1943-10-11 ( 81 years old ) in 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.
Movies
Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem
2022-05-29
The Great Wall: The Making of China
2021-09-01
Never Land
2017-02-17
Shakespeare: The Legacy
2016-04-21
Discovering Hamlet
2011-11-01
Sindy The Fairy Princess
2006-02-20
The Hound of the Baskervilles
2002-12-26
All Men Are Mortal
1995-11-17
Findings on a Late Afternoon
1981-12-11
The Merchant of Venice
1980-12-17
Arnhem: The Story of an Escape
1976-11-17
One More Time
1970-05-01
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