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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.

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Highest rated movies

94% 81% Howards End Watchlist
87% 78% Gosford Park
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83% 45% A Handful of Dust
Watchlist 82% 87% Maurice Watchlist
81% 88% Jump Tomorrow
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80% 90% A Summer Story
Watchlist 75% 52% The Sense of an Ending Watchlist
60% 76% Regeneration
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48% 66% De-Lovely
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36% 43% Cotton Mary
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James Wilby

James Wilby 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 View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 85% 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
81% 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% 45% 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

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89% 80% Poldark Lord Falmouth (Character) 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Padre Brown, detective Sefton Scott (Character) 2018
No Score Yet 85% 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 64% 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 Murder in Mind Daniel Morton / Sir Richard Morton (Character) 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mystery! Unknown (Character) 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Crocodile Shoes Unknown (Character) 1994 1996
82% 90% Tales From the Crypt Unknown (Character) 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lady Chatterley Unknown (Character) 1993
No Score Yet 57% The Famous Five Mr Vincent (Character)