
Philip Jackson
Born June 18, 1948 · 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"
Notable Appearances
Movies

My Week with Marilyn

The Best Offer

Cousin Bette

The Fourth Protocol

The Best Man

Brassed Off

The Doctor and the Devils

Scum

I Want Candy

The Sea

Fanny Hill

Little Voice

Mike Bassett: England Manager

Give My Regards to Broad Street

Cruise of the Gods

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

A Little Trip to Heaven

High Hopes

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

The First Men in the Moon

Spike Island

Peterloo

What Rats Won't Do

Girls' Night

The Opium War

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple

Keep an Eye on Albert

Rogue Male

Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer

Grow Your Own

Above the Clouds

The Chester Mystery Plays

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Well Thank You, Thursday

Crime and Punishment

Stars in Shorts

Thacker

Pig Bin

Friend Request Pending

Believe

The Storyteller: The Luck Child

Glamour Night

A Pattern of Roses

The Last Dance

Margaret

The Peacock

Around The World In 80 Days

Pressure

On the Palm

Your Move

Second Nature

Shakespeare or Bust

Becoming Victoria Wood

Afternoon Off

City State

Bad Behavior

Our Boy

Pasmore

Coogan's Runner

Pocketful of Dreams

Games Without Frontiers

The Dark Room

A Little Outing
TV Shows

Play for Today

BBC Play of the Month

Silent Witness

Heartbeat

Tales of the Unexpected

Screen Two

Shameless

Playhouse

New Tricks

Last of the Summer Wine

The Day of the Jackal

A Touch of Frost

Hustle

Foyle's War

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

Playhouse Presents

Churchill's People

Cuckoo

Little Britain

The Play on One

The Vice

Murder Most Horrid

Hamish Macbeth

Robin of Sherwood

Strangers

The Storyteller

Sherwood

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Bramwell

Murder in Suburbia

Porridge

A Sharp Intake of Breath

The Good Karma Hospital

The Ambassador

Funland

Pennies from Heaven

The Queen

Murder, They Hope

The Chase

Avoidance

Pickersgill People

The Sins

Crooked House

Trust

Boomers

The Window

Mother Teresa

Don't Forget to Write!

Black Hearts in Battersea

Place of Execution

Black Cab

Bad Move

Raised by Wolves

Red Letter Day

The Wimbledon Poisoner

Downwardly Mobile

Isolation Stories

Brensham People

Sugartown

Fanny Hill









