1985DreamchildBakerFilm
1985Dutch GirlsDundineFilm
1984Sherlock HolmesYoung BarclaySeries
1984The BillSeries
1984The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesYoung JamesSeries
1982PrivilegedJamieFilm