James Wilby
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)
- 1982: Privileged
- 1984: Sherlock Holmes (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1985: Room with a View (A Room With a View)
- 1985: The Real Life of Alice in Wonderland (Dreamchild)
- 1987: Maurice
- 1988: A Summer (A Summer Story)
- 1988: A Handful of Dust
- 1992: Howards End (Howards End)
- 1994: Crocodile Shoes (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 1996: Tales from the Crypt ( Tales from the Crypt ; TV Series, 1 episode)
- 1997: regeneration
- 2001: Gosford Park
- 2004: De-Lovely - The Cole Porter Story (De-Lovely)
- 2004: Island at War (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 2007: Comet Impact - Killer from Space (Impact Earth)
- 2007: Lewis - The Oxford Crime ( Lewis ; TV series, 1 episode)
- 2008: Robin Pilcher - A Risk Worth Taking ; TV movie
- 2010: Inspector Barnaby - You have to believe in it ( The Made-to-Measure Murders , TV movie)
- 2012: Titanic (TV miniseries, 4 episodes)
- 2014: The Young Inspector Morse ( Endeavor ; TV series, 1 episode)
- 2015: Strike Back (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 2015: Legends (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 2016: Victoria (TV series, episode 1x07)
- 2016–2017: Casualty (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 2017: The Sense of an Ending
- 2017-2018: Poldark (TV series, 10 episodes)
- 2018: Father Brown (TV series, 1 episode)
Awards (selection)
- 1987: Coppa Volpi , best actor for the role in Maurice
Web links
- James Wilby in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Wilby | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved April 9, 2018 .
- ↑ David Eimer: What Wilby, Wilby. February 2, 2002, accessed April 9, 2018 .
- ↑ 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 |