Christopher Benjamin

Christopher Benjamin

CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
GenderMale
BirthdayDec 27, 1934
Death2025-01-10
BiographyChristopher John Benjamin (27 December 1934 – 10 January 2025) was an English actor with many stage and television credits from 1958 to 2016. He played Henry Gordon Jago in the 1977 Doctor Who story The Talons of Weng-Chiang, a role he reprised for the audio drama series Jago & Litefoot (2010–2017, 2021), and made two other appearances in the series, portraying Sir Keith Gold in Inferno (1970) and Colonel Hugh Curbishley in "The Unicorn and the Wasp" (2008). He also provided the voice of Rowf in the animated film The Plague Dogs (1982). His radio acting career included two BBC Radio adaptations of Christopher Lee's crime drama Colvil and Soames.

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Holding the Fort
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as Colonel Aubrey Sanderson
The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Diary of Anne Frank

as Mr. Van Daan

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