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
2010
Agatha Christie's Poirot
2008
Death in Paradise
2015
Casualty
2016
Silent Witness
2004
The Bill
1984
Father Brown
2018
Lewis
2007
Sherlock Holmes
1984
Tales from the Crypt
1996
Agatha Christie's Marple
2006
Foyle's War
2004

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
91
2025
The Marlow Murder Club
as Sir Peter Bailey
2025
I, Jack Wright
as Max Preston
2024
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024
Vindication Swim
as Mr. Havers
2024
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
as Viscount Algernon
2024
Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
as Mr. Vincent
2024
The Famous Five
as Mr. Vincent
2022
Masquerade
as Thomas
2021
The Duke
as Judge Aarvold
2019
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
as Narrator
2019
Salt
as Conrad
2018
Father Brown
as Sefton Scott
2017
The Sense of an Ending
as David Ford
2017
Poldark
as Lord Falmouth
2016
Churchill's Secret
as Brendan Bracken
2016
ChickLit
as Geoffrey
2016
Victoria
as Sir Piers Gifford
2016
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
as Pawkins
2016
Casualty
as Archie Grayling
2015
Legends
as Headmaster
2015
Death in Paradise
as Elias Thomson
2013
Vincent
as The Man
2013
Ripper Street
as Charles Broadwick
2013
The Great Train Robbery
as John Wheater
2012
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
as Wilfred De'Ath
2012
Titanic
as Bruce Ismay
2011
We Need to Talk About Kieran
as Professor Hugh Merrill
2011
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
as Henry
2010
Midsomer Murders
as Edward Milton
2009
Shadows in the Sun
as Robert
2008
A Risk Worth Taking
as Patrick Trenchard
2008
Lady Godiva
as Earl of Mercia, Leofric
2008
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Andrew Restarick
2007
It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
as John Locke
2007
Clapham Junction
as Julian Rowan
2007
The Last Days of the Raj
as Lord Mountbatten
2007
Lewis
as Hugh Mallory
2006
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Stanley Kirkwood
2006
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Ofonius Tigellinus
2005
Jericho
as Alan Mills
2004
De-Lovely
as Edward Thomas
2004
Island at War
as Sen. James Dorr
2004
Silent Witness
2004
Foyle's War
as Major Cornwall
2003
Sparkling Cyanide
as Stephen Farraday
2003
Murder in Mind
as Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton
2002
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
as Herbert Spencer
2002
Bertie and Elizabeth
as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
2002
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self (uncredited)
2001
Gosford Park
as Freddie Nesbitt
2001
Jump Tomorrow
as Nathan
2001
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
2000
Trial & Retribution
as James McCready
1999
Cotton Mary
as John MacIntosh
1999
An Ideal Husband
as Sir Robert Chiltern
1999
The Dark Room
as Dr Alan Protheroe
1999
Tom's Midnight Garden
as Uncle Alan Kitson
1999
The Dark Room
as Dr. Alan Protheroe
1997
Regeneration
as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
1997
The Woman In White
as Sir Percival Glyde
1997
Original Sin
as Gerard Etienne
1997
The Woman In White
as Sir Percival Glyde
1996
Witness Against Hitler
as Helmuth James von Moltke
1996
The Treasure Seekers
as Henry Carlisle
1996
Tales from the Crypt
as Nick Marvin
1994
The Chess Game
as Lord Staunton
1994
Crocodile Shoes
1993
Lady Chatterley
as Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt
1993
You, Me and It
as Charles Henderson
1992
Adam Bede
as Arthur Donnithorne
1992
Howards End
as Charles Wilcox
1992
Immaculate Conception
as Alistair
1992
Screen One
as Arthur Donnithorne
1991
Tell Me That You Love Me
as Michael Evans
1991
The Siege of Venice
as Milord Runbiff
1991
Screen One
as Michael Evans
1989
Conspiracy
as Stringer
1989
Mother Love
as Christopher "Kit" Vesey
1989
A Tale of Two Cities
as Sydney Carton
1988
A Summer Story
as Frank Ashton
1988
A Handful of Dust
as Tony Last
1988
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
as Prince
1988
The Storyteller
as Prince
1987
Maurice
as Maurice Hall
1986
A Room with a View
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1985
Dutch Girls
as Dundine
1985
Dreamchild
as Baker
1984
The Bill
1984
Sherlock Holmes
as Young Barclay
1984
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Young James
1982
Privileged
as Jamie