James Dorr James Wilby James is the Deputy Bailiff of the island's government. His family is well established on the island, as his father was Bailiff before him. James is likeable, handsome, still athletic, skilled at his job and highly conscious of the duties and privilege of his office. He loves his wife but cannot be sure she loves him. He is fiercely protective of her, which sometimes leads him to make the wrong decisions. James Wilby has had a distinguished career working in film, television and theater. He has appeared in De-Lovely as Edward Thomas, Gosford Park as Hon. Freddie Nesbitt and An Ideal Husband as Sir Robert Chiltern. Wilby's theater credits include St John Rivers in Jane Eyre, Peter in Salonika and Ferdinand in The Tempest, all at the Chichester Festival Theatre. He appeared as Alfred Redl in A Patriot For Me, a Royal Shakespeare Company production, and in Helping Harry playing Phil. Wilby has previously appeared in the Masterpiece Theatre productions Bertie and Elizabeth, The Woman in White and Adam Bede.