
Nigel Betts
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, Sharp…
Known For
Desert Flower
Home Office Detective
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Creditor
The Cursed
Alfred Moliere
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
Mr. Armitage
The Phantom of the Open
Tony Marsh
Little Boy Blue
Tom, POLSA Officer
Sharpe's Mission
Maj. Septimus Pyecroft
The Christmas Candle
Dr. Clem
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Filmography
Acting (49)
Movies (21)
The Lantern Man
2024as David's father
A Young Pirate's Tale
2022as (voice)
The Phantom of the Open
2022as Tony Marsh
All Those Small Things
2021as Spencer
The Cursed
2021as Alfred Moliere
Albion
2020as Edward
The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019as Creditor
Wasteland
2018as Cemetery Worker 2
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
2014as Mr. Armitage
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
2014as Bobo
The Christmas Candle
2013as Dr. Clem
Lipstikka
2011
Desert Flower
2009as Home Office Detective
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
2007as Uncle Philip
Cheeky
2003as Ramsey
Thunderpants
2002as Launch Controller 2
Sharpe's Mission
1996as Maj. Septimus Pyecroft
Pib and Pog
1995as Pib (voice)
The Whipping Boy
1994as Walter
Jekyll & Hyde
1990as Local Cop
Small Zones
1990as Policeman at Refuge
Television (28)
I Fought the Law
2025as DCC Nigel Johnstone
The Good Ship Murder
2023as Tony Donnelly
The Long Shadow
2023as Dr. Alan Caplin
Boat Story
2023as Superintendent Hodgson
Lost Beasts
2023as Narrator
Toast of Tinseltown
2022as Dr. Harold Shitman
Ralph & Katie
2022as Steve Thorne
All Creatures Great & Small
2020as Dennis Handshaw
Killing Eve
2018as Quartermaster
Little Boy Blue
2017as Tom, POLSA Officer
Class
2016as Mr. Armitage
The Coroner
2015as Brian Teddern
Boy Meets Girl
2015as Tony
Outlander
2014as Aloysius Murphy
Father Brown
2013as Samuel Hinds
The Escape Artist
2013as Jonathan Crowe
Death in Paradise
2011as Martin West
Vera
2011as Brian Bennick
Doctor Who
2005as Mr Armitage
The Afternoon Play
2003as Claude
Grease Monkeys
2003as George
The Eustace Bros.
2003as Eddie Aspen
Coupling
2000as Neighbour
Midsomer Murders
1997as Sergeant
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996as Betting Shop Manager
Pie in the Sky
1994as Plainclothes
A Touch of Frost
1992as Reginald Muldane
As Time Goes By
1992as Barman
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