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 Limbo Connection

The Tichborne Claimant

Detective

Doctor Who: Inferno

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Yes, Prime Minister

Gangsters

Pride and Prejudice

Sherlock Holmes

The Sandbaggers

Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Foyle's War

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

The Executioner

Inspector Morse

In the Steps of a Dead Man

Døden i gatene

Koroshi

The Plague Dogs

Love's Labour's Lost

Doctor Who

Hard Times

Doctor Who

Jason King

Upstairs, Downstairs

Shine on Harvey Moon

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Maigret

Midsomer Murders

Hadleigh

Rosemary & Thyme

The Prisoner

The Avengers

Lovejoy

Dick Turpin

Shoestring

Heartbeat

Scorpion Tales

The Diary of Anne Frank

Danger Man

The Saint

The Last Salute

Paul Temple

Z-Cars

Minder

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns