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