Christopher Benjamin

Christopher Benjamin
Birth date:	27 December 1934
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Henry Gordon Jago
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See credits section
Main time period active:	1970, 1977, 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, both on TV and Big Finish's audio adventures - notably as Henry Gordon 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)

Career

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.

Credits

As Henry Gordon Jago

Television

Doctor Who

• The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Audio

Doctor Who Special Releases

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

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Justice of Jalxar
• The Beast of Kravenos

The Sixth Doctor Adventures

• Stage Fright

The Companion Chronicles

• The Mahogany Murderers

Short Trips

• The Jago & Litefoot Revival

Jago & Litefoot

• Series One
  • The Bloodless Soldier
  • The Bellova Devil
  • The Spirit Trap
  • The Similarity Engine
• Series Two
  • Litefoot and Sanders
  • The Necropolis Express
  • The Theatre of Dreams
  • The Ruthven Inheritance
• Series Three
  • Dead Men's Tales
  • The Man at the End of the Garden
  • Swan Song
  • Chronoclasm
• Series Four
  • Jago in Love
  • Beautiful Things
  • The Lonely Clock
  • The Hourglass Killers
• Series Five
  • The Age of Revolution
  • The Case of the Gluttonous Guru
  • The Bloodchild Codex
  • The Final Act
• Series Six
  • The Skeleton Quay
  • Return of the Repressed
  • Military Intelligence
  • The Trial of George Litefoot
• Series Seven
  • The Monstrous Menagerie
  • The Night of 1000 Stars
  • Murder at Moorsey Manor
  • The Wax Princess
• Series Eight
  • Encore of the Scorchies
  • The Backwards Men
  • Jago & Litefoot & Patsy
  • Higson & Quick
• Series Nine
  • The Flying Frenchmen
  • The Devil's Dicemen
  • Island of Death
  • Return of the Nightmare
• Series Ten
  • The Case of the Missing Gasogene
  • The Year of the Bat
  • The Mourning After
  • The Museum of Curiosities
• The Haunting
• Series Eleven
  • Jago & Son
  • Maurice
  • The Woman in White
  • Masterpiece
• Series Twelve
  • Picture This
  • The Flickermen
  • School of Blood
  • Warm Blood
• Series Thirteen
  • The Stuff of Nightmares
  • Chapel of Night
  • How the Other Half Lives
  • Too Much Reality
• Jago & Litefoot Forever

The Paternoster Gang

• Merry Christmans, Mr Jago

The Diary of River Song

• The Talents of Greel

Other Roles

Television

Doctor Who

• Inferno - Sir Keith Gold
• The Unicorn and the Wasp - Colonel Hugh

Audio

The Eighth Doctor Adventures

• Grand Theft Cosmos - Tardelli

Audiobook Readings

Target Novelisations

• Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang

Jago & Litefoot

• A Command Performance

External links

• Christopher Benjamin at the Internet Movie Database