Christopher Benjamin

Acting

Born December 27, 1934, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England

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

• 2016The Legend of Tarzan — Lord Knutsford
• 2011The Merry Wives of Windsor — Sir John Falstaff
• 2007Angel — Lord Norley
• Doctor Who — Colonel Hugh
• Looking for Victoria — Lord Stanley
• Rosemary & Thyme — Trevor Squires
• Foyle's War — Brigadier Harcourt
• Judge John Deed — Steve Gaydon
• 2001Sword of Honour — Doctor
• The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns — Troll Manager
• 1999The Tichborne Claimant — Gibbes
• 1999Treasure Island — Squire Trelawney
• Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
• The Last Salute — Sir Gilbert
• Midsomer Murders — Harvey Crane
• Pride and Prejudice — Sir William Lucas
• 1994As You Like It — Duke Frederick / Corin (voice)
• Magic Grandad — Sir John Gage
• Heartbeat — Oliver Ridley
• Maigret — Guillaume Serre
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Duke Frederick / Corin (voice)
• 1991Thatcher: The Final Days — George Younger
• 1991The Black Velvet Gown — Anthony Gallington
• The Strauss Dynasty
• 1990The Secret Life of Ian Fleming — McKinnon
• Anything More Would Be Greedy — Eric Harmer
• Campion — Coroner
• 1989Where There's a Will — Terence Hill
• Young Charlie Chaplin — Captain Hindom
• A Gentleman's Club — Willie
• Inspector Morse — Professor Furlong
• The Diary of Anne Frank — Mr. Hans Van Daan
• Call Me Mister
• Casualty — Henry Lindall
• Lovejoy — Walid
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Dr Huxtable
• Yes, Prime Minister
• 1985Cyrano de Bergerac — Montfleury
• Dempsey and Makepeace — Sam Powell
• 1985The Caucasian Chalk Circle — Prince Kazbeki
• Theatre Night — Anselme
• Sherlock Holmes — Dr. Huxtable
• Brass — Sir Dudley Tilstock
• Shine on Harvey Moon — Mr. Hartley
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
• 1982The Plague Dogs — Rowf (voice)
• 1981A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado — Mr Porter
• A Spy at Evening — Stevens
• It Takes a Worried Man — The Old Man
• Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years — Air Ministry Official
• 1980Donkeys' Years — Norman Tate
• 1980Hawk the Slayer — Fitzwalter
• 1980The Executioner — Rabbi
• Therese Raquin — Chief Clerk
• We, the Accused — Inglewood
• Dick Turpin — Sir John Glutton
• Minder — Mr. Rushmer
• Shoestring — Leacock
• Armchair Thriller — Det. Inspector Tarrant
• 1978Hanging Around — Harold
• Scorpion Tales — Arab
• 1978The Limbo Connection — Det. Chief Insp. Tarrant
• The Sandbaggers — David Follett
• Wilde Alliance — Miller
• 1977Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang — Henry Gordon Jago
• Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle — Tozer
• Target — Painter
• 1976Brief Encounter — Porter
• Gangsters — Assistant managing director
• 1976The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Charmolue
• Angels
• Get Some In! — Sergeant Foot
• 1975Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington — Mr. Johnson
• My Son Reuben
• Poldark — Sir Hugh Bodrugan
• Rumpole of the Bailey — Sir Denis Tolson
• Shades of Greene — Adamson
• Churchill's People — Peter
• Father Brown — Jukes
• 1974In the Steps of a Dead Man — Medical Officer
• The Fortunes of Nigel — Duke Hildebrod
• Village Hall — Bill Jolly
• 1973Baffled! — Verelli
• Thriller — Medical Officer
• Crown Court — Dr. Hayward, Charles Percival, Det. Supt. Brotherton
• New Scotland Yard — Mr Foster
• The Protectors — Banker
• The Strauss Family — Dommayer
• Van der Valk — Mulder
• Budgie — Claude
• Jason King
• The Onedin Line — Said Ben Salim
• 1971The Wild Duck — Doctor Relling
• Upstairs, Downstairs — Max Weinberg
• Ace of Wands — Falk
• 1970Doctor Who: Inferno — Sir Keith Gold
• 1970Døden i gatene
• 1970Junket 89
• Play for Today — Mr Porter, Rabbi
• Hadleigh — Oberman
• Paul Temple
• 1969Ring of Bright Water — Fishmonger
• Softly Softly: Task Force — Chief Immigration Officer Ingrams, Civil Servant
• 1968Koroshi — Potter
• Late Night Horror — Algy Somerville
• 1968Seven Times Seven — Maitre D
• 1968The Brahmin Widow — Niaz Ali Beg
• 1968The Kiss of Blood — Algy Somerville
• 1968The Tycoon — Gerald
• The Forsyte Saga — Prosper Profond
• The Prisoner — Potter, Labour Exchange Manager, Number Two's Assistant
• The White Rabbit — Cadillac
• Quick Before They Catch Us
• BBC Play of the Month — A Cobbler, Ed Keller, Dr. Relling
• 1965Love's Labour's Lost — Don Adriano de Armado
• The Man in Room 17 — Chief Supt. Craythorpe
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Dr. Warren Burrows
• Detective — Rodier, Ralph Demartino
• The Wednesday Play — Dan Royston
• Theatre 625 — Mr Rushton
• Doctor Who — Jago, Sir Keith Gold
• The Saint — Fish
• Z-Cars
• The Avengers — Whittle, Swindin, J. J. Hooter
• Danger Man — Potter
• Armchair Theatre — Rabbi Levy
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Porter