
Philip Jackson
Known for: Acting
Born: June 18, 1948
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 Po…
Known for

Pig Bin
1974

Blooming Youth
1973

Games Without Frontiers
1980

Pasmore
1980

A Passage to Wisbech
1986
True Love (Once Removed)

The Dark Room
1988

Around The World In 80 Days
2000

A Little Outing
1977
Rat in the Skull
1987

On the Palm
1987

Pocketful of Dreams
1982

Mike Bassett: England Manager
2001

Friend Request Pending
2011

Your Move
2023

Ragged
2013

Above the Clouds
2018

Glamour Night
1985

The Storyteller: The Luck Child
1988

High Hopes
1989

Patrick's Day
2014

Bad Behavior
1993

Our Boy
1998
Von Trapped
2004

Well Thank You, Thursday
1976

Girls' Night
1998

Grow Your Own
2007

My Week with Marilyn
2011

Second Nature
2003

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
2020

Afternoon Off
1979

Cruise of the Gods
2002

A Pattern of Roses
1983
Bumps
2020

Brassed Off
1996

The Best Offer
2013

Believe
2013

The Best Man
2005

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008

Little Voice
1998

Scum
1979

The Last Dance
1993

A Little Trip to Heaven
2005

The Intended
2002

Thacker
1992

The First Men in the Moon
2010
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
1993

I Want Candy
2007

The Peacock
2023

Stars in Shorts
2012

Shakespeare or Bust
1973

Keep an Eye on Albert
1975

The Doctor and the Devils
1985

The Pigeon Fancier
1971

Give My Regards to Broad Street
1984

Fanny Hill
2007

Becoming Victoria Wood
2026

Coogan's Runner
2003

Margaret
2009

Cousin Bette
1998

Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
1984

The Opium War
1997

Crime and Punishment
2002

City State
2011

Rogue Male
1976

Mother Teresa of Calcutta
2003

The Fourth Protocol
1987

Spike Island
2012

Peterloo
2018

The Chester Mystery Plays
1976

What Rats Won't Do
1998

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000

Pressure
1976

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989

The Chase
2006

Hustle
2004

Silent Witness
1996

Heartbeat
1992

Robin of Sherwood
1984
Two Up, Two Down
1979

The Storyteller
1988

New Tricks
2004
Lizzie's Pictures
1987

Place of Execution
2008

Porridge
1974

Downwardly Mobile
1994

Home Time
2009

The Sins
2000

Fanny Hill
2007

Sugartown
2011

The Window
2021

Raised by Wolves
2015
London
2004

Bramwell
1995

Cuckoo
2012

Little Britain
2003

Boomers
2014

The Ambassador
1998

The Good Karma Hospital
2017

Sherwood
2022

Murder, They Hope
2021

Bad Move
2017

A Touch of Frost
1992

Casualty
1986

Midsomer Murders
1997

The Queen
2009

The Wimbledon Poisoner
1994

Black Hearts in Battersea
1995

Death in Paradise
2011

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
2018

Avoidance
2022

Play for Today
1970

Isolation Stories
2020

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

Hamish Macbeth
1995

Last of the Summer Wine
1973

The Day of the Jackal
2024

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006

Foyle's War
2002

Playhouse
1974

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Pennies from Heaven
1978

Crooked House
2008

Churchill's People
1974

Shameless
2004
Leave it to Charlie
1978
The Last Salute
1998

Black Cab
2000

Strangers
1978

Funland
2005

Murder in Suburbia
2004

Playhouse Presents
2012

Murder Most Horrid
1991

The Vice
1999

The Play on One
1988

Red Letter Day
1976

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
Sounding Brass
1980

Screen Two
1985

Trust
2003

Brensham People
1976
Second City Firsts
1973
Life at Stake
1978
For the Love of Albert
1977
First Sight
1987

Don't Forget to Write!
1977