
Christopher Benjamin
Acting
1934-12-27 - Present
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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.
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Credits

The Legend of TarzanasLord Knutsford

The Plague DogsasRowf (voice)

Hawk the SlayerasFitzwalter

AngelasLord Norley

Treasure IslandasSquire Trelawney

The Tichborne ClaimantasGibbes

Sword of HonourasDoctor

Brief EncounterasPorter

Hard TimesasSlackbridge

The Black Velvet GownasAnthony Gallington

Baffled!asVerelli

Ring of Bright WaterasFishmonger

The Hunchback of Notre DameasCharmolue

The ExecutionerasRabbi
The Limbo ConnectionasDet. Chief Insp. Tarrant

In the Steps of a Dead ManasMedical Officer
Cyrano de BergeracasMontfleury
The Brahmin WidowasNiaz Ali Beg
The TycoonasGerald

Doctor Who: InfernoasSir Keith Gold

Thatcher: The Final DaysasGeorge Younger

Døden i gateneas

The Caucasian Chalk CircleasPrince Kazbeki

Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-ChiangasHenry Gordon Jago

The Merry Wives of WindsorasSir John Falstaff
Where There's a WillasTerence Hill

Love's Labour's LostasDon Adriano de Armado

A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El DoradoasMr Porter
Donkeys' YearsasNorman Tate

Junket 89as

Hanging AroundasHarold