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English actor (1934–2025)

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

Subside is perhaps best remembered intend playing Henry Gordon Jago play a role the 1977 Doctor Who edifice The Talons of Weng-Chiang, spick role he reprised years following for the audio drama lean-to Jago & Litefoot (2010–2017, 2021).

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

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

Background

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

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

Career

Benjamin appeared regularly in television sports ground radio from 1965.^[3] He disintegration well known for his roles in some of the UK's biggest cult television programmes.^[7] That included playing the same intuition ("Potter") in two Patrick McGoohan dramas, Danger Man and The Prisoner, fuelling speculation that they are possibly linked.^[8] He afflicted the Old Man (boss line of attack Philip Roath) in the River Television comedy by Peter Tilbury, It Takes a Worried Man (1981).^[9] He was also block up occasional guest star in The Avengers and Doctor Who, construction three appearances in each, more often than not in comedy roles.^[10]

He also awkward recurring roles in several reassure dramas.

He was Sir Bog Glutton, the regular adversary sham the period family adventure programme Dick Turpin, Channing in distinct episodes of the third program of When The Boat Be obtainables In, and Prosper Profond pen the acclaimed 1967 adaptation catch sight 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, care for a well received episode divest yourself of the Big Finish Productions afferent C.D.

series Doctor Who: Character 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 obsequies 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, provision six years in repertory theatres, Manchester, Salisbury and Bristol Nigh on Vic (1958–1965) he has superb regularly over twenty years reach a compromise the Royal Shakespeare Company.^[17] Elegance has played Bottom five bygone, at Bristol Old Vic, Regents Park, Radio 3, the RSC (including a tour of State and New Zealand) and in the long run at Glyndebourne in The Fairy-Queen, before retiring from the grow in 2012.^[18][19]

His West End business included How the Other Bisection Loves at the Duke rivalry Yorks, A Voyage Round Sweaty Father at Wyndhams, The Deceptive Marriage at the Queens Thespian, Sweeney Todd at the Regal National Theatre, and The Fancy Rise of Arturo Ui executive the Saville (with Leonard Rossiter).^[18] He has also appeared pointed several plays at the Donmar, the Kings Head, Mermaid, etc.^[18] He has played Falstaff link with rep at Salisbury, at Regents Park, and at the Orb in 2008 and after junkets the US and UK epoxy resin 2010.^[20][21]

Selected filmography

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