John Rowe (actor)

File:John Rowe at The 2019 Chiswick Book Festival (48742392547) (cropped).jpg

John Rowe (born January 1941) is a British actor.

After reading English at Oxford he worked as a teacher before training at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5H7fR4sHmfJvmcnlqS5jsvp/jim-lloyd|title=BBC Radio 4 - The Archers - Jim Lloyd|website=BBC}} After some years in repertory theatre he joined the BBC Radio Drama Company at Broadcasting House and has been a prolific radio actor ever since, notably as Professor Jim Lloyd in The Archers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2018/living-with-the-poets-podcasts/|title=Living with the Poets podcasts – Bath Spa University|website=www.bathspa.ac.uk}} He has also played numerous character roles on television and film and his extensive stage work includes touring with the Old Vic in Europe, China, the Middle East and Australia.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0f0beca|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301134429/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0f0beca|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 1, 2020|title=John Rowe|website=BFI}}{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/zz0/john-rowe|title=John Rowe | Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}

Filmography

=Film=

The Chain (1984)
Clockwise (1986)
The Heart of Me (2001)
Lagaan (2001)
The Lost Prince (2003)
Victoria & Abdul (2017){{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/john-rowe-p151307|title=John Rowe | Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}}

=TV=

BBC Television Shakespeare - Henry VIII (Cromwell, 1979)
BBC Television Shakespeare - Macbeth (Lennox, 1983)
Juliet Bravo (1980–85)
When the Boat Comes In (Hector Smith-Jameson, 1981)
Intimate Contact (Managing Director, 1987)
Chambers (Judge Riseby, 1990)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (The Cornish Mystery, 1990)
Seekers (1992)
The Final Cut (Sir Clive Watling, 1995)
Trial & Retribution (2006)
Law & Order: UK (series 5) (2011)
Casualty (2013)
Mr Selfridge (2015)
BBC Television - Holby City Series 18, Episode 24: Who You Are (Thomas Bell Humphries, 2016)
Vera (TV series) (2016 - episode: The Moth Catcher)
The Crown (2016){{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=15035|title=John Rowe|website=www.aveleyman.com}}

Anna Lee (TV series 1994) as Commander Martin Brierly; Anna's boss /ref> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105942/characters/nm0746546

=Radio=

class="wikitable sortable" ! Date	Title !! Role !! Director !! Station
March 1973	Henry IV Part 1 by William Shakespeare	Prince Hal	Martin Jenkins (Producer)	BBC Radio 3{{Cite web\|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f3e10d401d204cc298d0128337f38f69\|title=BBC Programme Index\|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk\|date=18 March 1973 }}
1997	The Chimes of Midnight by Nick Fisher	Jonathan Tempray	Marion Nancarrow	BBC Radio 4 Fear on 4 Drama
October 1997	Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie	Dr Graves	Enyd Williams	BBC Radio 4 Drama
{{dts\|format=dmy\|1999-07-30}}	Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry		David Hunter	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2004-02-23}} – {{dts\|format=dmy\|2004-03-05}}	The L-Shaped Room		Alison Hindell	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2004-05-03}}	Inspector Cadaver		Ned Chaillet	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2006-01-23}} – {{dts\|format=dmy\|2006-01-27}}	To Serve Them All My Days	Howarth	Marc Beeby and Cherry Cookson	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
2007–08, 2009–	The Archers	Jim Lloyd		BBC Radio 4
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2007-09-04}}	The Architects{{Cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007xmcz\|title=BBC Radio 4 - Drama, The Architects\|website=BBC}}	Alan & Policeman	Lu Kemp	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
2008	The Karla Trilogy - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ; The Honourable Schoolboy ; Smiley's People by John Le Carré	Control	adapted by Shaun McKenna	BBC Radio 4 Drama
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-01-27}} – {{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-03-02}}	Fortunes of War	Inchcape	Colin Guthrie	BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-06-16}} – {{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-07-04}}	The Way We Live Right Now	Anthony Trollope	Jonquil Panting	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-06-17}}	The Ring and the Book	The Judge	Abigail le Fleming	BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-06-18}}	Listen to the Words	Clive	Jessica Dromgoole	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-07-06}}	Piper Alpha		Toby Swift	BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-07-11}}	One Chord Wonders: Parallel Lines	Announcer	Toby Swift	BBC Radio 4 Friday Play
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-07-25}}	One Chord Wonders: Damned, Damned, Damned	Announcer	Toby Swift	BBC Radio 4 Friday Play
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-08-08}}	One Chord Wonders: Television's Over	Voke	Toby Swift	BBC Radio 4 Friday Play
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-09-01}}	Peter Lorre vs Peter Lorre	Judge Burnett Wolfson	Toby Swift	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-11-23}}	The Pattern of Painful Adventures	Richard Burbage	Jeremy Mortimer	BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-11-24}} – {{dts\|format=dmy\|2008-11-28}}	Aubrey's Brief Lives	Anthony Wood	Abigail le Fleming	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2009-03-16}}	Where Three Roads Meet	Shepherd	Kirsty Williams	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2010-06-11}}	Philip and Sydney	Hotel Keeper & Drinker	Kirsty Williams	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2010-12-22}}	Alice Through the Looking-Glass{{Cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pf5d7\|title=BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, Lewis Carroll - Alice through the Looking Glass\|website=BBC}}	The White Knight	Stephen Wyatt	BBC Radio 4 Saturday Drama
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2013-11-03}}	Sword of Honour{{Cite web\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03gtvty\|title=BBC Sword of Honour webpage}}	Peregrine Crouchback	Tracey Neale	BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2015-01-7}}	Wants and Desires: the Ferryhill Philosophers{{Cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xf78v\|title=BBC Radio 4 - Drama, The Ferryhill Philosophers, Wants and Desires\|website=BBC}}	Rollo Ironside	Marilyn Imrie	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
{{dts\|format=dmy\|2020-02-14}}	24 Kildare Road (episodes 7-10){{Cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000f5g8\|title=BBC Radio 4 - Drama, 24 Kildare Road\|website=BBC}}	Joe Kelly	Mary Peate	BBC Radio 4

References

External links

{{imdb name|0746546|John Rowe}}
[http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/candc/r/ro/rowe_john.html John Rowe's Radio performances]

Category:Living people

Category:British male stage actors

Category:British male film actors

Category:British male television actors

Category:Audiobook narrators

Category:1940 births