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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.
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24 November 1984
The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne.
30 August 1981
In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm.
20 September 1962
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long distance runner.
25 October 1998
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
01 July 1972
The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife, which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways.
30 March 1978
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum.
30 June 1997
Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, is hauled in by the local police when a young Englishwoman he has befriended goes missing.
04 April 1968
A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
17 December 1992
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
01 March 1970
Two ruthless mercenaries break their friendship when one of them changes sides.
07 March 1987
Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
13 April 2001
Harry Jenkins is a self-made business man, who one day receives a message that his only daughter has died in a car crash.
07 June 1974
Abridged movie version of the 1974 British TV series concerning the whereabouts of Al Capone's illegal gains, garnered during the Prohibition era.
18 May 1995
Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign.
20 September 1970
The Thane of Cawdor plots to become King of Scotland.
01 December 1963
Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him.
04 June 1974
Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years.
01 January 1987
After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff.
28 October 1999
When British Intelligence Officer Tracy Barnes attacks visiting German politician Dieter Krause, solicitor's clerk Joshua Mantle is called to help unravel the events which led to the assault.
24 October 1961
Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.
05 October 1971
An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendly neighbours, of which, he's not too secretly been having an affair with the wife.
12 May 1999
A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.
06 November 1987
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s.
07 November 1978
Vinny Mathews is a small time boxing promoter who struggles with his conscience over what to do with a fighter he knows is unfit to face his opponent.
28 December 1980
Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world in search of adventure and treasure.
06 September 1971
While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candidate.
14 July 1985
A father is intent on finding the truth as to how his soldier son met his death while serving in Northern Ireland.
27 October 1965
Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.
14 January 1977
When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate.
29 August 1972
Peter feels his life has to change, but should he risk his marriage with another woman?
01 January 1970
A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.
01 March 1993
Documentary on the making of the Inspector Morse series.
03 September 1989
Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.
06 March 1996
A London 'wide boy' alcoholic is forced to face his responsibilities by a 'heavenly' messenger.
04 December 1982
A man returns home from a business trip to find his wife is gone. He assumes she's left him after years of rowing and affairs but everyone else seems to be convinced that he's killed her.
