Philip Jackson
Acting
Born 1948-06-18
Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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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"
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Acting
57 credits
Midsomer Murders
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Death in Paradise
Play for Today
Silent Witness
Casualty
The Day of the Jackal
A Touch of Frost
Shameless
Heartbeat
Foyle's War
Hustle
BBC Play of the Month
Playhouse
Tales of the Unexpected
Screen Two
Last of the Summer Wine
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
Cuckoo
Playhouse Presents
Robin of Sherwood
The Storyteller
The Play on One
Churchill's People
Strangers
Murder Most Horrid
Sherwood
Hamish Macbeth
The Vice
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Bramwell
Second City Firsts
The Best Offer
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Porridge
Murder in Suburbia
Funland
The Good Karma Hospital
My Week with Marilyn
Pennies from Heaven
Premiere
Brassed Off
Murder, They Hope
The Chase
Believe
Black Cab
The Queen
Boomers
Crooked House
Avoidance
The Fourth Protocol
Scum
Trust
The Best Man
Fanny Hill
A Sharp Intake of Breath
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