John Thaw is a popular leading man in TV who made his breakthrough in 1964’s Redcap and had continued success with each success decade.
Best known for The Sweeney and Inspector Morse.
Born: January 3, 1942, Longsight, Manchester, United Kingdom Died: February 21, 2002, Luckington, United Kingdom.
KEY ROLES 1964: Redcap 1974: Thick As Thieves 1975: The Sweeney 1985: Home To Roost 1987: Inspector Morse 1993: A Year In Provence 1995: Kavanagh QC
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Sleeping Dogs: Following a possible lead, Mitch ends up in a deserted area in the grounds of Luton Airport. When he sees a coffin being unloaded from...
Business as Usual: After the shooting and death of a local married police inspector while attending a raid at a jewellery shop, the town becomes invaded by...
Who Must Remain Anonymous: An article by Mitch, which describes the lives of scared elderly locals who are being intimidated by mostly black young thugs, causes the...
Fit Up: Regular Cast: John Thaw (Tom Mitchell aka Mitch), Clare Higgins (Jo), David Calder (Ben Hall) Guest Cast: Shaun Curry, Dean Harris, Eamon Boland, Harry...
Squealer: The wife of ex-convict Reg Grey, contacts Mitch to ask for his help. Regular Cast: John Thaw (Tom Mitchell aka Mitch), Clare Higgins (Jo), David Calder...
Postman’s Knock: A team of security guards taking staff wages into a hospital, are attacked by four armed criminals. Regular Cast: John Thaw (Tom Mitchell aka Mitch),...
Saturday Night: After Mitch is contacted by an extremely violent right wing group, he makes the decision to do a detailed expose on their organisation. Regular Cast:...
A Family Matter: Regular Cast: John Thaw (Tom Mitchell aka Mitch), Clare Higgins (Jo), David Calder (Ben Hall) Guest Cast: Philippa Urquhart (Susan), Tanveer Ghani, Annie...
The Nature of the Beast: Regular Cast: John Thaw (Tom Mitchell aka Mitch), Clare Higgins (Jo), David Calder (Ben Hall) Guest Cast: Karen Archer, Sean Scanlan,...
Something Private: When the body of a missing ten year old boy is found close to his home, newspaper crime reporter Mitch travels to the village in...
The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Hoist: Lieutenant Holst of Copenhagen has to help a Russian countess who claims her brother-in-law aims to kill her. Cast: John...
Besides bringing us the genius of Sherlock Holmes, the Victorian and Edwardian era was truly a golden age of detective fiction and in the sparkling ITV...
This hugely popular ITV crime drama series detailed the cases of cerebral Oxford Detective Chief Inspector Morse (John Thaw) and his down to Earth Geordie Sergeant...
Period drama series Monsignor Renard was an interesting series for John Thaw, the series was set in the 1940’s French town of St-Josse-des-Bois, where Catholic Priest...
Saturday Night Theatre was an anthology series with no real defining factor other than that the productions were all first broadcast on Saturday evening in a...