An interesting early shot of John as the title charcater Charlie Armitage in a television play called "So Long, Charlie" (part of the SUNDAY PLAY BBC TELEVISION series) first screened on BBC1 on Sunday 2nd June, 1963. The 50-minute production as starred Angela Douglas as Fiona, Francis Matthews as Jack, Noel Howlett as the Magistrate, and John Junkin as the Detective. "Life with Charlie Armitage is unpredictable to say the least. An art teacher of seven year's standing (a temporary job he explains, until he resolves his inner conflicts), his spare-time pursuit is building shrines to Womenhood and Commercial Exploitation in the flat he has shared since the evening he dropped in for a party and forgot to go home. His habit of hauling into the flat such offerings for his shrines as an antique gramophone and a shop-window dummy is a perpetual handicap to Jack's efforts to do the right thing and get the right girl - notably Fiona, who lives across the landing and is both baffled and fascinated by Charlie." If anyone has any other information on this play, please let us know! (Photo courtesy of Janet).
















(Left to right): John's father John Edward Thaw Sr.; and two views of John as a teenager (photos courtesy of Janet).











(Left to right): John at his wedding to Sally Alexander in June 1964, A 22-year old John is at extreme left; John & Sheila; and an early shot of John and his growing family (courtesy of Janet).












Three views of John in action in the Sweeney episode called Ringer, first aired in January 1975 (courtesy of Janet).




















(Left to right): John and fellow co-star Dennis Waterman getting mobbed by fans during a shoot in John's hometown of Manchester; Forbes street, where John grew up as a young boy in Manchester; and John and the gang from The Sweeney (photos 1 & 2 courtesy of Janet; photo 2 from a private collection).












(Left to right): John in a still from Bat Out Of Hell , a 5-part suspense series dating from 1966; John & Sheila on a camping holiday with the family; and John smoking (photos courtesy of Janet).













Three views of John & Sheila at the time of moving house; from a TV Times magazine, dated June 14, 1974 (photos courtesy of Janet).
















John at home indulging in his favorite pastime, barbequeing; and John with the joy of his life,
his daughters (photos courtesy of Janet).











(Left to right): Two views of John and Dennis hamming it up on the set of The Sweeney ;
and John in a scene from David Hare's The Absence Of War (photos courtesy of Leila Poole).
















John receiving his BAFTA Fellowship Award in May 2001; and John from a provocatively posed magazine shoot (courtesy of Leila Poole).













John in two views from his last public performance,
Peter Pan (courtesy of Leila Poole).

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