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I have re-added sections on Morse, bibliography and awards. Can't see why they were deleted. Spanglej ( talk) 14:48, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Watching Morse one day I noticed he had an odd gait. His right leg moved in an unusual way when he walked. He maintained a balance that meant it was unnoticeable generally, but now, every time I watch an episode, I wonder about it. Does anyone know the reason for his right leg's mobility issue? LookingGlass ( talk) 13:06, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
On an entirely unrelated matter, John Thaw seems unusual to have worked under his real name, and Sheila in that she retained her maiden name, a quite radical decision for 1969.
If there are no comments I propose to add the substantive part of the above information into the article. LookingGlass ( talk) 13:32, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
It seems that Thaw's estate or Sheila Hancock, but not Thaw, wants to perpetuate the myth of a damaged leg. If you look at an episode of an earlier Sherlock Holmes, the series with Jeremy Brett, in which Thaw has the role of a one legged criminal who has a peg leg, you will see that he at least did not have a leg at all below the knee. (At one point his peg gets stuck in a mud flat.) (1987, The Sign of Four). I looked closely, and this was before the days of digital special effects that could have faked it, in my opinion. A side bar is that, as I remember, there was an inside joke - a character's name, the young woman (Jenny Seagrove) who brings the problem to Holmes had the last character name of Morstan and Brett always emphasized the first syllable. "Miss MORStan." Wink wink. I have submitted this correction to IMDB and it has not been accepted, so either I am flat wrong, or someone wanted to hide the disability. Thaw must not have, or he would not have played a peg-legged thief. 75.68.188.126 ( talk) 08:38, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Robert Fairclough & Mike Kenwood, in Sweeney! The Official Companion (London, Reynolds & Hearn, 2002, ISBN 1 903111 43 9), p.17: "The fondness the British public felt for Thaw was evident when letters were sent to the press expressing worries about Morse's occasional slight limp on screen. It was subsequently explained that this was due to Thaw tripping and breaking his foot while running for a bus at the age of 15." Sheila Hancock's suggestion that he got a permanent limp just from copying his lame grandfather's walk as a child seems, comparatively, a bit curious. Perhaps Thaw used to give different explanations at different times, like Dave Allen with his missing finger. Khamba Tendal ( talk) 17:03, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
1971 The Abominable Dr. Phibes -- I watched the movie last night and neither did I recognize him, nor was he listed on the credit screen. Web searches regarding his participation in this movie don't yield any result either. He does none the less appear in the sequel 1972 Dr. Phibes Rises Again where he appears as Shavers. So should the link to The Abominable Dr. Phibes remain in place? Is there any evidence that he actually was in that movie? 95.114.133.95 ( talk) 12:48, 21 November 2010 (UTC)Stefan Reitz
The text: he had a glass head, so couldn't take the alcohol so often part of the copper's work (used of the character he played, rather than of Mr. Thaw directly!), seems to me to be both POV and non-encyclopaedic. I’ve never actually heard the expression “glass head” used to mean someone who can’t hold their drink, which is the meaning I take from the context, so would suggest that it is slang or just very informal speech. Perhaps it could be re-written? Jock123 ( talk) 22:16, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
I have often wondered about the reason for John Thaw's limp but never bothered to look up anything on it. However tonight (in Australia), 12/10/2016, I watched parts of an episode of "Inspector Morse", episode title unknown, which showed him running for quite some distance. He looked as if he was running quite normally. The episode involved the murders of about three people and seemed to be centered around a young woman named Imogen and the sexual abuse of two children, one now an adult, by the Master of Beaufort College at Oxford University. 58.179.175.10 ( talk) 13:39, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
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It would be good to include in the article a discussion of Thaw's connection with music. I don't know a lot about this but I do know that music was an important part of Thaw's life, as it was for his character Morse. 76.130.134.87 ( talk) 02:34, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
He also appeared in the first series of the Onedin Line. 178.78.96.170 ( talk) 08:11, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
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I have re-added sections on Morse, bibliography and awards. Can't see why they were deleted. Spanglej ( talk) 14:48, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Watching Morse one day I noticed he had an odd gait. His right leg moved in an unusual way when he walked. He maintained a balance that meant it was unnoticeable generally, but now, every time I watch an episode, I wonder about it. Does anyone know the reason for his right leg's mobility issue? LookingGlass ( talk) 13:06, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
On an entirely unrelated matter, John Thaw seems unusual to have worked under his real name, and Sheila in that she retained her maiden name, a quite radical decision for 1969.
If there are no comments I propose to add the substantive part of the above information into the article. LookingGlass ( talk) 13:32, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
It seems that Thaw's estate or Sheila Hancock, but not Thaw, wants to perpetuate the myth of a damaged leg. If you look at an episode of an earlier Sherlock Holmes, the series with Jeremy Brett, in which Thaw has the role of a one legged criminal who has a peg leg, you will see that he at least did not have a leg at all below the knee. (At one point his peg gets stuck in a mud flat.) (1987, The Sign of Four). I looked closely, and this was before the days of digital special effects that could have faked it, in my opinion. A side bar is that, as I remember, there was an inside joke - a character's name, the young woman (Jenny Seagrove) who brings the problem to Holmes had the last character name of Morstan and Brett always emphasized the first syllable. "Miss MORStan." Wink wink. I have submitted this correction to IMDB and it has not been accepted, so either I am flat wrong, or someone wanted to hide the disability. Thaw must not have, or he would not have played a peg-legged thief. 75.68.188.126 ( talk) 08:38, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Robert Fairclough & Mike Kenwood, in Sweeney! The Official Companion (London, Reynolds & Hearn, 2002, ISBN 1 903111 43 9), p.17: "The fondness the British public felt for Thaw was evident when letters were sent to the press expressing worries about Morse's occasional slight limp on screen. It was subsequently explained that this was due to Thaw tripping and breaking his foot while running for a bus at the age of 15." Sheila Hancock's suggestion that he got a permanent limp just from copying his lame grandfather's walk as a child seems, comparatively, a bit curious. Perhaps Thaw used to give different explanations at different times, like Dave Allen with his missing finger. Khamba Tendal ( talk) 17:03, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
1971 The Abominable Dr. Phibes -- I watched the movie last night and neither did I recognize him, nor was he listed on the credit screen. Web searches regarding his participation in this movie don't yield any result either. He does none the less appear in the sequel 1972 Dr. Phibes Rises Again where he appears as Shavers. So should the link to The Abominable Dr. Phibes remain in place? Is there any evidence that he actually was in that movie? 95.114.133.95 ( talk) 12:48, 21 November 2010 (UTC)Stefan Reitz
The text: he had a glass head, so couldn't take the alcohol so often part of the copper's work (used of the character he played, rather than of Mr. Thaw directly!), seems to me to be both POV and non-encyclopaedic. I’ve never actually heard the expression “glass head” used to mean someone who can’t hold their drink, which is the meaning I take from the context, so would suggest that it is slang or just very informal speech. Perhaps it could be re-written? Jock123 ( talk) 22:16, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
I have often wondered about the reason for John Thaw's limp but never bothered to look up anything on it. However tonight (in Australia), 12/10/2016, I watched parts of an episode of "Inspector Morse", episode title unknown, which showed him running for quite some distance. He looked as if he was running quite normally. The episode involved the murders of about three people and seemed to be centered around a young woman named Imogen and the sexual abuse of two children, one now an adult, by the Master of Beaufort College at Oxford University. 58.179.175.10 ( talk) 13:39, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
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It would be good to include in the article a discussion of Thaw's connection with music. I don't know a lot about this but I do know that music was an important part of Thaw's life, as it was for his character Morse. 76.130.134.87 ( talk) 02:34, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
He also appeared in the first series of the Onedin Line. 178.78.96.170 ( talk) 08:11, 20 August 2022 (UTC)