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:	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
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 instalment of Big Finish Productions' The Companion Chronicles, and continued to play him in Jago & Litefoot.

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)

External links

• Christopher Benjamin at the Internet Movie Database