# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-nettles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:56:28.761Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-nettles"
name: "John Nettles"
slug: "john-nettles"
description: "John Vivian Drummond Nettles is an English actor, author, and historian. He is best known for his starring roles as detectives in the crime drama television series Bergerac (1981–1991) in the title role, and Midsomer Murders (1997–2011) as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. He has also narrated several television series."
tagline: "British actor and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Nettles_Jersey_tourism_advertisement.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-10-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.73
  momentum:             1.990992522093813
  historical:           22.595984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0626719"
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    url:       "https://www.john-nettles.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump