In a statement released through a family friend to PA News, his wife Sheila Hancock, 69, said: "John died with his ... Standard Best Film Actor of the Year Award in 1977. Thaw, who also performed ...

John Thaw may have played ... terrifying of all places for an actor. 'It's nobody's business but ours,' they told friends privately. Both John's parents had died from the disease, and when Sheila ...