John Nettles

Known for ActingBorn 1943-10-11 (age 82)St. Austell, Cornwall, England

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Expert

The Great Wall: The Making of China

My Unique B&B

Enemy at the Door

Airport

Poldark

Discovering Hamlet

Toast of London

Midsomer Murders

Robin of Sherwood

The Professionals

Natural World

Heartbeat

Dickens of London

The Merchant of Venice

The Detectives

BBC2 Play of the Week

Playhouse

The Agatha Christie Hour

Bergerac

Arnhem: The Story of an Escape

Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem

All Men Are Mortal

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Playhouse Presents

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

The Adventures of Black Beauty

Skavlan

One More Time

Devon and Cornwall

Never Land

Walks with My Dog

Shakespeare: The Legacy

Sindy The Fairy Princess

Under the Sun

Submarine: Perisher: Million Pound Captains

Findings on a Late Afternoon

Midsomer Murders: 20th Anniversary Special