John Bowe

John Bowe

Born: February 1, 1950
in Greasby, Cheshire, England, UK

Movies for John Bowe...

Gozo
Title: Gozo
Character: Johnno
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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Ruby's Skin
Title: Ruby's Skin
Character: Derby
Released: February 15, 2014
Type: Movie
London 1865. Ruby discovers a dark secret about herself that her inventor father Derby has been keeping quiet for her entire life.
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Murder on the Home Front
Title: Murder on the Home Front
Character: Ronald Terry
Released: May 9, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: DCI Banks
Character: Dr. Patrick Aspern
Released: September 16, 2011
Type: TV
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.
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Title: The Hour
Character: Douglas Owen
Released: July 19, 2011
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Ashes to Ashes
Character: Ralph Jarvis
Released: February 7, 2008
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Cranford
Character: Dr. Morgan
Released: November 18, 2007
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Twisted Tales
Released: January 16, 2005
Type: TV
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.
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Title: The Royal
Character: Max Freeman
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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Title: Tipping the Velvet
Character: Walter Bliss
Released: December 9, 2002
Type: TV
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.
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County Kilburn
Title: County Kilburn
Character: Black Jack
Released: August 17, 2000
Type: Movie
Along the kilometre stretch of Kilburn High road in London, there are twenty-eight pubs: that's one every thirty-six metres. Populated predominantly by the Irish, this area has come to be known as County Kilburn. Here we witness the loves, lives and laughs of a disparate group of dreamers, losers and ever-hopefuls.
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Title: Cleopatra
Character: Rufio
Released: May 23, 1999
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Jimmy Wells
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
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.
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Bright Hair
Title: Bright Hair
Character: Inspector Gates
Released: February 9, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: The Duke of Somerset/The Earl of Hertford
Released: November 10, 1996
Type: TV
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.
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Poldark
Title: Poldark
Character: Ross Poldark
Released: October 3, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Dalziel & Pascoe
Released: March 16, 1996
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Silent Witness
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Title: Class Act
Released: April 7, 1994
Type: TV
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.
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Wall of Silence
Title: Wall of Silence
Character: DCI Percy Reynolds
Released: October 17, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Body & Soul
Character: Daniel Stern
Released: April 8, 1993
Type: TV
A nun, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, 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.
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Stalin
Title: Stalin
Character: Voroshilov
Released: November 21, 1992
Type: Movie
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Ronnie Harper
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Henry Stoddard
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Prime Suspect
Character: George Marlow
Released: April 7, 1991
Type: TV
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Title: Capital City
Released: September 26, 1989
Type: TV
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.
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Testimony of a Child
Title: Testimony of a Child
Character: Paul Taylor
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Sitting Targets
Title: Sitting Targets
Character: Larry
Released: March 19, 1989
Type: Movie
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...
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Resurrected
Title: Resurrected
Character: Colonel
Released: March 12, 1989
Type: Movie
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
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Precious Bane
Title: Precious Bane
Character: Kester Woodseaves
Released: January 2, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Deadline
Title: Deadline
Character: Shaun Carew
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The New Statesman
Character: Pietro Garibaldi
Released: September 13, 1987
Type: TV
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
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The Living Daylights
Title: The Living Daylights
Character: Col. Feyador
Released: June 29, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Mike Hornsey
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Bill Brodie
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
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.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: Le Bret
Released: July 26, 1985
Type: Movie
As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is as timid as a schoolboy before the fair Roxanne. Derek Jacobi delivers an electrifying award-winning portrayal of Rostand's legendary log-nosed swordsman in this highly acclaimed production from the world's premier theatre troupe, The Royal Shakespeare Company. The bold Cyrano boasts he can defeat a hundred men in a swordfight, but because of his grotesque nose lacks the confidence to court the woman he loves. Yet so entranced with Roxanne is Cyrano that he uses the eloquence of his poetry to woo her for a rival.
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Title: C.A.T.S. Eyes
Released: April 12, 1985
Type: TV
C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
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.
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The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Title: The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Character: Court Detective
Released: November 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.
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Title: Secret Army
Character: Maurice
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Emmerdale
Character: Lawrence White
Released: October 16, 1972
Type: TV
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.