John Nettles Biography
John Nettles ( John Vivian Drummond Nettles) an English actor and writer known for his role as Jim Bergerac in Bergerac and Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.
John Nettles Age
Nettles was born on 11 Oct 1943 in St Austell, Cornwall.
John Nettles Actor
Nettles played Laertes to Tom Courtenay’s Hamlet in 1969 at the University Theatre for 69 Theatre Company in Manchester. From 1969 to 1970, he was in repertory at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter, and in the latter year had his first screen role in the film One More Time. The following year he played Dr. Ian Mackenzie in the period drama A Family at War, a role he continued until 1972.
He had small parts in many television programs, including The Liver Birds, Dickens of London, Robin of Sherwood, and an episode of Enemy at the Door entitled “Law Officers.” He played fraudster Giles Sutton in the Heartbeat of ITV. In 1981, John Nettles won the role that made him a household name in the UK, that of Jim Bergerac in the Jersey-set crime drama Bergerac.
Since Bergerac’s end in 1991, Nettles spent five seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in The Winter’s Tale, Windsor’s Merry Wives, Julius Caesar, Richard III, and The Devil is an Ass. In 1992, he appeared in an episode of Boon, and in 1993 appeared as Jim Bergerac in the spoof police comedy The Detectives.
In 1995, Brian True-May asked Nettles to play Tom Barnaby in a new series of murder mystery he was to create entitled Midsomer Murders. Midsomer Murders made him into a worldwide household name. In 2003 he played Barnaby in the French & Saunders episode of Boxing Day. Nettles was featured in a Heartbeat episode in 2001.
In 2007 he appeared in the comedy series Will Smith Presents Bergerac’s Tao on BBC Radio 4. In the second and third seasons of the popular historical drama, Poldark Nettles played a recurring role as Ray Penvenen in 2016 and 2017.
During the filming of Bergerac, filmed on the island of Jersey, he wrote Bergerac’s Jersey, a travel guide to filming locations in the series. He followed up with John Nettles’ Jersey: A Personal View of the People and Places about the island’s landscape, personalities, and history. He wrote in 1991 the semi-autobiographical Nudity in a Public Place: A Mini Celebrity Confessions. Nettles published Jewels and Jackboots in 2012.
During the filming of Bergerac, filmed on the island of Jersey, he wrote Bergerac’s Jersey, a travel guide to filming locations in the series. He followed up with John Nettles’ Jersey: A Personal View of the People and Places about the island’s landscape, personalities, and history. In 1991, he wrote the semi-autobiographical Nudity in a Public Place: Confessions of a Mini Celebrity. In 2012 Nettles wrote Jewels and Jackboots.
John Nettles Net Worth
Nettles has an estimated Net Worth of $10 Million.
John Nettles Books
Bergerac’s Jersey’ (BBC Books, 1988) during the filming of Bergerac, filmed on the island of Jersey, a travel guide to filming locations in the John Nettles’ Jersey: A Personal View of the People and Places’ (BBC Books, 1992) about the island’s landscape, personalities, and history.
In 1991 he wrote the semi-autobiographical Nudity in a Public Place: Confessions of a Mini Celebrity (Robson Books; ISBN 0-7451-1961-1) about becoming a “reluctant heartthrob” to female viewers of Bergerac. This was re-released as a Kindle version on Amazon in 2014 following the reruns of Bergerac on BBC2 as part of their afternoon nostalgia collection.
In 2012 Nettles wrote ‘Jewels and Jackboots’ about the German occupation of the Channel Islands. It sold out in a matter of weeks and was republished in 2013 as a paperback and on Kindle.
Nettles Tv Shows
- 1996 – 2008: Airport
- 1981 – 1991: Bergerac
- 1969 – 1979: The Liver Birds
- 1970 – 1972: A Family at War
- 1997 – 2009: Midsomer Murders
- Since 2015: Poldark
- Since 1976: Dickens of London
- Since 1993: The Skipper
- Nettles Movies
- 2002: The Hound of the Baskervilles
- 2004: Midsomer Murders: Ghosts of Christmas Past
- 1980: The Merchant of Venice
- 1995: All Men Are Mortal
- 2016: Never Land
- The Killings at Badger’s Drift
John Nettles Height and Weight
John stands tall at a height of 5′ 9″ (1.78 m) and Weighs approximately 165.3lbs (75 kg).
John Nettles Education
He joined St Austell Grammar School and later joined the University of Southampton in 1962 where he studied history and philosophy. At university, he discovered acting and played mostly small parts in Royal Court Theatre productions. He left school to pursue a career in the theater and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon.
John Nettles Family
John was raised up by his adoptive parents Eric Nettles and his wife Elsie Nettles. Eric Nettles worked as a carpenter while details about his adoptive mother are not publicly available. He was adopted at birth and his biological mother was an Irish nurse who immigrated to Great Britain during the Second World War. However, details about his biological father are not available currently.
John Nettles Wife
Nettles has married twice. He first married Joyce Nettles, in 1966. In 1970, their daughter Emma was born. However, John and his wife Joyce Nettles divorced in 1979 due to undisclosed reasons. His ex-wife Joyce Nettles as well worked in the film industry as a casting director in the casting department.
He married his current wife Cathryn Sealey in July 1995 in Evesham, Worcestershire in a private wedding ceremony attended by close friends and family. The lovely couple does not have a child yet. He also has two grandchildren, Sophie Nettles and Nathan John Nettles.
John Nettles Daughter
Nettles a father of one child, a daughter named Emma Nettles. John and his then-wife Joyce Nettles welcomed their first daughter Emma Nettles in 1970. Emma is the proud mother of two children, Nathan John and Sophie.