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 ...

More than 50% of Wednesday's peak-time television audience watched actor John Thaw bow out as the irritable ... peaking at 13.2 million shortly before Morse died of heart failure in the closing ...