Philip Jackson
Known for: Acting
Born: June 18, 1948
Place of birth: Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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"
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Filmography
74 movies · 79 TV shows, newest first
6.0
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
8.2
The Day of the Jackal
2024
9.0
Your Move
2023
4.6
The Peacock
2023
6.9
Sherwood
2022
5.6
Avoidance
2022
8.7
The Window
2021
7.1
Murder, They Hope
2021
6.7
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
2020
6.2
Isolation Stories
2020NR
Bumps
2020
6.7
Peterloo
2018
5.0
Above the Clouds
2018
7.2
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
2018
5.7
Bad Move
2017
7.6
The Good Karma Hospital
2017
7.9
Raised by Wolves
2015
6.3
Boomers
2014
5.9
Patrick's Day
2014
6.1
Believe
2013
NR
Ragged
2013
7.8
The Best Offer
2013
6.3
Spike Island
2012
6.0
Stars in Shorts
2012
6.8
Cuckoo
2012
6.0
Playhouse Presents
2012
6.7
My Week with Marilyn
2011
7.4
Death in Paradise
2011
6.0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
5.3
City State
2011
7.7
Friend Request Pending
2011
8.5
Sugartown
2011NR
Chekhov Comedy Shorts
2010
5.9
The First Men in the Moon
2010
7.0
The Queen
2009
6.0
Home Time
2009
5.7
Margaret
2009
6.8
Crooked House
2008
7.0
Place of Execution
2008
6.7
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008
5.8
Fanny Hill
2007
7.2
Fanny Hill
2007
6.5
Grow Your Own
2007
5.1
I Want Candy
2007
7.6
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
6.5
The Chase
2006
5.4
A Little Trip to Heaven
2005
6.3
Funland
2005
5.4
The Best Man
20056.5
Von Trapped
200410.0
London
2004
7.6
Murder in Suburbia
2004
7.7
Hustle
2004
7.5
Shameless
2004
7.3
New Tricks
2004
6.7
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
2003
7.0
Little Britain
2003
5.1
Second Nature
2003
7.0
Coogan's Runner
2003
6.5
Trust
2003
5.1
Cruise of the Gods
2002
7.9
Foyle's War
2002
5.2
The Intended
2002
6.7
Crime and Punishment
2002
7.0
Mike Bassett: England Manager
2001
7.0
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
5.3
The Sins
2000
8.0
Black Cab
2000
NR
Around The World In 80 Days
2000
5.6
The Vice
1999
6.5
Little Voice
1998
5.0
What Rats Won't Do
1998
6.8
Girls' Night
1998
5.5
Cousin Bette
19987.0
The Last Salute
1998
6.4
Our Boy
1998
6.5
The Ambassador
1998
6.3
The Opium War
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
7.0
Brassed Off
1996
7.6
Silent Witness
1996
NR
Black Hearts in Battersea
1995
4.2
Bramwell
1995
7.7
Hamish Macbeth
1995
4.0
The Wimbledon Poisoner
1994
NR
Downwardly Mobile
1994
5.2
The Last Dance
19936.3
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
1993
5.6
Bad Behavior
1993
7.5
A Touch of Frost
1992
NR
Thacker
1992
7.2
Heartbeat
1992
6.9
Murder Most Horrid
1991
7.0
High Hopes
1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
NR
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
1988
8.2
The Storyteller
1988
NR
The Dark Room
1988
6.0
The Play on One
1988NR
First Sight
1987NR
Lizzie's Pictures
1987
NR
On the Palm
1987
6.3
The Fourth Protocol
1987NR
Rat in the Skull
1987
6.2
Casualty
1986
NR
A Passage to Wisbech
1986
6.2
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
NR
Glamour Night
1985
7.1
Screen Two
1985
5.1
Give My Regards to Broad Street
1984
NR
Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
1984
7.6
Robin of Sherwood
1984
6.0
A Pattern of Roses
1983
NR
Pocketful of Dreams
1982NR
Coming Home
1981
NR
Pasmore
1980NR
Sounding Brass
1980
NR
Games Without Frontiers
1980
7.1
Scum
19797.5
Two Up, Two Down
1979
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
NR
Afternoon Off
19798.0
Leave it to Charlie
1978
7.3
Strangers
1978
NR
Pickersgill People
1978
7.6
Pennies from Heaven
1978
NR
The Sea
1978NR
Life at Stake
1978
NR
A Little Outing
1977NR
For the Love of Albert
19777.0
Premiere
1977
7.2
A Sharp Intake of Breath
1977
6.2
Don't Forget to Write!
1977
NR
Brensham People
1976
6.5
Pressure
1976
6.5
Rogue Male
1976
NR
The Chester Mystery Plays
1976
NR
Well Thank You, Thursday
1976
6.0
Red Letter Day
1976
NR
Keep an Eye on Albert
1975
5.0
Churchill's People
1974
NR
Pig Bin
1974
8.1
Porridge
1974
7.0
Playhouse
1974NR
Second City Firsts
1973
6.8
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
NR
Blooming Youth
1973
10.0
Shakespeare or Bust
1973
7.2
Last of the Summer Wine
1973
8.0
The Pigeon Fancier
1971
6.6
Play for Today
1970
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
1965NR
True Love (Once Removed)
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