Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
June 18, 1948
Place of Birth:
Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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Philip Jackson
Biography
Philip Jackson (born 18 June 1948) is an English actor, known for his many television and film roles, most notably as Chief Inspector Japp in the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot and as Abbot Hugo, one of the recurring adversaries in the cult 1980s series Robin of Sherwood.
Jackson was born in Retford, Nottinghamshire. He started acting while studying Drama and German at the University of Bristol, and has worked in the theatre in Leeds, Liverpool and London. His stage work includes Pozzo in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre in the West End in 1991 and Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds in 2010. He was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in Little Voice (1998).
His television appearances have included Coronation Street, Robin of Sherwood, A Touch of Frost, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, Heartbeat, Little Britain, Hamish Macbeth, Raised by Wolves and Last of the Summer Wine. He has also appeared in the films Scum, Paul McCartney's Give My Regards to Broad Street, Brassed Off, Mike Bassett: England Manager, "Grow Your Own", and My Week with Marilyn. He also appeared in the music video of A-Ha's "Take On Me"
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Your Move | Mikey |
| 2023 | The Peacock | Lord Macintosh |
| 2020 | Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple | Self - Inspector Japp, ITV's Poirot |
| 2020 | Bumps | Howard |
| 2018 | Peterloo | John Knight |
| 2018 | Above the Clouds | William |
| 2014 | Patrick's Day | John Freeman |
| 2013 | The Best Offer | Fred |
| 2013 | Believe | Bob |
| 2013 | Ragged | Prison Governor |
| 2012 | Spike Island | Mr. Jackson |
| 2012 | Stars In Shorts | Trevor |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Roger Smith |
| 2011 | City State | William |
| 2011 | Friend Request Pending | Trevor |
| 2010 | The First Men in the Moon | Voice of Grand Lunar |
| 2009 | Margaret | Bernard Ingham |
| 2008 | Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley | Alfred Roberts |
| 2007 | Fanny Hill | Mr. Croft |
| 2007 | Grow Your Own | Big John |
| 2007 | I Want Candy | Stephen, Joe's Dad |
| 2005 | The Best Man | Mr. Barker |
| 2005 | A Little Trip to Heaven | William |
| 2004 | Von Trapped | Torsten |
| 2003 | Second Nature | Lawrence Augenblick |
| 2003 | Coogan's Runner | Self |
| 2002 | Crime and Punishment | Marmaladov |
| 2002 | Cruise of the Gods | Hugh Bispham |
| 2002 | The Intended | Norton |
| 2001 | Mike Bassett: England Manager | Lonnie Urquart |
| 2000 | Around The World In 80 Days | Inspector Fix (voice) |
| 2000 | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Willis |
| 1998 | Girls' Night | Dave Simpson |
| 1998 | Little Voice | George |
| 1998 | Our Boy | DS Yorke |
| 1998 | What Rats Won't Do | |
| 1998 | Cousin Bette | De Wissembourg |
| 1997 | The Opium War | Captain White |
| 1996 | Brassed Off | Jim |
| 1993 | The Last Dance | Police Inspector |
| 1993 | 15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight | Stan Eastwood |
| 1993 | Bad Behavior | Howard Spink |
| 1992 | Thacker | Ben Royce |
| 1989 | High Hopes | Martin Burke |
| 1988 | The Dark Room | Greg |
| 1987 | The Fourth Protocol | Burkinshaw |
| 1987 | Rat in the Skull | Detective Superintendent Derek Harris |
| 1987 | On the Palm | Dawlish |
| 1986 | A Passage to Wisbech | Narrator |
| 1985 | The Doctor and the Devils | Andrew Merry-Lees |
| 1985 | a-ha: Take on Me | The Enemy |
| 1984 | Give My Regards to Broad Street | Alan |
| 1984 | Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer | Abbot Hugo de Rainault |
| 1983 | A Pattern of Roses | Builder |
| 1982 | Pocketful of Dreams | Denny |
| 1980 | Games Without Frontiers | Clive |
| 1980 | Pasmore | Colin Pasmore |
| 1979 | Scum | Mr Greaves |
| 1979 | Afternoon Off | Bernard |
| 1977 | A Little Outing | Geoff |
| 1976 | Rogue Male | 1st Seaman |
| 1976 | Pressure | 2nd CID Officer |
| 1976 | Well Thank You, Thursday | Stan |
| 1975 | Keep an Eye on Albert | Tarpy |
| 1974 | Pig Bin | Ken |
| 1973 | Blooming Youth | Jeff |
| 1973 | Shakespeare or Bust | Hippie |
| 1971 | The Pigeon Fancier | Harry |
| True Love (Once Removed) | Bus driver |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Day of the Jackal | Trevor |
| 2022 | Sherwood | Mickey Sparrow |
| 2022 | Avoidance | Peter |
| 2021 | The Window | Martin Dewsbury |
| 2021 | Murder, They Hope | Phil |
| 2020 | Isolation Stories | Peter |
| 2018 | Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators | Chamberlain |
| 2017 | The Good Karma Hospital | Paul Smart |
| 2017 | Bad Move | Ken |
| 2015 | Raised by Wolves | Grampy |
| 2014 | Boomers | Alan |
| 2012 | Cuckoo | Tony |
| 2011 | Sugartown | |
| 2011 | Death in Paradise | David Witton |
| 2011 | Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | Self - Participant |
| 2009 | Home Time | Roy Jacks |
| 2009 | The Queen | Harold Wilson |
| 2008 | Crooked House | |
| 2008 | Place of Execution | Old George Bennett |
| 2008 | Crooked House | Bloxham |
| 2007 | Fanny Hill | Mr. Croft |
| 2006 | The Chase | |
| 2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Jovius |
| 2005 | Funland | |
| 2004 | Hustle | Arthur Bond |
| 2004 | New Tricks | |
| 2004 | London | Samuel Pepys |
| 2004 | Murder in Suburbia | |
| 2003 | Little Britain | |
| 2002 | Foyle's War | Alan Carter |
| 2000 | Sins | Mickey Thomas |
| 1999 | The Vice | |
| 1998 | The Last Salute | |
| 1998 | The Ambassador | |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Daniel Snape |
| 1996 | Silent Witness | |
| 1995 | Bramwell | Ronald Kennedy |
| 1995 | Black Hearts in Battersea | Eustace Buckle |
| 1995 | Hamish Macbeth | Malachi McBean |
| 1994 | Downwardly Mobile | |
| 1994 | The Wimbledon Poisoner | Detective Inspector Russell Rush |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Ken Marsden |
| 1992 | A Touch of Frost | Sergent Sharpe |
| 1992 | A Touch of Frost | D.S. Sharpe |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Brian Simpson |
| 1991 | Murder Most Horrid | Patron |
| 1991 | Murder Most Horrid | Police Sergeant |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Chief Inspector James Harold Japp |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Assistant Commissioner Japp |
| 1988 | The Storyteller | King |
| 1987 | Lizzie's Pictures | |
| 1986 | Casualty | Rob Royson |
| 1984 | Robin of Sherwood | Abbot Hugo de Rainault |
| 1980 | The Gentle Touch | |
| 1979 | Two Up, Two Down | |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | George Forester |
| 1978 | Pennies from Heaven | Dave |
| 1974 | Porridge | Melvin 'Dylan' Bottomley |
| 1973 | Last of the Summer Wine | Gordon |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Colin Pasmore |