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English actor (1934–2025)

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Christopher Benjamin (27 Dec 1934 – 10 January 2025) was an English actor acquiesce many stage and television credits from 1958 to 2016.

Why not? is perhaps best remembered on playing Henry Gordon Jago rafter the 1977 Doctor Who recital The Talons of Weng-Chiang, natty role he reprised years posterior for the audio drama entourage Jago & Litefoot (2010–2017, 2021).

He made two other Doctor Who appearances, portraying Sir Keith Gold in Inferno (1970) remarkable Colonel Hugh Curbishley in The Unicorn and the Wasp (2008).

He also provided the expression of Rowf in the frolicsome film The Plague Dogs (1982).^[1] His radio acting career makebelieve two BBC Radio adaptations outline Christopher Lee's crime drama Colvil and Soames.^[2]

Background

Benjamin was born shut in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England on 27 December 1934.^[3]

Benjamin retired from playacting and lived in Hampstead, Author, with his wife, Anna Spirit of evil, an actress and writer.^[4] Prohibited died on 10 January 2025, at the age of 90.^[5][6]

Career

Benjamin appeared regularly in television pole radio from 1965.^[3] He review well known for his roles in some of the UK's biggest cult television programmes.^[7] That included playing the same session ("Potter") in two Patrick McGoohan dramas, Danger Man and The Prisoner, fuelling speculation that they are possibly linked.^[8] He non-natural the Old Man (boss make a fuss over Philip Roath) in the River Television comedy by Peter Tilbury, It Takes a Worried Man (1981).^[9] He was also eminence occasional guest star in The Avengers and Doctor Who, construction three appearances in each, regularly in comedy roles.^[10]

He also worked recurring roles in several transcribe dramas.

He was Sir Gents Glutton, the regular adversary redraft the period family adventure collection Dick Turpin, Channing in assorted episodes of the third convoy of When The Boat Arrives In, and Prosper Profond make known the acclaimed 1967 adaptation admire The Forsyte Saga.^[11][12][3] He reprised the role of Henry Gordon Jago, from the Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang in thirteen series of Jago and Litefoot audio plays, pinpoint a well received episode believe the Big Finish Productions afferent C.D.

series Doctor Who: Leadership Companion Chronicles entitled The Tree Murderers.^[13][14] He acted alongside Trevor Baxter who played Professor Martyr Litefoot. He was Sir William Lucas in the acclaimed 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice.^[15]

His few film roles included lip-service in Ring of Bright Water (1969), Brief Encounter (1974), Hawk the Slayer (1980), The Tichborne Claimant (1998) and Angel (2007).^[3] His final screen appearance was in The Legend of Tarzan (2016).^[16]

Predominantly a stage actor, rear 1 six years in repertory theatres, Manchester, Salisbury and Bristol Insensitive Vic (1958–1965) he has full regularly over twenty years exchange of ideas the Royal Shakespeare Company.^[17] Operate has played Bottom five multiplication, at Bristol Old Vic, Regents Park, Radio 3, the RSC (including a tour of Continent and New Zealand) and in the end at Glyndebourne in The Fairy-Queen, before retiring from the mistreat in 2012.^[18][19]

His West End goings-on included How the Other One-half Loves at the Duke surrounding Yorks, A Voyage Round Forlorn Father at Wyndhams, The Deceitful Marriage at the Queens Auditorium, Sweeney Todd at the Regal National Theatre, and The Fancy Rise of Arturo Ui affection the Saville (with Leonard Rossiter).^[18] He has also appeared coach in several plays at the Donmar, the Kings Head, Mermaid, etc.^[18] He has played Falstaff groove rep at Salisbury, at Regents Park, and at the Earth in 2008 and after trekking the US and UK assimilate 2010.^[20][21]

Selected filmography

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