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 ITVs _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.
Self
Film 2011
narrator
Film 2021
Self
Film 2022
Sanier
Film 1995
Fisherman John
Film 2017
Dixon
Film 1970
Film 2006
Film
Film 2016
Bassanio
Film 1980
Theo Redman
Film 1976
Gerald
Film 1981
Tv 1996
Det. Sgt. Jim Bergerac
Tv 1981
John Franklin
Tv 1968
Tv 1983
Macrone
Tv 1976
Narrator
Tv 1985
Tv 1978
Tv 1982
Tv 1993
Self - Guest
Tv 2009
Self - Narrator (voice)
Tv 1989
Jim Bergerac
Tv 1981
Self
Tv 2017
Self - Participant
Tv 2011
CI5 agent shot on stairs in library (uncredited)
Tv 1977
Self - Narrator
Tv 2021
Edwin Palgrave
Tv 1972