Philip Whitchurch

Actor Jan 30 (age 75) Liverpool, England, UK 1972–2025 (53 year career)

6.5 avg rating

Highest Rated

National Theatre Live: Till The Stars Come Down

2024 · as Uncle Pete

10.0

Merseybeat

2001

9.0

King Lear

2016 · as Earl of Gloucester

8.0

Known For

Film

The English Patient

Corporal Dade

Film

The Doorman

Uncle Pat

Film

Einstein and Eddington

Uncle Rudolf

Film

Peterloo

Magistrate Colonel Fletcher

Film

Beowulf & Grendel

Fisherman

Film

Sharpe

William ‘Sweet William’ Frederickson

Film

Interview with a Hitman

Tosca

Film

Sharpe's Siege

Captain William Frederickson

Filmography

Acting (60)

Movies (24)

Missionary

2025

as Father Julian

National Theatre Live: Till The Stars Come Down

as Uncle Pete

The Doorman

as Uncle Pat

Peterloo

as Magistrate Colonel Fletcher

6.8

King Lear

2016

as Earl of Gloucester

8.0

Interview with a Hitman

as Tosca

Doors Open

as The Geordie

Easier Ways to Make a Living

2009

as The Assailant

Einstein and Eddington

as Uncle Rudolf

Beowulf & Grendel

as Fisherman

ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth

as Harry Gibby

Three Blind Mice

as Carlin

Treasure Island

as Black Dog

The Gift

as Dr. Evans

Sharpe: The Legend

1997

as Frederickson

5.0

Sharpe's Revenge

1997

as Captain William Frederickson

The English Patient

as Corporal Dade

Sharpe's Siege

as Captain William Frederickson

7.2

Sharpe's Enemy

1994

as Captain William Frederickson

Blue Ice

as Blackner

To Kill a Priest

as SB Officer

Defence of the Realm

as Cuttings Librarian

6.4

Gaskin

1983

as Mr Gaskin

ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth

as Harry Gibby

Television (36)

The Jetty

2024

as Superintendent Needham

The Responder

as Joe

ShakespeaRe-Told

New Tricks

as Peter Jacobs

Blue Murder

as Roy Grant

The Last Detective

as Trevethiek

Foyle's War

as Ian Judd

Waking the Dead

as Jim Brown

Merseybeat

Doctors

Monarch of the Glen

as Mr. Brown

My Hero

as Tyler

My Hero

as Tyler

Get Real

Midsomer Murders

as Ade Jessell

Plotlands

as Billy Reed

The Vicar of Dibley

Peak Practice

as Vinnie Kern

Sharpe

as William ‘Sweet William’ Frederickson

8.0

Sharpe

1993

as Capt. William Frederickson

The Detectives

as Kelvin

Heartbeat

as Derek Harper

Virtual Murder

G.B.H.

as Franky Murray

Waterfront Beat

This Is David Lander

The Shoe People

The Marksman

as Kelling

Casualty

1986

as Detective Sergeant

6.2

Boon

1986

5.5

The Brothers McGregor

as Cyril McGregor

The Bill

Scully

as Castanets

Bergerac

as Sergeant Gregson

Van der Valk

as Erik

Rocket Man