
John Thaw
Born January 3, 1942 · Gorton, Manchester, England
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Edward Thaw, CBE (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor who appeared in a range of television, stage, and cinema roles. He starred in the television series Inspector Morse as title character Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, Redcap as Sergeant John Mann, The Sweeney as Detective Inspector Jack Regan, Home to Roost as Henry Willows, and Kavanagh QC as title character James Kavanagh. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Thaw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable Appearances
Movies

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Chaplin

Cry Freedom

Goodnight, Mister Tom

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

The Sign of Four

Dinner at the Sporting Club

We'll Support You Evermore

Sweeney 2

Catch Me a Spy

The Life and Death of King John

The Grass Is Singing

Sweeney!

Drake's Venture

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

Into the Blue

The Last Grenade

The Absence of War

Bomber Harris

Buried Treasure

Masculine Mescaline

The Bofors Gun

Dead Man's Chest

Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition

Business as Usual

Regan

Competition

The Waiting Time

Five to One

The Capone Investment
TV Shows

ITV Playhouse

Inspector Morse

The Sweeney

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

The BAFTA Awards

The Onedin Line

The Protectors

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Kavanagh Q.C.

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Budgie

Six Fifty-Five Special

Redcap

The Frighteners

Strange Report

Home to Roost

A Year in Provence

Mitch

The Glass

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Cinema

Bat Out of Hell

Stanley and the Women

Thick as Thieves

Plastic Man

Monsignor Renard

The Capone Investment

The Second World War in Colour




