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

Silent Witness

Casualty

Father Brown

Agatha Christie's Marple

Sherlock Holmes

All Movies (50)

• Mystery at the Prospect Hotel2024 · as Mr. Vincent
• Merchant Ivory2024 · as Self
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare2024 · as Viscount Algernon
• Vindication Swim2024 · as Mr. Havers
• Masquerade2022 · as Thomas
• The Duke2021 · as Judge Aarvold
• E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey2019 · as Narrator
• Salt2019 · as Conrad
• The Sense of an Ending2017 · as David Ford
• ChickLit2016 · as Geoffrey
• Churchill's Secret2016 · as Brendan Bracken
• Vincent2013 · as The Man
• Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story2012 · as Wilfred De'Ath
• We Need to Talk About Kieran2011 · as Professor Hugh Merrill
• Shadows in the Sun2009 · as Robert
• A Risk Worth Taking2008 · as Patrick Trenchard
• Lady Godiva2008 · as Earl of Mercia, Leofric
• Clapham Junction2007 · as Julian Rowan
• It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You2007 · as John Locke
• The Last Days of the Raj2007 · as Lord Mountbatten
• De-Lovely2004 · as Edward Thomas
• Sparkling Cyanide2003 · as Stephen Farraday
• George Eliot: A Scandalous Life2002 · as Herbert Spencer
• The Making of Gosford Park2002 · as Self (uncredited)
• Bertie and Elizabeth2002 · as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
• Gosford Park2001 · as Freddie Nesbitt
• Jump Tomorrow2001 · as Nathan
• Cotton Mary1999 · as John MacIntosh
• Tom's Midnight Garden1999 · as Uncle Alan Kitson
• An Ideal Husband1999 · as Sir Robert Chiltern
• The Dark Room1999 · as Dr Alan Protheroe
• The Woman In White1997 · as Sir Percival Glyde
• Regeneration1997 · as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
• The Treasure Seekers1996 · as Henry Carlisle
• Witness Against Hitler1996 · as Helmuth James von Moltke
• The Chess Game1994 · as Lord Staunton
• Immaculate Conception1992 · as Alistair
• Howards End1992 · as Charles Wilcox
• Adam Bede1992 · as Arthur Donnithorne
• The Siege of Venice1991
• Tell Me That You Love Me1991 · as Michael Evans
• Conspiracy1989
• A Summer Story1988 · as Frank Ashton
• The Storyteller: Sapsorrow1988 · as Prince
• A Handful of Dust1988 · as Tony Last
• Maurice1987 · as Maurice Hall
• A Room with a View1986 · as Party Guest (uncredited)
• Dutch Girls1985 · as Dundine
• Dreamchild1985 · as Baker
• Privileged1982 · as Jamie

All TV Shows (38)

• I, Jack Wright2025 · as Max Preston
• The Marlow Murder Club2024 · as Sir Peter Bailey
• Victoria2016 · as Sir Piers Gifford
• The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells2016 · as Pawkins
• Poldark2015 · as Lord Falmouth
• Legends2014 · as Headmaster
• The Great Train Robbery2013 · as John Wheater
• Father Brown2013 · as Sefton Scott
• Ripper Street2012 · as Charles Broadwick
• Titanic2012 · as Bruce Ismay
• Death in Paradise2011 · as Elias Thomson
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl2007 · as Henry
• Lewis2007 · as Hugh Mallory
• Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire2006 · as Ofonius Tigellinus
• Jericho2005 · as Alan Mills
• Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Stanley Kirkwood
• Island at War2004 · as Sen. James Dorr
• Foyle's War2002 · as Major Cornwall
• Murder in Mind2001 · as Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton
• Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years2001
• The Dark Room1999 · as Dr. Alan Protheroe
• Trial & Retribution1997 · as James McCready
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Edward Milton
• Original Sin1997 · as Gerard Etienne
• Silent Witness1996
• Crocodile Shoes1994
• Lady Chatterley1993 · as Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt
• Mother Love1989 · as Christopher "Kit" Vesey
• Screen One1989 · as Arthur Donnithorne
• Screen One1989 · as Michael Evans
• Tales from the Crypt1989 · as Nick Marvin
• A Tale of Two Cities1989 · as Sydney Carton
• Agatha Christie's Poirot1989 · as Andrew Restarick
• The Storyteller1988 · as Prince
• Casualty1986 · as Archie Grayling
• The Bill1984
• Sherlock Holmes1984 · as Young Barclay
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes1984 · as Young James