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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.489 |
| Birthday | 1948-06-18 |
| Place of Birth | Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Phillip Jackson, 필립 잭슨, Филип Джексон, فیلیپ جکسون, |
True Love (Once Removed)
9/1
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1998
Girls' Night
6.8/10
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Girls' Night
1974
Pig Bin
0/0
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Pig Bin
1998
Little Voice
6.453/201
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1979
Scum
7.1/219
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1996
Brassed Off
7.002/303
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1984
Give My Regards to Broad Street
5.1/24
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Give My Regards to Broad Street
1989
High Hopes
7/102
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2010
The First Men in the Moon
5.879/29
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2007
Fanny Hill
5.793/29
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2007
Grow Your Own
6.5/15
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1988
The Dark Room
0/0
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The Doctor and the Devils
6.237/59
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2001
Mike Bassett: England Manager
6.993/73
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My Week with Marilyn
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2013
The Best Offer
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1993
The Last Dance
5.2/16
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1993
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
6.25/4
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Believe
6.1/40
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Believe
2014
Patrick's Day
5.9/8
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2011
City State
5.333/15
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Bad Behavior
5.556/9
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Bad Behavior
2000
Around The World In 80 Days
0/0
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2003
Second Nature
5.063/16
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1998
Our Boy
6.4/5
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2003
Coogan's Runner
7/1
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2011
Friend Request Pending
7.7/18
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2012
Spike Island
6.313/80
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Blooming Youth
0/0
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1971
The Pigeon Fancier
8/1
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2023
Your Move
9/1
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2009
Margaret
5.714/7
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I Want Candy
5.091/121
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2020
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
6.682/22
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The Peacock
4.571/21
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1979
Afternoon Off
0/0
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2005
The Best Man
5.412/78
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A Little Trip to Heaven
5.421/89
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Games Without Frontiers
0/0
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1998
What Rats Won't Do
5.028/18
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2008
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
6.7/9
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2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
7/7
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2002
Crime and Punishment
6.69/21
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1987
The Fourth Protocol
6.335/212
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2002
Cruise of the Gods
5.125/12
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1983
A Pattern of Roses
6/4
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1976
Rogue Male
6.5/23
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Rogue Male
2012
Stars in Shorts
6/4
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Stars in Shorts
2004
Von Trapped
6.5/2
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Von Trapped
2002
The Intended
5.227/11
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1977
A Little Outing
0/0
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1987
Rat in the Skull
0/0
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1976
Pressure
6.5/13
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1992
Thacker
0/0
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2018
Peterloo
6.72/161
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1976
Well Thank You, Thursday
0/0
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Ragged
0/0
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1998
Cousin Bette
5.5/47
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Above the Clouds
5/5
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Above the Clouds
1973
Shakespeare or Bust
10/1
Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.
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1975
Keep an Eye on Albert
0/0
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Keep an Eye on Albert
1980
Pasmore
0/0
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
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Pasmore
1987
On the Palm
0/0
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On the Palm
1984
Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
0/0
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1982
Pocketful of Dreams
0/0
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Pocketful of Dreams
1986
A Passage to Wisbech
0/0
A documentary about the work and life aboard the old coaster "Carrick" as she plies the waters of the North Sea and the English Channel trading to the...
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A Passage to Wisbech
2020
Bumps
0/0
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Bumps
1985
Glamour Night
0/0
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Glamour Night
1988
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
0/0
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Becoming Victoria Wood
6/1
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2003
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
6.6/20
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1976
The Chester Mystery Plays
0/0
Medieval Mystery Cycle first performed in Chester in the 14th century.
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1997
The Opium War
6.346/13
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1978
The Sea
0/0
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