John Bennett

John Bennett

Birthday: 1928-05-08

Place of Birth: Beckenham, Kent, England, UK

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.

Movies

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final da...

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The Tenth Man
The Tenth Man

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation...

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Watership Down
Watership Down

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwi...

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The Dybbuk
The Dybbuk

A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated...

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The House That Dripped Blood
The House That Dripped Blood

A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house....

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The Greek Tycoon
The Greek Tycoon

A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president....

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Give My Regards to Broad Street
Give My Regards to Broad Street

When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in le...

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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I...

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The Pirates of Blood River
The Pirates of Blood River

A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search...

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The House in Nightmare Park
The House in Nightmare Park

Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of ...

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Postman's Knock
Postman's Knock

Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arri...

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Split Second
Split Second

In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner an...

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Victim
Victim

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, t...

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Not 360
Not 360

The camera turns, slowly; we are near a hill, in a world where everything is absurd. The "voice acto...

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Chaos and Cadavers
Chaos and Cadavers

Two young newlyweds, geeky Edward and innocent but alluring Samantha, turn up at a majestic and remo...

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The Syndicate
The Syndicate

Two vehicles lurch across the east African bush, carrying an ill-assorted party of prospectors who h...

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Anything Can Happen
Anything Can Happen

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."...

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The War That Never Ends
The War That Never Ends

The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broa...

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Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...

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Priest
Priest

The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face...

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A Taste of Money
A Taste of Money

An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho....

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The Pianist
The Pianist

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

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The Face of Darkness
The Face of Darkness

An MP arranges a bomb in a school playground as a pretext to bring back the death penalty....

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The Shadow-Line
The Shadow-Line

Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph C...

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The House on Garibaldi Street
The House on Garibaldi Street

When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they ...

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The Fifth Element
The Fifth Element

In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the k...

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Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'

BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990. This documentary is one of the ten fil...

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Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Death stalks the fogbound streets of Victorian London: young women are going missing, horribly mutil...

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Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a t...

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The Plague Dogs
The Plague Dogs

Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal res...

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Tai-Pan
Tai-Pan

The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. A...

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom....

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The Challenge
The Challenge

Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (A...

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Alien Nation: Millennium
Alien Nation: Millennium

It's 1999, and as the end of the millenium approaches, people are attempting to find spiritual enlig...

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Antonia and Jane
Antonia and Jane

Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch no...

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Kangaroo Man
Kangaroo Man

"Kangaroo Man" is produced by China Film Co., Ltd., directed by Liu Yiming drama, Qiu Xinzhi, Chen W...

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The Message
The Message

In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Thre...

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Minority Report
Minority Report

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes b...

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The Mirror Crack'd
The Mirror Crack'd

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to hav...

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Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because dinosaurs ha...

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Bridge of Dragons
Bridge of Dragons

The tough and cold mercenary Warchild, is working for the man who took care of his war training and ...

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Crooks Anonymous
Crooks Anonymous

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as ...

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Breathtaking
Breathtaking

A beautiful psychiatrist befriends an abused patient, ultimately leading to lust and murder....

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The Barber of Stamford Hill
The Barber of Stamford Hill

Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn’t really got one – ...

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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope

Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer bec...

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Eye of the Needle
Eye of the Needle

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber th...

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Needle
Needle

Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmaris...

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Pews
Pews

Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together t...

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Return Fare
Return Fare

' If he's been locked up all these years why is it all right to let him out now? ' ' New thinking.' ...

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The Alphabet Murders
The Alphabet Murders

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims...

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The Ties That Bind Us
The Ties That Bind Us

A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the s...

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A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist ...

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A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

Smith and Laye-Parker meet Kuprin and find he is less anxious to leave Russia than they supposed....

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Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the ...

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The Curse of the Werewolf
The Curse of the Werewolf

A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at nigh...

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