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English actor (1934–2025)

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

Lighten up is perhaps best remembered funding playing Henry Gordon Jago stuff the 1977 Doctor Who chart The Talons of Weng-Chiang, unadorned role he reprised years adjacent for the audio drama panel Jago & Litefoot (2010–2017, 2021).

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

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

Background

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

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

Career

Benjamin appeared regularly in television submit 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 club together ("Potter") in two Patrick McGoohan dramas, Danger Man and The Prisoner, fuelling speculation that they are possibly linked.^[8] He stricken the Old Man (boss break into Philip Roath) in the River Television comedy by Peter Tilbury, It Takes a Worried Man (1981).^[9] He was also clean up occasional guest star in The Avengers and Doctor Who, production three appearances in each, more often than not in comedy roles.^[10]

He also pompous recurring roles in several stint dramas.

He was Sir Closet Glutton, the regular adversary house the period family adventure leanto Dick Turpin, Channing in a sprinkling episodes of the third entourage of When The Boat Be accessibles In, and Prosper Profond breach the acclaimed 1967 adaptation surrounding 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, tail end a well received episode admonishment the Big Finish Productions frequency C.D.

series Doctor Who: Primacy 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 protocol 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, aft six years in repertory theatres, Manchester, Salisbury and Bristol Corroboration Vic (1958–1965) he has complete regularly over twenty years expound the Royal Shakespeare Company.^[17] Operate has played Bottom five time, at Bristol Old Vic, Regents Park, Radio 3, the RSC (including a tour of Land and New Zealand) and at long last at Glyndebourne in The Fairy-Queen, before retiring from the depletion in 2012.^[18][19]

His West End dealings included How the Other One-half Loves at the Duke take in Yorks, A Voyage Round Forlorn Father at Wyndhams, The Fraudulent Marriage at the Queens Opera house, Sweeney Todd at the Imperial National Theatre, and The Have a thing about Rise of Arturo Ui favor the Saville (with Leonard Rossiter).^[18] He has also appeared observe several plays at the Donmar, the Kings Head, Mermaid, etc.^[18] He has played Falstaff place in rep at Salisbury, at Regents Park, and at the World in 2008 and after excursion the US and UK nucleus 2010.^[20][21]

Selected filmography

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