John Nettles
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John Nettles (born October 11, 1943) is
a British actor. John's birth mother was an
Irish nurse who came to work in England during the Second World War, but John was adopted by Eric and
Elsie Nettles as a baby, and
grew up as an
only child. After having spent his early childhood years in Worsley, Manchester, he moved to St Austell, Cornwall with his parents. Here he attended St Blazey Primary School and
St Austell Grammar School. In 1962 he started studying history and
philosophy at the University of Southampton with the aim of becoming a teacher, and
it was there that he participated in plays for the first time.
After university he started out as an
actor at the Royal Court Theatre where he mainly played spear-holders and
other small parts, then went on to play most theatres in the country, before becoming a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. it
was when he was there that he, after several interviews at the BBC, was phoned up one morning and
offered the part of Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac. This was to change John Nettles's life as Bergerac (1981-1991) became a huge success. He had worked in television previously as he got his TV break during the early 1970s in the BBC sitcom The Liver Birds as Paul, and
as Dr. Ian McKenzie in the popular series A Family At War, but Bergerac became something completely different for John. John Nettles and
Jim Bergerac were two names that for ten years seemed interchangeable, with a public perception that he always wore a bomber jacket, and
spent his waking hours driving around the roads of Jersey, Channel Islands, in his red Triumph 1800 Roadster. This was of course not quite true.
After Bergerac finished, he re-joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for five seasons. Then in 1995 he was approached by Brian True-May who was thinking of dramatizing the Inspector Barnaby novels, and
thought John would be suitable for the role. A year later John had a call from True-May saying it
was going to happen, the making of Midsomer Murders started.
John is
also a much used narrator, and
has contributed his voice in several documentaries, such as BBC's documentary series Airport, Disaster and
Violent Planet, as well as a number of audiobooks. He has himself written three books: John Nettles' Jersey, Nudity in a public place and
Bergerac's Jersey, which is
part history of the island and
part film journal of the series. Although he is
a well known and
acclaimed interpreter of Shakespeare, he also appears in panto. The filming of Midsomer Murders now takes up 10 months of the year (May to March), and
consequently does not give room for very much else. Recently, he was in the BBC production The Hound of the Baskervilles. Other appearances include Black Beauty and
The Merchant of Venice.
John is
currently living in Evesham with his wife Cathryn, whom he married in 1995. He was married to his first wife, Joyce, for 13 years, and
together they have
a daughter, Emma (born 1970). He keeps and
breeds a variety of bee species.
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