James Wilby
James Wilby is an English actor, known for Maurice (1987), Gosford Park (2001), Howards End (1992), and A Handful of Dust (1988).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.799 |
| Birthday | 1958-02-20 |
| Place of Birth | Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar] |
| Also Known As |
2001
Gosford Park
6.852/1070
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, ea...
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Gosford Park
1987
Maurice
7.6/533
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
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Maurice
2022
Masquerade
6.778/410
Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Marg...
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Masquerade
2007
It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
6.1/25
An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search f...
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It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
2004
De-Lovely
6.187/131
From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas were never less than glamorous and wildly uncon...
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De-Lovely
1991
Tell Me That You Love Me
0/0
Laura Simms has an exciting job as a top magazine editor, but her love life's a disaster. Her luck seems to change when she meets Gabriel, a handsome...
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Tell Me That You Love Me
1999
Cotton Mary
4.7/6
A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.
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Cotton Mary
1988
A Summer Story
6.2/18
A young lawyer from London, Mr. Ashton, and his best friend are hiking across Dartmoor. When he twists his ankle, Ashton is forced to seek help at a n...
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A Summer Story
2008
A Risk Worth Taking
4/3
A wife nursing her terminally ill husband finds herself falling for his friend.
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A Risk Worth Taking
2019
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
0/0
A film about the life of A Passage to India author E M Forster, following his huge growth as a writer and the twists and turns of his personal life.
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E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
1985
A Room with a View
7/741
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George st...
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A Room with a View
1999
An Ideal Husband
6.6/5
Rising politician Robert Chiltern once sold secret information and is now being blackmailed by Laura Cheveley. She has proof, and it will damage his c...
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An Ideal Husband
1999
The Dark Room
5/4
In hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elop...
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The Dark Room
2024
Merchant Ivory
7/1
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James...
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Merchant Ivory
2024
Vindication Swim
5.2/5
The inspirational story of Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the English Channel and her battle against both the cold waters of the Ch...
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Vindication Swim
2002
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
3/3
Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexu...
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George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
1992
Adam Bede
7.3/13
Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surfa...
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Adam Bede
2012
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
5/3
Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which impr...
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Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
2013
Vincent
0/0
When a man sees a woman he recognizes on the train, he suspects she might have something of his.
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Vincent
2024
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
7.1/1164
During World War II, the British Army assigns a group of competent soldiers to carry out a mission against the Nazi forces behind enemy lines... A tru...
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2016
Churchill's Secret
6.3/26
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
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Churchill's Secret
1985
Dutch Girls
4.4/5
In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and win...
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Dutch Girls
1988
A Handful of Dust
6.1/37
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance...
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A Handful of Dust
2008
Lady Godiva
1/0
Quirky young art teacher Jemima takes up a £100,00 bet to ride through the town naked on horseback like Lady Godiva to keep her beloved Art Factory op...
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Lady Godiva
2001
Jump Tomorrow
6.8/18
When shy, straitlaced George meets vivacious, adorable Alicia, he's instantly smitten -- which puts his imminent arranged marriage in jeopardy. He vow...
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Jump Tomorrow
1994
The Chess Game
4.7/5
In 19th century, a disillusioned priest helps a young boy drifter who's a chess wunderkind to move on up in life and social structures using his talen...
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The Chess Game
1997
Regeneration
5.6/25
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest hom...
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Regeneration
2009
Shadows in the Sun
4.6/9
A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another.
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Shadows in the Sun
2002
Bertie and Elizabeth
5.6/7
The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively pr...
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Bertie and Elizabeth
2007
Clapham Junction
6.6/44
Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty...
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Clapham Junction
1985
Dreamchild
6.7/32
Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had a...
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Dreamchild
2016
ChickLit
5.5/15
ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mum...
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ChickLit
2007
The Last Days of the Raj
0/0
Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to...
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The Last Days of the Raj
2003
Sparkling Cyanide
4.6/11
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secre...
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Sparkling Cyanide
1992
Howards End
7/521
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, al...
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Howards End
1999
Tom's Midnight Garden
5.9/20
When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly landlady, Mrs Bart...
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Tom's Midnight Garden
1992
Immaculate Conception
5.2/10
Alistair, a British representative for a wildlife conservation agency based in Karachi and his Jewish-American wife Hannah have been unsuccessful at c...
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Immaculate Conception
2017
The Sense of an Ending
6.4/203
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
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The Sense of an Ending
1982
Privileged
0/0
A story about a group of Oxford undergraduate acting students and their troubled lives while producing (and competing between themselves for a role in...
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Privileged
1997
The Woman In White
6.6/22
Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving...
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The Woman In White
1991
The Siege of Venice
4.2/3
Venice, eighteenth century. The young Rosanna, widowed on her wedding day, discovers that she is the sole heir to an enormous patrimony, becoming in t...
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The Siege of Venice
1996
Witness Against Hitler
6/1
The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group of fellow devout Christians, p...
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Witness Against Hitler
2019
Salt
0/0
When the father of the family, Conrad, has to spend the night in hospital after a minor operation, the rest of the family gather to spend the evening...
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Salt
1996
The Treasure Seekers
6/4
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
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The Treasure Seekers
2021
The Duke
7/309
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains...
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The Duke
2002
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
5/2
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes in...
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