Philip Jackson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1948-06-18 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

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...

Acting

1998

Girls' Night

as Dave Simpson

1974

Pig Bin

as Ken

1998

Little Voice

as George

1979

Scum

as Mr Greaves

1996

2010

The First Men in the Moon

as Voice of Grand Lunar

1989

High Hopes

as Martin Burke

2007

Fanny Hill

as Mr. Croft

2007

Grow Your Own

as Big John

1988

1985

The Doctor and the Devils

as Andrew Merry-Lees

2001

2011

My Week with Marilyn

as Roger Smith

2013

1993

The Last Dance

as Police Inspector

2013

Believe

as Bob

2014

Patrick's Day

as John Freeman

2011

City State

as William

1993

Bad Behavior

as Howard Spink

2000

Around The World In 80 Days

as Inspector Fix (voice)

2003

Second Nature

as Lawrence Augenblick

2003

1998

Our Boy

as DS Yorke

2012

Spike Island

as Mr. Jackson

1973

1971

2023

Your Move

as Mikey

2009

Margaret

as Bernard Ingham

2007

I Want Candy

as Stephen, Joe's Dad

2020

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple

as Self - Inspector Japp, ITV's Poirot

2023

The Peacock

as Lord Macintosh

1979

Afternoon Off

as Bernard

2005

The Best Man

as Mr. Barker

2002

1987

The Fourth Protocol

as Burkinshaw

2002

Cruise of the Gods

as Hugh Bispham

1983

1976

Rogue Male

as 1st Seaman

2012

2004

Von Trapped

as Torsten

2002

The Intended

as Norton

1977

1987

Rat in the Skull

as Detective Superintendent Derek Harris

1997

The Opium War

as Captain White

1976

Pressure

as 2nd CID Officer

1992

Thacker

as Ben Royce

2018

Peterloo

as John Knight

2013

Ragged

as Prison Governor

1998

Cousin Bette

as De Wissembourg

2018

1973

1980

Pasmore

as Colin Pasmore

1987

On the Palm

as Dawlish

1986

1985

a-ha: Take on Me

as The Enemy

2020

Bumps

as Howard

2000

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

as Chief Inspector Japp

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