Peter Benson
Acting · Directing · Production
Peter Benson is a Canadian actor, writer, director, and producer for film and television, known for playing Detective Arthur Smith in Hallmark's Aurora Teagarden Mystery series. He is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School and also has an honors degree in Communications from Carleton University. He has been married to fellow actor Julia Benson since 2009.
Filmography
- 2026A Little Park Music — Director
- 2026Best Served Cold: A Hannah Swensen Mystery — Director
- 2026My Christmas Cowboy — Director
- 2026Snow Globe Town — Director
- 2026Sugar & Vice: A Hannah Swensen Mystery — Guest #1, Director
- 2025A Royal Montana Christmas — Director, Producer
- 2025Christmas Above the Clouds — Charlie, Director
- 2025Return to Office — Director
- 2025The More the Merrier — Jim Spencer, Director
- 2024Blind Date Book Club — Director
- 2024Debbie Macomber’s Joyful Mrs. Miracle — Monty, Director
- 2024Leah's Perfect Gift — Director
- 2024Love on the Danube: Kissing Stars — Director
- 2024Renovation Romance — Executive Producer, Story, Teleplay
- 2024The 5-Year Christmas Party — Director
- 2023Big Sky River: The Bridal Path — James, Director
- 2023Guiding Emily — Mark
- 2023Navigating Christmas — Director
- 2023The Professional Bridesmaid — Director
- 2023The Wedding Contract — Peter Pitt
- 2023The Wedding Veil Expectations — Director
- 2022Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder — Arthur Smith
- 2022Big Sky River — James, Director
- 2022Color My World with Love — Director
- 2022Just One Kiss — Mark
- 2022Lies Between Friends — Ollie
- 2022Perfect Harmony — Simon
- 2022When I Think of Christmas — Director
- 2021Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con A Con — Dt. Arthur Smith
- 2021Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part — Arthur Smith
- 2021Crossword Mysteries: Terminal Descent — Director, Supervising Producer
- 2021Mystery 101: Deadly History — Al Winslow
- 2021Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone — Director
- 2021Seasoned With Love — Adam Schuyler
- 2021Sweet Carolina — Tony, Director, Supervising Producer
- 2021The Santa Stakeout — Director
- 2021Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas — Ben, Director
- 2020Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek — Arthur Smith, Director
- 2020Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly — Arthur Smith
- 2020My Husband's Deadly Past — Otto Croft
- The Baby-Sitters Club — Edward McGill
- 2020Wedding Every Weekend
- 201937 Teen — Justin
- 2019Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Game of Cat and Mouse — Det. Arthur Smith
- 2019Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play — Det. Arthur Smith
- 2019Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inheritance to Die For — Det. Arthur Smith
- 2019Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man — Mike Thurman
- 2019Holiday Date — Glen
- 2019It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas — Frank
- 2019Love Under the Rainbow — Kevin
- 2019Love and Sunshine — Ben Morgan
- Prodigal Son — Al Grimes
- The Murders — Chris Bennett
- A Million Little Things — Trevor Matlof
- 2018Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game — Detective Arthur Smith
- 2018Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery — Det. Arthur Smith
- 2018Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery — Arthur Smith
- The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco — Archie Hunter
- 2018The Wrong Patient — Chris
- 2018Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride — Sean
- 2017A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery — Detective Arthur Smith
- 2017A Surrogate's Nightmare — Dr Logie
- At Home with Amy Sedaris — Husband
- 2017Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery — Arthur Smith
- 2017Everything, Everything — Dr. Chase
- 2017Falling for Vermont — Brad Thompson
- Imposters — Freddy
- 2017Infidelity in Suburbia — Greg Halpern
- 2017My Favorite Wedding — Jack
- 2017Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again — Mr. Everett
- The Good Doctor — Nigel Monroe
- 2017Walking the Dog — Bill
- Chesapeake Shores — Brian Higgins
- 2016Christmas List — Brett Bishop
- Ice — Quinn Sinder
- MECH-X4 — Seth Harper
- 2016Murder Unresolved — Seth
- 2016Rufus — Man Walking Dog
- 2016The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery — Det. Arthur Smith
- 2016Three Bedrooms, One Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery — Det. Arthur Smith
- 2016What An Idiot — Nick, Director, Writer
- 2015A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery — Arthur Smith
- 2015Air — Anchorman
- 2015Dead Rising: Watchtower — Bruce
- 2015I Wanna Date U — Online Date
- 2015Perfect High — Dean
- 2015Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery — Det. Arthur Smith
- 2015Stolen Dreams — Jacob Nyholm
- UnREAL — Jeff Kidd
- 2014A Daughter's Nightmare — Dr. Logie
- 2014Baby Bootcamp — Jeremy
- 2014Black Fly — Konstabl Dave Wilkins
- 2014Death Do Us Part — Ryan Harris, Writer
- 2014Lucky in Love — Michael
- 2013Afterparty — Craig, Producer
- Motive — Tony Manning
- Spooksville — Bill Wilcox
- 2013The Mystery Cruise — Jack Reilly
- 2012A Bride for Christmas — Matt
- Arrow — D.A. Carnahan
- Continuum — Todd Sanchez
- Level Up — KJ
- Ring of Fire — Volcano Expert
- 2012The Pregnancy Project — Shawn Myers
- GeoFreakZ — Melville
- Hell on Wheels — Marshal Jessup
- 2011The Money Pet — The Slacker
- 2010One Angry Juror — Eric
- R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour — Male TV Host, Dad
- 2009High Noon — Roy Squires
- 2009The Break-up Artist — Rick Barnes
- 2009Waiting 4 Goliath — Straight-Acting Dude
- 2008Ba'al — Foreman
- 2008Slap Shot 3: The Junior League — Mark
- jPod — Greg Jarlewski
- 2007Passion's Web — Father Bracken
- Reaper — Bargain Bench Manager
- 2006Mind Game — ER Doctor
- 2006Murder on Spec — Detective Paul Tannon
- 2006Pick Me Up — Deuce
- Psych — Lester Beacon, Philip Keiser
- 2006The Accidental Witness — Joseph Brockway
- Supernatural — Walter Kelly, Joba
- 2004Going the Distance — Nervous Guy
- The 4400 — Lloyd
- Smallville — Young Dex
- 2001WW3 — Peter Mint
- Dark Angel — Walter
- Stargate SG-1 — Devon