John Thaw

John Thaw

Birthday: 1942-01-03

Place of Birth: Gorton, Manchester, England

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Edward Thaw, CBE (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor who appeared in a range of television, stage, and cinema roles. He starred in the television series Inspector Morse as title character Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, Redcap as Sergeant John Mann, The Sweeney as Detective Inspector Jack Regan, Home to Roost as Henry Willows, and Kavanagh QC as title character James Kavanagh. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Thaw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Goodnight, Mister Tom
Goodnight, Mister Tom

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a clo...

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The Mystery of Morse
The Mystery of Morse

Documentary on the making of the Inspector Morse series....

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The Waiting Time
The Waiting Time

When British Intelligence Officer Tracy Barnes attacks visiting German politician Dieter Krause, sol...

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Bomber Harris
Bomber Harris

Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular h...

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Sweeney!
Sweeney!

When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squ...

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Sweeney 2
Sweeney 2

The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting a...

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The Grass Is Singing
The Grass Is Singing

In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from ...

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Into the Blue
Into the Blue

Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now workin...

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Dinner at the Sporting Club
Dinner at the Sporting Club

Vinny Mathews is a small time boxing promoter who struggles with his conscience over what to do with...

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Buried Treasure
Buried Treasure

Harry Jenkins is a self-made business man, who one day receives a message that his only daughter has...

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The Last Grenade
The Last Grenade

Two ruthless mercenaries break their friendship when one of them changes sides....

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Dead Man's Chest
Dead Man's Chest

Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears....

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Chaplin
Chaplin

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealt...

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Five to One
Five to One

Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder t...

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Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Dr. Phibes Rises Again

The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corp...

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The Sign of Four
The Sign of Four

Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This lead...

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Business as Usual
Business as Usual

After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her ...

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Macbeth
Macbeth

The Thane of Cawdor plots to become King of Scotland....

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We'll Support You Evermore
We'll Support You Evermore

A father is intent on finding the truth as to how his soldier son met his death while serving in Nor...

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Whatever Became of Me?
Whatever Became of Me?

Peter feels his life has to change, but should he risk his marriage with another woman?...

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The Absence of War
The Absence of War

Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 e...

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Cry Freedom
Cry Freedom

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against ap...

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Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition

A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Th...

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The Capone Investment
The Capone Investment

Abridged movie version of the 1974 British TV series concerning the whereabouts of Al Capone's illeg...

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The Life and Death of King John
The Life and Death of King John

The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Ar...

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Plastic Man
Plastic Man

A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic conse...

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Drake's Venture
Drake's Venture

Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world in search of adventure and treasure....

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Regan
Regan

Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a...

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks o...

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The Bofors Gun
The Bofors Gun

A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Will...

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Competition
Competition

An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendl...

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Catch Me a Spy
Catch Me a Spy

While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, sh...

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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly...

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Masculine Mescaline
Masculine Mescaline

A London 'wide boy' alcoholic is forced to face his responsibilities by a 'heavenly' messenger....

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Where Is Betty Buchus?
Where Is Betty Buchus?

A man returns home from a business trip to find his wife is gone. He assumes she's left him after ye...

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Killer Waiting
Killer Waiting

First in a trilogy of plays. An assassin is out to kill Major Hastings in his isolated country home....

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