Philip Jackson
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"
141 acting credits
Acting · 141
Midsomer Murders
1997
Death in Paradise
2011
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Casualty
1986
Play for Today
1970
The Day of the Jackal
2024
Silent Witness
1996
Heartbeat
1992
A Touch of Frost
1992
Hustle
2004
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
New Tricks
2004
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Shameless
2004
Playhouse
1974
Foyle's War
2002
Last of the Summer Wine
1973
Screen Two
1985
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
2018
Playhouse Presents
2012
Robin of Sherwood
1984
The Storyteller
1988
Little Britain
2003
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Churchill's People
1974
Cuckoo
2012
Bramwell
1995
Sherwood
2022
Hamish Macbeth
1995
The Gentle Touch
1980
Strangers
1978
The Vice
1999
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
The Play on One
1988
The Good Karma Hospital
2017
Porridge
1974
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
Funland
2005
Murder, They Hope
2021
Pennies from Heaven
1978
Murder in Suburbia
2004
The Queen
2009
The Chase
2006
The Sins
2000
The Best Offer
2013
Avoidance
2022
My Week with Marilyn
2011
Boomers
2014
The Window
2021
The Ambassador
1998
Brassed Off
1996
Crooked House
2008
The Wimbledon Poisoner
1994
Fanny Hill
2007
The Opium War
1997
Place of Execution
2008
Home Time
2009
Raised by Wolves
2015
The Fourth Protocol
1987
Leave it to Charlie
1978
Bad Move
2017
Sugartown
2011
London
2004
Isolation Stories
2020
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
2003
Little Voice
1998
Scum
1979
Peterloo
2018
I Want Candy
2007
Black Hearts in Battersea
1995
Spike Island
2012
Black Cab
2000
Cousin Bette
1998
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
The Last Salute
1998
Give My Regards to Broad Street
1984
Believe
2013
Girls' Night
1998
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
2020
Downwardly Mobile
1994
Stars in Shorts
2012
Fanny Hill
2007
The Best Man
2005
A Little Trip to Heaven
2005
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
The Intended
2002
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008
High Hopes
1989
Two Up, Two Down
1979
Grow Your Own
2007
Mike Bassett: England Manager
2001
Bumps
2020
Rogue Male
1976
Lizzie's Pictures
1987
City State
2011
A Pattern of Roses
1983
What Rats Won't Do
1998
Margaret
2009
Cruise of the Gods
2002
Second Nature
2003
Thacker
1992
The Peacock
2023
Rat in the Skull
1987
Pasmore
1980
Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
1984
Crime and Punishment
2002
Our Boy
1998
The First Men in the Moon
2010
The Last Dance
1993
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
1993
Your Move
2023
Patrick's Day
2014
Red Letter Day
1976
Friend Request Pending
2011
Games Without Frontiers
1980
Afternoon Off
1979
Around The World In 80 Days
2000
Bad Behavior
1993
Blooming Youth
1973
Keep an Eye on Albert
1975
Sounding Brass
1980
On the Palm
1987
Von Trapped
2004
Pressure
1976
Above the Clouds
2018
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Coogan's Runner
2003
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
1988
Well Thank You, Thursday
1976
Pocketful of Dreams
1982
Pig Bin
1974
The Chester Mystery Plays
1976
True Love (Once Removed)
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Ragged
2013
The Dark Room
1988
A Passage to Wisbech
1986
Shakespeare or Bust
1973
The Pigeon Fancier
1971
A Little Outing
1977
Glamour Night
1985