John Thaw

John Thaw was born on Jan 03, 1942 in UK. John Thaw's big-screen debut came with The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner directed by Tony Richardson in 1962, strarring Bosworth (uncredited). John Thaw is known for Inspector Morse: Rest in Peace directed by Jamie McCoan, James Grout stars as Superintendent Strange and John Thaw as Inspector Morse. John Thaw has got 8 awards and 6 nominations so far. The most recent award John Thaw achieved is BAFTA Awards. The upcoming new movie John Thaw plays is Buried Treasure which will be released on Oct 14, 2001.

He was the working class boy from Manchester whose intensity and natural honesty made him British television's most bankable actor. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His first starring role on TV was as Sgt John Mann in Redcap (1964). His first great success, though, was as Detective Inspector Regan in Regan (1974). Violent and uncompromising, the series changed the portrayal of police work on British television and was one of the defining dramas of the 1970s.For Inspecteur Morse (1987), Thaw was yet again cast as a policeman, but this time a more cultured character than Regan. The leisurely-paced series, set in beautiful Oxfordshire, was Thaw's most popular and long-running project. It established him as British television's most bankable actor, and during the 1990s he had many other starring vehicles. He was also a favourite of film director Richard Attenborough, who cast him in Cry Freedom - Le cri de la liberté (1987) and Chaplin (1992).John Thaw was a quiet, private man. His marriage to actress Sheila Hancock was generally regarded as one of the strongest in showbusiness. When he died at the age of 60, the BBC website was inundated with tributes from the viewing public. His "Inspector Morse" co-star Kevin Whately simply described him as the country's finest screen actor.