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).

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2024Merchant Ivory — Self
• 2002The Making of Gosford Park — Self (uncredited)