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John Thaw
English actor (1942–2002)
John Edward Thaw (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor in television, stage and cinema, best known for his starring roles in the television series Inspector Morse as Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse and in The Sweeney as Detective Inspector Jack Regan.
For four consecutive years Thaw was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for playing Morse, winning in 1990 and 1993.[1] In 1988, he was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the film Cry Freedom and in 2001 was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship.[2]
Early life
[edit]Born in Gorton, Manchester, to John Edward ("Jack") Thaw, a tool-setter at the Fairey Aviation Company aircraft factory, later a long-distance lorry driver, and Dorothy (née Ablott).[3] Dorothy left when he was seven years old. He and his younger brother, Raymond Stuart (Ray) had a difficult childhood due to their father's
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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 The Sweeney (1975). 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 Inspector 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 planerat arbete . 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 spelfilm director Richard Attenborough, who cast him in Cry Freedom (1987) and Chaplin (1992).
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1990
John began this year with a well-earned break, taking from January to May off work. The increase from three to four episodes in each series of Inspector Morse had meant a heavier filming schedule, and he felt the need to rest. However, he quickly became bored and found it difficult not working. A more positive outcome of this time off was the opportunity for a holiday with Sheila and their daughters.
Series four of Inspector Morse, filmed the previous year, was broadcast in January, with “The Infernal Serpent” on 3 January, followed by “The Sins of the Fathers”, “Driven to Distraction”, and one of John’s personal favourites, “Masonic Mysteries”; which was broadcast on 24 January 1990.
Viewers were also watching John as Henry Willows in Home to Roost, with the final episode broadcast on 19 January.
In March, John received his first BAFTA Television Award; voted Best Actor for Inspector Morse for the previous