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Acting

James Dreyfus

Career: Active from 1981 to 2022, with a break from 1982 to 1993, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 9
top three billing

Average score: 53/100

Highest rated: The Thin Blue Line
77/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 29 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

James Dreyfus Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
2.8, average 4.8
Tension
4.2, average 6.0
Violence
2.4, average 4.1
Melancholy
3.2, average 4.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

British Sitcom 4
Cringe Humor 3
Witty Dialogue 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

43

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

7 titles · average score 59

Semolina Pilchard

as Detective Maxwell

Cara

as Gregg Wilson

Lips

as Michael

House of the Dragon

77

TV show · as Lord Gormon Massey

The Kindred

50

as Mr. Mulvaney

Harry and Meghan: Escaping the Palace

34

as Leonard

Supernova

75

as Tim

2010s

9 titles · average score 65

Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal

54

as Sir Leonard Briggs

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

85

TV show · as Lath'N (voice)

Sequins

as Mimi Le Purr / Roger Ellis

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

73

TV show · as Claude Mortimer

Agatha Raisin

65

TV show · as Harry Witherspoon

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

as Tom (archive footage) (uncredited)

Scottish Mussel

31

as Headmaster

Father Brown

77

TV show · as Binkie Cadwaller

Mount Pleasant

67

TV show

2000s

14 titles · average score 49

Nina and the Neurons

TV show · as Felix (Voice)

The Sarah Jane Adventures

66

TV show · as Harrison

Colour Me Kubrick

47

as Melvyn

Fat Slags

24

as Fidor

Shameless

77

TV show · as Edward Clayhill

The Paul O'Grady Show

35

TV show

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

33

as Gordon

Churchill: The Hollywood Years

42

as Mr. Teasy-Weasy

Waking the Dead

50

TV show · as Raymond Carstairs

My Hero

43

TV show · as George Monday / Thermoman

Bette

56

TV show · as Oscar

Gormenghast

70

TV show · as Professor Fluke

1990s

11 titles · average score 74

Gimme Gimme Gimme

73

TV show · as Tom Farrell

Notting Hill

75

as Martin

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Ralph Ford

Boyfriends

45

as Paul

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout

as Christopher

The Thin Blue Line

77

TV show · as Constable Kevin Goody

Thin Ice

as Greg

Richard III

82

as 1st Subaltern

Paris

TV show · as Beluniare

The All New Alexei Sayle Show

TV show

Absolutely Fabulous

85

TV show · as Christopher

1980s

2 titles · average score 68

Casualty

62

TV show · as Rory

Willo the Wisp

74

TV show · as Narrator