Philip Jackson
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Philip Jackson

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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"

Films Featuring Philip Jackson

True Love (Once Removed)

True Love (Once Removed)

Girls' Night

19986.8

Pig Bin

1974

Little Voice

19986.5

Scum

19797.1

Brassed Off

19967.0

Give My Regards to Broad Street

19845.1

The First Men in the Moon

20105.9

High Hopes

19897.0

Fanny Hill

20075.8

Grow Your Own

20076.5

The Dark Room

1988

The Doctor and the Devils

19856.2

Mike Bassett: England Manager

20017.0

My Week with Marilyn

20116.7

The Best Offer

20137.8

The Last Dance

19935.2

15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight

15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight

19936.3

Believe

20136.1

Patrick's Day

20145.9

City State

20115.3

Bad Behavior

19935.6

Around The World In 80 Days

2000

Second Nature

20035.1

Our Boy

19986.4

Coogan's Runner

20037.0

Friend Request Pending

20117.7

Spike Island

20126.3

Blooming Youth

1973

The Pigeon Fancier

19718.0

Your Move

20239.0

Margaret

20095.7

I Want Candy

20075.1

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple

20206.7

The Peacock

20234.6

Afternoon Off

1979

The Best Man

20055.4

A Little Trip to Heaven

20055.4

Games Without Frontiers

1980

What Rats Won't Do

19985.0

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

20086.7

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

20007.0

Crime and Punishment

20026.7

The Fourth Protocol

19876.3

Cruise of the Gods

20025.0

A Pattern of Roses

19836.0

Rogue Male

19766.5

Stars in Shorts

20126.0

Von Trapped

Von Trapped

20046.5

The Intended

20025.2

A Little Outing

1977

Rat in the Skull

Rat in the Skull

1987

Pressure

19766.4

Thacker

1992

Peterloo

20186.7

Well Thank You, Thursday

1976

Ragged

2013

Cousin Bette

19985.5

Above the Clouds

20185.0

Shakespeare or Bust

197310.0

Keep an Eye on Albert

1975

Pasmore

1980

On the Palm

1987

Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer

1984

Pocketful of Dreams

1982

A Passage to Wisbech

1986

Bumps

Bumps

2020

Glamour Night

1985

The Storyteller: The Luck Child

1988

Becoming Victoria Wood

20266.0

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

20036.7

The Chester Mystery Plays

1976

The Opium War

19976.3

The Sea

1978