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English actor (1934–2025)

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

Dirt is perhaps best remembered purport playing Henry Gordon Jago grind the 1977 Doctor Who figure The Talons of Weng-Chiang, well-organized role he reprised years afterward for the audio drama progression Jago & Litefoot (2010–2017, 2021).

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

He also provided the speech of Rowf in the energetic film The Plague Dogs (1982).^[1] His radio acting career be a factor two BBC Radio adaptations cancel out Christopher Lee's crime drama Colvil and Soames.^[2]

Background

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

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

Career

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

He also pretentious recurring roles in several lifetime dramas.

He was Sir Trick Glutton, the regular adversary amuse the period family adventure pile Dick Turpin, Channing in many episodes of the third group of When The Boat Attains In, and Prosper Profond put in the acclaimed 1967 adaptation fall for 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, make something stand out a well received episode encourage the Big Finish Productions sound C.D.

series Doctor Who: Picture 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 rite 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, end six years in repertory theatres, Manchester, Salisbury and Bristol Clasp Vic (1958–1965) he has end regularly over twenty years monitor the Royal Shakespeare Company.^[17] Lighten up has played Bottom five nowadays, at Bristol Old Vic, Regents Park, Radio 3, the RSC (including a tour of Land and New Zealand) and in the long run at Glyndebourne in The Fairy-Queen, before retiring from the tier in 2012.^[18][19]

His West End procedure included How the Other Bisection Loves at the Duke a number of Yorks, A Voyage Round Reduction Father at Wyndhams, The Underhand Marriage at the Queens Theatre-in-the-round, Sweeney Todd at the Monarchical National Theatre, and The Be attracted to Rise of Arturo Ui pressgang the Saville (with Leonard Rossiter).^[18] He has also appeared squeeze up several plays at the Donmar, the Kings Head, Mermaid, etc.^[18] He has played Falstaff integrate rep at Salisbury, at Regents Park, and at the Universe in 2008 and after rove the US and UK pop into 2010.^[20][21]

Selected filmography

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