James Wilby

Personal Info

Birthday

February 20, 1958

(67 years old)

Place of Birth

Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]

Also Known As

جیمز ویلبی

James Wilby

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

Midsomer Murders

Death in Paradise

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Father Brown

Agatha Christie's Marple

Sherlock Holmes

Tales from the Crypt

Foyle's War

Filmography

2024
Merchant Ivory
as Self
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
as Viscount Algernon
Vindication Swim
as Mr. Havers
2022
Masquerade
as Thomas
2021
The Duke
as Judge Aarvold
2019
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
as Narrator
Salt
as Conrad
2017
The Sense of an Ending
as David Ford
2016
ChickLit
as Geoffrey
Churchill's Secret
as Brendan Bracken
2013
Vincent
as The Man
2012
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
as Wilfred De'Ath
2009
Shadows in the Sun
as Robert
2008
A Risk Worth Taking
as Patrick Trenchard
Lady Godiva
as Earl of Mercia, Leofric
2007
Clapham Junction
as Julian Rowan
It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
as John Locke
The Last Days of the Raj
as Lord Mountbatten
2004
De-Lovely
as Edward Thomas
2003
Sparkling Cyanide
as Stephen Farraday
2002
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
as Herbert Spencer
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
as Self (uncredited)
Bertie and Elizabeth
as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
2001
Gosford Park
as Freddie Nesbitt
Jump Tomorrow
as Nathan
1999
Cotton Mary
as John MacIntosh
Tom's Midnight Garden
as Uncle Alan Kitson
An Ideal Husband
as Sir Robert Chiltern
The Dark Room
as Dr Alan Protheroe
1997
Regeneration
as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
The Woman In White
as Sir Percival Glyde
1996
The Treasure Seekers
as Henry Carlisle
Witness Against Hitler
as Helmuth James von Moltke
1994
The Chess Game
as Lord Staunton
1992
Immaculate Conception
as Alistair
Howards End
as Charles Wilcox
Adam Bede
as Arthur Donnithorne
1991
Tell Me That You Love Me
as Michael Evans
1988
A Summer Story
as Frank Ashton
A Handful of Dust
as Tony Last
1987
Maurice
as Maurice Hall
1986
A Room with a View
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1985
Dutch Girls
as Dundine
Dreamchild
as Baker
1982
Privileged
as Jamie