After Democrats lost their Senate majority in the 2010 elections, Nesbitt was unanimously elected minority leader for the next legislature.

Brooke was romantically involved with the actress Cathleen Nesbitt and was once engaged to Noel Olivier, whom he met, when she was aged 15, at the progressive Bedales School.

Nesbitt and Bergman, when describing Daemonosaurus, also classified Eoraptor as a theropod.

Doubts concerning Atkins's testimony were strengthened when a cell-mate claimed that Atkins had confessed to him that he had shot Nesbitt.

He got his Equity card when the professional actor playing Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio broke his ankle two days before the performance, and Nesbitt stepped in to take his place.

Nesbitt reprised the role when the production returned to Plymouth in early 1989.

Nesbitt was only seven years old when the shootings happened and was ignorant of its cause ; he believed that there was " no smoke without fire " and that the Catholic marchers must have done something to provoke the British Army.

The series was conceived when Nesbitt was working on Playing the Field ; he and producer Greg Brenman approached author Colin Bateman about creating a television series for Nesbitt in a similar vein to Bateman's Dan Starkey novels.

After the first new episode was broadcast, Sarah Vine wrote in The Times, " In the past, when attempting a nasty stare or a hard face, Nesbitt has never managed much more than a faintly quizzical look, hilarity forever threatening to break out behind those twinkly Irish eyes.

Murphy's Law was not recommissioned for a sixth series, which Nesbitt attributed to the damage done to the fifth series ratings when it was scheduled opposite the popular ITV drama Doc Martin.

Nesbitt returned to theatre acting in June 2005 when he appeared in David Nicholls ' After Sun, a ten-minute-play performed as part of the Old Vic's 24-Hour Play season.

Contrary to previous portrayals of Pilate, Nesbitt played the biblical figure as " nice ", and — as when playing Jack Parlabane — used his own accent.

Nesbitt said, " The role of Peter is what I have dreamed about playing, you wait your whole life for an opportunity like this and when it comes you have to grab it.

The two met when Nesbitt went to the final call-back for Hamlet at Loughborough Hall in 1989, and they soon began dating.

However, when Hexham Congregational Church was rebuilt, Dr. Parker presented a beautiful stained glass window, bearing the following inscription: " In ever loving memory of Ann Nesbitt, for twelve years the devoted wife of Joseph Parker, Minister of the City Temple, London, this window is reverently and gratefully erected by the man whose life she did so much to mould ".

Rab C. Nesbitt creator Ian Pattison has affectionately described Iain as “ a hamlet-faced bamette, who when not working ravages around like a wasp trapped in a jar, driven mad by his own bitterness !”

At first under intense interrogation, the suspects admitted only to their involvement in the McLaverty abduction but Nesbitt, seizing on McAllister's references to the size of a knife used on McLaverty, had his team of detectives press the case and eventually most of the gang admitted their part in the activities of the Butchers.

The first result was the 1853 Nesbitt issues of stamped envelopes, named after the contractor who produced them for the government.

Coia took an acting role in an episode of the sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt called ' Holiday ', first shown in 1990, in which the Nesbitt family and their neighbours the Cotters go to Fuengirola.

The first result was the 1853 Nesbitt issues of stamped envelopes, named after the private contractor who produced them for the government.

Nesbitt served as the company's first president.

Nesbitt was first appointed to the House in 1979 to fill out the remainder of the term of his mother, Mary Cordell Nesbitt, who held the House seat until her death.

* Able Seaman Kate Nesbitt, second woman, first in the Royal Navy, for acts in Afghanistan in March 2009 as a Medical Assistant attached to 1 RIFLES, 3 Commando Brigade.

* Burney Nesbitt portrayed by Eric Cullen ( 1988 – 1996 ): the couple's younger son ( the first three series only ).

On television, his roles have included guest appearances in Survivors and Rab C. Nesbitt and Doctor Who, first as an extra in The Enemy of the World ( 1967 – 1968 ), then as a soldier in The War Games ( 1969 ) and in a considerably larger role as King Peladon in The Curse of Peladon ( 1972 ).

He received an overall score of 22 points from judges James Nesbitt and Glenda Gilson, putting him in first place for all the series ' acts so far.

The first stationmaster was a Mr Peter Nesbitt ; he remained in post until his death on 10 October 1864.

Nesbitt returned to the U. S. and appeared on Broadway in Quinneys ( 1915 ) and John Galsworthy's Justice ( 1916 ) as John Barrymore's leading lady in his first dramatic stage role.

In 2003, Nesbitt played undercover police detective Tommy Murphy in the first series of Murphy's Law, after starring in a successful pilot episode in 2001.

At the meeting's conclusion, Tranter offered Nesbitt the first episode script of Jekyll, a television series by Steven Moffat that updated Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

The first part of the film dramatises the real-life murder of Jim Griffin by Alistair Little in 1970s Lurgan ; the second part features a fictional meeting between Little ( Neeson ) and Jim's brother Joe ( Nesbitt ) 33 years later.

Nesbitt was Bowker's first choice for the part.

Founded in 1971 by Gary Nesbitt, Edward Stollins and Mike Isaacs, their first store was located in London's Finchley Road.

It was bought first by the politician John Nesbitt and then, in 1802, by the portrait painter John Hoppner.

When she questions hotel owner and manager Madame Hervé ( Cathleen Nesbitt ), the latter claims she arrived alone.

A 2003 London revival, followed by a UK tour, featured Susie Amy, Derren Nesbitt, and Michael Melia.

The Lyric Theatre in London filled the role of Belvidera with Cathleen Nesbitt in 1920.

She also directed Mädchen in Uniform ( translated as " Children in Uniform ") in 1932 at the Duchess Theatre in London, featuring Jessica Tandy and Cathleen Nesbitt.

In 1932, her play was performed as " Children in Uniform " ( english adaptation by Barbara Burnham ) at the Duchess Theatre in London, England with Cathleen Nesbitt and Jessica Tandy in the cast

* London Arts Group: Located in a large portion of the third floor of the Fisher Building during the 1970s and 1980s, London Fine Arts Group acted as an internationally recognized publishing company assisting in producing limited edition art works for many internationally recognized artists including Yaacov Agam, Karel Appel, Arman, Romare Bearden, Gene Davis, Don Eddy, Alberto Giacometti, Ian Hornak, Lester Johnson, Alex Katz, Richard Lindner, Roberto Matta, Lowell Nesbitt, Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Sultan, Victor Vasarely and Larry Zox.

After a career spanning over 80 years, one of the longest in show business history, Nesbitt died of natural causes at age 93 in London on 2 August 1982.

His father suggested that he should move to England if he wanted to continue acting, so Nesbitt enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama ( CSSD ) in London.

To prepare for the role, Nesbitt met with Robe and spent weeks talking to him in his South London flat, learning about Jamie, and of Robe's fight for his justice.

Nesbitt spoke with his natural accent instead of affecting Robe's South London speech, as he did not want the audience to be distracted from the drama.

In March 2010, Nesbitt accepted the ceremonial position of Chancellor of the University of Ulster, succeeding former Lord Mayor of London Sir Richard Nichols.

He went on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, alongside James Nesbitt and Rufus Sewell, and graduated in 1988.