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John Sessions

Actor, comedian and impressionist who was better known for his improvisation comedy.

Known For: Acting

Born: Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK, 1953-01-11

Died: 2020-11-02

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	The Bounty	John Smith	67
2	1986	Castaway	Man in Pub	63
3	1986	Whoops Apocalypse	Mr. Sweetzer	56
4	1986	Sky Bandits	Flight	58
5	1987	Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People	Antonio Gramsci	0
6	1989	Henry V	Macmorris	71
7	1990	Sweet Revenge	John	43
8	1991	The Pope Must Die	Dino	49
9	1992	Sellers' Best	Self	0
10	1992	Freddie as F.R.O.7.	Scotty / Additional voices (voice)	50
11	1993	Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles	James Boswell	0
12	1994	David Macaulay: Roman City	Laurens / Acco Bouvaix (voice)	90
13	1994	Citizen Locke	John Locke	0
14	1994	Princess Caraboo	Prince Regent	54
15	1995	In the Bleak Midwinter	Terry Du Bois	71
16	1996	The Adventures of Pinocchio	Schoolmaster	52
17	1996	The Treasure Seekers	Redman	53
18	1997	My Night with Reg	Daniel	40
19	1998	Queen's Park Story		0
20	1998	Faith	Brian	0
21	1998	The Scarlet Tunic	Humphrey Gould	45
22	1998	Cousin Bette	Musical Director	57
23	1999	Faeries	Chudley (voice)	51
24	1999	The Man	Jerry Barnes	0
25	1999	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Philostrate	64
26	2000	Around The World In 80 Days	Jean Passepartout (voice)	0
27	2000	A Profile of 'Brief Encounter'	Self	60
28	2001	David Macaulay: Mill Times	Shadrack Moore (voice)	0
29	2001	High Heels and Low Lifes	Director	60
30	2002	Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time	General Tannis	0
31	2002	One of the Hollywood Ten	Paul Jarrico	55
32	2002	George Eliot: A Scandalous Life	George Henry Lewes	30
33	2002	Gangs of New York	Harry Watkins / Lincoln	73
34	2003	The Key		0
35	2004	Stella Street		58
36	2004	The Legend of the Tamworth Two	Rival Newspaper Editor	30
37	2004	Lighthouse Hill	Mr. Reynard	100
38	2004	Five Children and It	Peasemarsh	55
39	2004	The Merchant of Venice	Salerio	68
40	2004	Hawking	Dennis Sciama	70
41	2005	Rag Tale	Felix Miles Sty	32
42	2005	The English Harem	Ridley	33
43	2006	Scoop	Strombel's Co-Worker (uncredited)	66
44	2006	Low Winter Sun	Prof Barry Lennox	64
45	2006	The Good Shepherd	Valentin Mironov #1/Yuri Modin	63
46	2007	Reichenbach Falls	Professor Bell	75
47	2008	Inconceivable	Finbar 'Finn' Darrow	58
48	2009	Margaret	Ian Gow	58
49	2009	Breaking the Mould	Edward Mellanby	47
50	2009	The Last Station	Dushan	63
51	2009	Nativity!	Mr. Lore	63
52	2010	The Making of Plus One	Derek - the line producer	60
53	2010	Made in Dagenham	Harold Wilson	67
54	2010	Spies and Lies	Folkes	35
55	2011	The Real American: Joe McCarthy	Joe McCarthy	0
56	2011	The Hunt for Tony Blair	Tebbit	78
57	2011	The Hunt for Tony Blair	Norman Tebbit	78
58	2011	The Iron Lady	Edward Heath	64
59	2012	30 Years of Comic Strip		0
60	2013	Filth	Toal	69
61	2014	Pudsey the Dog: The Movie	Thorne	53
62	2014	The Silent Storm	Mr. Smith	50
63	2015	Hiroshima: The Aftermath	Narrator	75
64	2015	Mr. Holmes	Mycroft Holmes	65
65	2015	Sean Connery: In His Own Words	Narrator	60
66	2015	Legend	Lord Boothby	71
67	2015	We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story	Arthur Lowe	65
68	2016	The Rack Pack	Ted Lowe	69
69	2016	Red Top	The Accountant	53
70	2016	Florence Foster Jenkins	Dr. Hermann	67
71	2016	Whisky Galore	Doctor McLaren	59
72	2016	Denial	Prof. Richard Evans	69
73	2017	Loving Vincent	Pere Tanguy	80
74	2017	Finding Your Feet	Mike Abbott	71
75	2018	The Town That Floored the World	Presenter	0
76	2018	Balls	Brownlow	0
77	2019	Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream	Self	81
78	2019	Intrigo: Dear Agnes	Pumpermann	56
79	2021	Belfast	Joseph Tomelty as Marley	71

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1979	Question Time	Self - Panellist	55
2	1982	Wogan	Self	45
3	1984	Spitting Image		71
4	1985	Tender Is the Night	Young Scot	63
5	1985	Happy Families	Dean	67
6	1985	Girls On Top	Rodney	48
7	1986	Boon	Barney Spitz	55
8	1987	Porterhouse Blue	Zipser	71
9	1987	The New Statesman	Lord Penistone	75
10	1988	Whose Line Is It Anyway?	Self	76
11	1989	John Sessions On The Spot		0
12	1990	One Foot in the Grave		76
13	1990	Plunder		0
14	1990	Rab C. Nesbitt	Chief Inspector Haggerty	70
15	1990	Have I Got News for You	Himself	71
16	1991	John Sessions' Tall Tales		0
17	1991	Performance	Daniel	60
18	1994	John Sessions' Likely Stories		0
19	1994	Nice Day at the Office		0
20	1997	Midsomer Murders	Barrett Filby	75
21	1997	The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling	Henry Fielding	70
22	1997	Stella Street		65
23	1998	In the Red	Hercules Fortescue	62
24	2000	Gormenghast		70
25	2000	Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)		61
26	2001	Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes	Prof. Rutherford	78
27	2001	Judge John Deed		66
28	2002	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	John Corntel	71
29	2003	QI	Self	79
30	2003	Celebrity Mastermind	Himself	60
31	2004	New Tricks		74
32	2005	Doctor Who	Gus	76
33	2006	Hotel Babylon		72
34	2007	Skins	Geoff Fitzgerald	81
35	2007	Ronni Ancona & Co		0
36	2007	Oliver Twist		65
37	2007	Oliver Twist	Mr. Sowerberry	65
38	2010	Sherlock	Kenny Prince	85
39	2010	Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge		68
40	2011	Friday Night Dinner	Mr. Murray	78
41	2011	Death in Paradise	Hugh Davenport	74
42	2012	Dead Boss	Sir Humphreys	66
43	2012	Moone Boy		75
44	2013	Blandings	Lord Didcot	71
45	2013	Father Brown	Reverend Adam Gillespie	75
46	2014	Outlander	Arthur Duncan	82
47	2015	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	John Murray	74
48	2016	Victoria	Lord John Russell	73
49	2017	The Loch	DCI Frank Smilie	66
50	2020	The Great	Bishop Tarcinkus	81