John Nettles
Acting
Born 1943-10-11
St. Austell, Cornwall, England
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John Nettles has been a familiar face on British and International television screens for over thirty years.
From his early beginnings in the UK hit comedy "The Liver Birds" (1969), he became a household name overnight playing the Jersey detective "Jim Bergerac". The series, "Bergerac" (1981), was a huge hit in Britain and was exported to many countries across the world including France, Spain and Greece, gaining him thousands of fans.
His new found fame as Bergerac gave him almost film-star-like fame and fortune, not to mention thousands of female admirers!
Despite "Bergerac" (1981) being mothballed in the early 1990s, the series still has a considerable fan base and lingering popularity abroad, especially in Jersey, where images of John Nettles are still used for advertising tourist attractions and other services on the island.
Nettles' polished Shakesperean performances have won him critical acclaim and many consider him to rival fellow British stalwarts of theatre such as Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen.
Oddly enough, however, he has never really ventured onto the big screen and has seemed happy to stick to stage and television throughout his successful career.
Most recently he has enjoying continued success playing the straightforward DCI Tom Barnaby in ITV's _"Midsomer Murders" (1997). He is on record as wanting to create a TV detective without any of the usual tics, and consequently Tom Barnaby is a happy family man, who just happens to live in the most murderous part of an otherwise stereotypically idyllic English countryside.
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Filmography
Midsomer Murders
Heartbeat
Bergerac
Natural World
Playhouse
The Professionals
Poldark
Skavlan
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Playhouse Presents
Boon
Robin of Sherwood
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Expert
Toast of London
The Detectives
Dickens of London
Enemy at the Door
The Agatha Christie Hour
The Liver Birds
The Adventures of Black Beauty
Under the Sun
A Family at War
Airport
Tonight at 8.30
Walks with My Dog
The Hound of the Baskervilles
My Unique B&B
Up The Workers
Devon and Cornwall
Discovering Hamlet
Holding On
The Great Wall: The Making of China
One More Time
Findings on a Late Afternoon
The Merchant of Venice
Submarine: Perisher: Million Pound Captains
Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem
Arnhem: The Story of an Escape
All Men Are Mortal
The Red, White, and Black
Midsomer Murders: 20th Anniversary Special
Never Land
Sindy The Fairy Princess
John Nettles Applauds
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare: The Legacy
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