John Thaw

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-01-03 (60 years old)

Deathday

2002-02-21

Place of Birth

-

John Thaw

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.​

Acting

1998

1993

1999

The Waiting Time

as Joshua Mantle

1989

Bomber Harris

as Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris

1978

Sweeney 2

as Det. Insp. Jack Regan

1977

Sweeney!

as Det. Insp. Jack Regan

1981

The Grass Is Singing

as Dick Turner

1997

Into the Blue

as Harry Barnett

1978

2001

Buried Treasure

as Harry Jenkins

1970

The Last Grenade

as Terry Mitchell

1965

Dead Man's Chest

as David Jones

1992

Chaplin

as Fred Karno

1963

Five to One

as Alan Roper

1987

The Sign of Four

as Jonathan Small

1987

Business as Usual

as Kieran Flynn

1970

Macbeth

as Banquo

1985

1995

The Absence of War

as George Jones

1987

Cry Freedom

as Kruger

1984

1999

Plastic Man

as Joe McConnell

1980

Drake's Venture

as Francis Drake

1974

Regan

as Det. Insp. Jack Regan

1962

1968

The Bofors Gun

as Gunner Featherstone

1971

1971

Catch Me a Spy

as (uncredited)

1961

1996

1982

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