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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 18, 1948
Place of Birth
Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Phillip Jackson
- 필립 잭슨
- Филип Джексон
- فیلیپ جکسون
Philip Jackson
1.3 Popularity
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"
Known For
8.2
Trevor
The Day of the Jackal
2024
9.0
Mikey
Your Move
2023
4.5
Lord Hamish
The Peacock
2023
7.0
Mickey Sparrow
Sherwood
2022
5.5
Peter
Avoidance
2022
8.7
Martin Dewsbury
The Window
2021
7.2
Phil
Murder, They Hope
2021
6.9
Self - Inspector Japp, ITV's Poirot
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
2020
6.0
Peter
Isolation Stories
2020
🎬
0.0
Howard
Bumps
2020
Credits
The Day of the Jackal
as Trevor
2024
8.2
Your Move
as Mikey
2023
9.0
The Peacock
as Lord Hamish
2023
4.5
Sherwood
as Mickey Sparrow
2022
7.0
Avoidance
as Peter
2022
5.5
The Window
as Martin Dewsbury
2021
8.7
Murder, They Hope
as Phil
2021
7.2
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
as Self - Inspector Japp, ITV's Poirot
2020
6.9
Isolation Stories
as Peter
2020
6.0
🎬
Bumps
as Howard
2020
0.0
Peterloo
as John Knight
2018
6.8
Above the Clouds
as William
2018
5.0
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
as Chamberlain
2018
7.2
Bad Move
as Ken
2017
5.5
The Good Karma Hospital
as Paul Smart
2017
7.6
Raised by Wolves
as Grampy
2015
7.9
Boomers
as Alan
2014
6.3
Patrick's Day
as John Freeman
2014
5.9
Believe
as Bob
2013
6.0
Ragged
as Prison Governor
2013
0.0
The Best Offer
as Fred
2013
7.8
Spike Island
as Mr. Jackson
2012
6.3
Stars in Shorts
as Trevor
2012
4.7
Cuckoo
as Tony
2012
6.8
My Week with Marilyn
as Roger Smith
2011
6.7
Death in Paradise
as David Witton
2011
7.5
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
5.0
City State
as William
2011
5.2
Friend Request Pending
as Trevor
2011
7.7
Sugartown
2011
8.5
The First Men in the Moon
as Voice of Grand Lunar
2010
5.6
The Queen
as Harold Wilson
2009
7.0
Home Time
as Roy Jacks
2009
6.0
Margaret
as Bernard Ingham
2009
5.8
Crooked House
as Joseph Bloxham
2008
6.8
Place of Execution
as Old George Bennett
2008
7.0
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
as Alfred Roberts
2008
6.8
Fanny Hill
as Mr. Croft
2007
5.8
Fanny Hill
as Mr. Croft
2007
7.2
Grow Your Own
as Big John
2007
6.5
I Want Candy
as Stephen, Joe's Dad
2007
5.1
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Jovius
2006
7.4
The Chase
2006
6.0
A Little Trip to Heaven
as William
2005
5.4
Funland
2005
5.7
The Best Man
as Mr. Barker
2005
5.3
🎬
Von Trapped
as Torsten
2004
0.0
🎬
London
as Samuel Pepys
2004
0.0
Murder in Suburbia
2004
7.3
Hustle
as Arthur Bond
2004
7.7
Shameless
as Barry
2004
7.6
New Tricks
2004
7.4
Little Britain
2003
7.1
Second Nature
as Lawrence Augenblick
2003
4.7
Coogan's Runner
as Self
2003
0.0
Cruise of the Gods
as Hugh Bispham
2002
4.8
Foyle's War
as Alan Carter
2002
7.9
The Intended
as Norton
2002
5.0
Crime and Punishment
as Marmaladov
2002
6.6
Mike Bassett: England Manager
as Lonnie Urquart
2001
7.0
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Willis
2000
6.5
Sins
as Mickey Thomas
2000
0.5
Black Cab
as Robert
2000
0.0
Around The World In 80 Days
as Inspector Fix (voice)
2000
0.0
The Vice
1999
5.3
Little Voice
as George
1998
6.5
What Rats Won't Do
1998
4.8
🎬
Girls' Night
as Dave Simpson
1998
6.8
Cousin Bette
as De Wissembourg
1998
5.5
🎬
The Last Salute
as Leonard Spanwick
1998
0.0
Our Boy
as DS Yorke
1998
6.0
The Ambassador
1998
6.0
The Opium War
as Captain White
1997
5.9
Midsomer Murders
as Daniel Snape
1997
7.5
Brassed Off
as Jim
1996
7.0
Silent Witness
1996
7.5
Black Hearts in Battersea
as Eustace Buckle
1995
0.0
Bramwell
as Ronald Kennedy
1995
3.6
Hamish Macbeth
as Malachi McBean
1995
7.5
The Wimbledon Poisoner
as Detective Inspector Russell Rush
1994
2.7
Downwardly Mobile
1994
0.0
The Last Dance
as Police Inspector
1993
4.9
🎬
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
as Stan Eastwood
1993
5.0
Bad Behavior
as Howard Spink
1993
5.4
A Touch of Frost
as Sergent Sharpe
1992
7.5
A Touch of Frost
as D.S. Sharpe
1992
7.5
Thacker
as Ben Royce
1992
0.0
Heartbeat
as Ken Marsden
1992
7.1
Heartbeat
as Brian Simpson
1992
7.1
Murder Most Horrid
as Patron
1991
6.8
Murder Most Horrid
as Police Sergeant
1991
6.8
High Hopes
as Martin Burke
1989
7.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Chief Inspector James Harold Japp
1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Assistant Commissioner Japp
1989
8.2
The Storyteller
as King
1988
8.2
The Dark Room
as Greg
1988
0.0
🎬
Lizzie's Pictures
1987
0.0
On the Palm
as Dawlish
1987
0.0
The Fourth Protocol
as Burkinshaw
1987
6.3
🎬
Rat in the Skull
as Detective Superintendent Derek Harris
1987
0.0
Casualty
as Rob Royson
1986
6.1
A Passage to Wisbech
as Narrator
1986
0.0
The Doctor and the Devils
as Andrew Merry-Lees
1985
6.2
Glamour Night
as Bob
1985
0.0
Give My Regards to Broad Street
as Alan
1984
5.0
Robin of Sherwood
as Abbot Hugo de Rainault
1984
7.6
Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
as Abbot Hugo de Rainault
1984
0.0
A Pattern of Roses
as Builder
1983
5.0
Pocketful of Dreams
as Denny
1982
0.0
Pasmore
as Colin Pasmore
1980
0.0
Games Without Frontiers
as Clive
1980
0.0
The Gentle Touch
1980
6.9
Scum
as Mr Greaves
1979
7.1
🎬
Two Up, Two Down
1979
6.0
Tales of the Unexpected
as George Forester
1979
6.7
Afternoon Off
as Bernard
1979
0.0
🎬
Leave it to Charlie
as Geoffrey
1978
5.0
Pennies from Heaven
as Dave
1978
7.7
A Little Outing
as Geoff
1977
0.0
Pressure
as 2nd CID Officer
1976
6.2
Rogue Male
as 1st Seaman
1976
6.5
Well Thank You, Thursday
as Stan
1976
0.0
Keep an Eye on Albert
as Tarpy
1975
0.0
Churchill's People
as Boatman
1974
1.0
Pig Bin
as Ken
1974
0.0
Porridge
as Melvin 'Dylan' Bottomley
1974
8.1
Playhouse
as Clive
1974
7.0
Playhouse
as Denny
1974
7.0
Blooming Youth
as Jeff
1973
0.0
Shakespeare or Bust
as Hippie
1973
0.0
Last of the Summer Wine
as Gordon
1973
7.1
The Pigeon Fancier
as Harry
1971
0.0
Play for Today
as Colin Pasmore
1970
6.3
BBC Play of the Month
as Thompson
1965
5.0
🎬
True Love (Once Removed)
as Bus driver
N/A
0.0