Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Julian Wadham (born 7 August 1958) is a British actor of stage, film and television. He has appeared on television as both Charles II (in the 2004 BBC docudrama Wren: The Man Who Built Britain) and George V (in the TV adaptation of the play My Boy Jack). He appeared onstage as Don Pedro (alongside Zoë Wanamaker and Simon Russell Beale) at the Royal National Theatre's 2007-08 production of Much Ado About Nothing.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Napoleon
2023
as Jean de Cambaceres
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his add...
The Song of Names
2019
as Mr. Bailey
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his fi...
The Song of Names
2019
as Arbuthnot Bailey
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his fi...
Colette
2018
as Ollendorff
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France...
The Happy Prince
2018
as Mr. Arbuthnott
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover....
Victoria & Abdul
2017
as Alick Yorke
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Churchill
2017
as Bernard Montgomery
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016
as Dr. Janek
A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of ...
The Riot Club
2014
as Miles' Father
Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one ev...
Queen & Country
2014
as Colonel Fielding
In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle the...
National Theatre Live: This House
2013
as Humphrey Atkins
It's February 1974. Ted Heath's Conservative government has been ousted. But only just. In the hung Parliament, Labour manages to form a minority gove...
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
2012
as Uncle Bob
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances th...
Now Is Good
2012
as Dr. Ryan
A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
The Scapegoat
2012
as Headmaster
In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a face.
Outpost: Black Sun
2012
as Hunt
A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie ...
The Iron Lady
2011
as Francis Pym
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
War Horse
2011
as Trench Captain
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey beg...
Eric & Ernie
2011
as Ronnie Waldman
Single drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's formative years, from child stars to national treasures. 'Big head, short legs' is E...
Legacy
2010
as Gregor Salenko
Taking refuge in a shabby Brooklyn motel after narrowly surviving a failed mission in Eastern Europe, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) begi...
Outpost
2008
as Hunt
In a seedy bar in a town ravaged by war, scientist and businessman Hunt hires mercenary and former Royal Marine D.C. to assemble a crack team of ex-so...
My Boy Jack
2007
as King George V
Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
The Last Days of the Raj
2007
as Evan Jenkins
Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to...
Goya's Ghosts
2006
as Joseph Bonaparte
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to h...
Ghostboat
2006
as Captain Byrnes
Jack Hardy is the sole survivor of a mysterious submarine disaster in World War II. Now, in 1981, the ill-fated submarine Scorpion has resurfaced, mir...
Wallis & Edward
2005
as Alec Hardinge
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around t...
The Search for Tutankhamun
2005
as Lord Carnarvon
Howard Carter hunts for the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun.
Wah-Wah
2005
as Charles Bingham
Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, throu...
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
2005
as Major Granville
Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.
The Government Inspector
2005
as Jonathan Powell
The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
2005
as Squire Brown
The determined new headmaster of an English prep school attempts to reform the frequently unruly students, who are tormented by a ruthless bully.
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
as Hugo Massingham
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr....
A Different Loyalty
2004
as Andrew Darcy
In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for B...
Exorcist: The Beginning
2004
as Major Granville
Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.
Gypsy Woman
2002
as Stanley
A ruthless property developer investigates a builder's death and meets the dead man's wife. Recently widowed himself, he falls for her and is drawn in...
High Heels and Low Lifes
2001
as Rogers
A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers f...
The Man
1999
as Geoffrey
Lenny Henry plays the boss of an ailing (so he is broke) travel agency and he alo sings in an R&B pub band.
Toy Boys
1999
as Mr. Allen
Four families embark on the ever-crucial-in-Britain school entrance exam.
The Commissioner
1998
as Der Premierminister
John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for hi...
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
as Ravelston
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits...
Preaching to the Perverted
1997
as M'Learned Friend
A computer wizard infiltrates a London sex club to get evidence for a shutdown, but falls for the proprietress.
The English Patient
1996
as Madox
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along w...
The Madness of King George
1994
as Pitt
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confu...
The Trial of Lord Lucan
1994
as Lord Lucan
An imagined trial of a man who, in 1974 London, is thought to have killed a woman he mistook for his wife in order to regain custody of his children. ...
Mountain Language
1988
as Officer
Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no longer...
Maurice
1987
as Hull
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
Bright Eyes
1982
as Oliver
1999: Examination of family life and political ideals in a war-ravaged future Europe, compared and contrasted with ’60s equivalents.
The Guest
1982
as Patron's Son
Gerald fancies himself as a bit of a gourmet and a trip to the gastronomic delights of France promises well. His wife Hilary is not so sure; she isn't...
Baal
1982
as Johannes
Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to cut his ties to the world and meet his doom. A hig...
Country
1981
as Robert Carlion
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the famil...