Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

129

Gender

Male

Birthday

1953-01-11

Deathday

2020-11-02 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK

Also Known As

John Gibb Marshall
존 세션스

John Sessions

Biography

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

Known For

7.3%

Gangs of New York

Dec 14, 2002

8.5%

Sherlock

Jul 25, 2010

7.1%

Legend

Sep 9, 2015

7.5%

Doctor Who

Mar 26, 2005

8.2%

Outlander

Aug 9, 2014

8.0%

Loving Vincent

Jun 22, 2017

6.5%

Mr. Holmes

Jun 19, 2015

6.4%

The Iron Lady

Dec 26, 2011

6.9%

Filth

Sep 23, 2013

6.6%

Scoop

Jul 27, 2006

7.1%

Belfast

Nov 12, 2021

6.7%

Florence Foster Jenkins

May 6, 2016

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Acting

2021

Belfast as Joseph Tomelty as Marley

2020

The Great as Bishop Tarcinkus

2019		Intrigo: Dear Agnes as Pumpermann
2019		Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream as Self

2018		Balls as Brownlow
2018		The Town That Floored the World as Presenter

2017		Finding Your Feet as Mike Abbott
2017		Loving Vincent as Pere Tanguy
2017		The Loch as DCI Frank Smilie

2016		Denial as Prof. Richard Evans
2016		Victoria as Lord John Russell
2016		Whisky Galore as Doctor McLaren
2016		Florence Foster Jenkins as Dr. Hermann
2016		Red Top as The Accountant
2016		The Rack Pack as Ted Lowe

2015		We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story as Arthur Lowe
2015		Legend as Lord Boothby
2015		Sean Connery: In His Own Words as Narrator
2015		Mr. Holmes as Mycroft Holmes
2015		Hiroshima: The Aftermath as Narrator
2015		Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell as John Murray

2014		The Silent Storm as Mr. Smith
2014		Outlander as Arthur Duncan
2014		Pudsey the Dog: The Movie as Thorne

2013		Filth as Toal
2013		Father Brown as Reverend Adam Gillespie
2013		Blandings as Lord Didcot

2012		30 Years of Comic Strip
2012		Moone Boy
2012		Dead Boss as Sir Humphreys

2011		The Iron Lady as Edward Heath
2011		Death in Paradise as Hugh Davenport
2011		The Hunt for Tony Blair as Tebbit
2011		The Hunt for Tony Blair as Norman Tebbit
2011		The Real American: Joe McCarthy as Joe McCarthy
2011		Friday Night Dinner as Mr. Murray

2010		Spies and Lies as Folkes
2010		Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010		Made in Dagenham as Harold Wilson
2010		Sherlock as Kenny Prince
2010		The Making of Plus One as Derek - the line producer

2009		Nativity! as Mr. Lore
2009		The Last Station as Dushan
2009		Breaking the Mould as Edward Mellanby
2009		Margaret as Ian Gow

2008		Only Connect as Self - Contestant
2008		Inconceivable as Finbar 'Finn' Darrow

2007		Oliver Twist
2007		Oliver Twist as Mr. Sowerberry
2007		Ronni Ancona & Co
2007		Reichenbach Falls as Professor Bell
2007		Skins as Geoff Fitzgerald

2006		The Good Shepherd as Valentin Mironov #1/Yuri Modin
2006		Low Winter Sun as Prof Barry Lennox
2006		Scoop as Strombel's Co-Worker (uncredited)
2006		Hotel Babylon

2005		The English Harem as Ridley
2005		Rag Tale as Felix Miles Sty
2005		Doctor Who as Gus

2004		Hawking as Dennis Sciama
2004		The Merchant of Venice as Salerio
2004		Five Children and It as Peasemarsh
2004		Lighthouse Hill as Mr. Reynard
2004		The Legend of the Tamworth Two as Rival Newspaper Editor
2004		Stella Street
2004		New Tricks

2003		Celebrity Mastermind as Himself
2003		The Key
2003		QI as Self

2002		Gangs of New York as Harry Watkins / Lincoln
2002		George Eliot: A Scandalous Life as George Henry Lewes
2002		One of the Hollywood Ten as Paul Jarrico
2002		Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as General Tannis
2002		The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as John Corntel

2001		Judge John Deed
2001		Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes as Prof. Rutherford
2001		High Heels and Low Lifes as Director
2001		David Macaulay: Mill Times as Shadrack Moore (voice)

2000		Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000		Gormenghast
2000		A Profile of 'Brief Encounter' as Self
2000		Around The World In 80 Days as Jean Passepartout (voice)

1999		A Midsummer Night's Dream as Philostrate
1999		Faeries as Chudley (voice)

1998		Cousin Bette as Musical Director
1998		The Scarlet Tunic as Humphrey Gould
1998		In the Red as Hercules Fortescue
1998		Faith as Brian
1998		Queen's Park Story

1997		Stella Street
1997		The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling as Henry Fielding
1997		Midsomer Murders as Barrett Filby
1997		My Night with Reg as Daniel

1996		The Treasure Seekers as Redman
1996		The Adventures of Pinocchio as Schoolmaster

1995

In the Bleak Midwinter as Terry Du Bois

1994		Nice Day at the Office
1994		Princess Caraboo as Prince Regent
1994		John Sessions' Likely Stories
1994		Citizen Locke as John Locke
1994		David Macaulay: Roman City as Laurens / Acco Bouvaix (voice)

1993

Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles as James Boswell

1992		Freddie as F.R.O.7. as Scotty / Additional voices (voice)
1992		Sellers' Best as Self

1991		The Pope Must Die as Dino
1991		Performance as Daniel
1991		John Sessions' Tall Tales

1990		Have I Got News for You as Himself
1990		Rab C. Nesbitt as Chief Inspector Haggerty
1990		Sweet Revenge as John
1990		Plunder
1990		One Foot In the Grave

1989		Henry V as Macmorris
1989		John Sessions On The Spot

1988

Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self

1987		The New Statesman as Lord Penistone
1987		Porterhouse Blue as Zipser
1987		Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People as Antonio Gramsci

1986		Sky Bandits as Flight
1986		Whoops Apocalypse as Mr. Sweetzer
1986		Castaway as Man in Pub
1986		Boon as Barney Spitz

1985		Girls On Top as Rodney
1985		Happy Families as Dean
1985		Tender Is the Night as Young Scot

1984		The Bounty as John Smith
1984		Spitting Image

1982

Wogan as Self

1979

Question Time as Self - Panellist

Crew

2004

Churchill: The Hollywood Years as Additional Dialogue

Writing

2004

Stella Street as Writer