John Bennett
Acting
Biography
John Bennett was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire, then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, followed by a wide repertory theatre experience including Bromley, Bristol Old Vic, Dundee, the Edinburgh Festival and Watford before going to London's West End. Often cast as a villain, Bennett had many roles on television including Market in Honey Lane, Porridge, Survivors, The Avengers, Strange Report, Bergerac, The Professionals and four episodes of The Saint. Description above from the Wikipedia article Terence Alexander, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: May 8, 1928
Place of Birth: Beckenham, Kent, England, UK
Known For
Needle
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
The Pianist
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
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.
Rome
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.
Porridge
Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
Lawrence of Arabia
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
Survivors
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.
Doctor Who
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Filmography
as Chang Lee (archive footage)
as Elderly Priest
as Mr Resurrection
as Dr. Ehrlich
as Adulation #4
as Father
as Professor George Rosenthal
as Mr. Henshaw
as The Registrar
as Frank Geiger
as Priest
as Officer Laskau
as Father Redstone
as Doctor
as Lazarus the Leper
as Dr Schulman
as Terence Young
as The Stranger
as Sigmund Freud
as DCI Graham Barlow
as Corcyran Representative
as Chief Constable
as Uncle Irwin Carlinsky
as Nugent
as Jules
as Chaplain / Father
as Chaplain / Father
as Richard Erskine
as Orlov
as Mr. Rath
as Uniform Officer
as Don (voice)
as Aaron Rosenbaum
as Kleinmann
as Messenger
as Barnsby ("Murder at Midnight")
as Liftchick
as Aaron Lazar
as Royden
as Captain Holly (voice)
as Colonel Ramon Perrez
as Dr Robbins
as Servant
as Coser
as Inspector Truitt
as Dr. Robbins
as Li H'sen Chang
as Inquisitor & Psychiatrist
as Xenophon
as Salool
as Jim
as Medical Officer
as Georges Clemenceau
as Liftchick
as General Finch
as Joseph Goebbels
as Patel
as Frank Harris
as Dr. Martin Stanislaus
as Wriothesley
as Detective Inspector Holloway (segment "Framework Story")
as Jack White
as Raul Ramira
as Lew Kohl
as Dr. Singh
as Philip Bosinney
as Pseudolus' mark
as Poker Player
as Waiter (uncredited)
as Turkish General
as Inspector Voss
as Li H'sen Chang
as General Finch
as Arab Sheik (uncredited)
as Muller
as Ardossi
as Raschid
as Count Alfredo
as Lombrico
as Kemal
as Penal Colony Guard (uncredited)
as Thomas
as Pete
as Tomas
as Undercover Detective (uncredited)
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Sykes
as Marson
as Blake
as Spider
as Victor Lane
as Malcolm Roberts
as Jules