Philip Jackson
Acting
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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"
Filmography
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
The Day of the Jackal
2024
Your Move
2023
The Peacock
2023
Sherwood
2022
Avoidance
2022
The Window
2021
Murder, They Hope
2021
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
2020
Isolation Stories
2020
Bumps
2020
Peterloo
2018
Above the Clouds
2018
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
2018
Bad Move
2017
The Good Karma Hospital
2017
Raised by Wolves
2015
Boomers
2014
Patrick's Day
2014
Believe
2013
Ragged
2013
The Best Offer
2013
Spike Island
2012
Stars in Shorts
2012
Cuckoo
2012
Playhouse Presents
2012
My Week with Marilyn
2011
Death in Paradise
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
City State
2011
Friend Request Pending
2011
Sugartown
2011
The First Men in the Moon
2010
The Queen
2009
Home Time
2009
Margaret
2009
Crooked House
2008
Place of Execution
2008
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008
Fanny Hill
2007
Fanny Hill
2007
Grow Your Own
2007
I Want Candy
2007
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
The Chase
2006
A Little Trip to Heaven
2005
Funland
2005
The Best Man
2005
Von Trapped
2004
London
2004
Murder in Suburbia
2004
Hustle
2004
Shameless
2004
New Tricks
2004
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
2003
Little Britain
2003
Second Nature
2003
Coogan's Runner
2003
Trust
2003
Cruise of the Gods
2002
Foyle's War
2002
The Intended
2002
Crime and Punishment
2002
Mike Bassett: England Manager
2001
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
The Sins
2000
Black Cab
2000
Around The World In 80 Days
2000
The Vice
1999
Little Voice
1998
What Rats Won't Do
1998
Girls' Night
1998
Cousin Bette
1998
The Last Salute
1998
Our Boy
1998
The Ambassador
1998
The Opium War
1997
Midsomer Murders
1997
Brassed Off
1996
Silent Witness
1996
Black Hearts in Battersea
1995
Bramwell
1995
Hamish Macbeth
1995
The Wimbledon Poisoner
1994
Downwardly Mobile
1994
The Last Dance
1993
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
1993
Bad Behavior
1993
A Touch of Frost
1992
Thacker
1992
Heartbeat
1992
Murder Most Horrid
1991
High Hopes
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
1988
The Storyteller
1988
The Dark Room
1988
The Play on One
1988
Lizzie's Pictures
1987
On the Palm
1987
The Fourth Protocol
1987
Rat in the Skull
1987
Casualty
1986
A Passage to Wisbech
1986
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
Glamour Night
1985
Screen Two
1985
Give My Regards to Broad Street
1984
Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
1984
Robin of Sherwood
1984
A Pattern of Roses
1983
Pocketful of Dreams
1982
Pasmore
1980
Sounding Brass
1980
Games Without Frontiers
1980
Scum
1979
Two Up, Two Down
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Afternoon Off
1979
Leave it to Charlie
1978
Strangers
1978
Pennies from Heaven
1978
Life at Stake
1978
A Little Outing
1977
Brensham People
1976
Pressure
1976
Rogue Male
1976
The Chester Mystery Plays
1976
Well Thank You, Thursday
1976
Red Letter Day
1976
Keep an Eye on Albert
1975
Churchill's People
1974
Pig Bin
1974
Porridge
1974
Playhouse
1974
Second City Firsts
1973
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
Blooming Youth
1973
Shakespeare or Bust
1973
Last of the Summer Wine
1973
The Pigeon Fancier
1971
Play for Today
1970
BBC Play of the Month
1965
True Love (Once Removed)