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James Wilby

James Wilby

Highest Rated: 94% Howards End (1992)

Lowest Rated: 13% ChickLit (2016)

Birthday: Feb 20, 1958

Birthplace: Rangoon, Burma

A handsome, athletic blond British lead, James Wilby garnered his first film success as the title character of "Maurice" (1987), the Merchant-Ivory adaptation of E M Forster's novel about an Edwardian youth coming of age and coming to terms with his homosexuality.

Highest rated movies

94% Howards End
87% Gosford Park
83% A Handful of Dust
82% Jump Tomorrow
82% Maurice
80% A Summer Story
75% The Sense of an Ending
60% Regeneration

Photos

MAURICE, James Wilby, Hugh Grant, 1987 A HANDFUL OF DUST, James Wilby (left), 1988. ©New Line Cinema MAURICE, FROM LEFT: JAMES WILBY, HUGH GRANT, 1987. © COHEN MEDIA GROUP COTTON MARY, James Wilby (left), director Ismail Merchant (center) on-set, 1999, © Artistic License GOSFORD PARK, Laurence Fox, Jeremy Northam, Charles Dance, Kristin Scott Thomas, James Wilby, Claudie Blakley, Maggie Smith, Stephen Fry, 2001 REGENERATION, James Wilby, 1997. A HANDFUL OF DUST, Anjelica Huston, James Wilby, 1988, (c)New Line Cinema MAURICE, James Wilby, 1987, (c)Cinecom COTTON MARY, Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, 1999, © Artistic License MAURICE, from left: Rupert Graves, James Wilby, 1987, © Cinecom MAURICE, FROM LEFT: JAMES WILBY, DIRECTOR JAMES IVORY, HUGH GRANT, ON SET, 1987. © COHEN MEDIA GROUP MAURICE, FROM LEFT: HUGH GRANT, JAMES WILBY, 1987. © COHEN MEDIA GROUP MAURICE, James Wilby, Hugh Grant, 1987, (c)Cinecom MAURICE, James Wilby, Rupert Graves, 1987, (c)Cinecom MAURICE, James Wilby, 1987 MAURICE, James Wilby, Hugh Grant, 1987 MAURICE, Hugh Grant, James Wilby, 1987, playing fields of England A SUMMER STORY, James Wilby, 1988 MAURICE, Hugh Grant, James Wilby, 1987 MAURICE, from left: James Wilby, Ben Kingsley, 1987, © Cinecom
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 79% Vindication Swim Unknown (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Masquerade Thomas (Character) - 2022
75% 52% The Sense of an Ending David Ford (Character) $1.2M 2017
13% 15% ChickLit Geoffrey (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vincent Unknown (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Poirot: Third Girl Andrew Restarick (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Risk Worth Taking Patrick Trenchard (Character) - 2008
25% 32% Shadows in the Sun Robert (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Comet Impact Josh Hayden (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 50% Gradiva John Locke (Character) - 2006
48% 66% De-Lovely Edward Thomas (Character) $13.3M 2004
No Score Yet 76% Island at War Unknown (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sparkling Cyanide Unknown (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 50% Bertie & Elizabeth King George VI, aka 'Bertie' (Character) - 2002
87% 78% Gosford Park Freddie Nesbitt (Character) $41.3M 2001
82% 88% Jump Tomorrow Nathan (Character) $187.5K 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trial & Retribution IV James McCready (Character) - 2000
36% 43% Cotton Mary John Macintosh (Character) $299.4K 1999
No Score Yet 59% Tom's Midnight Garden Uncle Alan Kitson (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dark Room Dr. Alan Protheroe (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 17% An Ideal Husband Sir Robert Chiltern (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 52% The Woman in White Sir Percival Glyde (Character) - 1997
60% 76% Regeneration 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon (Character) $19.3K 1997
No Score Yet 29% Treasure Seekers Henry Carlisle (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Original Sin Unknown (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Witness Against Hitler Helmuth James von Moltke (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 17% The Chess Game Lord Staunton (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Immaculate Conception Alistair (Character) - 1992
94% 81% Howards End Charles Wilcox (Character) $157.9K 1992
No Score Yet 38% Adam Bede Arthur Donnithorne (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Conspiracy Stringer (Character) - 1989
83% 46% A Handful of Dust Tony Last (Character) $1.6M 1988
80% 90% A Summer Story Frank Ashton (Character) - 1988
82% 87% Maurice Maurice Hall (Character) $45.9K 1987

TV

Credit
89% 80% Poldark Lord Falmouth (Character) 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Padre Brown, detective Sefton Scott (Character) 2018
No Score Yet 84% Death in Paradise Elias Thomson (Character) 2015
90% 91% Endeavour ACC Clive Deare (Character) 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great Train Robbery John Wheater (Character) 2013
94% 91% Ripper Street Unknown (Guest Star) 2013
38% No Score Yet Titanic Bruce Ismay (Character) 2012
No Score Yet 62% Secret Diary of a Call Girl Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Masterpiece Theatre Unknown (Character) 1998 2002 2005
No Score Yet 96% Foyle's War Major Cornwall (Character) 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mystery! Unknown (Character) 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Crocodile Shoes Unknown (Character) 1994 1996
82% 92% Tales From the Crypt Unknown (Character) 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lady Chatterley Unknown (Character) 1993