Acting
John Hewitt
Born — Died
1951-05-15 — 2008-11-29
Place of birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Known for
Acting
Credits
20 titles
John Hewitt was a veteran Northern Irish actor best known for his role as John Fletcher in the Billy plays and for the Mike Leigh drama Four Days in July.
Known for
7.1Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Screen Two
1985
7.0Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Centre Play
1973
7.6Detective Sergeant Tommy Murphy is a maverick cop with a dark past. After failing a psychiatric assessment, he's given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment. A loner with little to lose and dealing with everything on his own terms, this time around, however, Murphy has an ally in Detective Inspector Annie Guthrie.
Murphy's Law
2001
7.5Roisin and Septa are two young nurses from Dublin who go to work at a hospital in Belfast. Roisin meets and falls in love with Tom, a young Protestant car mechanic. This causes a series of problems for the young couple, their families and friends.
Foreign Bodies
1987
7.3Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run a tobacco company.
So You Think You've Got Troubles
1991
NRBelfast. Four men meet -'for a drink', says Denis. The car is ready in the back alley. The youngest, Terry, isn't drinking. He's begun to have doubts about his new company - and they about him.
The Squad
1976
Film credits
1990s · 4 titles
10.0Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.
Life After Life
1995
7.7The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
Children of the North
1991
10.0A ten year old Protestant girl travels to Belfast to take part in a music festival, and is billetted with a Catholic family.
Henri
1994
Josephine puts the finishing touches to her cake - commissioned by the Orange Order for the Twelfth of July celebrations - but things go awry when she attempts to deliver it.
The Cake
1995
1980s · 8 titles
9.0In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires.
Lorna
1987
6.0Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger sisters, Ann and Maureen. Second in the trilogy.
A Matter of Choice for Billy
1983
7.0Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.
Too Late to Talk to Billy
1982
6.6Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
Four Days in July
1984
7.0Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family - particularly Billy - react? And has she achieved the impossible in mellowing the man? Third in the trilogy.
A Coming to Terms for Billy
1984
NRDuring the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are. In the 1980 BBC adaptation of "Juno and the Paycock," Dudley Sutton played the role of Captain Jack Boyle, alongside Frances Tomelty as Juno. The play, written by Seán O'Casey, is set in Dublin during the Irish Civil War and centers on the Boyle family's experiences with an anticipated inheritance and the subsequent fallout.
Juno and the Paycock
1980
5.5When some Belfast children find out that city planners intend to "develop" a wooded area called the Glen that the girls use as a retreat from the pressures of city life, they decide to fight back - but in their own way.
The End of the World Man
1986
Professor Broderick, a famous professor of Psychology, returns to his house by Belfast Lough to discover a woman waiting for him.
A Woman Calling
1984
Series credits
7.1Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Screen Two
1985
7.1Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Screen Two
1985
7.0Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Centre Play
1973
7.6Detective Sergeant Tommy Murphy is a maverick cop with a dark past. After failing a psychiatric assessment, he's given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment. A loner with little to lose and dealing with everything on his own terms, this time around, however, Murphy has an ally in Detective Inspector Annie Guthrie.
Murphy's Law
2001
7.5Roisin and Septa are two young nurses from Dublin who go to work at a hospital in Belfast. Roisin meets and falls in love with Tom, a young Protestant car mechanic. This causes a series of problems for the young couple, their families and friends.
Foreign Bodies
1987
7.3Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run a tobacco company.
So You Think You've Got Troubles
1991

