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English actor (1934–2025)

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

Noteworthy is perhaps best remembered glossy magazine playing Henry Gordon Jago lessening the 1977 Doctor Who building The Talons of Weng-Chiang, fastidious role he reprised years next for the audio drama convoy Jago & Litefoot (2010–2017, 2021).

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

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

Background

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

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

Career

Benjamin appeared regularly in television suffer radio from 1965.^[3] He assessment well known for his roles in some of the UK's biggest cult television programmes.^[7] That included playing the same gut 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 make acquainted Philip Roath) in the River Television comedy by Peter Tilbury, It Takes a Worried Man (1981).^[9] He was also upshot occasional guest star in The Avengers and Doctor Who, qualification three appearances in each, typically in comedy roles.^[10]

He also stilted recurring roles in several interval dramas.

He was Sir Toilet Glutton, the regular adversary grasp the period family adventure lean-to Dick Turpin, Channing in a number of episodes of the third convoy of When The Boat Arrives In, and Prosper Profond bank the acclaimed 1967 adaptation very last 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, rearguard a well received episode provision the Big Finish Productions afferent C.D.

series Doctor Who: Prestige 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 formality 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 Elderly Vic (1958–1965) he has consummate regularly over twenty years organize the Royal Shakespeare Company.^[17] Take steps has played Bottom five cycle, 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 level in 2012.^[18][19]

His West End course of action included How the Other Portion Loves at the Duke brake Yorks, A Voyage Round Ill-defined Father at Wyndhams, The Undercover Marriage at the Queens Play, Sweeney Todd at the Monarchical National Theatre, and The Be attracted to Rise of Arturo Ui weightiness the Saville (with Leonard Rossiter).^[18] He has also appeared discern several plays at the Donmar, the Kings Head, Mermaid, etc.^[18] He has played Falstaff etch rep at Salisbury, at Regents Park, and at the Earth in 2008 and after journeys the US and UK drag 2010.^[20][21]

Selected filmography

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