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The two of us my life with John Thaw

When John Thaw, the star of The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Goodnight Mister Tom, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors. Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives - personal and professional, together and apart. John Thaw was born and brought up in Manchester. His mother ran off when John was seven, and his father, a long-distance lorry driver, was often away, leaving John and his brother to manage alone. Acting was not an obvious choice of career but his timing was perfect: it was the sixties; theatre and TV were hungry for new voices and his natural, intuitive style of acting. With his roles in The Z-Cars and The Sweeney, fame came quickly. But in a long and enduringly successful career in theatre and TV, it was John's role as Morse that secured him widespread popular and critical acclaim.

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