James Wilby

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James Jonathon Wilby (born February 20, 1958 in Rangoon , Myanmar ) is a British actor .

life and career

James Wilby took acting classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . From the early 1980s he got his first smaller roles in film and television. He took his first major film role in 1987 in the EM Forster literary adaptation Maurice by James Ivory , for portraying the title character in this film he was awarded the prize for best actor at the Venice International Film Festival . The blond-haired actor then played mainly characters with an aristocratic appearance. He was particularly often seen in history strips or literary film adaptations , for example in A Handful of Dust (1988) based on Evelyn Waugh and in Wiedersehen in Howards End (1992), another Forster film adaptation directed by Ivory. In 2001, Wilby appeared as a con man in aristocratic circles in Robert Altman's feature film Gosford Park .

In the 1990s, the quality of his cinema offerings deteriorated, after which he concentrated increasingly on work in British television series, including guest roles in Tales from the Crypt , Inspector Barnaby , Lewis - The Oxford Crime and Father Brown . In 2012, Wilby played the controversial businessman J. Bruce Ismay in the television series Titanic about the sinking of the ship of the same name . Wilby is also active as a stage actor on London stages.

Wilby has four children with his wife, Shana Lewis, who he has been married to since 1988.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Wilby | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved April 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ David Eimer: What Wilby, Wilby. February 2, 2002, accessed April 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ James Wilby. Retrieved April 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wilby, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilby, James Jonathon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Rangoon , Myanmar