John Bennett
Born: 1928-05-08 in Beckenham, Kent, England, UK
Died: 2005-04-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
John Bennett was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire, then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, followed by a wide repertory theatre experience including Bromley, Bristol Old Vic, Dundee, the Edinburgh Festival and Watford before going to London's West End. Often cast as a villain, Bennett had many roles on television including Market in Honey Lane, Porridge, Survivors, The Avengers, Strange Report, Bergerac, The Professionals and four episodes of The Saint. Description above from the Wikipedia article Terence Alexander, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2008
- The Ties That Bind Us as Chang Lee (archive footage)
2005
- Rome as Elderly Priest
2004
2003
- Chaos and Cadavers as Mr Resurrection
- Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
2002
- The Pianist as Dr. Ehrlich
- Minority Report as Adulation #4
- Not 360 as Actor
2001
- Waking the Dead as Professor George Rosenthal
- Charlotte Gray
- Armadillo as Father
2000
- Breathtaking as Mr. Henshaw
1999
- Bridge of Dragons as The Registrar
1997
- The Fifth Element as Priest
- Jonathan Creek as Frank Geiger
- Steel ... (Stunts)
1996
- Alien Nation: Millennium as Officer Laskau
1995
- Priest as Father Redstone
- Kangaroo Man as Doctor
1994
- Cadfael as Lazarus the Leper
1992
- Heartbeat as Terence Young
- Split Second as Dr Schulman
- Mulberry as The Stranger
1991
- Murder Most Horrid as DCI Graham Barlow
- The War That Never Ends as Corcyran Representative
- Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady as Sigmund Freud
1990
- Needle as Chief Constable
- Antonia and Jane as Uncle Irwin Carlinsky
1989
- Saracen as Nugent
1988
- The Tenth Man as Jules
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Chaplain / Father
- Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' as Chaplain / Father
1987
- Jake and the Fatman
- Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder as Richard Erskine
1986
- Tai-Pan as Orlov
1984
- Hunter as Uniform Officer
- The Bill
- Give My Regards to Broad Street as Mr. Rath
1982
- The Plague Dogs as Don (voice)
1981
- Bergerac as Aaron Rosenbaum
- Eye of the Needle as Kleinmann
1980
- The Dybbuk as Messenger
- The Mirror Crack'd as Barnsby ("Murder at Midnight")
- Pews as Liftchick
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Royden
- The House on Garibaldi Street as Aaron Lazar
1978
- Watership Down as Captain Holly (voice)
- Return Fare as Dr Robbins
- Blake's 7 as Coser
- Return of the Saint as Colonel Ramon Perrez
- The Greek Tycoon as Servant
- Lillie
1977
- The Professionals as Inspector Truitt
- BBC2 Play of the Week as Dr. Robbins
- Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang as Li H'sen Chang
- 1990
- Anna Karenina
1976
- I, Claudius as Xenophon
- The Message as Salool
- The Shadow-Line
- The Face of Darkness as Inquisitor & Psychiatrist
1975
- Survivors as Jim
1974
- Playhouse as Liftchick
- Porridge as Medical Officer
- Fall of Eagles as Georges Clemenceau
- Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs as General Finch
1973
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Joseph Goebbels
- The House in Nightmare Park as Patel
- Anything Can Happen as Geoff Bridges
1972
- Crown Court
- The Edwardians as Frank Harris
- Henry VIII and His Six Wives as Wriothesley
1971
- The House That Dripped Blood as Detective Inspector Holloway (segment "Framework Story")
- Brett
- Fathers and Sons
1969
- The Main Chance as Raul Ramira
- Strange Report as Jack White
- The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder as Lew Kohl
1968
- The Syndicate as Dr. Singh
1967
- The Forsyte Saga as Philip Bosinney
1966
- Softly, Softly
- Kaleidoscope as Poker Player
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as Pseudolus' mark
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Turkish General
- The Alphabet Murders as Waiter (uncredited)
- Front Page Story as Ray Boscombe
1964
- Theatre 625 as Inspector Voss
- Detective
1963
- Doctor Who as Li H'sen Chang
- Festival as Knight/Tempter
- Crane as Smith
- Lorna Doone
- The Barber of Stamford Hill
1962
- The Saint as Muller
- Lawrence of Arabia as Arab Sheik (uncredited)
- Z-Cars
- Crooks Anonymous as Thomas
- Richard the Lionheart as Lombrico
- The Pirates of Blood River as Penal Colony Guard (uncredited)
- Postman's Knock as Pete
1961
- The Avengers as Sykes
- Victim as Undercover Detective (uncredited)
- Sir Francis Drake as Tomas
- The Curse of the Werewolf as Policeman (uncredited)
- A Call on Kuprin: Part 2 as Zagornetz
- A Call on Kuprin: Part 1 as Zagornetz
1960
- Sunday-Night Play as Zagornetz
- The Challenge as Spider
- The Cheaters as Blake
- A Taste of Money as Waiter
1959
1955
- Dixon of Dock Green as Victor Lane
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Jules