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Philip Jackson (born 18 June 1948) is an English actor. He appeared as Chief Inspector Japp in both the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot and in BBC Radio dramatisations of Poirot stories; as Melvin "Dylan" Bottomley in Porridge; and as Abbot Hugo, one of the recurring adversaries in the 1980s series Robin of Sherwood.
Philip Jackson portrays Japp as working-class and 'thoroughly British', not very intelligent but an extremely diligent, canny and active police officer with a good but rather dry sense of humour, characteristics which often serve as a perfect foil to Poirot's personality, who is intelligent, elegant, upper-class but rather slow in movements and ...
The names of two central characters, Ed Reardon (played by Christopher Douglas) and Jaz Milvane (played by Philip Jackson), are references to the characters Edwin Reardon and Jasper Milvain, who appear in George Gissing's 1891 novel New Grub Street, [1] which is set in the hack-literary London of the late 19th century, although Edward was ...
Tobias Menzies and Matt Smith, who each portrayed Prince Philip on the Netflix hit "The Crown," paid tribute to him after his death on Friday.
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Philip Jackson (surveyor) (1802–1879), British Royal Navy lieutenant and mapmaker during 1820s; Philip L. Jackson (1893–1953), publisher of Portland newspaper The Oregon Journal; Philip Jackson (sculptor) (born 1944), Scottish sculptor; Philip Jackson (actor) (born 1948), English actor
Bad Behaviour is a 1993 British comedy film directed by Les Blair and starring Stephen Rea, Sinéad Cusack and Philip Jackson. [2] The film depicts an Irish couple living with their family in North London .
Hugh Fraser (born 23 October 1945) [1] is an English actor, theatre director and author. He is best known for his portrayal of Captain Hastings in the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot opposite David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and for his role as the Duke of Wellington (replacing David Troughton) in the Sharpe television series.