Philip Jackson
Birthday: 1948-06-18
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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True Love (Once Removed)
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Girls' Night
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Pig Bin
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Little Voice
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Scum
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Brita...
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Brassed Off
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Give My Regards to Broad Street
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The First Men in the Moon
Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits wi...
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High Hopes
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Fanny Hill
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Grow Your Own
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The Dark Room
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The Doctor and the Devils
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, ...
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Mike Bassett: England Manager
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My Week with Marilyn
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his ...
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The Best Offer
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The Last Dance
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15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
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Believe
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Patrick's Day
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City State
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Bad Behavior
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Around The World In 80 Days
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Second Nature
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Our Boy
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Friend Request Pending
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Spike Island
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Blooming Youth
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The Pigeon Fancier
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Your Move
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Margaret
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I Want Candy
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Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
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The Peacock
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Afternoon Off
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The Best Man
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A Little Trip to Heaven
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Games Without Frontiers
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What Rats Won't Do
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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
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Crime and Punishment
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The Fourth Protocol
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Cruise of the Gods
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A Pattern of Roses
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Rogue Male
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Stars in Shorts
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Von Trapped
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The Intended
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A Little Outing
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Rat in the Skull
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The Opium War
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Pressure
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Thacker
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Peterloo
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Well Thank You, Thursday
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Ragged
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Cousin Bette
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Above the Clouds
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Keep an Eye on Albert
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Pasmore
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On the Palm
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Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
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Pocketful of Dreams
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A Passage to Wisbech
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Bumps
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Glamour Night
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