James WilbyFilmography

Shadows in the Sun

Actors: Jean Simmons, James Wilby, Jamie Dornan, Ophelia Lovibond, Toby Marlow

Clapham Junction

Actors: Tom Beard, Rachael Blake, James Bellamy, Samantha Bond, Robin Berry, Stuart Bunce, Neil Pearson

Synopsis: Director Adrian Shergold uses interlocking stories to examine the connection between homophobia and gay desire in this hypersexual drama set in South London over the course of two sweltering summer days. It's a typical day in London: groups of young men are hitting the gay bars in droves, a Read More

Little Devil

Actors: Robson Green, Maggie O'Neill, James Wilby, Emily Joyce, Joseph Friend

Synopsis: A ten year old boy decides that if being a little angel can't save his parent's crumbling marriage he should perhaps try the opposite approach in darkly comic family drama from director David Richards (Alibi). Young Ollie may have only been walking this earth for a decade, but he's smart enough to Read More

C'est Gradiva Qui Vous Appelle

Actors: Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: The revered and celebrated Alain Robbe-Grillet's supernatural drama C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle (AKA That is Gradiva Who Calls You) - a French-Belgian co-production - concerns John Locke, an art historian immersed in Asian research on the Marrakeshi casbah, accompanied by Belkis, his servant Read More

De-Lovely

Actors: Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Alan Corduner

Synopsis: The public and private lives of famed songwriter Cole Porter are both explored in this musical drama, in which the aging Porter (played by Kevin Kline) looks back on his life while watching a rehearsal of a stage musical based on his story. As Porter compares notes on the play with director Gabe (Jonathan Pryce Read More

Island at War

Actors: James Wilby, Clare Holman, Philip Glenister, Saskia Reeves

Synopsis: Spanning over six and a half hours, this U.K. television movie chronicles the harrowing experiences of the citizens of the Channel Islands during World War II. Produced for Masterpiece Theatre, Island at War is a fictionalized account of the five years spent under Nazi rule by the British Read More

Bertie & Elizabeth

Actors: James Wilby, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates, Eileen Atkins, Charles Edwards

Synopsis: The fascinating story of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth is recounted in this British made-for-TV effort. It all begins in 1920, when the then-Duke of York Albert (James Wilby), known affectionately as Bertie, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic, 19-year-old Elizabeth Bowes-Lytton (Juliet Aubrey Read More

Gosford Park

Actors: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Richard E. Grant, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson

Synopsis: Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this intelligent murder mystery set in the early '30s. Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) are a pair of wealthy British Read More

Jump Tomorrow

Actors: Tunde Adebimpe, Hippolyte Girardot, James Wilby, Patricia Mauceri

Synopsis: A lovelorn matchmaker tries to set up two people about to be married -- but not to each other -- in this independent romantic comedy. George (Tunde Adebimpe) is a Nigerian expatriate living in upstate New York, where he has pledged to marry a woman in a marriage arranged for him in childhood Read More

Cotton Mary

Actors: Madhur Jaffrey, Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, Sakina Jaffrey, Laura Lumley

Synopsis: Ismail Merchant, best known as a producer for his work with director James Ivory (including Howards End and A Room With a View), takes possession of the director's chair in this drama. In 1954, seven years after India has gained independence from Great Britain, many Indians still feel like Read More

Tom's Midnight Garden

Actors: Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, Joan Plowright, Anthony Way, David Bradley

Synopsis: This fantasy for younger audiences concerns Tom (Anthony Way), a 14-year-old English boy who in the 1950s is sent to live with his Aunt Gwen (Greta Scacchi) and Uncle Alan (James Wilby) after one of his siblings becomes seriously ill. Late one night, Tom makes a remarkable discovery -- after Read More

Behind the Lines

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen

Synopsis: This period drama was based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by author Pat Barker, one of a trilogy dealing with World War I. James Wilby stars as Siegfried Sassoon, the real-life war hero and poet who, in 1917, writes a statement against the war that is read in Parliament. Faced with the choice Read More

The Woman in White

Actors: Tara Fitzgerald, James Wilby, Simon Callow, Ian Richardson, Andrew Lincoln

Synopsis: Along a dark country road in Cumberland, England, a ghoulish woman in white steps from the shadows to confront a foot traveler, Walter Hartright (Andrew Lincoln), bound for Limmeridge House three miles off. She asks senseless questions: "You don't suspect me of wrong, do you, Sir? Why do you Read More

The Treasure Seekers

Actors: Nicholas Farrell, James Wilby, Gina McKee, Ian Richardson, Donald Sinden

Synopsis: Adapted from the historical novel by Edith Nesbit, this family-oriented comedy-drama concerns Richard Barnstable (Nicholas Farrell), an eccentric widower and father of five who is trying to perfect a new form of refrigeration. Barnstable's tinkering doesn't bring in much money and his children Read More

Witness Against Hitler

Actors: Derek Jacobi, James Wilby

Synopsis: Witness Against Hitler is based on the true story of a Prussian aristocrat who was a member of the German army during World War II, working with the intelligence department. A committed Christian, he and several other believers were horrified by Hitler's genocidal policies and hatched a plot to Read More

La Partie D'Echecs

Actors: Pierre Richard, Denis Lavant, Catherine Deneuve, James Wilby, Delphine Bibet

Synopsis: Chess provides the dramatic focus in this Belgian film which explores the internal conflicts of a young chess prodigy seeking the deeper implications of life and the game. The drama begins in 1828 in the luxurious country manse of a local marquise. She is deeply involved with understanding the Read More

Howards End

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, James Wilby, Samuel West

Synopsis: One of the best Ismail Merchant/James Ivory films, this adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel shows in careful detail the injuriously rigid British class consciousness of the early 20th century. The film's catalyst is "poor relation" Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), who inherits part Read More

Immaculate Conception

Actors: James Wilby, Melissa Leo, Shabana Azmi, Zia Mohyeddin, James Cossins

Synopsis: Religious and personal tensions escalate steadily in this drama, and nearly everyone in it has some sort of extra-sensitive "toes" that get stepped on by others. James Wilby would seem to have a relatively non-controversial job, for a foreigner, since he is a wildlife conservationist, and Read More

Lady Chatterley

Actors: Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby, Shirley Ann Field

Synopsis: Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, Lady Chatterley (an amalgam of three Lawrence novels) was first shown as a British TV miniseries on BBC1 from June 6 to 27, 1993. In recounting the familiar details of young, bored Lady Chatterley (Joely Richardson), her elderly Read More

Adam Bede

Actors: Patsy Kensit, James Wilby, Iain Glen, Susannah Harker

Synopsis: Written by George Eliot (of Silas Marner fame), the 1859 novel Adam Bede trenchantly addresses the issues of ingrained social prejudices. Played in this British TV adaptation by Iain Glen, the titular Adam Bede is a humble carpenter, enamored of the beautiful but shallow Hetty Sorel (Patsy Read More

Conspiracy

Synopsis: Adapted from true events, a high-level government official is threatened by his past escapades, so a crack team gets on the case. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

A Tale of Two Cities

Synopsis: The fourth presentation of Masterpiece Theatre's 1989-90 season, a four-part adaptation of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, was so lavish an undertaking (especially for TV) that it ended up a Production of Two Cities. Part of the program was taped at London's Granada studios, while the remaining Read More

A Summer Story

Actors: Imogen Stubbs, James Wilby, Kenneth Colley, Sophie Ward, Susannah York

Synopsis: Megan (Imogen Stubbs) is a pretty country girl who falls in love with urban attorney Ashton (James Wilby) in this romantic social drama. Ashton remains in Devon when he injures his ankle and elects to stay longer because of his crush on Megan. Promising to return for her, Ashton leaves Megan and Read More

A Handful of Dust

Actors: James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust is set amongst Britain's aristocracy of the 1930s. At sumptuous Hetton Abbey, tradition-bound country squire James Wilby and his wife Kristin Scott Thomas open their doors to well-connected but impoverished Rupert Graves. Graves returns Wilby's Read More

Maurice

Actors: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow

Synopsis: Director James Ivory brings his subdued, "Masterpiece Theater" style to a forbidden subject -- homosexual love. Maurice is based on E.M. Forster's suppressed 1914 novel that was held back from publication until after his death. The film takes place at Cambridge, before World War I, when Read More

Dutch Girls

Synopsis: In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills--gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Crooked Man

Actors: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Norman Jones, Michael Lumsden, Denys Hawthorne

Synopsis: "The Crooked Man" is an episode of the television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, an excellent adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories, produced in Britain for Granada TV. In this episode, directed by Alan Grint, Jeremy Brett portrays the famed detective, aided by his companion Read More

Dreamchild

Actors: Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper, Caris Corfman, Amelia Shankley

Synopsis: Irreverent British writer Dennis Potter speaks aloud what many literary historians have only postulated in whispers in Dreamchild. The film is set in 1932, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alice in Wonderland creator Lewis Carroll. The guest of honor at the New York-based celebration is Read More

Privileged

Actors: Hugh Grant, Imogen Stubbs

Synopsis: This British drama is thought to be the first student feature film made at Oxford University. It is also notable for marking the film debut of actors Hugh Grant, Imogen Stubbs, and James Wilby. The story is focused on a group of undergraduates, one of whom considers himself a fine actor. During a Read More