John Bowe
Birthday: Born in 1950-02-01 in Greasby, Cheshire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Ashes to Ashes
Character: Ralph Jarvis
Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company....
The Bill
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The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters....
Silent Witness
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Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes....
Prime Suspect
Character: George Marlow
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world....
Heartbeat
Character: Henry Stoddard
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines....
Dalziel & Pascoe
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British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour....
C.A.T.S. Eyes
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C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987....
Lovejoy
Character: Bill Brodie
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries....
Capital City
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Capital City was a television show produced by Euston Films which focused on the lives of investment bankers in London living and working on the corporate trading floor for the fictional international bank Shane-Longman. Despite its short run in the UK, it was rebroadcast on UKTV Gold as well as a handful of PBS stations in the United States and starred a number of now well known faces. The music for the series was composed by the Colin Towns and enjoyed some success in its own right....
Cranford
Character: Dr. Morgan
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell....
Class Act
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Class Act was a short-lived British comedy drama series produced in the early to mid-1990s by Verity Lambert. The series starred Joanna Lumley, Nadine Garner, and John Bowe....
The Hour
Character: Douglas Owen
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme....
DCI Banks
Character: Dr. Patrick Aspern
A thrilling drama based on the novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot....
Body & Soul
Character: Daniel Stern
A nun leaves the convent temporarily to help save her family knitting mill from bankruptcy following the death of her brother. Outside the convent she becomes a fairly shrewd businesswoman and feels attracted to one of the men who work at the mill, and thus begins to feel conflict about her religious vows....
Secret Army
Character: Maurice
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo....
Twisted Tales
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Twisted Tales is a dark and stylish comedy drama series. With intense scripts written by a mix of established writers and upcoming talent, each story is a self-contained episode with a mysterious twist. The tales set out to spook the brain and tickle the funny bone, so be prepared to expect the unexpected. The series is very closely related to Spine Chillers, an earlier BBC Three series. In effect, Twisted Tales is a rebranded second series of the earlier successful production....
The Royal
Character: Max Freeman
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles....
Casualty
Character: Mike Hornsey
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Emmerdale
Character: Lawrence White
The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village....
Cleopatra
Character: Rufio
Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen, beds her, and eventually has a son by her. However, his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact, as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife, he had picked Octavian as his successor....
Heartbeat
Character: Ronnie Harper
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines....
Tipping the Velvet
Character: Walter Bliss
A tempestuous tale of love and life as a naïve girl discovers both romance and pain in the hidden, decadent world of bohemian London in the 1890s. Nan Astley embarks on a voyage of emotional and sexual discovery with Kitty Butler, a music hall male impersonator....
The Prince and the Pauper
Character: The Duke of Somerset/The Earl of Hertford
A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well. The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain's novel about adventure and intrigue in the court of Henry VIII....
The New Statesman
Character: Pietro Garibaldi
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time....
Midsomer Murders
Character: Jimmy Wells
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty. ...
Soldier Soldier
Character: Lt Col Ian Jennings
The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers....
Murder on the Home Front
Character: Ronald Terry
Crime drama set during the Blitz. After several women are murdered, pathologist Lennox Collins and his secretary Molly Cooper employ ground breaking forensic techniques in pursuit of the killer....
Movie Credits
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Character: Court Detective
Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper....
Poldark
Character: Ross Poldark
The Cornish military captain, now a member of Parliament, is drawn into the war with France while his son falls in with smugglers. Historical drama, starring John Bowe and Mel Martin, and featuring a young Ioan Gruffudd in one of his earliest roles....
Sitting Targets
Character: Larry
Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things begin to look hopeless. But the tenants begin to fight back......
Murder on the Home Front
Character: Ronald Terry
At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is strangled and a swastika carved on her tongue....
Deadline
Character: Shaun Carew
In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a political renegade, attempts to depose his father - the ruling monarch. Flashbacks of the journalist's life show us how his relationships with the Emir and a beautiful young woman develop and flourish....
Testimony of a Child
Character: Paul Taylor
Being accused of child abuse is a nightmare every family dreads. The Taylors are an ordinary happy family, but Paul and Jill are worried about their 11-year-old son Mark, who is not eating. The family GP has diagnosed 'failure to thrive', and Mark is sent to the hospital for a check-up....
Imogen's Face
Character: Cavan
The beautiful Imogen has just given birth to twins, and asks her sister Amanda to cover for her while she spends time with her lover....
Bright Hair
Character: Inspector Gates
A solitary schoolgirl, prone to sudden blackouts after she's stumbled into a murder scene, gets involved with her English teacher. Then, when his wife is also murdered, questions about what's real and what's made up start haunting her....
Gozo
Character: Johnno
Lucille and Joe have moved to Gozo, a tiny island in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Malta. They have a nice car, a steady income, a beautiful farmhouse with breathtaking views and a swimming pool. They seem to have it all. But when a young tourist goes missing on the island, Joe's disquieted conscience begins to get the better of him. As the buried horrors of Lucille and Joe's past resurface, the cracks begin to show in their homespun paradise....
The Living Daylights
Character: Col. Feyador
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West....
5 Greedy Bankers
Character: Slater
A Heist movie in which two victims of the grasping GREEDY BANKERS decide it's time for a special kind of revenge....
Stalin
Character: Voroshilov
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin....
Precious Bane
Character: Kester Woodseaves
In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a man who may see her differently....
Wall of Silence
Character: DCI Percy Reynolds
A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, and the cause of death one reserved by the Hasidim to punish "moysers" or informers....
Resurrected
Character: Colonel
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia....
Split Second
Character: Ian 'Mac' McPhail
A split-second decision made in a fit of rage drives attorney and family man Michael Anderson to desperate measures.The stressed-out lawyer hits his melting point one fateful day, when he runs away from the consequences of his actions....