John Rowe (actor)

John Rowe (born January 1941) is a British actor.

After reading English at Oxford he worked as a teacher before training at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama.^[1] After some years in repertory theatre he joined the BBC Radio Drama Company at Broadcasting House and has been a prolific radio actor ever since, notably as Professor Jim Lloyd in The Archers.^[2] He has also played numerous character roles on television and film and his extensive stage work includes touring with the Old Vic in Europe, China, the Middle East and Australia.^[3]^[4]^[1]

Filmography

Film

The Chain (1984)
Clockwise (1986)
The Heart of Me (2001)
Lagaan (2001)
The Lost Prince (2003)
Victoria & Abdul (2017)^[5]

TV

BBC Television Shakespeare - Henry VIII (Cromwell, 1979)
BBC Television Shakespeare - Macbeth (Lennox, 1983)
Juliet Bravo (1980–85)
When the Boat Comes In (Hector Smith-Jameson, 1981)
Intimate Contact (Managing Director, 1987)
Chambers (Judge Riseby, 1990)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (The Cornish Mystery, 1990)
Seekers (1992)
Trial & Retribution (2006)
Law & Order: UK (series 5) (2011)
Casualty (2013)
Mr Selfridge (2015)
BBC Television - Holby City Series 18, Episode 24: Who You Are (Thomas Bell Humphries, 2016)
Vera (TV series) (2016 - episode: The Moth Catcher)
The Crown (2016)^[6]

Radio

Date	Title	Role	Director	Station
March 1973	Henry IV Part 1 by William Shakespeare	Prince Hal	Martin Jenkins (Producer)	BBC Radio 3^[7]
1997	The Chimes of Midnight by Nick Fisher	Jonathan Tempray	Marion Nancarrow	BBC Radio 4 Fear on 4 Drama
October 1997	Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie	Dr Graves	Enyd Williams	BBC Radio 4 Drama
30 July 1999	Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry		David Hunter	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
23 February 2004 – 5 March 2004	The L-Shaped Room		Alison Hindell	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
3 May 2004	Inspector Cadaver		Ned Chaillet	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
23 January 2006 – 27 January 2006	To Serve Them All My Days	Howarth	Marc Beeby and Cherry Cookson	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
2007–08, 2009–	The Archers	Jim Lloyd		BBC Radio 4
4 September 2007	The Architects^[8]	Alan & Policeman	Lu Kemp	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
2008	The Karla Trilogy - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ; The Honourable Schoolboy ; Smiley's People by John Le Carré	Control	adapted by Shaun McKenna	BBC Radio 4 Drama
27 January 2008 – 2 March 2008	Fortunes of War	Inchcape	Colin Guthrie	BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
16 June 2008 – 4 July 2008	The Way We Live Right Now	Anthony Trollope	Jonquil Panting	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
17 June 2008	The Ring and the Book	The Judge	Abigail le Fleming	BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
18 June 2008	Listen to the Words	Clive	Jessica Dromgoole	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
6 July 2008	Piper Alpha		Toby Swift	BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3
11 July 2008	One Chord Wonders: Parallel Lines	Announcer	Toby Swift	BBC Radio 4 Friday Play
25 July 2008	One Chord Wonders: Damned, Damned, Damned	Announcer	Toby Swift	BBC Radio 4 Friday Play
8 August 2008	One Chord Wonders: Television's Over	Voke	Toby Swift	BBC Radio 4 Friday Play
1 September 2008	Peter Lorre vs Peter Lorre	Judge Burnett Wolfson	Toby Swift	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
23 November 2008	The Pattern of Painful Adventures	Richard Burbage	Jeremy Mortimer	BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3
24 November 2008 – 28 November 2008	Aubrey's Brief Lives	Anthony Wood	Abigail le Fleming	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
16 March 2009	Where Three Roads Meet	Shepherd	Kirsty Williams	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
11 June 2010	Philip and Sydney	Hotel Keeper & Drinker	Kirsty Williams	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
22 December 2010	Alice Through the Looking-Glass^[9]	The White Knight	Stephen Wyatt	BBC Radio 4 Saturday Drama
3 November 2013	Sword of Honour^[10]	Peregrine Crouchback	Tracey Neale	BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
7 January 2015	Wants and Desires: the Ferryhill Philosophers^[11]	Rollo Ironside	Marilyn Imrie	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
14 February 2020	24 Kildare Road (episodes 7-10)^[12]	Joe Kelly	Mary Peate	BBC Radio 4

References

^ ^a ^b "BBC Radio 4 - The Archers - Jim Lloyd". BBC.
^ "Living with the Poets podcasts – Bath Spa University". www.bathspa.ac.uk.
^ "John Rowe". BFI. Archived from the original on March 1, 2020.
^ "John Rowe | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
^ "John Rowe | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
^ "John Rowe". www.aveleyman.com.
^ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 18 March 1973.
^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, The Architects". BBC.
^ "BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, Lewis Carroll - Alice through the Looking Glass". BBC.
^ "BBC Sword of Honour webpage".
^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, The Ferryhill Philosophers, Wants and Desires". BBC.
^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, 24 Kildare Road". BBC.

External links

[bbc-1] "BBC Radio 4 - The Archers - Jim Lloyd". BBC.

[2] "Living with the Poets podcasts – Bath Spa University". www.bathspa.ac.uk.

[3] "John Rowe". BFI. Archived from the original on March 1, 2020.

[4] "John Rowe | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.

[5] "John Rowe | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.

[6] "John Rowe". www.aveleyman.com.

[7] "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 18 March 1973.

[8] "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, The Architects". BBC.

[9] "BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, Lewis Carroll - Alice through the Looking Glass". BBC.

[10] "BBC Sword of Honour webpage".

[11] "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, The Ferryhill Philosophers, Wants and Desires". BBC.

[12] "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, 24 Kildare Road". BBC.

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