Personal Info
Birth date
1929-02-05 (96 Years)
Day of death
2023-07-14
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Lewisham, London, England, UK
Also known as
-John Nettleton
Biography
John Nettleton (5 February 1929 – 14 July 2023) was an English actor.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Doctor Who
7.9
Overview:
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.Great Performances
5.5
Overview:
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.Foyle's War
7.9
Overview:
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.The Avengers
7.7
Overview:
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).Minder
6.8
Overview:
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.Play for Today
6.3
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.Tales of the Unexpected
6.674
Overview:
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.BBC Play of the Month
5
Overview:
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.The Bill
6.686
Overview:
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.Z-Cars
7
Overview:
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.The Professionals
7.5
Overview:
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.Rumpole of the Bailey
6.9
Overview:
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.Upstairs, Downstairs
7.7
Overview:
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.Softly, Softly
5
Overview:
Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.Maigret
6.9
Overview:
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.The Champions
6.175
Overview:
The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968.The Expert
10
Overview:
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.Justice
6
Overview:
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.Yes Minister
8.3
Overview:
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.Kingdom
7.091
Overview:
Kingdom is a British television series created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance.The Protectors
5.6
Overview:
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation. The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.Theatre 625
7.2
Overview:
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.Oliver Twist
6.742
Overview:
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.The Main Chance
7.7
Overview:
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.Please Sir!
6.8
Overview:
A hapless but caring teacher tries to control his class of unruly kids. The teacher sees much good and potential in his pupils, much to the dismay of his fellow teachers who have lost hope in these kids.The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
7.4
Overview:
An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.Department S
4.577
Overview:
Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst. The trio were agents for a fictional special department of Interpol. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse.Brass
5.8
Overview:
Brass is a British comedy-drama series created by John Stevenson and Julian Roach, and produced by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. Satirising the working-class period dramas of the 1970s and the American supersoaps such as Dallas and Dynasty, Brass was unusual for ITV comedies of the time, as there was no laugh track and the humour deliberately kept extremely dry, using convoluted wordplay and subtle commentary on popular culture. Set primarily in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, two feuding families—the wealthy Hardacres and the poor, working-class Fairchilds, who lived in a small terraced house rented from the Hardacre empire.Acting
2007Fishtales as Professor Coulter
2007Kingdom (1 Episode) as Mr. Macavoy
2005Invasion as Unknown
2005Oliver Twist as 1st Magistrate
2002Foyle's War (1 Episode) as Sam Bradshawe
2000Longitude (1 Episode) as Minister for the Navy
1998Jinnah as General Gracie
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Munro Hilliard
1996Felix Dexter in Douglas as Alan
1991American Friends as Groves
1990Circles Of Deceit as Ned
1990The Lorelei as Mr Walker
1989Victoria Wood (1 Episode) as Charles
1989Doctor Who: Ghost Light as Rev Ernest Matthews
1989Bomber Harris as Wing Commander Harry Weldon
1988Burning Secret as Doctor Weiss
1987The New Statesman (4 Episodes) as Sir Stephen Baxter
1987East of Ipswich as Richard's Father
1986Yes, Prime Minister (5, 0 Episode) as Sir Arnold Robinson, Arnold Robinson
1984Fairly Secret Army (7 Episodes) as Smith
1984The Bill (1 Episode) as Unknown
1983Martin Luther, Heretic as Andreas Karlstadt
1983The Happy Apple (7 Episodes) as Unknown
1983Brass (4 Episodes) as Lord Mountfast
1982Anyone for Denis as Jenkins
1982Anyone for Denis? (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Jenkins
1981Brideshead Revisited (11 Episodes) as Commanding Officer
1981The Flame Trees of Thika (7 Episodes) as Major
1980The Tempest as Gonzalo
1980Yes Minister (7 Episodes) as Sir Arnold Robinson
1980'That Crazy Woman' as Ashby
1979Minder (1 Episode) as William Shanks
1979Only When I Laugh (1 Episode) as Col. Walters
1979Tales of the Unexpected (1 Episode) as Hotel Manager
1979Henry VIII as Lord Chamberlain
1977The Professionals (1 Episode) as Minister
1977The Country Wife as Sir Jasper Fidget
1975Rumpole of the Bailey (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Mr. Potter
1975Shadows (1 Episode) as Mr Butler
1975All Creatures Great and Small as Head Waiter
1972The Edwardians (1 Episode) as Alfred Wood
1972Dead of Night (1 Episode) as Grandman
1972The Protectors (1 Episode) as Inspector Hill
1971Upstairs, Downstairs (1 Episode) as Arthur Bellamy
1971Justice (2 Episodes) as Major Hector Stannard
1971The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1, 1 Episode) as Belton, Admiral Christador
1971Birds On The Wing (6 Episodes) as Achmed Abdul Uskudar
1971Black Beauty as Sir William
1971Elizabeth R (1 Episode) as Sir Francis Bacon
1971Great Performances (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970The Lie as Mr Arnold
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970And Soon the Darkness as Gendarme
1970Sovereign's Company as Major Grace
1970Some Will, Some Won't as Wagstaff
1969There Is Also Tomorrow as Henry
1969Department S (1 Episode) as Carter
1969The Main Chance (1 Episode) as Joseph Shelton
1968Please Sir! (1 Episode) as Police Sergeant
1968The Champions (1 Episode) as Booker
1968Her Majesty's Pleasure (13 Episodes) as Unknown
1968The Expert (1 Episode) as Inspector Gresham
1968Ooh La La! (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1967Death of a Private as Captain
1967The Education of Corporal Halliday as Maj. Gen. McAllister
1966A Man for All Seasons as Jailer
1966The Noise Stopped as Charles
1966Softly, Softly (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965BBC Play of the Month (1 Episode) as Sir Jasper Fidget
1964Theatre 625 (2, 1 Episode) as Odo, Patterson
1964Detective (1 Episode) as Unknown
1963Doctor Who (2 Episodes) as Reverend Ernest Matthews
1962Z-Cars (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1961A for Andromeda (2 Episodes) as Harries
1961The Avengers (1, 1 Episode) as Sir Andrew Ford, Palmer
1960Maigret (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958Charlesworth at Large (6 Episodes) as Police Sergeant