请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 James Wilby
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. Filmography

     Film  Television 

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. External links

     Interviews 
{{for|the British swimmer|James Wilby (swimmer)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}{{Infobox person
| name = James Wilby
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|2|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Rangoon, Burma
| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1982–present
| spouse = Shana Louise
| children = 4
}}

James Jonathon Wilby (born 20 February 1958) is an English actor.

Early life and education

Wilby was born in Rangoon, Burma to a corporate executive father.[1] He was educated at Terrington Hall School, North Yorkshire and Sedbergh School in Cumbria (prior to 1974 in West Riding of Yorkshire), and from there went on to study for a degree in Mathematics at Grey College, University of Durham, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career

Wilby's first appearance on screen was in the Oxford Film Company 1982 production Privileged alongside Hugh Grant. He is known to an international audience for roles in Maurice (1987), for which he received Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award with co-star Hugh Grant. He then starred in A Handful of Dust (1988), for which he won the Bari Film Festival Best Actor award. Then came A Tale of Two Cities (1989), Howards End (1992), the critically acclaimed Regeneration (1997), Ismail Merchant's Cotton Mary (1999), Gosford Park (2001) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle (2006) co-starring Arielle Dombasle which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

On stage, he starred in the 1995 revival of John Osborne's A Patriot for Me by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre.[2] He then appeared in a production of 'Helping Harry' at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2001; as well, in 2004, he appeared as the title character in a run of 'Don Juan' at the Lyric Theatre. Other, more recent theatre productions James has starred in include a tour of 'Less Than Kind' (2012) by Terence Rattigan, 'On Emotion'(2008) at the Soho Theatre, and 'The Consultant' (2011) by Neil Fleming and the Hydrocracker Theatre Company at Theatre 503 in London.He also appeared in two episodes Trial and Retribution as the killer of his boyfriend

Personal life

He is married to Shana Louise and has four children.[3][4]

Filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes
1982 Privileged Jamie
1985 Dreamchild Baker
A Room with a View Party Guest Uncredited
1987 Maurice Maurice Hall
1988 A Handful of Dust Tony Last
A Summer Story Mr. Ashton
1989 Conspiracy Stringer
1991 The Siege of Venice Milord Runbiff
Adam Bede Arthur Donnithorne
1992 Howards End Charles Wilcox
Immaculate Conception Alistair
1994 La partie d'échecs Lord Staunton
1997 Regeneration 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
1998 An Ideal Husband Sir Robert Chiltern
1999 Tom's Midnight Garden Uncle Alan Kitson
Cotton Mary John MacIntosh
2001 Jump Tomorrow Nathan
Gosford Park Freddie Nesbitt
2004 De-Lovely Edward Thomas
2006 Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle) John Locke
2008 Lady Godiva Leofric
2009 Shadows in the Sun Robert
2011 We Need to Talk About Keiran Professor Hugh Merrill

Television

Year Film Role Notes
1984 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Young Barclay Episode: "The Crooked Man"
The Bill Higgins Episode: "A Friend in Need"
1985 Dutch Girls Dundine TV movie
1988 The Storyteller Prince Episode: "Sapsorrow"
1989 A Tale of Two Cities Sydney Carton TV mini-series
Mother Love Christopher "Kit" Vesey TV mini-series
1991 Screen One Michael Evans Episode: "Tell Me That You Love Me"
1993 You, Me and It Charles Henderson TV mini-series, 3 episodes
Lady Chatterley Sir Clifford Chatterley 4 episodes
1994 Crocodile Shoes Ade Lynn TV mini-series, 6 episodes
1996 The Treasure Seekers Henry Carlisle TV movie
Witness Against Hitler Helmuth James von Moltke TV movie
Tales from the Crypt Nick Marvin Episode: "Horrors in the Night"
1997 The Woman in White Sir Percival Glyde TV movie
Original Sin Gerard Etienne TV series
1999 The Dark Room Dr. Alan Protheroe TV movie
2000 Trial & Retribution James McCready 2 episodes
2001 Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years Zippo Montefiore 1 episode
2002 Bertie and Elizabeth King George VI, aka "Bertie" TV film
Westlife: Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits, Volume I High class customer ("Uptown Girl") video
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life George Spencer TV film
2003 Murder in Mind Daniel Morton/Sir Richard Morton Episode: "Echoes"
Sparkling Cyanide Stephen Farraday TV movie
2004 Island at War Sen. James Dorr TV mini-series, 3 episodes
Silent Witness Matt Gibb TV series, 2 episodes
Foyle's War Major Cornwall Episode: "They Fought in the Fields"
2005 Jericho Alan Mills TV series (1 episode: "The Hollow Men")
2006 Surviving Disaster David Sheahan Episode: "Fastnet Yacht Race"
Agatha Christie's Marple: The Sittaford Mystery Stanley Kirkwood TV movie
The Rise and Fall of an Empire Ofonius Tigellinus Episode: "Nero"
2007 Lewis Hugh Mallory Episode: "Expiation"
The Last Days of the Raj Lord Mountbatten TV movie
Clapham Junction Julian Rowan TV movie
Little Devil Adrian Bishop TV mini-series, Episode: "Episode #1.3"
Impact Earth Josh Hayden TV movie
2008 A Risk Worth Taking Patrick Trenchard TV film
Agatha Christie's Poirot Andrew Restarick Episode: "Third Girl"
2010 Midsomer Murders Edward Milton Episode: "The Made-to-Measure Murders"
2011 Secret Diary of a Call Girl Henry Episode: "Episode #4.4"
2012 Titanic J. Bruce Ismay TV series, 4 episodes
The Best Possible Taste Wilfred De'Ath BBC TV movie
2013 The Great Train Robbery John Wheater TV mini-series, Episode: A Copper's Tale
2014 UK Charles Hutton Episode: Bad Romance
Endeavour ACC Clive Deare Episode: Neverland
2015 Death in Paradise Elias Thomson Episode: Stab in the Dark
2015 Strike BackCharles Ridley TV series, 5 episodes
2016 Churchill's Secret Brendan Bracken TV movie
2017 Poldark Lord Falmouth TV, series 3

See also

{{portal|Biography|Film|Television|Theatre}}
  • List of British actors and actresses
  • List of Durham University people
  • List of RADA alumni
{{clear}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/78/James-Wilby.html|title=James Wilby Biography (1958-)|publisher=}}
2. ^A Patriot for Me by John Osborne, Barbican Theatre, 1995. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828061438/http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/abj76/PG/works/a_patriot_for_me.shtml |date=28 August 2006 }}
3. ^Wylie, Ian. 'Titanic' (production notes), pp.63-64.
4. ^The Telegraph, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/wine/3314587/Clarets-more-than-just-a-stage.html 'Claret's more than just a stage'], 21 August 2004.

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0928134}}
  • New York Times biography
  • Hollywood.com biography

Interviews

  • From The Guardian (2002)
  • [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml?xml=/wine/2004/08/21/edwilby21.xml#article_continue From The Telegraph (2004)]
  • [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2004/07/10/terclass10.xml#article_continue From The Telegraph (2005)]
{{Volpi Cup for Best Actor}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilby, James}}

15 : 1958 births|20th-century English male actors|21st-century English male actors|Alumni of Grey College, Durham|Alumni of Durham University|Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|English male film actors|English male stage actors|English male television actors|Living people|People educated at Sedbergh School|Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners|People from Yangon|Volpi Cup winners|Burmese emigrants to the United Kingdom

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/11/16 8:02:09