Philip Jackson
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"
Fotos
Películas (74)

Becoming Victoria Wood
2026 · Self

Your Move
2023 · Mikey

The Peacock
2023 · Lord Hamish

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
2020 · Self - Inspector Japp, ITV's Poirot
Bumps
2020 · Howard

Peterloo
2018 · John Knight

Above the Clouds
2018 · William

Patrick's Day
2014 · John Freeman

Believe
2013 · Bob

Ragged
2013 · Prison Governor

The Best Offer
2013 · Fred

Spike Island
2012 · Mr. Jackson

Stars in Shorts
2012 · Trevor

My Week with Marilyn
2011 · Roger Smith

City State
2011 · William

Friend Request Pending
2011 · Trevor

The First Men in the Moon
2010 · Voice of Grand Lunar

Margaret
2009 · Bernard Ingham

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008 · Alfred Roberts

Fanny Hill
2007 · Mr. Croft

Grow Your Own
2007 · Big John

I Want Candy
2007 · Stephen Clark

A Little Trip to Heaven
2005 · William

The Best Man
2005 · Mr. Barker
Von Trapped
2004 · Torsten

Mother Teresa of Calcutta
2003 · Logan

Second Nature
2003 · Lawrence Augenblick

Coogan's Runner
2003 · Self

Cruise of the Gods
2002 · Hugh Bispham
The Intended
2002 · Norton

Crime and Punishment
2002 · Marmaladov

Mike Bassett: England Manager
2001 · Lonnie Urquart

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Willis

Around The World In 80 Days
2000 · Inspector Fix (voice)

Little Voice
1998 · George

What Rats Won't Do
1998

Girls' Night
1998 · Dave Simpson

Cousin Bette
1998 · De Wissembourg

Our Boy
1998 · DS Yorke

The Opium War
1997 · 船长怀特

Brassed Off
1996 · Jim

The Last Dance
1993 · Police Inspector
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
1993 · Stan Eastwood

Bad Behavior
1993 · Howard Spink

Thacker
1992 · Ben Royce

High Hopes
1989 · Martin Burke

The Storyteller: The Luck Child
1988 · King

The Dark Room
1988 · Greg

On the Palm
1987 · Dawlish

The Fourth Protocol
1987 · Burkinshaw
Rat in the Skull
1987 · Detective Superintendent Derek Harris

A Passage to Wisbech
1986 · Narrator

The Doctor and the Devils
1985 · Andrew Merry-Lees

Glamour Night
1985 · Bob

Give My Regards to Broad Street
1984 · Alan

Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
1984 · Abbot Hugo de Rainault

A Pattern of Roses
1983 · Builder

Pocketful of Dreams
1982 · Denny

Pasmore
1980 · Colin Pasmore

Games Without Frontiers
1980 · Clive

Scum
1979 · Mr Greaves

Afternoon Off
1979 · Bernard

The Sea
1978 · Thompson

A Little Outing
1977 · Geoff

Pressure
1976 · 2nd CID Officer

Rogue Male
1976 · 1st Seaman

The Chester Mystery Plays
1976

Well Thank You, Thursday
1976 · Stan

Keep an Eye on Albert
1975 · Tarpy

Pig Bin
1974 · Ken

Blooming Youth
1973 · Jeff

Shakespeare or Bust
1973 · Hippie

The Pigeon Fancier
1971 · Harry
True Love (Once Removed)
· Bus driver
Series (81)

The Day of the Jackal
2024 · Trevor

Sherwood
2022 · Mickey Sparrow

Avoidance
2022 · Peter

The Window
2021 · Martin Dewsbury

Murder, They Hope
2021 · Phil

Isolation Stories
2020 · Peter

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
2018 · Chamberlain

Bad Move
2017 · Ken

The Good Karma Hospital
2017 · Paul Smart

Raised by Wolves
2015 · Grampy

Boomers
2014 · Alan

Cuckoo
2012 · Tony

Playhouse Presents
2012 · Prison Governor

Death in Paradise
2011 · David Witton

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Self - Participant

Sugartown
2011
Chekhov Comedy Shorts
2010 · Father

The Queen
2009 · Harold Wilson

Home Time
2009 · Roy Jacks

Crooked House
2008 · Joseph Bloxham

Place of Execution
2008 · Old George Bennett

Fanny Hill
2007 · Mr. Croft

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006 · Jovius

The Chase
2006 · Frank Jones

Funland
2005 · Leo Finch
London
2004 · Samuel Pepys

Murder in Suburbia
2004 · Bill Jackson

Hustle
2004 · Arthur Bond

Shameless
2004 · Barry

New Tricks
2004

Mother Teresa
2003 · Logan

Little Britain
2003

Trust
2003 · James

Foyle's War
2002 · Alan Carter

The Sins
2000 · Mickey Thomas

Black Cab
2000 · Robert

The Vice
1999 · Nigel Wingrave
The Last Salute
1998 · Leonard Spanwick

The Ambassador
1998

Midsomer Murders
1997 · Daniel Snape

Silent Witness
1996 · DI Mike Toner

Black Hearts in Battersea
1995 · Eustace Buckle

Bramwell
1995 · Ronald Kennedy

Hamish Macbeth
1995 · Malachi McBean

The Wimbledon Poisoner
1994 · Detective Inspector Russell Rush

Downwardly Mobile
1994

A Touch of Frost
1992 · Sergent Sharpe, D.S. Sharpe

Heartbeat
1992 · Ken Marsden, Brian Simpson

Murder Most Horrid
1991 · Patron, Police Sergeant

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Chief Inspector James Harold Japp, Assistant Commissioner Japp

The Storyteller
1988 · King

The Play on One
1988 · Greg
First Sight
1987 · Malcolm
Lizzie's Pictures
1987

Casualty
1986 · Rob Royson
Summer Season
1985 · Bob - Photographer

Screen Two
1985 · Dawlish

Robin of Sherwood
1984 · Abbot Hugo de Rainault
Coming Home
1981 · Donald Maddocks
Sounding Brass
1980 · Arthur Mannion
Two Up, Two Down
1979

Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · George Forester
Leave it to Charlie
1978 · Geoffrey

Strangers
1978 · Nose Treacy

Pickersgill People
1978 · DC Billy Blincoe

Pennies from Heaven
1978 · Dave
Life at Stake
1978 · Mallison
For the Love of Albert
1977
Premiere
1977 · Geoff

A Sharp Intake of Breath
1977 · Terry Glover

Don't Forget to Write!
1977 · Norman

Brensham People
1976 · Jeremy Briggs

Red Letter Day
1976 · Stan

Churchill's People
1974 · Boatman

Porridge
1974 · Melvin 'Dylan' Bottomley

Playhouse
1974 · Clive, Denny
Second City Firsts
1973 · Ken

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973 · Carson

Last of the Summer Wine
1973 · Gordon

Play for Today
1970 · Colin Pasmore

BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Thompson

