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  • A Handful Of Dust
  • A Handful Of Dust review by A customer from UK
    Rated - 5 stars Customer Review 23 June 2008
    ...y shot and the amazing cast absolutely spot-on. The understated performances of James Wilby and Kristin Scott Thomas as the two doomed main characters are just perfect to ...  
  • Maurice
  • Maurice review by from Warwickshire
    Rated - 4 stars Highly Watchable 25 March 2005
    ...rom Merchant-Ivory adapted from an equally little-known novel by EM Forster. James Wilby plays the titular Maurice, who falls in love with Clive Durham (played by Hugh ...  

James Wilby - filmography


  • Lady Godiva on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Pheobe Thomas,  Matthew Chambers,  James Wilby
    Director: Vicky Jewson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Jemima, an attractive but quirky young school teacher, fierce and independent, sets out to resurrect her dead brother's memory through the Art Factory, a place she has created where kids can forget their troubles and enter the world of their imagination. Where anything is possible. But in her ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 860 members
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  • Island At War (2 discs) (2004)
    Starring: James Wilby
    Director: Peter Lydon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dramatisation of the events surrounding the capture of the Channel Islands during World War II and three of the families that struggle to come to terms with life under a new, dictatorial regime.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 106 members
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  • Bertie And Elizabeth (2002)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Juliet Aubrey,  Alan Bates
    Director: Giles Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A portrayal of the life of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, focusing on her courtship with the future George VI, the abdication crisis, the birth of their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret and the war years finally leading to Bertie's early death in 1952.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 228 members
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  • Jump Tomorrow on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Tunde Adebimpe,  Natalia Verbeke,  Hippolyte Girardot
    Director: Joel Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A love story built on honest, clever, quiet jubilation--steering clear of mushiness and sentimentalism--JUMP TOMORROW interweaves the lives and dreams of three unique characters. George, aka Jorge (Tunde Adebimpe), is a sweet, shy man with deadpan facial expressions and a monotone voice. But ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 222 members
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  • Tom's Midnight Garden (1999)
    Starring: Nigel Le Vaillant,  Greta Scacchi,  James Wilby
    Director: Willard Carroll
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    While staying with his aunt and uncle, young Tom Long (Anthony Way) discovers he can enter a magical garden when the grandfather clock strikes midnight. Tom is joined by a girl named Hatty (Florence Hoath) on his adventures in the garden. The film also stars Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, and Joan ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 674 members
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  • Regeneration (1997)
    Starring: Jonathan Pryce,  James Wilby,  Jonny Lee Miller
    Director: Gillies Mackinnon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jonathan Pryce stars as Dr. William Rivers, an army psychologist who treats mentally disturbed patients so that they can return to the front, in this adaptation of Pat Barker's moving World War I novel. Dr. Rivers begins to doubt the morality of his occupation when he begins treating a bizarre trio ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,051 member
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  • Lady Chatterley (1993)
    Starring: Sean Bean,  Joely Richardson,  Shirley Ann Field
    Director: Ken Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sean Bean, Joely Richardson Adapted by Ken Russell from DH Laurence's classics novels, Lady Chatterley is a passionate love story, which portrays the tempestuous and scandalous affair between an aristocratic young woman and her husband's gamekeeper. Joely Richardson plays one of fictions most ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 763 members
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  • Howard's End on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Prunella Scales,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    E.M. Forster's 1910 novel is adapted for the screen by Merchant Ivory Productions in this masterful Edwardian Age romance directed by James Ivory. The dying Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) wishes to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson in an Academy Award-winning ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,613 members
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  • A Handful Of Dust on DVD (1988)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Kristin Scott-Thomas,  Rupert Graves
    Director: Charles Sturridge
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Tony and Brenda appear to have the perfect marriage - living in the fashionable England of the 30's in a Victorian country estate. But when Tony invites the dashing, yet penniless young socialite John Beaver for a weekend stay, he unknowingly ignites a series of shattering events - passion, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 937 members
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  • Maurice on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Patrick Godfrey,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,383 members
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James Wilby facts

5 most recent films

Lady Godiva - 2.0 stars
Agatha Christie's Marple - The Sittaford Mystery - 3.0 stars
Ancient Rome: The Rise And Fall Of An Empire - 3.5 stars
Island At War - 4.0 stars
Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Lynda La Plante - Trial And Retribution Volumes 1-4 - 4.0 stars
Island At War - 4.0 stars
Ancient Rome: The Rise And Fall Of An Empire - 3.5 stars
Howard's End - 3.5 stars
Maurice - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

A Tale Of Two Cities - 1.5 stars
Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide - 2.0 stars
Shadows In The Sun - 3.5 stars
Lady Godiva - 2.0 stars
An Ideal Husband - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James D'Arcy - 3 times - show films
Peter Firth - 3 times - show films
Sean Pertwee - 3 times - show films
Corin Redgrave - 3 times - show films
Michael Sheen - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Nick Murphy - 3 times - show films
Peter Lydon - 3 times - show films
James Ivory - 2 times - show films
Giles Foster - 1 times - show films
Jo Johnson - 1 times - show films