Personal Info
Birth date
1953-01-11 (72 Years)
Day of death
2020-11-02
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Also known as
John Gibb Marshall
존 세션스
John Sessions
Biography
Actor, comedian and impressionist who was better known for his improvisation comedy.
Filmography
Doctor Who
7.549
Overview:
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.Midsomer Murders
7.5
Overview:
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.Outlander
8.199
Overview:
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.Death in Paradise
7.439
Overview:
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.Question Time
5.1
Overview:
This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.Have I Got News for You
7.1
Overview:
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.Father Brown
7.5
Overview:
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.Whose Line Is It Anyway?
7.586
Overview:
An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.QI
7.934
Overview:
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.Sherlock
8.514
Overview:
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.Skins
8.1
Overview:
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.One Foot in the Grave
7.561
Overview:
One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret. The programmes invariably deal with Meldrew's battle against the problems he creates for himself. Living in a typical household in an unnamed English suburb, Victor takes involuntary early retirement. His various efforts to keep himself busy, while encountering various misfortunes and misunderstandings are the themes of the sitcom. The series was largely filmed on location in Walkford, near New Milton in Hampshire, although several clues show that the series may have been set in Hampshire – possibly Winchester. Despite its traditional production, the series supplants its domestic sitcom setting with elements of black humour and surrealism.Spitting Image
7.083
Overview:
Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.The New Statesman
7.5
Overview:
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.Celebrity Mastermind
6
Overview:
Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner.The Great
8.104
Overview:
A genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th century Russia following the rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great and her explosive relationship with husband Peter, the emperor of Russia.Victoria
7.3
Overview:
The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.Wogan
4.5
Overview:
Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.Boon
5.5
Overview:
Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
7.377
Overview:
With magic long since lost to England, two men are destined to bring it back; the reclusive Mr. Norrell and daring novice Jonathan Strange. So begins a dangerous battle between two great minds.Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
6.8
Overview:
Famous DJ Alan Partridge gives us an insight into what happens behind the microphone at North Norfolk digital radio.Friday Night Dinner
7.841
Overview:
Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.New Tricks
7.4
Overview:
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
7.1
Overview:
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
6.1
Overview:
A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by the ghost of his deceased partner Marty Hopkirk.Rab C. Nesbitt
7
Overview:
BBC comedy series about Rab C. Nesbitt, a drunken, string vested layabout who lives with his long suffering wife Mary and his two sons in the working class area of Govan in Glasgow. When he's not getting drunk with his pals that include the devious, womanizing Jamesie Cotter. He's offering his philosophical outlook on life to whoever will listen.Dead Boss
6.556
Overview:
Helen Stephens is wrongly sentenced to 12 years in prison for murdering her boss Eric Bridges, the managing director of Entirely Tiles. Although she is sure that it will only be a matter of time before this mistake is rectified, everyone around her seems to be conspiring to keep her behind bars. Lawyer Tony is incompetent, sister Laura wants her flat, and fiancé Justin - her alibi - has disappeared. Colleague Henry seems to be the only one willing to help, but he has an ulterior motive.Tender Is the Night
6.286
Overview:
Dennis Potter adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about how the rich languoring on the Riviera in the 1920s are slowly drawn into the coming depression is once again filmed with Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen, and John Heard in the leads.Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes
7.8
Overview:
If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the assistance of young student Doyle.Acting
2021Belfast as Joseph Tomelty as Marley
2020The Great (1 Episode) as Bishop Tarcinkus
2019Intrigo: Dear Agnes as Pumpermann
2019Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream as Self
2018Balls as Brownlow
2018The Town That Floored the World as Presenter
2017Finding Your Feet as Mike Abbott
2017Loving Vincent as Pere Tanguy
2017The Loch (6 Episodes) as DCI Frank Smilie
2016Denial as Prof. Richard Evans
2016Victoria (8 Episodes) as Lord John Russell
2016Whisky Galore as Doctor McLaren
2016Florence Foster Jenkins as Dr. Hermann
2016Red Top as The Accountant
2016The Rack Pack as Ted Lowe
2015We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story as Arthur Lowe
2015Legend as Lord Boothby
2015Sean Connery: In His Own Words as Narrator
2015Mr. Holmes as Mycroft Holmes
2015Hiroshima: The Aftermath as Narrator
2015Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (1 Episode) as John Murray
2014The Silent Storm as Mr. Smith
2014Outlander (2 Episodes) as Arthur Duncan
2014Pudsey the Dog: The Movie as Thorne
2013Filth as Toal
2013Father Brown (1 Episode) as Reverend Adam Gillespie
2013Blandings (1 Episode) as Lord Didcot
201230 Years of Comic Strip as Unknown
2012Moone Boy (1 Episode) as Unknown
2012Dead Boss (1 Episode) as Sir Humphreys
2011The Iron Lady as Edward Heath
2011Death in Paradise (1 Episode) as Hugh Davenport
2011The Hunt for Tony Blair as Tebbit, Norman Tebbit
2011The Real American: Joe McCarthy as Joe McCarthy
2011Friday Night Dinner (1 Episode) as Mr. Murray
2010Spies and Lies as Folkes
2010Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge (1 Episode) as Unknown
2010Made in Dagenham as Harold Wilson
2010Sherlock (1 Episode) as Kenny Prince
2010The Making of Plus One as Derek - the line producer
2009Nativity! as Mr. Lore
2009The Last Station as Dushan
2009Breaking the Mould as Edward Mellanby
2009Margaret as Ian Gow
2008Inconceivable as Finbar 'Finn' Darrow
2007Oliver Twist (2, 5 Episode) as Unknown, Mr. Sowerberry
2007Ronni Ancona & Co (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2007Reichenbach Falls as Professor Bell
2007Skins (1 Episode) as Geoff Fitzgerald
2006The Good Shepherd as Valentin Mironov #1/Yuri Modin
2006Low Winter Sun as Prof Barry Lennox
2006Scoop as Strombel's Co-Worker (uncredited)
2006Hotel Babylon (1 Episode) as Unknown
2005The English Harem as Ridley
2005Rag Tale as Felix Miles Sty
2005Doctor Who (1 Episode) as Gus
2004Hawking as Dennis Sciama
2004The Merchant of Venice as Salerio
2004Five Children and It as Peasemarsh
2004Lighthouse Hill as Mr. Reynard
2004The Legend of the Tamworth Two as Rival Newspaper Editor
2004Stella Street as Unknown
2004New Tricks (1 Episode) as Unknown
2003Celebrity Mastermind (1 Episode) as Himself
2003The Key as Unknown
2003QI (10 Episodes) as Self
2002Gangs of New York as Harry Watkins / Lincoln
2002George Eliot: A Scandalous Life as George Henry Lewes
2002One of the Hollywood Ten as Paul Jarrico
2002Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as General Tannis
2002The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (1 Episode) as John Corntel
2001Judge John Deed (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2001Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode) as Prof. Rutherford
2001High Heels and Low Lifes as Director
2001David Macaulay: Mill Times as Shadrack Moore (voice)
2000Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (1 Episode) as Unknown
2000Gormenghast (4 Episodes) as Unknown
2000Around The World In 80 Days as Jean Passepartout (voice)
2000A Profile of 'Brief Encounter' as Self
1999A Midsummer Night's Dream as Philostrate
1999The Man as Jerry Barnes
1999Faeries as Chudley (voice)
1998The Scarlet Tunic as Humphrey Gould
1998Cousin Bette as Musical Director
1998In the Red (3 Episodes) as Hercules Fortescue
1998Faith as Brian
1998Queen's Park Story as Unknown
1997Stella Street (39 Episodes) as Unknown
1997The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling (5 Episodes) as Henry Fielding
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Barrett Filby
1997My Night with Reg as Daniel
1996The Treasure Seekers as Redman
1996The Adventures of Pinocchio as Schoolmaster
1995In the Bleak Midwinter as Terry Du Bois
1994Nice Day at the Office (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1994Princess Caraboo as Prince Regent
1994John Sessions' Likely Stories (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1994Citizen Locke as John Locke
1994David Macaulay: Roman City as Laurens / Acco Bouvaix (voice)
1993Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles as James Boswell
1992Freddie as F.R.O.7. as Scotty / Additional voices (voice)
1992Sellers' Best as Self
1991The Pope Must Die as Dino
1991Performance (1 Episode) as Daniel
1991John Sessions' Tall Tales (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1990Have I Got News for You (2 Episodes) as Himself
1990Rab C. Nesbitt (1 Episode) as Chief Inspector Haggerty
1990Sweet Revenge as John
1990Plunder (1 Episode) as Unknown
1990One Foot in the Grave (1 Episode) as Unknown
1989Henry V as Macmorris
1989John Sessions On The Spot (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1988Whose Line Is It Anyway? (21 Episodes) as Self
1987The New Statesman (1 Episode) as Lord Penistone
1987Porterhouse Blue (4 Episodes) as Zipser
1987Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People as Antonio Gramsci
1986Sky Bandits as Flight
1986Whoops Apocalypse as Mr. Sweetzer
1986Castaway as Man in Pub
1986Boon (1 Episode) as Barney Spitz
1985Girls On Top (1 Episode) as Rodney
1985Happy Families (1 Episode) as Dean
1985Tender Is the Night (6 Episodes) as Young Scot
1984The Bounty as John Smith
1984Spitting Image (94 Episodes) as Unknown
1982Wogan (2 Episodes) as Self
1979Question Time (1 Episode) as Self - Panellist
Crew
2004Churchill: The Hollywood Years ... Additional Dialogue
Writing
2004Stella Street ... Writer