
John Thaw
Born January 3, 1942 · Gorton, Manchester, England
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Cry Freedom

Chaplin

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

Catch Me a Spy

The Sign of Four

Dinner at the Sporting Club

The Life and Death of King John

Sweeney 2

Goodnight, Mister Tom

Sweeney!

We'll Support You Evermore

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

Into the Blue

The Grass Is Singing

Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition

The Absence of War

The Last Grenade

Dead Man's Chest

Masculine Mescaline

Bomber Harris

Buried Treasure

Business as Usual

Five to One

Drake's Venture

Competition

The Capone Investment

The Bofors Gun

Regan

The Waiting Time
TV Shows

ITV Playhouse

Inspector Morse

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

The Sweeney

The BBC Television Shakespeare

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The Protectors

The BAFTA Awards

The Onedin Line

Budgie

Kavanagh Q.C.

Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Redcap

Six Fifty-Five Special

The Frighteners

Strange Report

Home to Roost

Mitch

Armchair Theatre

A Year in Provence

The Glass

Stanley and the Women

Armchair Cinema

Bat Out of Hell

Monsignor Renard

Plastic Man

Thick as Thieves

The Second World War in Colour

The Capone Investment




