释义 |
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Filmography Film Television
- See also
- References
- 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 educationWilby 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. CareerWilby'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 lifeHe is married to Shana Louise and has four children.[3][4] FilmographyFilm 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 Back | Charles 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}}References1. ^{{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 |