Warm, mature with a light gravitas.
Grew up on the border of Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire, very comfortable with both East Midlands and Yorkshire accents.
Highly respected film and TV actor. Best known for his roles in Chief Inspector Japp in both the television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot and in BBC Radio dramatisations of Poirot stories; as Melvin “Dylan” Bottomley in Porridge; and as Abbot Hugo, one of the recurring adversaries in the cult 1980s series Robin of Sherwood. Most recently Philip has been seen as Micky Sparrow in the BBC crime drama Sherwood.
Grew up on the border of Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire, very comfortable with both East Midlands and Yorkshire accents.
Highly respected film and TV actor. Best known for his roles in Chief Inspector Japp in both the television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot and in BBC Radio dramatisations of Poirot stories; as Melvin “Dylan” Bottomley in Porridge; and as Abbot Hugo, one of the recurring adversaries in the cult 1980s series Robin of Sherwood. Most recently Philip has been seen as Micky Sparrow in the BBC crime drama Sherwood.