Christopher Benjamin is a British actor, born 27 December 1934 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (362nd in leap years). ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... , Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, England. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem specific to England — the United Kingdom anthem is God Save the Queen. ...

He is 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, fueling speculation that they are possibly linked. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the 1960s TV series which was also known as Secret Agent and shouldnt be confused with the 1990s television series Secret Agent Man. ... The Prisoner is a 1967 UK allegorical science fiction television series starring Patrick McGoohan. ...

Predominantly a theatre actor, he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His build and demeanour have, over time, lent themselves particularly to portraying characters in historical drama. Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a British theatre company. ...

Selected credits

Cult television

• Danger Man: Potter in Koroshi (1968)
• The Prisoner: Potter in The Girl Who Was Death (1968); Number Two's Assistant in The Chimes of Big Ben (1967); and Labour Exchange Manager in Arrival (1967).
• The Avengers: Swindin in Split (1968); Whittle in Never, Never Say Die (1967); and J.J Hooter in How to Succeed .... at Murder (1966)
• Doctor Who: Sir Keith Gold in Inferno (1970); , Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977) and TBA in An Episode Of Series 4 (2008)
• The Tomorrow People: Professor Lawrence Middlemass in Monsoon Man (1994)
• Dick Turpin: Sir John Glutton

This article is about the 1960s TV series which was also known as Secret Agent and shouldnt be confused with the 1990s television series Secret Agent Man. ... The Prisoner is a 1967 UK allegorical science fiction television series starring Patrick McGoohan. ... The Girl Who Was Death is a television episode of the British science-fiction-allegorical series, The Prisoner. ... The Chimes of Big Ben is the title of the second episode of the British science-fiction-allegorical series, The Prisoner. ... Arrival is the title of the first episode of the British science-fiction-allegorical series, The Prisoner. ... The Avengers is a British 1960s television series featuring secret agents in a fantasy 1960s Britain. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... Inferno is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts from May 9 to June 20, 1970. ... The Talons of Weng-Chiang is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from February 26 to April 2, 1977. ... The Tomorrow People is a childrens science fiction television series, devised by Roger Price and produced by Thames Television for Britains ITV network between 1973 and 1979. ... Cover of Network DVD release of Dick Turpin TV series Dick Turpin was a British television series shown from 1979 to 1982, created by Richard Carpenter and and written by Carpenter, Charles Crichton, John Kane and Paul Wheeler. ...

Other appearances

• Prosper Profond in The Forsyte Saga (1967)
• Sir Hugh Bodrugan in Poldark (1975)
• Mr. Vincent Crummles/Walter Bray in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
• Chief Constable in Blott on the Landscape (1985)
• French Ambassador in Yes, Prime Minister (1987)
• Sir William Lucas in Pride and Prejudice (1995)
• The Pope in Leonardo, the Alan Yentob drama documentary for the BBC (2003)

The Forsyte Saga is the collective title of a series of novels by John Galsworthy. ... Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, and a popular BBC television series of the 1970s based on the books. ... The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, (or Nicholas Nickleby for short) is a comic novel by Charles Dickens. ... Blott on the Landscape is a novel written in 1975 by Tom Sharpe. ... Yes, (prime) minister: Sir Humphrey Appleby, James Jim Hacker, Bernard Woolley Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms about the struggle between (Dr) James Jim Hacker (played by Paul Eddington), the government minister of the (fictional) Department of Administrative Affairs (and later as Prime Minister) and... Pride and Prejudice is a 1995 British television drama serial, adapted from Jane Austens novel of the same name, originally published in 1813. ... Alan Yentob (born March 11, 1947) is a British television executive. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...

External links

Christopher Benjamin at the Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ...