This is a concise list of John Thaw’s theatre credits, from his final student productions at RADA and professional stage debut in A Shred of Evidence with The Liverpool Repertory Company to his final performance for a BBC Radio 3 production of Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure, which was performed and recorded live in front of an audience.
Further pages containing more information about John’s stage roles will be added to this website during upcoming months.
Actor:
1960: Faust (RADA student production)
1960: The Knight of the Burning Pestle (RADA student production)
1960: A Shred of Evidence
1960: All My Sons
1960: Thark
1960: The Wind and The Rain
1960: Candida
1960: Juno and the Paycock
1960: I Killed the Count
1960: Brer Rabbit
1961: The Fire Raisers
1962: Women Beware Women
1962: Semi-Detached
1963: The Father
1963: Private Ear/Public Eye
1966: La Musica
1967: Around the World in 80 Days
1969: So What About Love?
1970: Random Happenings in the Hebrides
1971: The Lady from the Sea
1971: Friday / Vrijdag
1973: Collaborators
1976: Absurd Person Singular
1977: The Two of Us
1977: Fair Slaughter
1978 – 1979: Night and Day
1981: Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance
1983 -1984: The Time of Your Life
1983 -1984: Twelfth Night
1983 – 1984: Henry VIII
1984: Pygmalion
1985: Where There’s a Will (Variety Charity Benefit)
1985: Staircase
1985 – 1986: Two Into One
1988: All My Sons
1993: The Absence of War
2001: Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure (BBC Radio 3)
Director:
1970: Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
Resources:
IMDb contributors (2024). ‘John Thaw’. IMDb. Available at: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857177/
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ‘RSC Performances’: John Thaw. Available at: https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/search/rsc_person:thaw-john
Wikipedia contributors (2024). ‘John Thaw’. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thaw
Theatre Programmes (Various).
John Thaw Archive 