David Nettheim

Who was David Nettheim?

David Cosman Nettheim was an Australian actor.

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, and brought up in Cremorne Point the eldest son of actor Roy Nettheim and the actress Mary Hosking, he was introduced to the theatre when his parents joined Doris Fitton's Independent Theatre.

He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and joined 2GB as an office boy in 1941. He took on occasional writing and announcing roles and was involved in production of John Dease's Quiz Kids.

He helped Sir Charles Mackerras prepare classical music programmes for radio. He adapted Xavier Herbert's Capricornia as a radio serial.

He was involved with the Metropolitan Theatre, Mercury Theatre and Phillip Street Theatre, where he both wrote for and acted in their famous revues.

He worked with Michael Bentine and John Bluthal in the Goon Show-like radio programme Three's a Crowd for radio 2UE, which ran for 34 weekly half-hour episodes. He next worked in Britain with Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine in the 1957 television comedy skit show Yes, It's the Cathode-Ray Tube Show.