James Wilby

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name = James Wilby


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birthdate = 20 February 1958
birthplace = Rangoon, Burma

James Jonathon Wilby (born 20 February 1958) is an English actor for film, TV and stage.

Biography

He was born in Rangoon, Burma to a corporate executive father. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/78/James-Wilby.html James Wilby Biography (1958-) ] ] He was educated at Sedbergh School and from there went on to study for a degree at Grey College, University of Durham.

Married to Shana Louise and has the following children Barnaby John Loxley, Florence Hannah Mary, Nathaniel Jerome and Jesse Jack.

A well-known bit part actor on the stage and screen in the United Kingdom, Wilby's first appearance on screen was in the Oxford Film Company 1982 production Privileged alongside Hugh Grant . Wilby is best 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. Then he starred in "A Handful of Dust" (1988), "Howards End" (1992) and "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. [ [http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/abj76/PG/works/a_patriot_for_me.shtml A Patriot for Me by John Osborne, Barbican Theatre, 1995 ] ]

Films and TV

*"We Need To Talk About Kieran" (2008) - Professor Hugh Merrill
*"Shadows In The sun" (2008 TV) - Robert
*"A Risk Worth Taking" (2008 TV) - Patrick Trenchard
*"Lady Godiva (2008 film)" - Leofric
*"Clapham Junction" (2007 TV film) - Julian Rowan
*"Little Devil" (2007 TV movie) - Adrian Bishop
*"" (2006 TV film) - Stanley Kirkwood
*"Surviving Disaster" (TV series)
**"Fastnet Yacht Race" (2006) - David Sheahan
*"C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle" (2006, by Alain Robbe-Grillet) - John Locke
*"Jericho" (TV series)
**"The Hollow Men" (2005) - Alan Mills
*"Foyle's War" (TV series)
**"They Fought in the Fields" (2004) - Major Cornwall
*"Silent Witness" (TV series)
**"Nowhere Fast" (2004) - Matt Gibb
*"Island at War" (2004 TV mini-series) - Sen. James Dorr
*"De-Lovely" (2004) - Edward Thomas
*"Sparkling Cyanide" (2003 TV movie) - Stephen Farraday
*"Murder in Mind" (TV series)
**"Echoes" (2003) - Daniel Morton/Sir Richard Morton
*"" (2002 TV movie) - Herbert Spencer
*"Bertie and Elizabeth" (2002 TV movie) - King George VI, aka "Bertie"
*"Gosford Park" (2001) - Freddie Nesbitt
*"" (2001 TV movie) - Zippo Montefiore
*"Jump Tomorrow" (2001) - Nathan
*"Trial & Retribution IV" (2000 TV movie) - James McCready
*"Cotton Mary" (1999, Merchant Ivory Film) - John MacIntosh
*"Tom's Midnight Garden" (1999) - Uncle Alan Kitson
*"The Dark Room" (1999 TV movie) - Dr Alan Protheroe
*"An Ideal Husband" (1998) - Sir Robert Chiltern
*"Regeneration (1997 film)" - 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
*"Original Sin" (1997 TV movie) - Gerard Etienne
*"The Woman in White" (1997 TV movie) - Sir Percival Glyde
*"Tales from the Crypt" (TV series)
**"Horror in the Night" (1996)
*"Witness Against Hitler" (1996 TV movie) - Helmuth James von Moltke
*"Treasure Seekers" (1996 TV movie) - Henry Carlisle
*"Crocodile Shoes" (1994 TV mini-series) - Ade Lynn
*"La Partie d'échecs" (1994) - Lord Staunton
*" Lady Chatterley " (1993 TV movie, by Ken Russell) - Sir Clifford Chatterley
*"You Me + It" (1993 TV movie) - Charles Henderson
*"Howards End" (1992, Merchant Ivory Film) - Charles Wilcox
*"Immaculate Conception" (1992) - Alistair
*"Tell Me That You Love Me" (1991 TV movie) - Michael Evans
*"Adam Bede" (1991 TV movie) - Arthur Donnithorne
*"The Siege of Venice" (1991)
*"Conspiracy" (1989) - Stringer
*"Mother Love" (1989 TV mini-series) - Christopher "Kit" Vesey
*"A Tale of Two Cities" (1989 TV mini-series) - Sydney Carton
*"A Handful of Dust" (1988) - Tony Last
*"A Summer Story" (1988) - Mr. Ashton
*"The Storyteller" (TV series)
**"Sapsorrow" (1988) - Prince
*"Maurice" (1987, Merchant Ivory Film) - Maurice Hall
*"A Room with a View" (1985, Merchant Ivory Film) - Party Guest (cameo)
*"Dreamchild" (1985) - Baker
*"Dutch Girls" (1985) - Dundine
*"The Bill" (TV series)
**"A Friend in Need" (1984) - Higgins
*"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (TV series)
**"The Crooked Man" (1984) - Young James Barclay
*"Privileged" (1982) - Jamie

References

External links

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* [http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/3226/Wilby/ The James Wilby Page]
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=76192&mod=bio New York Times biography]
* [http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/James_Wilby/190508#fullBio Hollywood.com biography]

Interviews

* [http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,643474,00.html#article_continue From "The Guardian" (2002)]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml?xml=/wine/2004/08/21/edwilby21.xml#article_continue From "The Telegraph" (2004)]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2004/07/10/terclass10.xml#article_continue From "The Telegraph" (2005)]