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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Complete Filmography

My Mother’s Wedding
2025
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
2024
as Narrator
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
2024
Whilst working at a funeral parlour, a lonely mortician develops a dark obsession with a local man.

Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023
as Judge Fang
When a heist goes wrong, Dodger is given his harshest punishment yet - school!

Dodger Special: Christmas
2022
as Judge Fang
A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street.

Dodger Special: Train
2022
as Judge Fang
Dodger reunites with Fagin's gang, and they try their boldest plan yet - a train robbery!

The Lost King
2022
as John Ashdown-Hill
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
2022
as Oliver Lawrence
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
2022
as Charles Fraser-Smith
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
2021
as Self
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
2020
as Hugo Horton
The nation's favourite vicar muses upon lockdown, social distancing, masks and absent friends.

Blithe Spirit
2020
as Harry Price
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
2019
as Dr. Willy Dekoven
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
2019
as George V
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
2019
as Tom
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
2018
as Captain Jack Pearson
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
2018
as Tom
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
2017
as Wassily Kandinsky (voice)
Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from...

Love of My Life
2017
as Tom
What if you had only five days to figure out... everything.

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
as Hugo Horton (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
2016
as Sir Reginald DeCourcy
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
2016
as Mr Darrow
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
2014
as John Constable
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
2013
as Professor Stephens
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
2011
as William
A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.

Micro Men
2009
as Kenneth Baker
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
2007
as Alan Jenkins
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
2005
as Simon
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
2004
as Lefevre
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

Promoted to Glory
2003
as Michael Prendergast
An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.

Blackball
2003
as Alan the Pipe
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
2003
as Kulygin
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
2003
as Lytton Strachey
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
2002
as Maj. Bates
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
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
2002
as Merlin
Unaired TV movie pilot for a TV series on the childhood of King Arthur.

Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime
2002
as Alderman Fitzwarren
An adaptation of the folktale about a lonely boy, his beloved cat, and the hard decisions that come with their adventures.

Charlotte Gray
2001
as Richard Cannerly
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
2000
as Dad
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
1999
as Adrian
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
1998
as Sir Harry
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?
1997
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
1996
as James Bland
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
1996
as Prime Minister
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
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
1996
as Simon
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
1995
as Oswald
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
1995
as John Dashwood
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
1995
as Inspector Limp
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
1995
as Harry Roberts
A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.

Milner
1994
as Hugh Bonning
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
1994
as Tom
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
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
1993
as Algie
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
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
1992
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
1992
as James Grahame
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
1992
as Jim Thorburn
In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.

They Never Slept
1991
as Bob
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
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
1986
as Ministry Man
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...