Ben Wright

Acting

Born May 5, 1915, London, England, UK

Benjamin Huntington Wright was an English actor. He was best known for playing Herr Zeller in The Sound of Music. He also played numerous roles in famous films and worked as voice actor, having roles in animated films by Disney Studios such as One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Jungle Book and The Little Mermaid

Filmography

• 2019The Little Mermaid Live! — Grimsby (archive footage) (voice)
• 1990Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes — Tom Reese
• 1989The Little Mermaid — Grimsby (voice)
• Tales of the Gold Monkey
• 1980Turnover Smith — Franz Gerhardt
• 79 Park Avenue — Dr Lovash
• The Rhinemann Exchange — Dr. Azevedo
• Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II — Dr. Baluda
• The Bionic Woman
• Ellery Queen
• Switch — Eric Von Strauss
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Ives, Benno Reichert
• 1973Arnold — Jonesy
• 1973Terror in the Wax Museum — First Constable
• 1973The Stranger — Doctor
• 1972All My Darling Daughters — Carter
• 1972Chandar, the Black Leopard of Ceylon — Narrator (voice)
• Emergency!
• 1972Probe — Kurt van Niestat
• Cannon
• 1971Raid on Rommel — Admiral
• 1969Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
• 1969Topaz — French Officer (uncredited)
• 1969Wake Me When the War Is Over — Police Officer
• The Mod Squad
• The Outsider
• 1968Way Down Cellar — Ethan Marcus
• Hondo
• Ironside — Dr. Leon Chaffee, Mr. Hawkins
• The Guns of Will Sonnett — Doctor
• The Invaders — Emissary
• 1967The Jungle Book — Rama (voice)
• The Second Hundred Years — Packard
• Jericho
• Mission: Impossible — Dr. Irving Berman, Kleister
• 1966Munster, Go Home! — Hennessy
• Occasional Wife
• Tarzan
• That Girl
• 1966The Fortune Cookie — Doctor
• The Monkees — Grandfather
• The Rat Patrol — Colonel Voss, Col. Jameson
• The Time Tunnel — Cabinet Minister
• Get Smart — Hillary
• Hogan's Heroes — Count Rudolf von Heffernick, General Felix Mercer
• 1965My Blood Runs Cold — Lansbury
• The F.B.I. — Captain Tillman
• 1965The Sound of Music — Herr Zeller
• The Wild Wild West
• The Addams Family — Mr. Rudolpho
• The Rogues — Constable Huggins
• 1963A Gathering of Eagles
• Arrest and Trial — Mr. Van DeHeuven
• Burke's Law — Alan Rycroft
• 1963Cleopatra — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Casino Manager, German Commandant
• The Fugitive — Dr. Ferguson
• The Outer Limits — Gen. Benton, Elder of Luminos, Philip Exeter Dundee
• Combat! — Count De Gontran, Boulange
• General Electric True
• 1962Mutiny on the Bounty — Graves (uncredited)
• Stoney Burke
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Mr. Sutherland, Dr. Norton, Tony Niles
• The Virginian — Moore, McCabe
• Ben Casey
• Dr. Kildare — Dr. Van Zandt, Mr. Baker
• 1961Judgment at Nuremberg — Halbestadt
• 1961One Hundred and One Dalmatians — Roger (voice)
• 1961One Must Die
• 1961Operation Bottleneck — Manders
• Straightaway
• The New Breed — Frank Andrews
• My Three Sons
• Peter Loves Mary — Mr. Parker
• The Barbara Stanwyck Show — Dr. Bradnar Lee
• Adventures in Paradise — Police Lieutenant, Dr. Jameson, Carat
• Black Saddle — Dawes Trugnet, Frank Everettes, Paul Miller
• 1959Journey to the Center of the Earth — Paisley
• One Step Beyond — Executioner, Captain George Davis
• Riverboat — Mr. Shaftoe
• The Detectives
• The Rebel — Tom, Dan Wicks, Eberhart
• The Twilight Zone — Chips, Captain Wilbur, Doctor
• The Untouchables — Victor Green (uncredited), Jacques Villon
• 1959The Wreck of the Mary Deare — Mike Duncan
• 77 Sunset Strip — Henri Delain, Dr. Benjamin Gregg (uncredited)
• 1958Now Is Tomorrow — The Doctor
• Peter Gunn
• 1958Villa!! — Francisco Madero
• Have Gun, Will Travel — Count Gaspar di Cassals, Will Harvey
• 1957Kiss Them for Me — British Pilot (uncredited)
• Perry Mason — Walter Lumis, Crawford Wright, Clarence Keller
• 1957Pharaoh's Curse — Walter Andrews
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective — Maxwell
• 1957So Soon to Die — Harold Bond
• The Walter Winchell File
• 1957Until They Sail — Defense Attorney (uncredited)
• 1957Witness for the Prosecution — Barrister Reading Charges (uncredited)
• 195623 Paces to Baker Street
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Paul Overland, Doc Tyler
• 1956Johnny Concho — Benson
• 1956Massacre at Sand Creek — Prosecuting Attorney
• Telephone Time
• The Adventures of Jim Bowie
• Crusader — Bratesque
• 1955Desert Sands — Commandant Captain (uncredited)
• Gunsmoke — Mr. Ross, Drummer, Walt, Calmers, Dan Binny, Sgt. Pickens, Harris, Colonel, Father Tom, Birger Engdahl
• 1954Hell and High Water — BBC Announcer (uncredited)
• 1953The Desert Rats — Mick
• 1952Botany Bay — Deck Officer Green
• Cavalcade of America
• China Smith
• Dangerous Assignment — Duval
• Four Star Playhouse — Jeweler
• Terry and the Pirates
• Dragnet
• 1947The Exile — Milbanke