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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.

I Fought the Law
as DCC Nigel Johnstone

The Lantern Man
as David's father

Boat Story
as Superintendent Hodgson

The Good Ship Murder
as Tony Donnelly

The Long Shadow
as Dr. Alan Caplin

Lost Beasts Unearthed
as Narrator

A Young Pirate's Tale
as (voice)

Ralph & Katie
as Steve Thorne

The Phantom of the Open
as Tony Marsh

Toast of Tinseltown
as Dr. Harold Shitman

The Cursed
as Alfred Moliere

All Those Small Things
as Spencer

All Creatures Great & Small
as Dennis Handshaw

Albion
as Edward

The Personal History of David Copperfield
as Creditor

Wasteland
as Cemetery Worker 2

Killing Eve
as Quartermaster

Little Boy Blue
as Tom, POLSA Officer

Class
as Mr. Armitage

The Coroner
as Brian Teddern

Boy Meets Girl
as Tony

Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
as Mr. Armitage

Outlander
as Aloysius Murphy

Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
as Bobo

The Christmas Candle
as Dr. Clem

The Escape Artist
as Jonathan Crowe

Father Brown
as Samuel Hinds

Death in Paradise
as Martin West

Vera
as Brian Bennick

Lipstikka

Desert Flower
as Home Office Detective

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
as Uncle Philip

Doctor Who
as Mr Armitage

Cheeky
as Ramsey
The Eustace Bros.
as Eddie Aspen

Grease Monkeys
as George

The Afternoon Play
as Claude

Thunderpants
as Launch Controller 2

Coupling
as Neighbour

Midsomer Murders
as Liam Tarleton

Sharpe's Mission
as Major Septimus Pyecroft

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Betting Shop Manager

Pib and Pog
as Pib (voice)

The Whipping Boy
as Walter

Pie in the Sky
as Plainclothes

A Touch of Frost
as Reginald Muldane

As Time Goes By
as Barman

Small Zones
as Policeman at Refuge

Jekyll & Hyde
as Local Cop