English actor and playwright John Vivian Drummond Nettles, OBE, was born on October 11, 1943. He is best known for playing the title character in the crime drama television series Bergerac (1981–1991) and Detective Inspector Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders (1997–2011). He has also provided narration for various TV shows.
Who is John Nettles?
In 1943, Nettles was born in St. Austell, Cornwall. His biological mother was an Irish nurse who immigrated to the UK to work during World War II. Carpenter Eric Nettles and his wife Elsie adopted him at birth. He went to St. Austell Grammar School when he was younger. He enrolled at the University of Southampton to study history and philosophy in 1962 when he became interested in acting.
Who is John Nettles?
In 1943, Nettles was born in St. Austell, Cornwall. His biological mother was an Irish nurse who immigrated to the UK to work during World War II. Carpenter Eric Nettles and his wife Elsie adopted him at birth.
He went to St. Austell Grammar School when he was younger. In 1962, he enrolled at the University of Southampton to study history and philosophy. While there, he became interested in acting, and after graduating, he joined the Royal Court Theatre.
How old is John Nettles?
Nettles was born on 11 October 1943, and hence, will be 80 as of 2023.
What’s John Nettles’s net worth?
The British actor and writer have a net worth of $10 million.
What is John Nettles’ career?
Nettles portrayed Laertes in the University Theatre production of Tom Courtenay’s Hamlet in 1969 for the Manchester-based 69 Theatre Company. He performed in repertory at Exeter’s Northcott Theatre from 1969 to 1970. In the latter year, he had his first acting role in the movie One More Time. He assumed the part of Dr. Ian Mackenzie in the historical drama A Family at War the next year, which he retained through 1972. After that, he appeared in a number of TV shows with minor roles, including The Liver Birds, Dickens of London, Robin of Sherwood, and “Officers of the Law,” a March 1978 episode of Enemy at the Door. The latter was set in Guernsey during the German occupation of the Channel Islands in the Second World War and Nettles played a police detective ordered to work for the Germans, who are anguished over the conflict between his duty and collaborating with the enemy.
What’s John Nettles’s height and weight?
The English actor stands at a height of 5 feet and 9 inches (Approx. 1.78 meters)tall and weighs 165.3 lbs (75 kg).
What is John Nettles’ nationality and ethnicity?
Nettles is an English citizen and belongs to the white ethnicity.
John Nettle’s wife and children
Nettles married his first wife, Joyce Middleton, in 1967. Their daughter, Emma Martins, was born in 1970, and moved to Jersey with her father for Bergerac. She joined the States of Jersey Police, working with officers who met her father during the show’s filming. After Nettles’s divorce, Joyce became a casting director for Midsomer Murders.
Nettles then married his second wife, Cathryn Sealey, in July 1995 in Evesham, Worcestershire.
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