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Known for:	Chaplin, Goodnight, Mister Tom, Bomber Harris
Birth name:	John Edward Thaw
Birthday:	3 January 1942, West Gorton, Manchester, England, UK
Height:	5' 9" (1.75 m)

BAFTA nominee for Best Film Supporting Actor 1987 in Cry Freedom. Winner of 2 BAFTA awards for Best TV Actor in "Inspector Morse" (1989 and 1992) and nominee for the same series in 1990 & 1991. Awarded CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1994. Treated for cancer of the oesophagus. His wife, Sheila Hancock, is a breast cancer survivor. [June 2001] Broke his foot in his teens when he tripped while running for a school bus. This has left him with a slight limp which is noticeable in some scenes of the Inspector Morse series. Married Sheila Hancock on 24 December 1973 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. When he married Hancock he decided to officially adopt her daughter Melanie, from her first marriage to Alec Ross, which is why she bears Thaw's surname. He performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His favourite episodes of "Inspector Morse" (1987) were "The Dead of Jericho", "Masonic Mysteries" and "Promised Land". He performed with the National Theatre. He lived quietly in an 18th-century manor house in Wiltshire, England. His most famous roles on British TV were all as straight-talking, no-nonsense characters: Jack Regan, Inspector Morse and James Kavanagh. Father of actress Abigail Thaw, born 1967, (with first wife Sally Alexander) and Joanna Thaw, born 1974, (with second wife Sheila Hancock), and stepfather of Melanie Thaw. Thaw was a fan of classical music ever since he was a young man. Younger brother, Ray, was born November 15, 1944. His mother Dorothy (Dolly) walked out on the family when he was 7 years old. He did not see her again for 12 years when she showed up briefly back stage in a production of "The Fire Raisers." He never saw her again. She died of stomach cancer in 1974. Began at age 11 performing in school plays. In one of them he appeared as Mistress Quickly in "Henry V." Was Laurence Olivier's understudy in the stage production of "Semi-Detached" and later stepped into the part for a week due to Olivier's problem with gout.

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