Ben Aris

Benjamin Patrick Aris (16 March 1937 – 4 September 2003) was an English actor who was best known for his parts in Hi-de-Hi! and To the Manor Born, and was also very active on stage. He was often cast as an eccentric, upper-class, or upper-middle class, man.

Filmography

• 2002Ready — Manager
• 2000Up at the Villa — Col. Trail
• Lady Chatterley — Tommy Dukes
• 1993U.F.O. The Movie — Doctor
• 1992Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors — Scotland Yard Commissioner
• In Suspicious Circumstances — Edmund Duff
• 1990King of the Wind — Squire Dunn
• No Job for a Lady — Roland
• 1990The Fool
• You Rang, M'Lord? — Special Branch Policeman
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Captain Fowler
• Young Charlie Chaplin — Mr. Vernon
• 1988Didn't You Kill My Brother? — Party Guest
• 1987A Hazard of Hearts — Lieutenant of Dragoons
• Hold the Dream — Doctor
• Call Me Mister
• Executive Stress
• Slinger's Day — Forbes-Fortescue
• 1985Star Quality — Eric Larch
• 1984Night Train to Murder — Theatre Manager
• 1983The Falklands Factor — Mr. Edmund Burke M.P.
• Shine on Harvey Moon — Doctor
• The Comic Strip Presents... — Party Guest
• Astronauts
• Bergerac — Executive
• 1981Christmas Spirits — Charles Aintrey
• The Bagthorpe Saga — P.J.
• The Treachery Game — Frank Lloyd
• Cribb — Captain Albright
• 1980Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Inspector Newcomen
• Hi-de-Hi! — Julian Dalrymple-Sykes
• 1980Sir Henry at Rawlinson End — Lord Tarquin of Staines
• The Assassination Run — Frank Lloyd
• Clouds of Glory — Robert Southey
• 1978Fearless Frank
• Hazell — T.P. Eades
• 1978The After Dinner Joke — Bruce Wingfield
• The Famous Five — Mr Durleston
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Whistler
• Target — Phillips
• 1976Enemy — Andrew
• 1976I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight — Trampas B. Hildebrand
• 1976The Ritz — Patron with Bicycle
• 1975Alfie Darling — Ad Man
• 1975Husband to Mrs. Fitzherbert — Lord Onslow
• 1975Royal Flash — Fireman
• 1975Tommy — Reverend Simpson
• 1974Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs — Lieutenant Shears
• 1974Juggernaut — The Walker
• 1974Smokey Joe's Revenge — Mr. Fawcett
• 1974Vampira — Policeman
• Village Hall — Stan
• 1973O Lucky Man! — Mr MacIntyre/Dr Hyder/Flight Lt. Wallace
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
• 1973The Three Musketeers — 1st Musketeer
• Crown Court
• 1972Savage Messiah — Thomas Buff
• 1971Get Carter — Architect (uncredited)
• 1971The Music Lovers — Young Lieutenant
• 1970The Reckoning — Party Guest
• 1969Hamlet — Rosencrantz
• 1968Lionheart — Capt. Harris
• 1968The Charge of the Light Brigade — Lt. Maxse
• 1968if.... — John Thomas
• 1966The Plague of the Zombies — John Martinus
• Doctor Who — Lieutenant Shears
• 1963West 11 — Partygoer