John Tams

Born: 1949-02-16

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) alongside Dominic Muldowney. Tams was a member of Derbyshire folk group Muckram Wakes in the 1970s, then worked with Ashley Hutchings as singer and melodeon-player on albums including Son of Morris On, and as a member of the British folk rock group Albion Band. Splitting with Hutchings in the 1980s, he formed Home Service. In the following decades, Tams spent time fronting Home Service (Best Live Act at the BBC Folk Awards 2012) or in a duo with Barry Coope (Duo of the Year 2008). In 2015 it was announced that Tams was retiring from Home Service.


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The Rainbow

as Uncle Frank
Released: 1989-05-05

Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a...

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Sharpe's Justice

as Daniel Hagman
Released: 1997-05-14

Napoleon has been exiled to Elba, the English have returned from the wars, and Major Richard...

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Sharpe's Rifles

as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Released: 1993-05-05

During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of...

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When Saturday Comes

as Brewery Worker
Released: 1996-03-01

Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working...

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Sharpe's Eagle

as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Released: 1993-05-12

Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled...

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Sharpe's Company

as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Released: 1994-05-25

Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from...

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Sharpe's Sword

as Hagman
Released: 1995-04-26

Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic...

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Sharpe's Enemy

as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Released: 1994-06-01

Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have...

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Sharpe's Regiment

as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Released: 1996-05-01

Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return...

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Sharpe's Gold

as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Released: 1995-04-01

Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish...

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Sharpe's Battle

as Daniel Hagman
Released: 1995-04-19

When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces...

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Sharpe: The Legend

as Hagman
Released: 1997-10-13

Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London...

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Sharpe's Siege

as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Released: 1996-05-08

Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals...

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Sharpe's Honour

as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Released: 1994-06-08

1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely...

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Sharpe's Waterloo

as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Released: 1997-05-27

Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt....

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The Raggedy Rawney

as Blakey
Released: 1988-09-20

During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before...

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No Further Cause For Concern

as Roy
Released: 1988-07-13

Prison inmate Danny Monk does not foresee the circumstances when he barricades himself in a cell...

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Sharpe's Mission

as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Released: 1996-05-15

Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder...

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Sons and Lovers

as Pappleworth
Released: 1981-01-14

An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

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Here We Come A-Wassailing

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1977-12-22

A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing...

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Heartbeat

as Don Tetley
First aired: 1992-04-10

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...

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Sharpe

as Daniel Hagman
First aired: 1993-05-05

Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a...

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The Mysteries

as Thomas / Shepherd
First aired: 1985-12-22

National Theatre Cottesloe production filmed for Channel 4

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