James Fleet

James Fleet

1952-03-11 Bilston, Staffordshire, England, UK 61 Credits

Biography

​James Edward Fleet (born 11 March 1952) is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.

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My Mother’s Wedding

My Mother’s Wedding

2025

Acting

Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past an...

A Very British Hotel at Christmas

A Very British Hotel at Christmas

2024

as Narrator

8.0
Acting

Cameras go behind the scenes at Brown's, London's oldest luxury hotel, during the Christmas season, as staff face the expectations of delivering a lux...

Broken Bird

Broken Bird

2024

4.0
Acting

Whilst working at a funeral parlour, a lonely mortician develops a dark obsession with a local man.

Dodger Special: Bad Egg

Dodger Special: Bad Egg

2023

as Judge Fang

Acting

When a heist goes wrong, Dodger is given his harshest punishment yet - school!

Dodger Special: Christmas

Dodger Special: Christmas

2022

as Judge Fang

Acting

A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street.

Dodger Special: Train

Dodger Special: Train

2022

as Judge Fang

Acting

Dodger reunites with Fagin's gang, and they try their boldest plan yet - a train robbery!

The Lost King

The Lost King

2022

as John Ashdown-Hill

6.5
Acting

An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

Wolf Manor

Wolf Manor

2022

as Oliver Lawrence

5.6
Acting

Shooting a vampire flick in an old, abandoned manor house should have worked like a dream, but the film crew is out of their depth, over schedule and ...

Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

2022

as Charles Fraser-Smith

6.5
Acting

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain w...

The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out

The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out

2021

as Self

Acting

Dawn French and Richard Curtis take viewers on a joyful stroll down memory lane as they look back at their favorite Dibley moments, and for the first ...

The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown

The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown

2020

as Hugo Horton

6.0
Acting

The nation's favourite vicar muses upon lockdown, social distancing, masks and absent friends.

Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit

2020

as Harry Price

5.7
Acting

A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which le...

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

2019

as Dr. Willy Dekoven

6.0
Acting

An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tens...

Born a King

Born a King

2019

as George V

7.3
Acting

A coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior fathe...

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

2019

as Tom

7.2
Acting

You’re invited to the wedding of the year, as the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunite in this one-off sequel. Twenty-five years after...

Death on the Tyne

Death on the Tyne

2018

as Captain Jack Pearson

5.8
Acting

Draper's Tours are taking Mildred and her care home friends on an overnight ferry trip from North Shields to Amsterdam, where things will quickly turn...

The Spy Who Dumped Me

The Spy Who Dumped Me

2018

as Tom

6.4
Acting

A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartme...

Revolution: New Art for a New World

Revolution: New Art for a New World

2017

as Wassily Kandinsky (voice)

7.5
Acting

Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from...

Love of My Life

Love of My Life

2017

as Tom

5.1
Acting

What if you had only five days to figure out... everything.

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

2016

as Hugo Horton (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.7
Acting

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a tri...

Love & Friendship

Love & Friendship

2016

as Sir Reginald DeCourcy

6.1
Acting

From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances...

Billionaire Boy

Billionaire Boy

2016

as Mr Darrow

5.7
Acting

The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could wan...

Mr. Turner

Mr. Turner

2014

as John Constable

6.5
Acting

Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful ...

Murder on the Home Front

Murder on the Home Front

2013

as Professor Stephens

6.5
Acting

At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is...

The Decoy Bride

The Decoy Bride

2011

as William

6.0
Acting

A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.

Micro Men

Micro Men

2009

as Kenneth Baker

7.1
Acting

In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opp...

Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle

Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle

2007

as Alan Jenkins

5.0
Acting

Theres trouble brewing in Downtown Coventry. Mobster, Ray Carlton has a dreamcasinos! Hes got dirt on the local Mayor, Derek Osbourne and he wants his...

A Cock and Bull Story

A Cock and Bull Story

2005

as Simon

6.2
Acting

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opin...

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

2004

as Lefevre

7.2
Acting

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

Promoted to Glory

Promoted to Glory

2003

as Michael Prendergast

Acting

An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.

Blackball

Blackball

2003

as Alan the Pipe

5.2
Acting

Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he mana...

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

2003

as Kulygin

Acting

Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her...

South from Granada

South from Granada

2003

as Lytton Strachey

5.9
Acting

Brenan arrives at Yegen on foot, interrupting the funeral held for the daughter of the local cacique. He collapses from dysentery and soon learns that...

Two Men Went To War

Two Men Went To War

2002

as Maj. Bates

6.3
Acting

Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.

Fields of Gold

2002

as Alan Buckley

Acting

A two-part conspiracy thriller starring Anna Friel. An eager young photographer and a bitter tabloid hack are sent to investigate mysterious deaths at...

Young Arthur

Young Arthur

2002

as Merlin

Acting

Unaired TV movie pilot for a TV series on the childhood of King Arthur.

Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime

Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime

2002

as Alderman Fitzwarren

6.0
Acting

An adaptation of the folktale about a lonely boy, his beloved cat, and the hard decisions that come with their adventures.

Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray

2001

as Richard Cannerly

6.1
Acting

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working...

Kevin & Perry Go Large

Kevin & Perry Go Large

2000

as Dad

5.0
Acting

When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to bec...

Milk

Milk

1999

as Adrian

2.0
Acting

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies...

Frenchman's Creek

Frenchman's Creek

1998

as Sir Harry

5.7
Acting

Seeking to escape the stifling London court society, the beautiful headstrong Lady Dona St. Columb flees to her family estate on the Cornish coast. He...

Remember Me?

Remember Me?

1997

4.0
Acting

A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected...

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

1996

as James Bland

6.3
Acting

After being born in prison, Moll Flanders wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century English society, has five husbands and many male an...

Crossing the Floor

Crossing the Floor

1996

as Prime Minister

6.7
Acting

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the oppos...

Lord of Misrule

1996

as Prime Minister

Acting

Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. Th...

Eskimo Day

Eskimo Day

1996

as Simon

7.5
Acting

Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they...

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

1995

as Oswald

6.6
Acting

Luis, a Spanish student, goes to London to get a course in Economics. He lives at a house the neighbor of her aunt, but when she broke up with her hus...

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

1995

as John Dashwood

7.4
Acting

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When H...

The Grotesque

The Grotesque

1995

as Inspector Limp

5.3
Acting

Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo ...

3 Steps to Heaven

3 Steps to Heaven

1995

as Harry Roberts

2.5
Acting

A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.

Milner

Milner

1994

as Hugh Bonning

6.0
Acting

Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors. The film fol...

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral

1994

as Tom

6.8
Acting

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

An Exchange of Fire

1993

as Michael Shanks

Acting

Pavel Rhele is the ruthless head of a terrorist cell in a story of two fathers and two daughters whose relationships are suddenly subjected to public ...

Femme Fatale

Femme Fatale

1993

as Algie

Acting

Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempers. She marries, but the lust she inspires in the ...

Electric Moon

1992

as Simon Lidell

Acting

Set in an expensive tourist lodge in the forests of central India run by former royalty, Raja Ran Bikram Singh, 'Bubbles', the film is a satirical par...

Common Pursuit

Common Pursuit

1992

Acting

Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as undergraduates at Cambridge University when they ar...

Running Late

Running Late

1992

as James Grahame

Acting

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his...

Blue Black Permanent

Blue Black Permanent

1992

as Jim Thorburn

5.5
Acting

In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.

They Never Slept

They Never Slept

1991

as Bob

Acting

When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the Fre...

Still Crazy Like a Fox

1987

as Bellhop

7.7
Acting

Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.

Defence of the Realm

Defence of the Realm

1986

as Ministry Man

6.4
Acting

A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenag...