Christopher Benjamin
Acting
- Born:
- 1934-12-27
- Died:
- 2025-01-10
- Place of birth:
- Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Christopher Benjamin was a British actor, born 27 December 1934 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. He died on January 15th 2025, aged 90. He was well known for his roles in some of the UK's biggest cult television programmes. This included playing the same character in two Patrick McGoohan dramas, Danger Man and The Prisoner, fuelling speculation that they are possibly linked. He was also a regular in The Avengers and Doctor Who, playing in three episodes of each, mostly in comedy roles. He also played recurring roles in several period dramas. He was Sir John Glutton, the regular adversary in the period family adventure series Dick Turpin, Channing in several episodes of the third series of When The Boat Comes In, and Prosper Profound in the acclaimed 1967 adaptation of The Forsyte Saga . He reprised the role of Henry Gordon Jago, from the Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang in four series of Jago and Litefoot audio plays, after a well received episode of the Big Finish Productions audio C.D. series Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles entitled The Mahogany Murderers. He acted alongside Trevor Baxter who played Professor George Litefoot. Predominantly a theatre actor, he performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared at Shakespeare's Globe from 17 June to 5 October 2008 as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Benjamin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .
Known For
Filmography
The Legend of Tarzan
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Angel
Doctor Who
Looking for Victoria
Rosemary & Thyme
Foyle's War
Judge John Deed
Sword of Honour
The Tichborne Claimant
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Treasure Island
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
The Last Salute
Midsomer Murders
Pride and Prejudice
As You Like It
Magic Grandad
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Heartbeat
Maigret
The Strauss Dynasty
Thatcher: The Final Days
The Black Velvet Gown
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Where There's a Will
Anything More Would Be Greedy
Young Charlie Chaplin
Campion
A Gentleman's Club
Inspector Morse
The Diary of Anne Frank
Casualty
Call Me Mister
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Lovejoy
Yes, Prime Minister
Theatre Night
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dempsey and Makepeace
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Sherlock Holmes
Brass
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Plague Dogs
Shine on Harvey Moon
It Takes a Worried Man
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
A Spy at Evening
A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
Hawk the Slayer
The Executioner
Therese Raquin
Donkeys' Years
Minder
Shoestring
Dick Turpin
Hanging Around
The Sandbaggers
The Limbo Connection
Scorpion Tales
Armchair Thriller
Wilde Alliance
Target
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Gangsters
Brief Encounter
Rumpole of the Bailey
Get Some In!
Poldark
Shades of Greene
My Son Reuben
Angels
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Churchill's People
Father Brown
Village Hall
In the Steps of a Dead Man
The Fortunes of Nigel
Thriller
Baffled!
The Strauss Family
Crown Court
The Protectors
Van der Valk
New Scotland Yard
The Onedin Line
Upstairs, Downstairs
Jason King
Budgie
The Wild Duck
Play for Today
Døden i gatene
Junket 89
Ace of Wands
Doctor Who: Inferno
Paul Temple
Softly Softly: Task Force
Hadleigh
Ring of Bright Water
The Tycoon
Koroshi
The Kiss of Blood
Seven Times Seven
Late Night Horror
The Brahmin Widow
The Prisoner
The White Rabbit
The Forsyte Saga
Quick Before They Catch Us
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Man in Room 17
Love's Labour's Lost
The Wednesday Play
Theatre 625
Detective
Doctor Who
The Saint
Z-Cars
The Avengers
Danger Man
Armchair Theatre
Hallmark Hall of Fame