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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 11, 1943
Place of Birth
St. Austell, Cornwall, England
Also Known As
- Джон Неттлз
- جان نتلس
John Nettles
0.8 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.0
Self
Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem
2022
8.0
narrator
The Great Wall: The Making of China
2021
8.0
Self - Narrator
My Unique B&B
2021
0.0
Self - Narrator
Devon and Cornwall
2019
0.0
Self
Walks with My Dog
2017
0.0
Fisherman John
Never Land
2017
0.0
Shakespeare: The Legacy
2016
7.8
Ray Penvenen
Poldark
2015
7.5
John Nettles
Toast of London
2013
7.0
Self
Discovering Hamlet
2011
Credits
Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem
as Self
2022
6.0
The Great Wall: The Making of China
as narrator
2021
8.0
My Unique B&B
as Self - Narrator
2021
8.0
Devon and Cornwall
as Self - Narrator
2019
0.0
Walks with My Dog
as Self
2017
0.0
Never Land
as Fisherman John
2017
0.0
Shakespeare: The Legacy
2016
0.0
Poldark
as Ray Penvenen
2015
7.8
Toast of London
as John Nettles
2013
7.5
Discovering Hamlet
as Self
2011
7.0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
5.0
Skavlan
as Self - Guest
2009
5.0
Sindy The Fairy Princess
2006
0.0
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Dr. James Mortimer
2002
6.0
Midsomer Murders
as DCI Tom Barnaby
1997
7.5
🎬
Airport
1996
0.0
All Men Are Mortal
as Sanier
1995
6.0
🎬
The Skipper
1993
0.0
The Detectives
as Jim Bergerac
1993
6.7
Heartbeat
as Giles Sutton
1992
7.0
🎬
Under the Sun
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1989
0.0
Submarine: Perisher: Million Pound Captains
as Narrator
1985
0.0
Robin of Sherwood
as Peter de Leon
1984
7.6
Natural World
1983
7.1
The Agatha Christie Hour
1982
6.7
Findings on a Late Afternoon
as Gerald
1981
0.0
Bergerac
as Det. Sgt. Jim Bergerac
1981
6.7
Bergerac
as Jim Bergerac
1981
6.7
The Merchant of Venice
as Bassanio
1980
7.0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Bassanio
1978
6.0
Enemy at the Door
as Det. Sgt. Roy Lewis
1978
7.8
The Professionals
as CI5 agent shot on stairs in library (uncredited)
1977
7.4
Arnhem: The Story of an Escape
as Theo Redman
1976
4.0
Dickens Of London
as Macrone
1976
6.5
The Adventures of Black Beauty
as Edwin Palgrave
1972
6.2
One More Time
as Dixon
1970
4.3
The Expert
as John Franklin
1968
10.0
🎬
Midsomer Murders: 20th Anniversary Special
N/A
0.0