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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"

Becoming Victoria Wood
as Self

The Day of the Jackal
as Trevor

Your Move
as Mikey

The Peacock
as Lord Hamish

Sherwood
as Mickey Sparrow

Avoidance
as Peter

The Window
as Martin Dewsbury

Murder, They Hope
as Phil

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
as Self - Inspector Japp, ITV's Poirot

Isolation Stories
as Peter
Bumps
as Howard

Peterloo
as John Knight

Above the Clouds
as William

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
as Chamberlain

Bad Move
as Ken

The Good Karma Hospital
as Paul Smart

Raised by Wolves
as Grampy

Boomers
as Alan

Patrick's Day
as John Freeman

Believe
as Bob

Ragged
as Prison Governor

The Best Offer
as Fred

Spike Island
as Mr. Jackson

Stars in Shorts
as Trevor

Cuckoo
as Tony

Playhouse Presents
as Prison Governor

My Week with Marilyn
as Roger Smith

Death in Paradise
as David Witton

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant

City State
as William

Friend Request Pending
as Trevor

Sugartown

The First Men in the Moon
as Voice of Grand Lunar

The Queen
as Harold Wilson

Home Time
as Roy Jacks

Margaret
as Bernard Ingham

Crooked House
as Joseph Bloxham

Place of Execution
as Old George Bennett

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
as Alfred Roberts

Fanny Hill
as Mr. Croft

Fanny Hill
as Mr. Croft

Grow Your Own
as Big John

I Want Candy
as Stephen, Joe's Dad

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Jovius

The Chase

A Little Trip to Heaven
as William

Funland
as Leo Finch

The Best Man
as Mr. Barker
Von Trapped
as Torsten
London
as Samuel Pepys

Murder in Suburbia
as Bill Jackson

Hustle
as Arthur Bond

Shameless
as Barry

New Tricks

Mother Teresa of Calcutta
as Logan

Little Britain

Second Nature
as Lawrence Augenblick

Coogan's Runner
as Self

Trust
as James

Cruise of the Gods
as Hugh Bispham