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John Thaw was the Manchester working class boy whose intensity and natural honesty made him the most bankable actor on British television. He studied Dramatic Art at the Royal Academy. His first TV starring role was in Redcap (1964), as Sgt John Mann. His first great success, however, was in The Sweeney (1974) as Detective Inspector Regan. Violent and uncompromising, the series changed the portrayal of British TV police work, and was one of the seventies ' defining dramas. Thaw was again cast as a policeman for Inspector Morse (1987) but this time a more sophisticated character than Regan. The romantic sequence, set in beautiful Oxfordshire, was the most famous and long-ru of ThawJohn Thaw was the Manchester working class boy whose intensity and natural honesty made him the most bankable actor on British television. He studied Dramatic Art at the Royal Academy. His first TV starring role was in Redcap (1964), as Sgt John Mann. His first great success, however, was in The Sweeney (1974) as Detective Inspector Regan. Violent and uncompromising, the series changed the portrayal of British TV police work, and was one of the seventies ' defining dramas. Thaw was again cast as a policeman for Inspector Morse (1987) but this time a more sophisticated character than Regan. The romantic sequence, set in beautiful Oxfordshire, was the most famous and long-ru of Thaw.
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