John Nettles

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John Nettles 2015 in Hamburg
John Nettles on an advertisement for the Jersey Tourism Board (1980s)

John Vivian Drummond Nettles , OBE (born October 11, 1943 in Manchester , England ) is a British actor and historian . He plays both television and theater roles and is best known for his portrayal of the title roles in the police series Bergerac and Inspector Barnaby . Since his “retirement” as Inspector Barnaby in 2012, Nettles has returned to work as a historian. He caused a stir with a controversial book about a taboo subject of World War II , the German occupation of the British Channel Islands .

Life

Shortly after his birth John Nettles of the was a carpenter Eric Nettles and his wife Elsie adopted . Nettles' birth mother was an Irish nurse who worked in England during World War II. She was admitted to an asylum shortly after he was born , where she died of tuberculosis at the age of 28 . Nothing is known about Nettles' biological father. John Nettles spent the early years of his childhood with his adoptive parents in Roe Green , Greater Manchester , before the family moved to St Austell , Cornwall .

Nettles attended St. Blazey Primary School and then St Austell Grammar School . In 1962 he began studying history and philosophy at the University of Southampton and wanted to become a teacher. At university he started acting. His first television role in the BBC One - sitcom The Liver Birds in the early 1970s.

In 1981 he got the role that should make him known: In the 87-part police series based on the Channel Island of Jersey , he played the investigator Jim Bergerac. The series became a huge hit with up to 10 million television viewers. Under the title Jim Bergerac , 74 episodes were broadcast by the station DDR1 and also taken over by ARD , RTL , VOX and other stations. After the end of Bergerac he was from 1991 for five seasons member of the Royal Shakespeare Company .

From 1997 Nettles played the role of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby in the British crime film series Inspector Barnaby . The series became a global success and sold in over 200 countries and territories, including the USA , China , Spain , the Netherlands , Australia and Germany . In 2002, in the film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles , Nettles played the respected doctor Dr. James Mortimer visiting Sherlock Holmes (played by Richard Roxburgh ) and asking for help. In the summer of 2011, Nettles got out of the series Inspector Barnaby after the 13th season , as had been announced in 2009. In total, he embodied the DCI Tom Barnaby in 81 episodes.

In November 2010, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the Order of Merit Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to the art of acting. On 21 September 2012 Nettles got from Plymouth University , the honorary doctorate awarded.

Since July 2014 Nettles has been the patron of the Mare & Foal Sanctuary in Littlehempston near Totnes . The Mare & Foal Sanctuary takes care of troubled horses and ponies and arranges them for new owners.

Nettles played the supporting role of the rich and powerful gentleman Ray Penvenen in seasons 2 and 3 of the 2015 television series Poldark . The series took place in the late 18th century and is based on the Poldark novels by Winston Graham .

Nettles as an author and historian

John Nettles (2nd from left) at an event on June 28, 2013 in the port of Saint Helier to commemorate the bombing and the victims of the island of Jersey by the German Air Force on June 28, 1940.

Nettles, who is a trained historian, published the book Jewels and Jackboots: Hitler's British Channel Islands in 2012 about the history of the British Channel Islands under German occupation from 1940 to 1945. The book touches on sensitive topics such as the collaboration of individual British authorities on the Channel Islands with the German National Socialists, especially in connection with the deportation of Jews . For this reason it met with criticism in the Channel Islands and cost Nettles, who had been a trademark of the islands as "Bergerac" in the 1980s, some sympathy on the islands. In autumn 2014 Nettles was at the Frankfurt Book Fair with the book, which was sold out in Great Britain in a few weeks and is based on the documentary of the same name produced by Nettles in 2010 . The book was published in German translation in 2015.

Private

John Nettles was first married to casting director Joyce Nettles from 1965 to 1979 . The daughter Emma, ​​born in 1970, emerged from the marriage. Since 1995 he has been married to Cathryn Sealey, a former actress whom he met in 1987 in Birmingham .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Awards

Books

  • 1988: Bergerac's Jersey , BBC Books, ISBN 978-0-563-20703-0
  • 1993: John Nettles' Jersey: A Personal History of the People & Places / A Personal View of the People and Places , BBC Books, ISBN 978-0-563-36318-7
  • 2002: Nudity in a Public Place - Confessions of a Mini-Celebrity , Anova Books, ISBN 978-0-86051-764-1
  • 2012: Jewels and Jackboots: Hitler's British Isles, the German Occupation of the British Channel Islands 1940–1945 , Channel Island Publishing, ISBN 978-1-905095-38-4
German edition: Hitler's Inselwahn. The British Channel Islands under German occupation 1940–1945 . Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-95510-094-0

Web links

Commons : John Nettles  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ imdb.com: John Nettles (II) (English)
  2. ^ At home with John Nettles . ( November 5, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive ) Worcestershire; accessed on January 5, 2015
  3. ↑ Cornwall has too many childhood ghosts for me .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Western Morning News / thisiscornwall.co.uk, July 9, 2011 article@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thisiscornwall.co.uk  
  4. ↑ John Nettles Biography . tv.com, accessed January 5, 2015
  5. ↑ John Nettles. bio . biography.com, A&E Television Networks; Retrieved January 5, 2015
  6. ↑ Leigh Holmwood: John Nettles to quit Midsomer Murders . The Guardian, February 12, 2009 (English)
  7. ↑ Bergerac actor John Nettles given an OBE by the Queen . The Telegraph, November 10, 2010 (English)
  8. ^ Actor John Nettles is given honorary doctorate .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Western Morning News, September 22, 2012 (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thisiscornwall.co.uk  
  9. ↑ itv.com: Midsomer Murders star John Nettles takes on new role Article from July 23, 2014 (English)
  10. ↑ mareandfoal.org: Our Patron (English)
  11. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Ray Penvenen (English)
  12. ↑ visiontv.ca: Actor John Nettles, 73, Admires His Younger Poldark Cast Article February 14, 2017 (English)
  13. ↑ Suzannah Hills: 'Telling truth about Nazis cost me my friends': Bergerac star John Nettles ostracised on Jersey after collaboration study . Daily Mail Australia, November 5, 2012.
  14. ↑ 2012: Jewels and Jackboots: Hitler's British Isles, the German Occupation of the British Channel Islands 1940–1945 . Channel Island Publishing, ISBN 978-1-905095-38-4 . Ursula Scheer: The actor and historian John Nettles: Which book would you write on an island? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 10, 2014.
  15. ↑ Tim Oglethorpe: Midsomer Murders: After 14 years and 200 murders, DCI Barnaby is retiring and John Nettles says it's about time . Daily Mail Online, January 22, 2010 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Nettles, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nettles, John Vivian Drummond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester , England