Biography
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)...
Known For
Complete Filmography
National Theatre Live: War Horse
2014
Songs
Based on Michael Morpurgo's novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of...
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Hagman
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer ...
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
Original Music Composer
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer ...
Sharpe's Waterloo
1997
as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the Fren...
Sharpe's Justice
1997
as Daniel Hagman
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 company...
Sharpe's Mission
1996
as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
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 their...
Sharpe's Siege
1996
as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
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 somewha...
Sharpe's Regiment
1996
as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
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 simp...
When Saturday Comes
1996
as Brewery Worker
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 idea...
Sharpe's Sword
1995
as Hagman
Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French sp...
Sharpe's Battle
1995
as Daniel Hagman
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 slaughter...
Sharpe's Gold
1995
as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
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 ...
Sharpe's Honour
1994
as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out ...
Sharpe's Enemy
1994
as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
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 o...
Sharpe's Company
1994
as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
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 Sharp...
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
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 Sou...
Sharpe's Rifles
1993
as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and i...
Sharpe's Rifles
1993
Original Music Composer
During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and i...
The Fool
1990
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working c...
The Rainbow
1989
as Uncle Frank
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 ambition....
The Raggedy Rawney
1988
as Blakey
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 esca...
No Further Cause For Concern
1988
as Roy
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 hos...
Sons and Lovers
1981
as Pappleworth
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel
Sons and Lovers
1981
Music
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel
Here We Come A-Wassailing
1977
as Narrator (voice)
A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on nine ritual celebrations ranging from the Moray Fir...