Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 18, 1948
Place of Birth
Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Credits
150 titles
Philip Jackson
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"
Known For
Filmography
Becoming Victoria Wood
Self
The Day of the Jackal
Trevor
Your Move
Mikey
The Peacock
Lord Hamish
Sherwood
Mickey Sparrow
Avoidance
Peter
The Window
Martin Dewsbury
Murder, They Hope
Phil
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
Self - Inspector Japp, ITV's Poirot
Isolation Stories
Peter
Bumps
Howard
Peterloo
John Knight
Above the Clouds
William
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
Chamberlain
Bad Move
Ken
The Good Karma Hospital
Paul Smart
Raised by Wolves
Grampy
Boomers
Alan
Patrick's Day
John Freeman
Believe
Bob
Ragged
Prison Governor
The Best Offer
Fred
Spike Island
Mr. Jackson
Stars in Shorts
Trevor
Cuckoo
Tony
Playhouse Presents
Prison Governor
My Week with Marilyn
Roger Smith
Death in Paradise
David Witton
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
City State
William
Friend Request Pending
Trevor
Sugartown
The First Men in the Moon
Voice of Grand Lunar
The Queen
Harold Wilson
Home Time
Roy Jacks
Margaret
Bernard Ingham
Crooked House
Joseph Bloxham
Place of Execution
Old George Bennett
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Alfred Roberts
Fanny Hill
Mr. Croft
Fanny Hill
Mr. Croft
Grow Your Own
Big John
I Want Candy
Stephen, Joe's Dad
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Jovius
The Chase
A Little Trip to Heaven
William
Funland
Leo Finch
The Best Man
Mr. Barker
Von Trapped
Torsten
London
Samuel Pepys