John Nettleton

John Nettleton (born London) is an English actor.

One of his most notable roles was that of Sir Arnold Robinson, the Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister (1980-1984) and President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information in the follow-upYes, Prime Minister (1985�1988). Another political role for Nettleton was a Conservative PartyMember of Parliament in the sitcom The New Statesman.

He played the Reverend Ernest Matthews in the Doctor Who serial Ghost Light (1989), 

Other roles were in A Man for All Seasons (1966), a police sergeant in Please Sir! in 1969, theBrian Clemens thriller And Soon the Darkness (1970), Elizabeth R (1971), Black Beauty (1971), a Detective Superintendent in Doctor at Large in 1971, Upstairs Downstairs (1972), The Country Wife (1977), The Flame Trees of Thika (1981), The Citadel (1983), Martin Luther, Heretic (1983),Brass (1983), East of Ipswich (1987), Jinnah (1998), Longitude (2000), Midsomer Murders (2005), and Kingdom (2008).

On stage, he has appeared in the Lyttelton Theatre of the Royal 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".

To a generation who grew up as children in the 1960s and 1970s, who were viewers of the long-running B.B.C. television programme, Blue Peter, John Nettleton's voice is immediately recognised as the reader of various illustrated stories, often about historical figures, such as Florence Nightingale.

He is married to actress Deirdre Doone.

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