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 ...

TV favourite John Thaw is undergoing treatment for cancer, he revealed today. The 59-year-old actor, known to a generation ... Hancock's first husband, Alec Ross, died of the disease in 1971.