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Acting

James Wilby

Career: Active from 1982 to 2024, busiest in 1999 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 27
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Maurice
78/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 59 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

James Wilby Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.5, average 5.4
Physical Comedy
0.9, average 2.4
Adrenaline
3.4, average 4.8
Pop Culture
0.9, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 5
Psychological Thriller 4
Social Commentary 3
Character-Driven 3
Historical Drama 3
LGBTQ+ Themes 2
Class Conflict 2
Murder Mystery 2
Coming-of-Age 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

88

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

8 titles · average score 64

I, Jack Wright

71

TV show · as Max Preston

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

65

as Viscount Algernon

The Marlow Murder Club

60

TV show · as Sir Peter Bailey

Vindication Swim

48

as Mr. Havers

Mystery at the Prospect Hotel

as Mr. Vincent

The Famous Five

55

TV show · as Mr. Vincent

Masquerade

74

as Thomas

The Duke

79

as Judge Aarvold

2010s

17 titles · average score 64

E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey

as Narrator

The Sense of an Ending

63

as David Ford

Victoria

76

TV show · as Sir Piers Gifford

Poldark

79

TV show · as Lord Falmouth

Legends

65

TV show · as Headmaster

Father Brown

77

TV show · as Sefton Scott

The Great Train Robbery

69

TV show · as John Wheater

Ripper Street

82

TV show · as Charles Broadwick

Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

as Wilfred De'Ath

Titanic

47

TV show · as Bruce Ismay

We Need to Talk About Kieran

as Professor Hugh Merrill

Death in Paradise

59

TV show · as Elias Thomson

2000s

21 titles · average score 68

Shadows in the Sun

52

as Robert

Lady Godiva

as Earl of Mercia, Leofric

A Risk Worth Taking

as Patrick Trenchard

It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You

58

as John Locke

Clapham Junction

67

as Julian Rowan

The Last Days of the Raj

as Lord Mountbatten

Lewis

80

TV show · as Hugh Mallory

Island at War

77

TV show · as Sen. James Dorr

Agatha Christie's Marple

75

TV show · as Stanley Kirkwood

Sparkling Cyanide

54

as Stephen Farraday

Bertie and Elizabeth

69

as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'

Foyle's War

83

TV show · as Major Cornwall

1990s

23 titles · average score 65

The Dark Room

64

TV show · as Dr. Alan Protheroe

An Ideal Husband

as Sir Robert Chiltern

The Dark Room

61

as Dr Alan Protheroe

Cotton Mary

40

as John MacIntosh

Regeneration

62

as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Edward Milton

Silent Witness

75

TV show

Crocodile Shoes

72

TV show

Lady Chatterley

65

TV show · as Sir Clifford Chatterley, Bt

TV show · as Charles Henderson

Immaculate Conception

59

as Alistair

The Siege of Venice

as Milord Runbiff

1980s

19 titles · average score 74

Mother Love

71

TV show · as Christopher "Kit" Vesey

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Andrew Restarick

A Tale of Two Cities

64

TV show · as Sydney Carton

Tales from the Crypt

75

TV show · as Nick Marvin

A Handful of Dust

69

as Tony Last

A Summer Story

77

as Frank Ashton

Maurice

78

as Maurice Hall

Casualty

62

TV show · as Archie Grayling

Dutch Girls

44

as Dundine

The Bill

77

TV show

Sherlock Holmes

88

TV show · as Young Barclay

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as Jamie