Name
Philip Jackson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1948-06-18 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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"
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- Soon True Love (Once Removed) as Bus driver
- 1998 Girls' Night as Dave Simpson
- 1974 Pig Bin as Ken
- 1998 Little Voice as George
- 1979 Scum as Mr Greaves
- 1996 Brassed Off as Jim
- 1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street as Alan
- 2010 The First Men in the Moon as Voice of Grand Lunar
- 1989 High Hopes as Martin Burke
- 2007 Fanny Hill as Mr. Croft
- 2007 Grow Your Own as Big John
- 1988 The Dark Room as Greg
- 1985 The Doctor and the Devils as Andrew Merry-Lees
- 2001 Mike Bassett: England Manager as Lonnie Urquart
- 2011 My Week with Marilyn as Roger Smith
- 2013 The Best Offer as Fred
- 1993 The Last Dance as Police Inspector
- 1993 15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight as Stan Eastwood
- 2013 Believe as Bob
- 2014 Patrick's Day as John Freeman
- 2011 City State as William
- 1993 Bad Behavior as Howard Spink
- 2000 Around The World In 80 Days as Inspector Fix (voice)
- 2003 Second Nature as Lawrence Augenblick
- 1998 Our Boy as DS Yorke
- 2003 Coogan's Runner as Self
- 2011 Friend Request Pending as Trevor
- 2012 Spike Island as Mr. Jackson
- 1973 Blooming Youth as Jeff
- 1971 The Pigeon Fancier as Harry
- 2023 Your Move as Mikey
- 2009 Margaret as Bernard Ingham
- 2007 I Want Candy as Stephen, Joe's Dad
- 2020 Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple as Self - Inspector Japp, ITV's Poirot
- 2023 The Peacock as Lord Hamish
- 1979 Afternoon Off as Bernard
- 2005 The Best Man as Mr. Barker
- 2005 A Little Trip to Heaven as William
- 1980 Games Without Frontiers as Clive
- 1998 What Rats Won't Do
- 2008 Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley as Alfred Roberts
- 2000 Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Willis
- 2002 Crime and Punishment as Marmaladov
- 1987 The Fourth Protocol as Burkinshaw
- 2002 Cruise of the Gods as Hugh Bispham
- 1983 A Pattern of Roses as Builder
- 1976 Rogue Male as 1st Seaman
- 2012 Stars in Shorts as Trevor
- 2004 Von Trapped as Torsten
- 2002 The Intended as Norton
- 1977 A Little Outing as Geoff
- 1987 Rat in the Skull as Detective Superintendent Derek Harris
- 1976 Pressure as 2nd CID Officer
- 1992 Thacker as Ben Royce
- 2018 Peterloo as John Knight
- 1976 Well Thank You, Thursday as Stan
- 2013 Ragged as Prison Governor
- 1998 Cousin Bette as De Wissembourg
- 2018 Above the Clouds as William
- 1973 Shakespeare or Bust as Hippie
- 1975 Keep an Eye on Albert as Tarpy
- 1980 Pasmore as Colin Pasmore
- 1987 On the Palm as Dawlish
- 1984 Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer as Abbot Hugo de Rainault
- 1982 Pocketful of Dreams as Denny
- 1986 A Passage to Wisbech as Narrator
- 2020 Bumps as Howard
- 1985 Glamour Night as Bob
- 1988 The Storyteller: The Luck Child as King
- 2026 Becoming Victoria Wood as Self
- 2003 Mother Teresa of Calcutta as Logan
- 1976 The Chester Mystery Plays
- 1997 The Opium War as 船长怀特
- 1978 The Sea as Thompson
- 1989 Agatha Christie's Poirot ( 46 episodes ) as Chief Inspector James Harold Japp
- 2006 The Chase ( 9 episodes )
- 2004 Hustle ( 1 episode ) as Arthur Bond
- 1996 Silent Witness ( 1 episode )
- 1992 Heartbeat ( 1 episode ) as Ken Marsden
- 1984 Robin of Sherwood ( 26 episodes ) as Abbot Hugo de Rainault
- 1979 Two Up, Two Down ( 1 episode )
- 1988 The Storyteller ( 1 episode ) as King
- 2004 New Tricks ( 1 episode )
- 1989 Agatha Christie's Poirot ( 1 episode ) as Assistant Commissioner Japp
- 1987 Lizzie's Pictures ( 4 episodes )
- 2008 Place of Execution ( 3 episodes ) as Old George Bennett
- 1974 Porridge ( 1 episode ) as Melvin 'Dylan' Bottomley
- 1994 Downwardly Mobile ( 7 episodes )
- 2009 Home Time ( 6 episodes ) as Roy Jacks
- 2000 The Sins ( 7 episodes ) as Mickey Thomas
- 2007 Fanny Hill ( 2 episodes ) as Mr. Croft
- 2011 Sugartown ( 3 episodes )
- 2021 The Window ( 10 episodes ) as Martin Dewsbury
- 2015 Raised by Wolves ( 12 episodes ) as Grampy
- 2004 London ( 3 episodes ) as Samuel Pepys
- 1995 Bramwell ( 1 episode ) as Ronald Kennedy
- 2012 Cuckoo ( 2 episodes ) as Tony
- 2003 Little Britain ( 1 episode )
- 2014 Boomers ( 12 episodes ) as Alan
- 1998 The Ambassador ( 1 episode )
- 2017 The Good Karma Hospital ( 6 episodes ) as Paul Smart
- 2022 Sherwood ( 12 episodes ) as Mickey Sparrow
- 2021 Murder, They Hope ( 1 episode ) as Phil
- 2017 Bad Move ( 13 episodes ) as Ken
- 1992 A Touch of Frost ( 1 episode ) as Sergent Sharpe
- 1986 Casualty ( 1 episode ) as Rob Royson
- 1997 Midsomer Murders ( 1 episode ) as Daniel Snape
- 2009 The Queen ( 5 episodes ) as Harold Wilson
- 1994 The Wimbledon Poisoner ( 2 episodes ) as Detective Inspector Russell Rush
- 1995 Black Hearts in Battersea ( 6 episodes ) as Eustace Buckle
- 2011 Death in Paradise ( 1 episode ) as David Witton
- 1992 A Touch of Frost ( 1 episode ) as D.S. Sharpe
- 2011 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip ( 1 episode ) as Self - Participant
- 1992 Heartbeat ( 1 episode ) as Brian Simpson
- 2018 Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators ( 1 episode ) as Chamberlain
- 2022 Avoidance ( 1 episode ) as Peter
- 1970 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) as Colin Pasmore
- 2020 Isolation Stories ( 4 episodes ) as Peter
- 1979 Tales of the Unexpected ( 1 episode ) as George Forester
- 1995 Hamish Macbeth ( 1 episode ) as Malachi McBean
- 1973 Last of the Summer Wine ( 3 episodes ) as Gordon
- 2024 The Day of the Jackal ( 1 episode ) as Trevor
- 2006 Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire ( 1 episode ) as Jovius
- 2002 Foyle's War ( 1 episode ) as Alan Carter
- 1974 Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Clive
- 1974 Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Denny
- 1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Thompson
- 1978 Pennies from Heaven ( 2 episodes ) as Dave
- 2008 Crooked House ( 1 episode ) as Joseph Bloxham
- 1974 Churchill's People ( 1 episode ) as Boatman
- 2004 Shameless ( 1 episode ) as Barry
- 1978 Leave it to Charlie ( 1 episode ) as Geoffrey
- 1998 The Last Salute ( 12 episodes ) as Leonard Spanwick
- 2000 Black Cab ( 1 episode ) as Robert
- 1978 Strangers ( 1 episode ) as Nose Treacy
- 2005 Funland ( 11 episodes ) as Leo Finch
- 2004 Murder in Suburbia ( 1 episode ) as Bill Jackson
- 2012 Playhouse Presents ( 1 episode ) as Prison Governor
- 1991 Murder Most Horrid ( 1 episode ) as Patron
- 1991 Murder Most Horrid ( 1 episode ) as Police Sergeant
- 1999 The Vice ( 2 episodes ) as Nigel Wingrave
- 1988 The Play on One ( 1 episode ) as Greg
- 1976 Red Letter Day ( 1 episode ) as Stan
- 1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries ( 1 episode ) as Carson
- 1980 Sounding Brass ( 6 episodes ) as Arthur Mannion
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Dawlish
- 2003 Trust ( 1 episode ) as James
- 2006 The Chase ( 12 episodes ) as Frank Jones
- 1976 Brensham People ( 1 episode ) as Jeremy Briggs
- 1973 Second City Firsts ( 1 episode ) as Ken
- 1978 Life at Stake ( 1 episode ) as Mallison
- 1977 For the Love of Albert ( 5 episodes )
- 1987 First Sight ( 1 episode ) as Malcolm
- 1977 Don't Forget to Write! ( 1 episode ) as Norman
- 1977 Premiere ( 1 episode ) as Geoff
- 1977 A Sharp Intake of Breath ( 1 episode ) as Terry Glover
- 1996 Silent Witness ( 1 episode ) as DI Mike Toner
- 1981 Coming Home ( 6 episodes ) as Donald Maddocks
- 2010 Chekhov Comedy Shorts ( 1 episode ) as Father
- 1978 Pickersgill People ( 2 episodes ) as DC Billy Blincoe
