James Wilby, a talented and accomplished actor, was born on February 20, 1958, in Rangoon, Burma, a city that would later be renamed Yangon, Myanmar.
James Wilby
67 · Born: Feb 20, 1958
Career
2025
I, Jack Wright as Max Preston
2024
Vindication Swim as Mr. Havers
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare as Viscount Algernon
2021
The Duke as Judge Aarvold
2019
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey as Narrator
2018
Poldark as Lord Falmouth
2017
The Sense of an Ending as David Ford
Father Brown as Sefton Scott
2016
ChickLit as Geoffrey
Churchill's Secret as Brendan Bracken
2015
Legends as Headmaster
2013
The Great Train Robbery as John Wheater
2012
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story as Wilfred De'Ath
Titanic as Bruce Ismay
2009
Shadows in the Sun as Robert
2008
Lady Godiva as Earl of Mercia, Leofric
A Risk Worth Taking as Patrick Trenchard
Futureshock: Comet as Josh Hayden
2007
Clapham Junction as Julian Rowan
The Last Days of the Raj as Lord Mountbatten
2004
De-Lovely as Edward Thomas
Island at War as Sen. James Dorr
2003
Sparkling Cyanide as Stephen Farraday
2002
Bertie and Elizabeth as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
2001
Life: A User's Manual as Nathan
Gosford Park as Freddie Nesbitt
2000
1999
An Ideal Husband as Sir Robert Chiltern
The Dark Room as Dr Alan Protheroe
Tom's Midnight Garden as Uncle Alan Kitson
Cotton Mary as John MacIntosh
1997
Behind the Lines as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
The Woman in White as Sir Percival Glyde
1996
Witness Against Hitler as Helmuth James von Moltke
The Treasure Seekers as Henry Carlisle
1994
1993
Lady Chatterley as Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt
1992
Immaculate Conception as Alistair
Howards End as Charles Wilcox
Screen One as Arthur Donnithorne
1991
Screen One as Michael Evans
1989
Mother Love as Christopher "Kit" Vesey
A Tale of Two Cities as Sydney Carton
1988
A Handful of Dust as Tony Last
A Summer Story as Frank Ashton
1987
Maurice as Maurice Hall
1986
A Room with a View as Party Guest (uncredited)
1985
Dutch Girls as Dundine
Dreamchild as Baker
1982
Privileged as Jamie
