Christopher Benjamin
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 .
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Birthday: December 27, 1934
Deathday: January 10, 2025
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The Plague Dogs
1982-10-01
The Plague Dogs
Overview: Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, stuggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.
Genres: Adventure Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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Angel
2007-02-17
Angel
Overview: Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-17
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Hawk the Slayer
1980-08-27
Hawk the Slayer
Overview: Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors: a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow and an elf with the fastest bow in the land; Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-27
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The Black Velvet Gown
1991-06-02
The Black Velvet Gown
Overview: In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1991-06-02
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Ring of Bright Water
1969-06-18
Ring of Bright Water
Overview: Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-18
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Sword of Honour
2001-01-02
Sword of Honour
Overview: Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. Instead he finds himself in the middle of an army full of cowards, incompetents and a few outright evil men. They of course reap the fortunes of war, promotions and fame, but never Crouchback. His war is just an endless list of transfers and an hopeless but noble quest for righteousness.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-02
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Treasure Island
1999-01-01
Treasure Island
Overview: Young Jim Hawkins and peg-legged Long John Silver set sail for adventure in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of dastardly pirates, swashbuckling heroes, buried treasure and a young boy's amazing courage. The narrative diverges from that of the novel in that Captain Smollett convinces Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey to cut Jim out of his rightful share of the treasure and so Jim then teams up with Silver.
Genres: Adventure Family Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
2011-06-27
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Overview: The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-27
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Doctor Who: Inferno
1970-05-09
Doctor Who: Inferno
Overview: UNIT is providing security cover at an experimental drilling project at Eastchester, designed to penetrate the Earth's crust and release a previously untapped source of energy. Soon, however, the drill head starts to leak an oily green liquid that transforms those who touch it into vicious primeval creatures with a craving for heat. The Doctor is accidentally transported "sideways in time" by the partially repaired TARDIS control console into a parallel universe where the drilling project is at a more advanced stage. Thwarted by his friends' ruthless alter egos, he works to save both universes.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-09
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Brief Encounter
1974-11-12
Brief Encounter
Overview: Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-12
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Love's Labour's Lost
1965-05-06
Love's Labour's Lost
Overview: A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-06
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Donkeys' Years
1980-01-01
Donkeys' Years
Overview: Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Brahmin Widow
1968-04-08
The Brahmin Widow
Overview: A British soldier returns to India to find the woman he fell in love wit
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-08
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The Tycoon
1968-12-30
The Tycoon
Overview: When millionaire businessman Guy Taylor takes up with the beautiful Rachel Bell, two years married to a struggling sculptor, he starts to question what he really wants. TV play. Third part of writer Kenneth Jupp's "Chelsea Trilogy"; see also The PHOTOGRAPHER (tx 29/1/1968) and The EXPLORER/ PLAYHOUSE (tx 14/10/1968).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-30
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Junket 89
1970-09-09
Junket 89
Overview: Science-fiction comedy: Junket, a schoolboy, borrows an apparatus invented by the absent-minded science master for transporting matter - and, by accident, makes it work...
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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Baffled!
1973-04-11
Baffled!
Overview: Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Kovack that his visions are significant. She leads him to the manor house that appeared in his vision, which in turn leads him into a world of revenge and murder from beyond the grave. Kovack must tap into his newfound power to conquer the evil forces at work.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-11
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Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
1977-04-02
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Overview: Death stalks the fogbound streets of Victorian London: young women are going missing, horribly mutilated bodies are found floating in the Thames and criminal gangs terrorize the innocent. At the heart of this tangled web sits the mysterious Li H'sen Chang, sorcerer and hypnotist, and his grotesque sidekick Mister Sin. The Doctor dons deerstalker hat and cape to seek out the sinister force lurking in the shadows of the metropolis, for the Talons of Weng-Chiang are reaching out to shred the human race.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-02
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The Legend of Tarzan
2016-06-29
The Legend of Tarzan
Overview: Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-29
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Cyrano de Bergerac
1985-07-26
Cyrano de Bergerac
Overview: As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is as timid as a schoolboy before the fair Roxanne. Derek Jacobi delivers an electrifying award-winning portrayal of Rostand's legendary log-nosed swordsman in this highly acclaimed production from the world's premier theatre troupe, The Royal Shakespeare Company. The bold Cyrano boasts he can defeat a hundred men in a swordfight, but because of his grotesque nose lacks the confidence to court the woman he loves. Yet so entranced with Roxanne is Cyrano that he uses the eloquence of his poetry to woo her for a rival.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-26
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The Tichborne Claimant
1998-08-01
The Tichborne Claimant
Overview: Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-01
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Døden i gatene
1970-10-08
Døden i gatene
Overview: A wave of violent demonstrations paralyzes a small society. At the same time a cynical group works in the shadows and uses the chaos as a smokescreen for a coup d’état.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1970-10-08
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Thatcher: The Final Days
1991-09-11
Thatcher: The Final Days
Overview: The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's Prime Minister.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
1981-01-20
A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
Overview: A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation and sink their savings into a restaurant. All is disaster until the appearance of the Porters, whose enthusiastic patronage soon has trade booming.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-20
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The Executioner
1980-04-17
The Executioner
Overview: Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is ripped open and life will never be the same again.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-17
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Hard Times
1994-04-29
Hard Times
Overview: Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cinematography.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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In the Steps of a Dead Man
1974-05-27
In the Steps of a Dead Man
Overview: When a young soldier suddenly dies, his parents and his girlfriend are naturally shocked and upset by the news. Several months later a young man turns up at the parent's house claiming to be their dead son's best friend. They welcome him and invite him to stay for a while. They also introduce him to their son's girlfriend and she is similarly impressed by him. It is later discovered, however, that he is not what he appears to be and may have had a hand in their son's death.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-27
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985-01-01
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Overview: The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Hanging Around
1978-10-02
Hanging Around
Overview: How do you kill time when you're 15 years old, have no money and live in a dull London suburb? Rod, Kip and Mul may be short of cash, but not ideas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-02
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1976-12-30
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: TV-movie version of the Victor Hugo novel.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-30
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Where There's a Will
1989-08-18
Where There's a Will
Overview: Charles Crow-Finch is a disorganised lawyer in debt; his son Rupert comes to bail him out. Rupert's girlfriend Cavatina buys Charles' practice and installs Rupert as the new boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-18
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