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Occupation  Actor
Spouse  Deirdre Doone
Role  Actor
Name  John Nettleton
Years active  1956–2010

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Born  5 February 1929 (age 94) (1929-02-05) London, England, UK
Books  The Poundsbridge Witch, The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant
Movies and TV shows  And Soon the Darkness, Black Beauty, Oliver Twist, The New Statesman, Burning Secret
Similar People  Robert Fuest, Brian Clemens, Jean de Brunhoff, Andrew Birkin, Alki David

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John Nettleton (born 5 February 1929) is an English actor best known for playing Sir Arnold Robinson, Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister (1980–84) and President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information in the follow-up Yes, Prime Minister (1985–88). Another political role for Nettleton was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (Sir Stephen Baxter) in the sitcom The New Statesman. A veteran actor with a career spanning many decades, Nettleton is easily at home playing troubled or flawed aristocratic gentlemen or can be seen amongst a comic ensemble.

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Other TV roles included a Ministry of Defence department chief in The Avengers (episode "The See-Through Man", 1967), a police sergeant in Please Sir! (1969), Froggett in the office comedy series If It Moves File It (1970), Francis Bacon in Elizabeth R (1971), a Detective Superintendent in Doctor at Large in 1971, Upstairs, Downstairs (1972), The Country Wife (1977), Brideshead Revisited (1981), The Flame Trees of Thika (1981), The Citadel (1983), Martin Luther, Heretic (1983), Brass (1983), East of Ipswich (1987), Reverend Ernest Matthews in the Doctor Who serial Ghost Light (1989), Longitude (2000), Midsomer Murders (2005) and Kingdom (2008).

On stage, he has appeared in the Lyttelton Theatre of the National Theatre in the 2006 productions of Harley Granville Barker's The Voysey Inheritance, directed by Peter Gill. He also voices Grandpa in the PC Game The Scruffs.

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In the 1960s and 1970s, Nettleton was the reader of various illustrated stories on children's television programme Blue Peter. Often these were about historical figures, such as Florence Nightingale.

He is married to actress Deirdre Doone.

Selected filmography

  • A Man For All Seasons (1966)
  • The Last Shot You Hear (1969)
  • Some Will, Some Won't (1970)
  • And Soon the Darkness (1970)
  • Black Beauty (1971)
  • All Creatures Great and Small (1975)
  • Anyone for Denis? (1982, TV version)
  • Martin Luther, Heretic (1983, TV movie)
  • Burning Secret (1988)
  • American Friends (1991)
  • Jinnah (1998)
  • Oliver Twist (2005)
  • Fishtales (2007)
  • References

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