Nigel Betts
Acting • Born 1963-10-15
Biography
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.
Filmography
50 credits
A Young Pirate's Tale
Movie • 2022
(voice)
The Cursed
Movie • 2021
Alfred Moliere
The Phantom of the Open
Movie • 2022
Tony Marsh
All Those Small Things
Movie • 2021
Spencer
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Movie • 2019
Creditor
Small Zones
Movie • 1990
Policeman at Refuge
Pib and Pog
Movie • 1995
Pib (voice)
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
Movie • 2007
Uncle Philip
Desert Flower
Movie • 2009
Home Office Detective
The Whipping Boy
Movie • 1994
Walter
Lipstikka
Movie • 2011
The Christmas Candle
Movie • 2013
Dr. Clem
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
Movie • 2014
Bobo
Jekyll & Hyde
Movie • 1990
Local Cop
Wasteland
Movie • 2018
Cemetery Worker 2
Albion
Movie • 2020
Edward
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
Movie • 2014
Mr. Armitage
Sharpe's Mission
Movie • 1996
Maj. Septimus Pyecroft
The Lantern Man
Movie • 2024
David's father
Cheeky
Movie • 2003
Ramsey
Thunderpants
Movie • 2002
Launch Controller 2
Vera
TV • 2011
Brian Bennick
Father Brown
TV • 2013
Samuel Hinds
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
TV • 1996
Betting Shop Manager
Lost Beasts
TV • 2023
Narrator
Toast of Tinseltown
TV • 2022
Dr. Harold Shitman
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Mr Armitage
Coupling
TV • 2000
Neighbour
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Martin West
Outlander
TV • 2014
Aloysius Murphy
The Eustace Bros.
TV • 2003
Eddie Aspen
Pie in the Sky
TV • 1994
Plainclothes
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Liam Tarleton
Boat Story
TV • 2023
Superintendent Hodgson
Little Boy Blue
TV • 2017
Tom, POLSA Officer
The Long Shadow
TV • 2023
Dr. Alan Caplin
A Touch of Frost
TV • 1992
Reginald Muldane
Boy Meets Girl
TV • 2015
Tony
The Coroner
TV • 2015
Brian Teddern
Killing Eve
TV • 2018
Quartermaster
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Sergeant
As Time Goes By
TV • 1992
Barman
All Creatures Great & Small
TV • 2020
Dennis Handshaw
The Escape Artist
TV • 2013
Jonathan Crowe
Ralph & Katie
TV • 2022
Steve Thorne
Class
TV • 2016
Mr. Armitage
The Good Ship Murder
TV • 2023
Tony Donnelly
Grease Monkeys
TV • 2003
George
The Afternoon Play
TV • 2003
Claude
I Fought the Law
TV • 2025
DCC Nigel Johnstone