John Nettleton

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1929-02-05

Lewisham, London, England, UK

Biography

John Nettleton (5 February 1929 – 14 July 2023) was an English actor.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {84}

Jenkins

1982-12-28 0

Anyone for Denis

Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982. The original play, first performed at the Whitehall T ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Captain

1967-12-13 0

Death of a Private

An army private is driven to murder when his wife falls in love with another man. ...
Genre :TV Movie

Ned

1990-04-11 0

Circles Of Deceit

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Gendarme

1970-09-10 6.5

And Soon the Darkness

Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust? ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Sir William

1971-04-01 5.9

Black Beauty

Told from the POV of Black Beauty himself, his birth and perception of humans are explored, but his first owner, a boy named Joe, is his most memorable. ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Doctor Weiss

1988-12-23 5.7

Burning Secret

While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy to get to know his mother, the wife of an older dip ...
Genre :Drama

Richard's Father

1987-02-01 6.8

East of Ipswich

Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a nearby guestho ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

Jailer

1966-12-13 7.338

A Man for All Seasons

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in Englan ...
Genre :Drama, History

Wing Commander Harry Weldon

1989-09-03 6.8

Bomber Harris

Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Major Grace

1970-04-21 7

Sovereign's Company

Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsu ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Maj. Gen. McAllister

1967-08-05 0

The Education of Corporal Halliday

Corporal Halliday reflects on his life's achievements and wonders where it all leads him. ...
Genre :

2005-10-06 0

Invasion

A soldier lands on an island and storms it. Only finding it defended by sheep and one old shepherd he claims it on behalf of his king and country. The shepherd though, doesn't seem that bothered and i ...
Genre :Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Sir Jasper Fidget

1977-02-13 0

The Country Wife

Directed by Donald McWhinnie. ...
Genre :Drama

Rev Ernest Matthews

1989-10-18 8.7

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

The Doctor takes Ace on an initiative test to a strange Victorian old house where she is forced to confront her darkest fears. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure

1st Magistrate

2005-09-23 6.747

Oliver Twist

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 ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Family

Mr Walker

1990-03-18 1

The Lorelei

A lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing romance with a colleague. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

General Gracie

1998-11-07 6.6

Jinnah

Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation ...
Genre :History, War, Drama

Professor Coulter

2007-08-24 4.6

Fishtales

A Greek History Professor & his daughter travel to a Greek Island for one last chance to finish his thesis on ancient love spells before he loses his research grant. His daughter attempts to match her ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Romance, Family

Lord Chamberlain

1979-02-25 6.5

Henry VIII

Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend ...
Genre :History, Drama, TV Movie

Gonzalo

1980-02-27 7

The Tempest

Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Raising a sorm to bring his brother - the usurper of ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, TV Movie

Head Waiter

1975-07-27 6.6

All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his mischievous brother Tristan—already have a successful busines ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Wagstaff

1970-04-01 4.8

Some Will, Some Won't

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker. ...
Genre :Comedy

Andreas Karlstadt

1983-11-08 0

Martin Luther, Heretic

Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantism. ...
Genre :Drama

Henry

1969-11-19 0

There Is Also Tomorrow

The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Ashby

1980-02-21 0

'That Crazy Woman'

In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Mr Arnold

1970-10-29 6

The Lie

Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Alan

1996-08-09 0

Felix Dexter in Douglas

An encounter with a traveller changes the life of an ill-fated barrister who is on his way to meet his girlfriend's parents. ...
Genre :Comedy

Groves

1991-03-22 6.2

American Friends

Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby fi ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Charles

1966-09-03 0

The Noise Stopped

Charles and Diana Jane invited Sir Henry and Maggie for dinner. Uncomfortable personal details will be disclosed that will lead Charles to re-evaluate his life. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Maurice

2005-02-24 10

Dad

Lucy Gannon (Soldier, Soldier, Bramwell, Trip Trap) has written Dad, the poignant story of Larry James (Richard Briers), a cheery and independent 86-year-old who has been caring single-handedly for hi ...
Genre :Drama

Munro Hilliard

1997-03-23 7.5

Midsomer Murders

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 ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Carter

1969-09-09 5

Department S

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 Jaso ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Sir Francis Bacon

1971-02-17 7.4

Elizabeth R

This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her va ...
Genre :Drama

1966-01-05 5

Softly, Softly

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 ...
Genre :Drama

Reverend Ernest Matthews

1963-11-23 7.888

Doctor Who

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 ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

1984-10-16 6.7

The Bill

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 ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1962-01-02 7

Z-Cars

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 J ...
Genre :Drama

Hotel Manager

1979-03-24 6.708

Tales of the Unexpected

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 plet ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Andrew Ford

1961-01-07 7.7

The Avengers

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 assista ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Inspector Hill

1972-09-29 5.8

The Protectors

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 sec ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

1975-12-17 6.9

Rumpole of the Bailey

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 ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Sir Arnold Robinson

1980-02-25 8.3

Yes Minister

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. ...
Genre :Comedy, War & Politics

Booker

1968-09-25 6.175

The Champions

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 E ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure

Arthur Bellamy

1971-10-10 7.759

Upstairs, Downstairs

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 neighbo ...
Genre :Drama

Police Sergeant

1968-11-08 6.8

Please Sir!

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 ki ...
Genre :Comedy

Major

1981-09-01 7

The Flame Trees of Thika

Elspeth and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. This is a time of discovery for Elspeth, as she encounters the incredible beauty and cruelty of nat ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Arnold Robinson

1986-01-09 8.381

Yes, Prime Minister

James Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - No. 10. Could this have possibly have been ...
Genre :Comedy, War & Politics

Arnold Robinson

1986-01-09 8.381

Yes, Prime Minister

James Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - No. 10. Could this have possibly have been ...
Genre :Comedy, War & Politics

Belton

1971-09-20 7.4

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

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 Con ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

1970-10-15 6.3

Play for Today

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 tel ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector Gresham

1968-07-05 10

The Expert

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 ...
Genre :Drama

1960-10-31 7.154

Maigret

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 ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1982-12-28 0

Anyone for Denis?

Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982. The original play, first performed at the Whitehall T ...
Genre :Comedy

1964-03-30 0

Detective

A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its epi ...
Genre :Crime

1983-06-20 5

The Happy Apple

Nancy was the new secretary at the Happy Apple advertising agency. Despite being ill-educated, she had a remarkable gift; she could come up with the most brilliantly simple and most effective advertis ...
Genre :Comedy

1968-09-25 0

Her Majesty's Pleasure

Genre :Comedy

Charles

1989-11-16 7.5

Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood was a series of six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria Wood in 1989, who took a break from sketches, two years after her very successful and award winning series ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Macavoy

2007-04-22 7.091

Kingdom

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 hi ...
Genre :Drama

Smith

1984-10-22 5

Fairly Secret Army

Fairly Secret Army is a British sitcom which ran to thirteen episodes over two series between 1984 and 1986. Though not a direct spin-off from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the lead character, ...
Genre :Comedy

1968-04-06 0

Ooh La La!

Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken identities and impeccable timing. ...
Genre :Comedy

William Shanks

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Major Hector Stannard

1971-10-08 6

Justice

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 barr ...
Genre :Drama

Joseph Shelton

1969-06-18 7.7

The Main Chance

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 relocate ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Stephen Baxter

1987-09-13 7.4

The New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. ...
Genre :Comedy

Admiral Christador

1971-09-20 7.4

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

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 Con ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

1971-01-28 5.762

Great Performances

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 performan ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary, Drama

Palmer

1961-01-07 7.7

The Avengers

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 assista ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Minister

1977-12-30 7.5

The Professionals

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. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

Sam Bradshawe

2002-10-27 7.9

Foyle's War

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 ser ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, War & Politics, Crime

Sir Jasper Fidget

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

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 stag ...
Genre :Drama

Police Sergeant

1958-08-16 0

Charlesworth at Large

Charlesworth at Large is a British crime television series which originally aired on the BBC in 1958. Wensley Pithey revived his role as Detective Superintendent Charlesworth of Scotland Yard which he ...
Genre :

Achmed Abdul Uskudar

1971-07-11 0

Birds On The Wing

Birds on the Wing is a 1971 British comedy television series which originally aired in a single series of six episodes on BBC 2. A businessman becomes enamoured of an attractive young woman, who he fi ...
Genre :

Grandman

1972-11-05 7.6

Dead of Night

Dead of Night was a British television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only th ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Jenkins

1982-12-28 0

Anyone for Denis?

Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982. The original play, first performed at the Whitehall T ...
Genre :Comedy

Minister for the Navy

2000-01-02 7

Longitude

The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea. ...
Genre :Drama

Col. Walters

1979-10-29 6.7

Only When I Laugh

Only When I Laugh is an ITV1 sitcom broadcast from 29 October 1979 to 16 December 1982 for four series with seven episodes each, and a Christmas special in 1981. The title is the answer to the questio ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Potter

1975-12-17 6.9

Rumpole of the Bailey

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 ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Mr Butler

1975-09-03 5.7

Shadows

Shadows is a British Supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1975 and 1978. Extending over three seasons, it featured ghost and horror dramas for childre ...
Genre :Drama

Alfred Wood

1972-11-21 5.667

The Edwardians

The Edwardians is an eight-part miniseries broadcast in 1972–73. An anthology, each 90-minute episode explores influential figure(s) of the Edwardian era: Charles Rolls and Henry Royce; Horatio Bottom ...
Genre :Drama

Odo

1964-05-03 7.2

Theatre 625

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 ...
Genre :Drama

Patterson

1964-05-03 7.2

Theatre 625

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 ...
Genre :Drama

Lord Mountfast

1983-02-21 5.8

Brass

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 th ...
Genre :Comedy

Sir Francis Bacon

1974-12-30 1

Churchill's People

Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produc ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Harries

1961-10-03 5

A for Andromeda

A for Andromeda is a British television science fiction drama serial produced and broadcast by the BBC. Written by cosmologist Fred Hoyle, in conjunction with author and television producer John Ellio ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy