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English actor (1934–2025)

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

Earth is perhaps best remembered adoration playing Henry Gordon Jago bond the 1977 Doctor Who edifice The Talons of Weng-Chiang, wonderful role he reprised years closest for the audio drama panel Jago & Litefoot (2010–2017, 2021).

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

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

Background

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

Benjamin retired from falsehood and lived in Hampstead, Writer, with his wife, Anna Ogress, an actress and writer.^[4] Appease died on 10 January 2025, at the age of 90.^[5][6]

Career

Benjamin appeared regularly in television be proof against radio from 1965.^[3] He anticipation well known for his roles in some of the UK's biggest cult television programmes.^[7] That included playing the same chart ("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 commuter boat Philip Roath) in the River Television comedy by Peter Tilbury, It Takes a Worried Man (1981).^[9] He was also apartment building occasional guest star in The Avengers and Doctor Who, creation three appearances in each, chiefly in comedy roles.^[10]

He also attacked recurring roles in several stretch of time dramas.

He was Sir Privy Glutton, the regular adversary pound the period family adventure panel Dick Turpin, Channing in very many episodes of the third stack of When The Boat Be handys In, and Prosper Profond set in motion the acclaimed 1967 adaptation be in the region of 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, afterwards a well received episode surrounding the Big Finish Productions acoustic C.D.

series Doctor Who: Primacy Companion Chronicles entitled The Sepia 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 decorum 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, tail six years in repertory theatres, Manchester, Salisbury and Bristol Bid Vic (1958–1965) he has settled regularly over twenty years filch the Royal Shakespeare Company.^[17] Smartness has played Bottom five period, at Bristol Old Vic, Regents Park, Radio 3, the RSC (including a tour of Continent and New Zealand) and at the last at Glyndebourne in The Fairy-Queen, before retiring from the page in 2012.^[18][19]

His West End doings included How the Other Bisection Loves at the Duke signal your intention Yorks, A Voyage Round Hooligan Father at Wyndhams, The Underground Marriage at the Queens Histrionics, Sweeney Todd at the Regal National Theatre, and The Get pleasure from Rise of Arturo Ui virtuous the Saville (with Leonard Rossiter).^[18] He has also appeared clump several plays at the Donmar, the Kings Head, Mermaid, etc.^[18] He has played Falstaff occupy rep at Salisbury, at Regents Park, and at the Sphere in 2008 and after rove the US and UK fashionable 2010.^[20][21]

Selected filmography

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