John Tams

John Tams

John Tams (born 16 February 1949) is an English actor, singer, songwriter, composer and musician born in Holbrook, Derbyshire, the son of a publican. He first worked as a reporter for the Ripley & Heanor News later working for BBC Radio Derby and BBC Radio Nottingham. Tams had an early part in The Rainbow (1988), and may be best known for playing a regular supporting role in the ITV drama series Sharpe, as rifleman Daniel Hagman. He also co-wrote the music for each film (18, as of November 2008) alongside Dominic Muldowney. Tams was a member of Derbyshire folk group Muckram Wakes in the 1970s, then worked with Ashley Hutchings as singer and melodeon-player on albums including Son of Morris On, and as a member of the British folk rock group Albion Band. Splitting with Hutchings in the 1980s, he formed Home Service. In the following decades, Tams spent time fronting Home Service (Best Live Act at the BBC Folk Awards 2012) or in a duo with Barry Coope (Duo of the Year 2008). In 2015 it was announced that Tams was retiring from Home Service.

  • Title: John Tams
  • Popularity: 2.125
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1949-02-16
  • Place of Birth: Holbrook, Derbyshire, England, UK
  • Homepage: http://www.johntams.co.uk/
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John Tams Movies

  • 1981
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    Sons and Lovers

    Sons and Lovers

    1 1981 HD

    An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

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  • 1993
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    Sharpe's Rifles

    Sharpe's Rifles

    6.6 1993 HD

    During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and...

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  • 1994
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    Sharpe's Company

    Sharpe's Company

    6.783 1994 HD

    Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on...

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  • 1995
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    Sharpe's Gold

    Sharpe's Gold

    6.538 1995 HD

    Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for...

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  • 1995
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    Sharpe's Sword

    Sharpe's Sword

    7.2 1995 HD

    Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French...

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  • 1996
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    Sharpe's Regiment

    Sharpe's Regiment

    6.9 1996 HD

    Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a...

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  • 1996
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    Sharpe's Mission

    Sharpe's Mission

    6.813 1996 HD

    Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten...

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  • 1997
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    Sharpe's Justice

    Sharpe's Justice

    7 1997 HD

    Napoleon has been exiled to Elba, the English have returned from the wars, and Major Richard Sharpe finds himself in a sort of exile to lead a...

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  • 1988
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    No Further Cause For Concern

    No Further Cause For Concern

    1 1988 HD

    Prison inmate Danny Monk does not foresee the circumstances when he barricades himself in a cell during a prison riot with Prison Officer Green as...

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  • 1990
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    The Fool

    The Fool

    7 1990 HD

    A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working...

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  • 1997
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    Sharpe: The Legend

    Sharpe: The Legend

    6 1997 HD

    Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer...

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  • 1988
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    The Raggedy Rawney

    The Raggedy Rawney

    5.9 1988 HD

    During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to...

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  • 1996
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    When Saturday Comes

    When Saturday Comes

    5.7 1996 HD

    Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other...

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  • 1977
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    Here We Come A-Wassailing

    Here We Come A-Wassailing

    1 1977 HD

    A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on nine ritual celebrations ranging from the Moray...

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  • 1989
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    The Rainbow

    The Rainbow

    5.8 1989 HD

    Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and...

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  • 1997
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    Sharpe's Waterloo

    Sharpe's Waterloo

    7.3 1997 HD

    Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the...

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  • 1993
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    Sharpe's Eagle

    Sharpe's Eagle

    7.061 1993 HD

    Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the...

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  • 1994
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    Sharpe's Enemy

    Sharpe's Enemy

    6.9 1994 HD

    Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English...

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  • 1994
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    Sharpe's Honour

    Sharpe's Honour

    6.648 1994 HD

    1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out...

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  • 1995
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    Sharpe's Battle

    Sharpe's Battle

    6.8 1995 HD

    When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are...

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  • 1996
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    Sharpe's Siege

    Sharpe's Siege

    7.173 1996 HD

    Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is...

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  • 2014
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    National Theatre Live: War Horse

    National Theatre Live: War Horse

    8.8 2014 HD

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  • 1981
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    Sons and Lovers

    Sons and Lovers

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1997
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    Sharpe: The Legend

    Sharpe: The Legend

    6 1997 HD

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  • 1993
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    Sharpe's Rifles

    Sharpe's Rifles

    6.6 1993 HD

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  • 1993
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    Sharpe

    Sharpe

    7.759 1993 HD

    Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is...

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  • 1992
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    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat

    7 1992 HD

    Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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  • 1985
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    The Mysteries

    The Mysteries

    1 1985 HD

    National Theatre Cottesloe production filmed for Channel 4

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