Christopher Benjamin

Known for ActingBorn 1934-12-27Died 2025-01-10Trowbridge, 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 .Read more

Movies & web series

Young Charlie Chaplin

Quick Before They Catch Us

The Tichborne Claimant

Detective

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Doctor Who: Inferno

Gangsters

Shades of Greene

Yes, Prime Minister

Pride and Prejudice

The Forsyte Saga

Sherlock Holmes

The Sandbaggers

Foyle's War

Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado

The Executioner

The Limbo Connection

Inspector Morse

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

In the Steps of a Dead Man

The Fortunes of Nigel

Village Hall

Døden i gatene

Koroshi

Love's Labour's Lost

Doctor Who

The Plague Dogs

Doctor Who

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Shine on Harvey Moon

Maigret

Upstairs, Downstairs

Jason King

Hadleigh

Shoestring

Midsomer Murders

Rosemary & Thyme

The Avengers

The Prisoner

Blott on the Landscape

Lovejoy

Dick Turpin

The Diary of Anne Frank

Heartbeat

The Saint

Minder

Scorpion Tales