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  • A Handful Of Dust
  • A Handful Of Dust review by A customer from UK
    Rated - 5.0 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 ...   Read customer review
  • Lady Chatterley
  • Lady Chatterley review by A customer from england
    Rated - 4.0 stars Lady Chatterley's Lover 1 13 April 2010
    ...Some very good acting by Joely Richardson, James Wilby and of course Sean Bean! I hadn't read the book before although have often intended to. It is a good way to absorb t...   Read customer review
  • Maurice
  • Maurice review by from Warwickshire
    Rated - 4.0 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 ...   Read customer review

James Wilby - filmography


  • Shadows In The Sun on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jean Simmons,  James Wilby,  Jamie Dornan
    Director: David Rocksavage
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in a remote house on the East Anglian coast in the 1960's, Hannah (British-born Hollywood actress Jean Simmons - Spartacus) lives a perfectly happy life with her poetry, garden and much younger friend Joe (Jamie Dornan) When Hannah's son, Robert (James Wilby) arrives with his teenage daughter ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 163 members
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  • 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 »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 932 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.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 112 members
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  • Bertie And Elizabeth on DVD (2002)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Juliet Aubrey,  Alan Bates
    Director: Giles Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The fascinating story of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth is recounted in this sumptuous television drama. 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 (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 296 members
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  • Jump Tomorrow (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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 245 members
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  • Gosford Park on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Michael Gambon,  Stephen Fry,  Richard E. Grant
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film recalls both THE ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 16,401 members
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  • Tom's Midnight Garden on DVD (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 760 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,084 member
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  • Lady Chatterley (2 discs) on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Sean Bean,  Joely Richardson,  Shirley Ann Field
    Director: Ken Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, LADY CHATTERLEY is drawn from the author's unexpurgated novel, as well as the two previously published drafts of the story, 'The First Lady Chatterley' and 'John Thomas and Lady Jane'. In recounting the familiar details of young, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,270 member
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  • Howard's End on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Prunella Scales,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,662 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,319 member
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,879 members
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James Wilby facts

5 most recent films

Shadows In The Sun - 2.5 stars
Lady Godiva - 2.0 stars
Ancient Rome: The Rise And Fall Of An Empire - 3.5 stars
Agatha Christie's Marple - The Sittaford Mystery - 3.0 stars
Island At War - 4.0 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 - 2.0 stars
Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide - 3.0 stars
Lady Godiva - 2.0 stars
An Ideal Husband - 2.5 stars
Cotton Mary - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Michael Sheen - 3 times - show films
Helena Bonham-Carter - 3 times - show films
Peter Firth - 3 times - show films
Corin Redgrave - 3 times - show films
Rupert Graves - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Whyte - 5 times - show films
Aisling Walsh - 5 times - show films
Jo Johnson - 5 times - show films
Peter Lydon - 3 times - show films
Ken Russell - 3 times - show films