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"
Known for
Midsomer Murders
Daniel Snape
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Chief Inspector James Harold Japp
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Assistant Commissioner Japp
The Day of the Jackal
Trevor
Death in Paradise
David Witton
Silent Witness
Shameless
Barry
Foyle's War
Alan Carter
Casualty
Rob Royson
Heartbeat
Ken Marsden
Heartbeat
Brian Simpson
Last of the Summer Wine
Gordon
New Tricks
Hustle
Arthur Bond
Play for Today
Colin Pasmore
A Touch of Frost
Sergent Sharpe
A Touch of Frost
D.S. Sharpe
Tales of the Unexpected
George Forester
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
Chamberlain
Playhouse
Clive
Playhouse
Denny
BBC Play of the Month
Thompson
Little Britain
Brassed Off
Jim
Von Trapped
Torsten
Cousin Bette
De Wissembourg
The Intended
Norton
The Last Dance
Police Inspector
Crooked House
Joseph Bloxham
High Hopes
Martin Burke
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Jovius
The Storyteller
King
Robin of Sherwood
Abbot Hugo de Rainault
The Good Karma Hospital
Paul Smart
Rogue Male
1st Seaman
Little Voice
George
Pressure
2nd CID Officer
Afternoon Off
Bernard
My Week with Marilyn
Roger Smith
The Peacock
Lord Hamish
Margaret
Bernard Ingham
Grow Your Own
Big John
Spike Island
Mr. Jackson
Cuckoo
Tony
Scum
Mr Greaves
Second Nature
Lawrence Augenblick
Sherwood
Mickey Sparrow
Peterloo
John Knight
Murder Most Horrid
Patron
Murder Most Horrid
Police Sergeant
Hamish Macbeth
Malachi McBean
On the Palm
Dawlish
Thacker
Ben Royce
Porridge
Melvin 'Dylan' Bottomley
Stars in Shorts
Trevor
Murder in Suburbia
Friend Request Pending
Trevor
The Best Offer
Fred
Coogan's Runner
Self
Our Boy
DS Yorke
Crime and Punishment
Marmaladov
Believe
Bob
The Opium War
Captain White
I Want Candy
Stephen, Joe's Dad
Keep an Eye on Albert
Tarpy
Patrick's Day
John Freeman
Well Thank You, Thursday
Stan
The Doctor and the Devils
Andrew Merry-Lees
Bramwell
Ronald Kennedy
The Dark Room
Greg
Pasmore
Colin Pasmore
The Vice
City State
William
Pocketful of Dreams
Denny
The Gentle Touch
Funland
The Pigeon Fancier
Harry
Girls' Night
Dave Simpson
A Pattern of Roses
Builder
Churchill's People
Boatman
Cruise of the Gods
Hugh Bispham
Murder, They Hope
Phil
Bad Move
Ken
Games Without Frontiers
Clive
Avoidance
Peter
The Queen
Harold Wilson
Mike Bassett: England Manager
Lonnie Urquart
The Chase
Raised by Wolves
Grampy
The Ambassador
The Window
Martin Dewsbury
The Fourth Protocol
Burkinshaw
Pennies from Heaven
Dave
Two Up, Two Down
Pig Bin
Ken
Boomers
Alan
Shakespeare or Bust
Hippie
Fanny Hill
Mr. Croft
Above the Clouds
William
Place of Execution
Old George Bennett
Sins
Mickey Thomas
Leave it to Charlie
Geoffrey
The Last Salute
Leonard Spanwick
The Best Man
Mr. Barker
London
Samuel Pepys
Fanny Hill
Mr. Croft
The First Men in the Moon
Voice of Grand Lunar
Ragged
Prison Governor
The Wimbledon Poisoner
Detective Inspector Russell Rush
Sugartown
Downwardly Mobile
Rat in the Skull
Detective Superintendent Derek Harris
A Little Trip to Heaven
William
Home Time
Roy Jacks
Isolation Stories
Peter
Your Move
Mikey
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Willis
Black Hearts in Battersea
Eustace Buckle
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Alfred Roberts
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
Self - Inspector Japp, ITV's Poirot
Lizzie's Pictures
Give My Regards to Broad Street
Alan
What Rats Won't Do
Around The World In 80 Days
Inspector Fix (voice)
Glamour Night
Bob
Black Cab
Robert
Bad Behavior
Howard Spink
Bumps
Howard
A Passage to Wisbech
Narrator
Blooming Youth
Jeff
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
Stan Eastwood
True Love (Once Removed)
Bus driver
A Little Outing
Geoff
Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
Abbot Hugo de Rainault
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant