James Wilby

James Wilby

  • Born: 1958-2-20
  • Birthplace: Yangon, Myanmar
  • Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
  • Profession: actor
  • Nationality: U.K
  • Graduate School: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
  • Representative Works: Maurice's Lover, A Room with a View, Clapham Junction, Oxford Love, A Handful of Dust
  • James Wilby (James Wilby), a well-known British drama and film actor, was born in Yangon, Myanmar in 1958. In 1987, he won the best actor in the 44th Venice International Film Festival (Best Actor) with " Maurice's Lover " , his representative work " "Maurice's Lover", " A Handful of Dust ", " Oxford Love ". [1] 

    Early Experience

    James Wilby (James Wilby, also translated as James Wilby), a famous British drama film actor, Wilby first appeared on the big screen in 1982 in cooperation with Hugh Grant , produced by Oxford Film Company, "Oxford Love ". What really brought Wilby to an international audience was his role in " Maurice's Lover " in 1987 , for which he and Hugh Grant were awarded the Best Actor Award at the Venice International Film Festival. After that, he starred in many films. 

    Performing Experience

    James Wilby family

    James Wilby (James Wilby) was born in Yangon, Myanmar in 1958. His father was a company executive. When he was a teenager, he returned to settle down in a British country, studied at Sedbergh High School, and then entered the University of Durham (Durham University) to major in mathematics. Then he became interested in acting and transferred to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to study. 

    James Wilby feelings

    In 1988, James Wilby (James Wilby) and Shana Louise Magraw married and had 4 children after marriage. 

    James Wilby in the movie

      • Oxford Love 1983-4-8

        director
        Michael Hoffman
        Starring
        Robert Woolley
      • A Room with a View 1986-3-7

        director
        James Ivory
        Starring
        Helena Bonham Carter Daniel Day-Lewis
      • Dutch Girls 1985

        director
        Giles Foster
        Starring
        Bill Paterson Colin Firth
      • Dreamchild 1985-10-4

        director
        Gavin Millar
        Starring
        Coral Browne Ian Holm
      • Maurice 1987-9-18

        director
        James Ivory
        Starring
        James Wilby Hugh Grant
      • A Summer Story 1988-8-11

        director
        Pierce Haggard
        Starring
        James Wilby
      • Red dust  1988-6-24

        director
        Charles Sturridge
        Starring
        James Wilby Kristin Scott Thomas
      • Howards End 1992-3-13

        director
        James Ivory
        Starring
        Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins
      • Partie d'échecs, La 1994-10-19

        director
        Yves Hanchar
        Starring
        Pierre Richard Denis Lavant
      • The Woman in White 1998-4-5

        director
        Tim Fewell
        Starring
        Justin WadellAndrew Lincoln
      • Rebirth  1997-8-28

        director
        Gillies Megano
        Starring
        Jonathan Pryce James Wilby
      • An Ideal Husband 1999-5-19

        director
        William P. Cartlidge
        Starring
        James Wilby Sadie Liza Vaughan
      • Tom's Midnight Garden 1999-5-15

        director
        Willard Carroll
        Starring
        Anthony Way
      • Darkroom  1999-4-2

        director
        Graham Thurston
        Starring
        Dervla Kirwan James Wilby
      • Cotton Mary 1999-12-17

        director
        Ismail MerchantMadhur Jaffrey
        Starring
        Greta Scacchi
      • Gosford Park 2001-11-7

        director
        Robert Altman
        Starring
        Margaret Natalie Smith Clive Owen
      • Jump Tomorrow 2001-1-19

        director
        Joel Hopkins
        Starring
        Hippolyte Girardot
      •  2003-10-5

        director
        Tristram Powell
        Starring
        Chloe Howman Kenneth Cranham
      • De-Lovely 2004-7-2

        director
        Irving Winkler
        Starring
        Kevin Klein Ashley Judd
      • Gradiva  2006-9-8

        director
        Alain Rob-Grillet
        Starring
        James Wilby Aliel Dobasler
      • Sittaford Mystery at The 2006-4-30

        director
        Paul Uwen
        Starring
        Kerry Mulligan Geraldine Mcewan
      • Clapham Junction 2007-7-22

        director
        Adrian Shergaard
        Starring
        Tom Beard
      • Comet Impact 2008-1-2

        director
        Keith Boak
        Starring
        James Wilby
      • Kieran's Problem 2008

        director
        Steve Murphy, Daniel Smith Rowsey
        Starring
        James Wilby
      • Lady Godiva 2008-1-25

        director
        Vicky Jewson
        Starring
        Isabelle Amyes
      • A Risk Worth Taking 2008-5-14

        director
        Paul Seed
        Starring
        James Wilby
      • Shadows In The Sun 2009-6-5

        director
        David Rocksavage
        Starring
        Jane Simmons Clemence Burtonhill
      • Churchill's Secret 2016-2-28

        director
        Charles Sturridge
        Starring
        Michael Gambon Romala Garri
      • The Sense of an Ending 2017-3-10

        director
        Raishu Picha
        Starring
        Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Lamplin
      • Duke  2020-9-4

        director
        Roger Michel
        Starring
        Matthew Goody Helen Lydia Mirren

    James Wilby in TV series

      • The Complete Collection of Detective Sherlock Holmes  1984-4-24

        director
        Alan GrintPaul AnnettJohn Bruce
        Starring
        Jeremy Brett David Booker
      • Casualty 1986-9-6

        director
        Michael Owen MorrisPaul MurphyDeclan O'Dwyer
        Starring
        Derek Thompson
      • Agatha Christie's Poirot Holmes legend 1989-1-8

        director
        Edward Bennett
        Starring
        David Suchet Hugh Fraser
      • A Tale of Two Cities 1989-2-21

        director
        Philip Monier
        Starring
        James Wilby
      • Lady Chatterley 1993-6-6

        director
        Ken Russell
        Starring
        Joely Richardson Sean Bean
      • Silent Witness 1996-2-21

        director
        Richard SignyRenny RyeDiarmuid Lawrence
        Starring
        William Gaminara
      • Island at War 2004-7-11

        director
        Thaddeus O'Sullivan
        Starring
        Saskia Reeves
      • Secret Diary of a Call Girl 2007

        director
        Jan Demanger, Susan Tully, Peter Lydon
        Starring
        Billie Pipedo Goldberg
      • Strike Back 2010

        director
        Michael Bassett
        Starring
        Philip Winchester Sullivan Stampleton
      • Ripper Street 2012-12-30

        director
        Andy Wilson Tom Shakron
        Starring
        Matthew McFedden, Jerome Flynn
      • Endeavour 2012-1-2

        director
        Colm McCarthy
        Starring
        Sean Evans Roger Alam
      • Titanic  2012-4-12

        director
        Jon Jones
        Starring
        Gerald Somerville
      • Our Zoo 2014-9-3

        director
        Andy De Aimoy
        Starring
        Lee Engleby Liz White
      • Victoria  2016-8-28

        director
        Oliver Blackburn Tom Vaughan
        Starring
        Jenna ColemanRufus Seville
      • The Nightmare Worlds of HG Wells 2016-1-28

        director
        Adrian Shergaard
        Starring
        Ray Winston
    movie
    years
    director
    Starring
    Titanic
    2012
    Jon Jones
    David Calder David Calder / Steven Waddington / Lee Ross Lee Ross
    The Best Possible Taste
    2012
    Richard Klein
    Oliver Lansley / James Wilby / James Wilby James Wilby
    The Equestrian
    2012
    Sybil H. Mair
    Layke Anderson / James Wilby James Wilby / Carl Hester
    We Need to Talk About Kieran
    2010
    Steve Murphy / Daniel Smith Rowsey
    Dan Morgan / James Wilby / Linda Robson / Christopher Parker / Scott Neal
    Holocaust Survival
    2009
    SPIKE TV
    Cade Courtley
    Shadows In The Sun
    2009
    David Rocksavage
    Jean Simmons / Clemency Burton-Hill / James Wilby
    Comet Impact
    2008
    Keith Boak
    Cristian Solimeno / James Wilby / Don Warrington / James Cosmo
    Lady Godiva
    2008
    Vicky Jewson
    james wilby
    A Risk Worth Taking
    2008
    Paul Seed
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    Clapham Junction
    2007
    Adrian Shergold
    Stuart Bunce / Rupert Graves / James Wilby / Luke Treadaway / Joseph Maw
    Little Devil Little Devil
    2007
    David Richard s
    Robson Green
    The last reign
    2007
    Carl Hindmarch
    James Wilby / Saskia Reeves / Roshan Seth / Rajat Kapoor / Surendra Rajan
    The Sittaford Mystery Marple: The Sittaford Mystery
    2006
    Paul Anvin
    Geraldine Mcewan / James Murray / Laurence Fox / Zoe Telford / James Wilby
    Call of Gradiva
    2006
    Alain Robbe-Grillet
    Arielle Dombasle / James Wilby / Dany Verissimo
    Island at War
    2004
    Peter Lydon / Thaddeus O'Sullivan
    James Wilby / Clare Holman / Samantha Robinson / Owen Teale / Julia Ford / Laurence Fox / Richard Dempsey / Sean Gallagher / Philip Glenister / Conor Mullen / Louisa Clein / Sam Heughan / Julian Wadham / Saskia Reeves / Joanne Froggatt
    De-Lovely
    2004
    Irwin Winkler
    Kevin Kline / Ashley Judd / Jonathan Pryce / James Wilby / Allan Corduner
    Sparkling Cyanide
    2003
    Tristan Powell
    Pauline Collins OBE / Oliver Ford Davies //James Wilby/ JonathonFirth
    Shock George Eliot (George Eliot: A Scandalous Life)
    2002
    Mary Downes
    Harriet Walter / John Sessions / James Wilby / David Walliams
    Bertie and Elizabeth 
    2002
    Giles Foster
    James Wilby / Alan Bates / Eileen June Atkins
    Looking forward to tomorrow (Jump Tomorrow)
    2001
    Joel Hopkins
    Tunde Adebimpe / Hippolyte Girardot / Natalia Verbeke Leiva / James Wilby
    Gosford Park (Gosford Park)
    2001
    : Robert Altman
    Margaret Natalie Smith / Michael Gambon / Kristin Scott Thomas / Camilla Rutherford / Clive Owen / Helen Lydia Mirren / Emily Watson / Ryan Phillippe / Stephen John Fry / Natasha Wightman / Tom Holland / Jeremy Northam
    Cotton Mary (Cotton Mary)
    1999
    Ismail Merchant / Madhur Jaffrey
    James Wilby / Madhur Jaffrey / Greta Scacchi
    The Dark Room
    1999
    Graham Theakston
    Dervla Kirwan / James Wilby
    Tom's Midnight Garden (Tom's Midnight Garden)
    1999
    Tim Fywell
    Tara Fitzgerald / Justine Waddell / Andrew Lincoln / James Wilby / Simon Callow
    An Ideal Husband
    1998
    William P. Cartlidge
    JonathonFirth / Sadie Liza Vaughan / James Wilby
    The Woman in White (The Woman in White)
    1998
    Willard Carr
    Anthony Way/James Wilby/ Greta Scacchi / Joan Plowright
    PD James: Original Sin
    1997
    Andrew Griev
    Roy Marsden / Lizzy McInnerny / Tim Dutton / Ian Bannen / Cathryn Harrison / Amanda Root / Sylvia Syms / James Wilby
    Regeneration
    1997
    Gillies Megano
    Jonathan Pryce / James Wilby / Stuart Bunce / Jonny Lee Miller / Kevin McKidd
    La Partie D'Echecs
    1994
    Yves Hanchar
    Pierre Richard / Denis Lavant / Catherine Deneuve
    Lady Chatterley
    1993
    Ken Russell
    Joely Richardson / Sean Bean / James Wilby / Shirley Anne Field / Melanie Hughes / David Stern
    Adam Bede
    1992
    Giles Foster
    Iain Glen / James Wilby / Susannah Harker
    Mother Love
    1989
    Simon Langton
    Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg / David Keith McCallum / James Wilby
    A Tale of Two Cities (A Tale of Two Cities)
    1989
    Philippe Monnier
    James Wilby / John Mills / Xavier Deluc / Serena Gordon
    A Handful of Dust (A Handful of Dust)
    1988
    Charles Sturridge
    James Wilby / Kristin Scott Thomas / Rupert Graves / Judith Olivia Dench / Alec Guinness de Cuffe
    A Summer Story (A Summer Story)
    1988
    John Galsworthy/Penelope Mortimer
    James Wilby /Imogen Stubbs/Susannah York
    Maurice's Lover
    1987
    James Ivory
    James Wilby James Wilby / Hugh Grant Hugh Grant
    Dutch Girls
    1985
    Giles Foster
    Colin Firth / Timothy Spall / Bill Paterson
    Dreamchild
    1985
    Gavin Millar
    Coral Browne / Ian Holm / James Wilby / Peter Killian Gallagher / Nicola Cowper / Jane Asher
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    1984
    David Carson / Ken Grieve / Alan Grint
    Jeremy Brett / David Burke / Rosalie Williams

    James Wilby in the stage play

    The Three Sisters in 1982
    Another Country in 1983
    Jane Eyre in 1983
    1993 The Trial
    1995 A Patriot for Me
    Helping Harry in 2001
    Don Juan in 2004 

    James Wilby's other works

    Appeared in the MV of Westlife " Uptown girl " in 2003 
    James Wilby stills
    Extended Reading

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