Christopher Benjamin
Born: 1934-12-27 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
Died: 2025-01-10
Known For: Acting
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 .
Filmography
2016
- The Legend of Tarzan as Lord Knutsford
2011
- The Merry Wives of Windsor as Sir John Falstaff
2007
- Angel as Lord Norley
2005
- Doctor Who as Colonel Hugh
2003
- Rosemary & Thyme as Trevor Squires
2002
- Foyle's War as Brigadier Harcourt
2001
- Judge John Deed as Steve Gaydon
- Sword of Honour as Doctor
1999
- The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns as Troll Manager
- Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney
- The Tichborne Claimant as Gibbes
1998
- The Last Salute as Sir Gilbert
- Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Harvey Crane
1995
- Pride and Prejudice as Sir William Lucas
1994
- Hard Times as Slackbridge
1993
- Magic Grandad as Sir John Gage
1992
- Heartbeat as Oliver Ridley
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Duke Frederick / Corin (voice)
- Maigret as Guillaume Serre
1991
- The Strauss Dynasty
- Thatcher: The Final Days as George Younger
- The Black Velvet Gown as Anthony Gallington
1990
- The Secret Life of Ian Fleming as McKinnon
1989
- Campion as Coroner
- Young Charlie Chaplin as Captain Hindom
- Anything More Would Be Greedy
- Where There's a Will as Terence Hill
1988
- A Gentleman's Club as Willie
1987
- Inspector Morse as Professor Furlong
- The Diary of Anne Frank as Mr. Hans Van Daan
1986
- Casualty as Henry Lindall
- Lovejoy as Walid
- Yes, Prime Minister
- Call Me Mister
1985
- Dempsey and Makepeace as Sam Powell
- Theatre Night as Anselme
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle as Prince Kazbeki
- Cyrano de Bergerac as Montfleury
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Dr. Huxtable
1983
- Brass as Sir Dudley Tilstock
1982
- Shine on Harvey Moon as Mr. Hartley
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- The Plague Dogs as Rowf (voice)
1981
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years as Air Ministry Official
- It Takes a Worried Man as The Old Man
- A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado as Mr Porter
1980
- Therese Raquin as Chief Clerk
- Hawk the Slayer as Fitzwalter
- The Executioner as Rabbi
- Donkeys' Years as Norman Tate
1979
- Minder as Mr. Rushmer
- Shoestring as Leacock
- Dick Turpin as Sir John Glutton
1978
- The Sandbaggers as David Follett
- Wilde Alliance as Miller
- Armchair Thriller as Det. Inspector Tarrant
- Scorpion Tales as Arab
- The Limbo Connection as Det. Chief Insp. Tarrant
- Hanging Around as Harold
1977
- Target as Painter
- Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle as Tozer
- Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang as Henry Gordon Jago
1976
- Gangsters as Assistant managing director
- Brief Encounter as Porter
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Charmolue
1975
- Rumpole of the Bailey
- Poldark as Sir Hugh Bodrugan
- Angels
- Get Some In! as Sergeant Foot
- My Son Reuben
- Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington as Mr. Johnson
1974
- Churchill's People as Peter
- Father Brown as Jukes
- In the Steps of a Dead Man as Medical Officer
1972
- Crown Court as Dr. Hayward
- The Protectors as Banker
- Van der Valk as Mulder
- New Scotland Yard as Mr Foster
- The Strauss Family as Dommayer
1971
- Upstairs, Downstairs as Max Weinberg
- Jason King
- The Onedin Line as Said Ben Salim
- Budgie as Claude
- The Wild Duck as Doctor Relling
1970
- Play for Today as Mr Porter
- Ace of Wands as Falk
- Doctor Who: Inferno as Sir Keith Gold
- Døden i gatene
- Junket 89
1969
- Softly Softly: Task Force as Chief Immigration Officer Ingrams
- Hadleigh as Oberman
- Paul Temple
- Ring of Bright Water as Fishmonger
1968
- Late Night Horror as Algy Somerville
- The Tycoon as Gerald
- Seven Times Seven as Maitre D
- Koroshi as Potter
- The Brahmin Widow as Niaz Ali Beg
1967
- The Prisoner as Potter
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as A Cobbler
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as Dr. Warren Burrows
- The Man in Room 17 as Chief Supt. Craythorpe
- Love's Labour's Lost as Don Adriano de Armado
1964
- Theatre 625 as Mr Rushton
- The Wednesday Play as Dan Royston
- Detective as Rodier
1963
- Doctor Who as Jago
1961
- The Avengers as Whittle
1960
- Danger Man as Potter
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Rabbi Levy
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Porter