Christopher Benjamin

Christopher Benjamin
Birth date:	27 December 1934
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Henry Gordon Jago
Main jobs:	Actor
Main time period active:	2008-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The Forsyte Saga, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Crown Court, Poldark, Gangsters, Dick Turpin, Holding the Fort, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, Foyle's War, Judge John Deed, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Avengers
IMDb profile

Christopher Benjamin (born 27 December 1934) appeared in several Doctor Who stories: as Sir Keith Gold in Inferno, Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng-Chiang, and Colonel Hugh in The Unicorn and the Wasp. He also voiced Tardelli in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story Grand Theft Cosmos.

Benjamin's other credits include Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Saint, Poldark and Pride and Prejudice. He also appeared in the 2016 film The Legend of Tarzan.

In 2009, Benjamin returned to the role of Henry Gordon Jago in The Mahogany Murders, an installment of Big Finish Productions' The Companion Chronicles, and continued to play him in Jago & Litefoot.

After the death of Trevor Baxter the Jago & Litefoot series was discontinued but Benjamin returned to the role again in 2019 in The Diary of River Song audio story The Talents of Greel and 2020 in The Paternoster Gang audio story Merry Christmas, Mr Jago.

He had earlier been considered for the role of Toby in The Evil of the Daleks (DWM 200) and later for Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars. (TCH 24)

Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• Inferno - Sir Keith Gold
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang - Henry Gordon Jago
• The Unicorn and the Wasp - Colonel Hugh

Audio

Doctor Who Special Releases

• Voyage to Venus
• Voyage to the New World
• The World of Doctor Who
  • Mind Games

Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Justice of Jalxar
• The Beast of Kravenos

Sixth Doctor Adventures

• The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure
  • Stage Fright

Eighth Doctor Adventures

• Grand Theft Cosmos - Tardelli

Companion Chronicles

• The Mahogany Murderers

Short Trips

• The Jago & Litefoot Revival

Jago & Litefoot

As Henry Gordon Jago

• The Bloodless Soldier
• The Bellova Devil
• The Spirit Trap
• The Similarity Engine
• Litefoot and Sanders
• The Necropolis Express
• The Theatre of Dreams
• The Ruthven Inheritance
• Dead Men's Tales
• The Man at the End of the Garden
• Jago in Love
• Beautiful Things
• The Lonely Clock
• The Hourglass Killers
• The Age of Revolution
• The Case of the Gluttonous Guru
• The Bloodchild Codex
• The Final Act
• The Skeleton Quay
• Return of the Repressed
• Military Intelligence
• The Trial of George Litefoot
• The Monstrous Menagerie
• The Night of 1000 Stars
• The Wax Princess
• Encore of the Scorchies
• The Backwards Men
• Jago & Litefoot & Patsy
• Higson & Quick
• The Flying Frenchmen
• Return of the Nightmare
• The Case of the Missing Gasogene
• The Year of the Bat
• The Mourning After
• The Museum of Curiosities
• The Haunting
• Jago & Son
• Maurice
• The Woman in White
• Masterpiece
• Picture This
• The Flickermen
• School of Blood
• Warm Blood
• The Stuff of Nightmares
• Chapel of Night
• Too Much Reality
• Jago & Litefoot Forever
• The Corridors of Power - Narrator

The Paternoster Gang

• Merry Christmans, Mr Jago

The Diary of River Song

• The Talents of Greel

External links

• Christopher Benjamin at the Internet Movie Database