Philip Jackson
Acting • Born 1948-06-18
Biography
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"
Filmography
140 credits
True Love (Once Removed)
Movie
Bus driver
Girls' Night
Movie • 1998
Dave Simpson
Pig Bin
Movie • 1974
Ken
Little Voice
Movie • 1998
George
Scum
Movie • 1979
Mr Greaves
Brassed Off
Movie • 1996
Jim
Give My Regards to Broad Street
Movie • 1984
Alan
The First Men in the Moon
Movie • 2010
Voice of Grand Lunar
High Hopes
Movie • 1989
Martin Burke
Fanny Hill
Movie • 2007
Mr. Croft
Grow Your Own
Movie • 2007
Big John
The Dark Room
Movie • 1988
Greg
The Doctor and the Devils
Movie • 1985
Andrew Merry-Lees
Mike Bassett: England Manager
Movie • 2001
Lonnie Urquart
My Week with Marilyn
Movie • 2011
Roger Smith
The Best Offer
Movie • 2013
Fred
The Last Dance
Movie • 1993
Police Inspector
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
Movie • 1993
Stan Eastwood
Believe
Movie • 2013
Bob
Patrick's Day
Movie • 2014
John Freeman
City State
Movie • 2011
William
Bad Behavior
Movie • 1993
Howard Spink
Around The World In 80 Days
Movie • 2000
Inspector Fix (voice)
Second Nature
Movie • 2003
Lawrence Augenblick
Coogan's Runner
Movie • 2003
Self
Our Boy
Movie • 1998
DS Yorke
Friend Request Pending
Movie • 2011
Trevor
Spike Island
Movie • 2012
Mr. Jackson
Blooming Youth
Movie • 1973
Jeff
The Pigeon Fancier
Movie • 1971
Harry
Your Move
Movie • 2023
Mikey
Margaret
Movie • 2009
Bernard Ingham
I Want Candy
Movie • 2007
Stephen, Joe's Dad
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
Movie • 2020
Self - Inspector Japp, ITV's Poirot
The Peacock
Movie • 2023
Lord Hamish
Afternoon Off
Movie • 1979
Bernard
The Best Man
Movie • 2005
Mr. Barker
A Little Trip to Heaven
Movie • 2005
William
Games Without Frontiers
Movie • 1980
Clive
What Rats Won't Do
Movie • 1998
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Movie • 2008
Alfred Roberts
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Movie • 2000
Willis
Crime and Punishment
Movie • 2002
Marmaladov
The Fourth Protocol
Movie • 1987
Burkinshaw
Cruise of the Gods
Movie • 2002
Hugh Bispham
A Pattern of Roses
Movie • 1983
Builder
Rogue Male
Movie • 1976
1st Seaman
Stars in Shorts
Movie • 2012
Trevor
Von Trapped
Movie • 2004
Torsten
The Intended
Movie • 2002
Norton
A Little Outing
Movie • 1977
Geoff
Rat in the Skull
Movie • 1987
Detective Superintendent Derek Harris
The Opium War
Movie • 1997
Captain White
Pressure
Movie • 1976
2nd CID Officer
Thacker
Movie • 1992
Ben Royce
Peterloo
Movie • 2018
John Knight
Well Thank You, Thursday
Movie • 1976
Stan
Ragged
Movie • 2013
Prison Governor
Cousin Bette
Movie • 1998
De Wissembourg
Above the Clouds
Movie • 2018
William
Shakespeare or Bust
Movie • 1973
Hippie
Keep an Eye on Albert
Movie • 1975
Tarpy
Pasmore
Movie • 1980
Colin Pasmore
On the Palm
Movie • 1987
Dawlish
Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
Movie • 1984
Abbot Hugo de Rainault
Pocketful of Dreams
Movie • 1982
Denny
A Passage to Wisbech
Movie • 1986
Narrator
Bumps
Movie • 2020
Howard
Glamour Night
Movie • 1985
Bob
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
Movie • 1988
King
Becoming Victoria Wood
Movie • 2026
Self
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Movie • 2003
Logan
The Chester Mystery Plays
Movie • 1976
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Chief Inspector James Harold Japp
Murder Most Horrid
TV • 1991
Patron
The Chase
TV • 2006
Hustle
TV • 2004
Arthur Bond
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Ken Marsden
Robin of Sherwood
TV • 1984
Abbot Hugo de Rainault
Two Up, Two Down
TV • 1979
The Storyteller
TV • 1988
King
New Tricks
TV • 2004
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Assistant Commissioner Japp
The Vice
TV • 1999
Lizzie's Pictures
TV • 1987
Place of Execution
TV • 2008
Old George Bennett
Porridge
TV • 1974
Melvin 'Dylan' Bottomley
Downwardly Mobile
TV • 1994
Home Time
TV • 2009
Roy Jacks
The Sins
TV • 2000
Mickey Thomas
Fanny Hill
TV • 2007
Mr. Croft
Sugartown
TV • 2011
The Window
TV • 2021
Martin Dewsbury
Raised by Wolves
TV • 2015
Grampy
Murder Most Horrid
TV • 1991
Police Sergeant
London
TV • 2004
Samuel Pepys
Bramwell
TV • 1995
Ronald Kennedy
Cuckoo
TV • 2012
Tony
The Gentle Touch
TV • 1980
Little Britain
TV • 2003
Boomers
TV • 2014
Alan
The Ambassador
TV • 1998
The Good Karma Hospital
TV • 2017
Paul Smart
Murder in Suburbia
TV • 2004
Sherwood
TV • 2022
Mickey Sparrow
Murder, They Hope
TV • 2021
Phil
Bad Move
TV • 2017
Ken
A Touch of Frost
TV • 1992
Sergent Sharpe
Casualty
TV • 1986
Rob Royson
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Daniel Snape
The Queen
TV • 2009
Harold Wilson
The Wimbledon Poisoner
TV • 1994
Detective Inspector Russell Rush
Black Hearts in Battersea
TV • 1995
Eustace Buckle
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
David Witton
A Touch of Frost
TV • 1992
D.S. Sharpe
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV • 2011
Self - Participant
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Brian Simpson
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
TV • 2018
Chamberlain
Avoidance
TV • 2022
Peter
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Colin Pasmore
Isolation Stories
TV • 2020
Peter
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
George Forester
Hamish Macbeth
TV • 1995
Malachi McBean
Last of the Summer Wine
TV • 1973
Gordon
The Day of the Jackal
TV • 2024
Trevor
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
TV • 2006
Jovius
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Alan Carter
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Clive
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Denny
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Thompson
Pennies from Heaven
TV • 1978
Dave
Crooked House
TV • 2008
Joseph Bloxham
Churchill's People
TV • 1974
Boatman
Shameless
TV • 2004
Barry
Leave it to Charlie
TV • 1978
Geoffrey
The Last Salute
TV • 1998
Leonard Spanwick
Black Cab
TV • 2000
Robert
Strangers
TV • 1978
Nose Treacy
Funland
TV • 2005
Leo Finch