Christopher Benjamin

Acting

Christopher Benjamin

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Dec 27, 1934 (90 years old)
Death date
Jan 10, 2025

Christopher Benjamin

Known For

The Merry Wives of Windsor
2h 15m
Movie 2011

The Merry Wives of Windsor

The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford...

Sword of Honour
3h 11m
Movie 2001

Sword of Honour

Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2,...

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1h 25m
TV Show 1999

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

In a land of myth and magic, a forbidden love...

The Tichborne Claimant
1h 38m
Movie 1998

The Tichborne Claimant

Based on a true story, set in the late 19th...

Thatcher: The Final Days
0h 50m
Movie 1991

Thatcher: The Final Days

The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat...

Where There's a Will
0h 53m
Movie 1989

Where There's a Will

Charles Crow-Finch is a disorganised lawyer in debt; his son...

Anything More Would Be Greedy
TV Show 1989

Anything More Would Be Greedy

The Diary of Anne Frank
TV Show 1987

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank is 1987 BBC televised miniseries....

Cyrano de Bergerac
2h 56m
Movie 1985

Cyrano de Bergerac

As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the...

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Movie 1985

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a...

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Christopher Benjamin was a British actor, born 27 December 1934 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. He died on January 15th 2025, aged 90. He was well known for his roles in some of the UK's biggest cult television programmes. This included playing the same character in two Patrick McGoohan dramas, Danger Man and The Prisoner, fuelling speculation that they are possibly linked. He was also a regular in The Avengers and Doctor Who, playing in three episodes of each, mostly in comedy roles. He also played recurring roles in several period dramas. He was Sir John Glutton, the regular adversary in the period family adventure series Dick Turpin, Channing in several episodes of the third series of When The Boat Comes In, and Prosper Profound in the acclaimed 1967 adaptation of The Forsyte Saga . He reprised the role of Henry Gordon Jago, from the Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang in four series of Jago and Litefoot audio plays, after a well received episode of the Big Finish Productions audio C.D. series Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles entitled The Mahogany Murderers. He acted alongside Trevor Baxter who played Professor George Litefoot. Predominantly a theatre actor, he performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared at Shakespeare's Globe from 17 June to 5 October 2008 as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Benjamin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .