James Wilby

James Wilby

Acting

Born February 20, 1958 · Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]

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

Midsomer Murders

1997

Death in Paradise

Death in Paradise

2011

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

Casualty

Casualty

1986

Silent Witness

Silent Witness

1996

Father Brown

Father Brown

2013

Foyle's War

Foyle's War

2002

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

1984

Acting(89)

2025I, Jack WrightMax Preston

2024Mystery at the Prospect HotelMr. Vincent

2024Merchant IvorySelf

2024The Ministry of Ungentlemanly WarfareViscount Algernon

2024Vindication SwimMr. Havers

2024The Marlow Murder ClubSir Peter Bailey

2022MasqueradeThomas

2021The DukeJudge Aarvold

2019E. M. Forster: His Longest JourneyNarrator

2017The Sense of an EndingDavid Ford

2016ChickLitGeoffrey

2016VictoriaSir Piers Gifford

2016Churchill's SecretBrendan Bracken

2016The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. WellsPawkins

2015PoldarkLord Falmouth

2014LegendsHeadmaster

2013The Great Train RobberyJohn Wheater

2013VincentThe Man

2013Father BrownSefton Scott

2012Ripper StreetCharles Broadwick

2012Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett StoryWilfred De'Ath

2012TitanicBruce Ismay

2011Death in ParadiseElias Thomson

2011We Need to Talk About KieranProfessor Hugh Merrill

2009Shadows in the SunRobert

2008A Risk Worth TakingPatrick Trenchard

2008Lady GodivaEarl of Mercia, Leofric

2007Secret Diary of a Call GirlHenry

2007Clapham JunctionJulian Rowan

2007It's Gradiva Who Is Calling YouJohn Locke

2007The Last Days of the RajLord Mountbatten

2007LewisHugh Mallory

2006Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an EmpireOfonius Tigellinus

2005JerichoAlan Mills

2004Agatha Christie's MarpleStanley Kirkwood

2004Island at WarSen. James Dorr

2004De-LovelyEdward Thomas

2003Sparkling CyanideStephen Farraday

2002George Eliot: A Scandalous LifeHerbert Spencer

2002Foyle's WarMajor Cornwall

2002The Making of Gosford ParkSelf (uncredited)

2002Bertie and ElizabethKing George VI, aka 'Bertie'

2001Gosford ParkFreddie Nesbitt

2001Jump TomorrowNathan

2001Murder in MindDaniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton

2001Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

1999Cotton MaryJohn MacIntosh

1999Tom's Midnight GardenUncle Alan Kitson

1999An Ideal HusbandSir Robert Chiltern

1999The Dark RoomDr Alan Protheroe

1999The Dark RoomDr. Alan Protheroe

1997The Woman In WhiteSir Percival Glyde

1997The Woman In WhiteSir Percival Glyde

1997Trial & RetributionJames McCready

1997Regeneration2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon

1997Midsomer MurdersEdward Milton

1997Original SinGerard Etienne

1996The Treasure SeekersHenry Carlisle

1996Witness Against HitlerHelmuth James von Moltke

1996Silent Witness

1994The Chess GameLord Staunton

1994Crocodile Shoes

1993Lady ChatterleySir Clifford Chatterley, Bt

1993You, Me and ItCharles Henderson

1992Immaculate ConceptionAlistair

1992Howards EndCharles Wilcox

1992Adam BedeArthur Donnithorne

1991The Siege of VeniceMilord Runbiff

1991Tell Me That You Love MeMichael Evans

1989ConspiracyStringer

1989Mother LoveChristopher "Kit" Vesey

1989Screen OneArthur Donnithorne

1989Tales from the CryptNick Marvin

1989A Tale of Two CitiesSydney Carton

1989Agatha Christie's PoirotAndrew Restarick

1988A Summer StoryFrank Ashton

1988The Storyteller: SapsorrowPrince

1988A Handful of DustTony Last

1988The StorytellerPrince

1987MauriceMaurice Hall

1986CasualtyArchie Grayling

1986A Room with a ViewParty Guest (uncredited)

1985Dutch GirlsDundine

1985DreamchildBaker

1984Sherlock HolmesYoung Barclay

1984The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesYoung James

1982PrivilegedJamie