Christopher Benjamin
Acting
Born 1934-12-27
Died 2025-01-10
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
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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.
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Midsomer Murders
Doctor Who
Play for Today
Doctor Who
Casualty
The Avengers
The Saint
Minder
Foyle's War
Sherlock Holmes
Crown Court
Heartbeat
BBC Play of the Month
The Wednesday Play
Inspector Morse
Theatre 625
Van der Valk
Upstairs, Downstairs
Pride and Prejudice
Rumpole of the Bailey
Danger Man
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Lovejoy
Dempsey and Makepeace
The Prisoner
Thriller
The Onedin Line
The Legend of Tarzan
The Protectors
Judge John Deed
Churchill's People
The Forsyte Saga
Detective
New Scotland Yard
Shoestring
Poldark
Softly Softly: Task Force
Dick Turpin
Rosemary & Thyme
Shine on Harvey Moon
Target
Maigret
Budgie
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Campion
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Ace of Wands
The Sandbaggers
Father Brown
Brass
Hadleigh
Wilde Alliance
The Man in Room 17
Magic Grandad
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