James Wilby
| James Wilby | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 February 1958 Rangoon, Burma |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | Since 1982 |
| Spouse(s) | Shana Louise |
| Children | Four |
James Jonathon Wilby (born 20 February 1958) is an English film, television and theatre actor.
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Early life and education
Wilby was born in Rangoon, Burma to a corporate executive father.[1] He was educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria, and from there went on to study for a degree in Mathematics at Grey College, University of Durham, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Career
Wilby's first appearance on screen was in the Oxford Film Company 1982 production Privileged alongside Hugh Grant. He is known to an international audience for roles in Maurice (1987), for which he received Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award with co-star Hugh Grant. Along with Grant, Wilby has always been best known for his regular inclusion in the Merchant-Ivory film 'family' which also boasts Rupert Graves, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emma Thompson, and Anthony Hopkins among its regulars. He then starred in A Handful of Dust (1988), for which he won the Bari Film Festival Best Actor award. Then came A Tale of Two Cities (1989), Howards End (1992), the critically acclaimed Regeneration (1997 film), Ismail Merchant's Cotton Mary (1999), Gosford Park (2001) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle (2006) co-starring Arielle Dombasle which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
On stage, he starred in the 1995 revival of John Osborne's A Patriot for Me by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre.[2] He then appeared in a production of 'Helping Harry' at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2001; as well, in 2004, he appeared as the title character in a run of 'Don Juan' at the Lyric Theatre. Other, more recent theatre productions James has starred in include a tour of 'Less Than Kind' (2012) by Terence Rattigan, 'On Emotion'(2008) at the Soho Theatre, and 'The Consultant' (2011) by Neil Fleming and the Hydrocracker Theatre Company at Theatre 503 in London.
Filmography and television work
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Privileged | Jamie | |
| 1984 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Young Barclay | TV series (1 episode: "The Crooked Man") |
| The Bill | Higgins | TV series (1 episode: "A Friend in Need") | |
| 1985 | Dutch Girls | Dundine | TV film |
| Dreamchild | Baker | ||
| A Room with a View | Party Guest | uncredited | |
| 1987 | Maurice | Maurice Hall | |
| 1988 | A Handful of Dust | Tony Last | |
| The Storyteller | Prince | TV series (1 episode: "Sapsorrow") | |
| A Summer Story | Mr. Ashton | ||
| 1989 | A Tale of Two Cities | Sydney Carton | TV mini-series |
| Conspiracy | Stringer | ||
| Mother Love | Christopher "Kit" Vesey | TV mini-series | |
| 1991 | The Siege of Venice | Milord Runbiff | |
| Adam Bede | Arthur Donnithorne | ||
| Screen One | Michael Evans | TV series (1 episode: "Tell Me That You Love Me") | |
| 1992 | Howards End | Charles Wilcox | |
| Immaculate Conception | Alistair | ||
| 1993 | You, Me and It | Charles Henderson | TV mini-series (3 episodes) |
| Lady Chatterley | Sir Clifford Chatterley | TV series (4 episodes) | |
| 1994 | La partie d'échecs | Lord Staunton | |
| Crocodile Shoes | Ade Lynn | TV mini-series (6 episodes) | |
| 1996 | The Treasure Seekers | Henry Carlisle | TV film |
| Witness Against Hitler | Helmuth James von Moltke | TV film | |
| Tales from the Crypt | Nick Marvin | TV series (1 episode: "Horrors in the Night") | |
| 1997 | The Woman in White | Sir Percival Glyde | TV film |
| Original Sin | Gerard Etienne | TV series | |
| Regeneration | 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon | ||
| 1998 | An Ideal Husband | Sir Robert Chiltern | |
| 1999 | The Dark Room | Dr. Alan Protheroe | TV film |
| Tom's Midnight Garden | Uncle Alan Kitson | ||
| Cotton Mary | John MacIntosh | ||
| 2000 | Trial & Retribution | James McCready | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2001 | Jump Tomorrow | Nathan | |
| Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years | Zippo Montefiore | TV series | |
| Gosford Park | Freddie Nesbitt | ||
| 2002 | Bertie and Elizabeth | King George VI, aka "Bertie" | TV film |
| Westlife: Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits, Volume I | High class customer ("Uptown Girl") | video | |
| George Eliot: A Scandalous Life | George Spencer | TV film | |
| 2003 | Murder in Mind | Daniel Morton/Sir Richard Morton | TV series (1 episode: "Echoes") |
| Sparkling Cyanide | Stephen Farraday | TV film | |
| 2004 | De-Lovely | Edward Thomas | |
| Island at War | Sen. James Dorr | TV mini-series (3 episodes) | |
| Silent Witness | Matt Gibb | TV series (2 episodes) | |
| Foyle's War | Major Cornwall | TV series (1 episode: "They Fought in the Fields") | |
| 2005 | Jericho | Alan Mills | TV series (1 episode: "The Hollow Men") |
| 2006 | Surviving Disaster | David Sheahan | TV series (1 episode: "Fastnet Yacht Race") |
| Agatha Christie's Marple: The Sittaford Mystery | Stanley Kirkwood | TV film | |
| Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle) | John Locke | ||
| Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Ofonius Tigellinus | TV series (1 episode: "Nero") | |
| 2007 | Lewis | Hugh Mallory | TV series (1 episode: "Expiation") |
| The Last Days of the Raj | Lord Mountbatten | TV film | |
| Clapham Junction | Julian Rowan | TV film | |
| Little Devil | Adrian Bishop | TV mini-series (1 episode: "Episode #1.3") | |
| Impact Earth | Josh Hayden | TV film | |
| 2008 | Lady Godiva | Leofric | |
| A Risk Worth Taking | Patrick Trenchard | TV film | |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot | Andrew Restarick | TV series (1 episode: "Third Girl") | |
| 2009 | Shadows in the Sun | Robert | |
| 2010 | Midsomer Murders | Edward Milton | TV series (1 episode: "The Made-to-Measure Murders") |
| 2011 | Secret Diary of a Call Girl | Henry | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #4.4") |
| We Need to Talk About Keiran | Professor Hugh Merrill | post-production | |
| 2012 | Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay | TV series, 4 episodes |
| The Best Possible Taste (BBC TV movie) | Wilfred De'Ath | post-production | |
| 2013 | The Great Train Robbery | John Wheater | TV series |
Personal life
He is married to Shana Louise and has four children: Barnaby John Loxley, Florence Hannah Mary, Nathaniel Jerome and Jesse Jack. One of his many hobbies includes yachting.[3] He is also an experienced and well-read wine connoisseur.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ James Wilby Biography (1958-)
- ↑ A Patriot for Me by John Osborne, Barbican Theatre, 1995.
- ↑ Wylie, Ian. 'Titanic' (production notes), pp.63-64.
- ↑ The Telegraph, 'Claret's more than just a stage', 21 August 2004.
External links
- James Wilby at the Internet Movie Database
- Unofficial James Wilby Online (fan forum)
- The James Wilby Page at the Wayback Machine (archived October 26, 2009)
- New York Times biography
- Hollywood.com biography
Interviews
- Articles with hCards
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1958 births
- 20th-century English male actors
- 21st-century English male actors
- Alumni of Durham University
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- English male film actors
- English male stage actors
- English male television actors
- Living people
- People educated at Sedbergh School
- Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners
- People from Yangon
- Volpi Cup winners
