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Nigel Betts
Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Nigel Betts is an English actor, who from 2003 to 2007 appeared on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as Eddie Hope. He also portrayed Tony in the BBC Two sitcom Boy Meets Girl and had…
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Nigel Betts is an English actor, who from 2003 to 2007 appeared on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as Eddie Hope. He also portrayed Tony in the BBC Two sitcom Boy Meets Girl and had a recurring role as Mr Armitage in the eighth series of Doctor Who as well as in Class, a Doctor Who spin-off. Betts has also appeared in several other British television programmes such as Downton Abbey, Doctors, EastEnders, Holby City, Coronation Street, The Bill, Ridley Road, and the much acclaimed ITV series, Sharpe. He also played a singing bartender in an episode of the sitcom As Time Goes By and Steve Taylor's laconic neighbor in an episode of the sitcom Coupling. In 2016 he appeared as Brian Teddern in The Coroner, S2:E5 “The Captain’s Pipe”. In 2009 he played Tommy in the eighth episode of the fourth series of Doc Martin. Betts has also numerous theatre credits including playing an assortment of roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including playing a variety of successful characters in the RSC's Gunpowder season. Other theatre credits include The 39 Steps, a British play adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock, and Arthur in War Horse, the National Theatre's award-winning show in the West End. In September 2019, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Elton Summertree. He appeared again in 2024, this time in the role of Mellie Tyler.
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2026
Paralysis
Movie The Pharmacist
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2025
I Fought the Law
TV show DCC Nigel Johnstone
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2024
The Lantern Man
Movie David's father
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2023
Boat Story
TV show Superintendent Hodgson
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2023
The Good Ship Murder
TV show Tony Donnelly
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2023
The Long Shadow
TV show Dr. Alan Caplin
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2023
Lost Beasts Unearthed
TV show Narrator
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2022
A Young Pirate's Tale
Movie (voice)
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2022
Ralph & Katie
TV show Steve Thorne
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2022
The Phantom of the Open
Movie Tony Marsh
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2022
Toast of Tinseltown
TV show Dr. Harold Shitman
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2021
The Cursed
Movie Alfred Moliere
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2021
All Those Small Things
Movie Spencer
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2020
All Creatures Great & Small
TV show Dennis Handshaw
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2020
Albion
Movie Edward
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2019
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Movie Creditor
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2018
Wasteland
Movie Cemetery Worker 2
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2018
Killing Eve
TV show Quartermaster
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2017
Little Boy Blue
TV show Tom, POLSA Officer
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2016
Class
TV show Mr. Armitage
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2015
The Coroner
TV show Brian Teddern
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2015
Boy Meets Girl
TV show Tony
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2014
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
Movie Mr. Armitage
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2014
Outlander
TV show Aloysius Murphy
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2014
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
Movie Bobo
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2013
The Christmas Candle
Movie Dr. Clem
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2013
The Escape Artist
TV show Jonathan Crowe
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2013
Father Brown
TV show Samuel Hinds
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2011
Death in Paradise
TV show Martin West
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2011
Vera
TV show Brian Bennick
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2011
Lipstikka
Movie
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2009
Desert Flower
Movie Home Office Detective
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2007
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
Movie Uncle Philip
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2006
Waterloo Road
TV show Ray Stewart
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2005
Doctor Who
TV show Mr Armitage
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2003
Cheeky
Movie Ramsey
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2003
The Eustace Bros.
TV show Eddie Aspen
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2003
Grease Monkeys
TV show George
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2003
The Afternoon Play
TV show Claude
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2002
Thunderpants
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