Martin Benson
Date of birth: 1918-08-10
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Martin Benjamin Benson
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Martin Benjamin Benson (10 August 1918 – 28 February 2010) was an English character actor, who appeared in films, theatre and television. He appeared in both British and Hollywood productions. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Benson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Goldfinger
1964-09-20
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he
The Omen
1976-06-25
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without
Exodus
1960-12-15
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport
Interpol
1957-04-02
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank
The King and I
1956-06-29
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many chil
Sphinx
1981-02-11
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land
Spin a Dark Web
1956-03-01
A boxer and war-time Telephone Engineer (Lee Patterson) is lured into a murder cover-up plot by a sc
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956-05-18
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads hi
Captain Clegg
1962-06-13
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but
The Sea Wolves
1980-07-03
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of G
The Strange World of Planet X
1958-03-04
Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the
The Flesh Is Weak
1957-08-06
Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, ‘just off the bus’ young women who come to post-war London f
Wheel of Fate
1953-07-01
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while T
Recoil
1953-08-01
A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can
Mozambique
1964-12-07
An American pilot assists the Portuguese colonial police who are battling a gang of criminals involv
Satan Never Sleeps
1962-02-22
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him al
The Secret of My Success
1965-09-29
Arthur Tate is a dull-minded, low-ranking police officer in a small English town. However, with help
West of Zanzibar
1954-03-24
Game warden Bob Payton tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages o
Mystery Junction
1951-09-01
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonel
Istanbul
1957-01-23
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or do
Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979-08-05
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditati
Man from Tangier
1957-11-25
International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to
Once More, with Feeling!
1960-02-11
The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with
A Man Could Get Killed
1966-03-25
An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diam
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1981-02-09
An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure acros
The Dark Light
1951-04-23
The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find ou
Young Toscanini
1988-10-07
A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.
The Secret Door
1964-06-04
World War II espionage in Lisbon with Allied safe-crackers cultivating a master spy and his wife so
Judgment Deferred
1952-02-01
A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their numbe
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960-11-30
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the tow
The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
2013-03-19
Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).
Gorgo
1961-02-02
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then
The Three Enemies
1962-06-23
A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his botto
Black 13
1953-11-30
The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automo
The Gentle Trap
1960-10-31
A young locksmith becomes involved in crime.
Monsieur Ripois
1954-04-01
While his wife, Catherine, is finalizing their divorce, serial philanderer Andre invites his latest
The Gambler and the Lady
1952-12-26
A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls i
The Message
1976-07-30
In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Thre
Schoolgirl Chums
1982-12-19
In the 1930s, Alison starts a new boarding school and becomes embroiled in a sinister plot to dethro
Assassin for Hire
1951-04-01
Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of
The Adventures of P.C. 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel
1949-08-12
A police constable goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of violent thieves.
Killers of Kilimanjaro
1959-10-01
An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his pred
Tiffany Jones
1973-08-16
Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on
Take It Easy
1986-03-21
A youth film set in the summer of 1945, when the war in Europe has finally ended. For 17-year-old He
Escape by Night
1953-12-01
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journal
A Shot in the Dark
1964-06-23
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a strai
The Human Factor
1979-12-18
When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security
Behold a Pale Horse
1964-08-14
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 year
The Magnificent Two
1967-07-05
Two salesmen travel to a small South American Country to peddle their wares. However the country is
Cleopatra
1963-06-12
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar
The Message
1976-03-09
In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Thre
Oscar Wilde
1960-05-29
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman.
Passage Home
1955-03-17
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A youn
A Woman of Mystery
1958-04-21
UK mystery about a reporter investigating the suicide of a seemingly insignificant hatcheck girl.
Angela's Ashes
1999-12-25
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed
Night Without Stars
1951-04-03
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a Fr
Sea of Sand
1958-11-04
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of
Doctor at Large
1957-03-26
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a memb
The Blind Goddess
1948-09-14
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, H
The Frightened Man
1952-03-01
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
Pope Joan
1972-08-16
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The
Arch of Triumph
1984-12-19
A 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previo
A Matter of WHO
1961-10-03
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilli
Wide Boy
1952-04-01
Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.
I'll Get You for This
1951-01-24
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist,
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967-10-01
Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United Sta
Never Let Me Go
1953-03-18
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
The Two-Headed Spy
1958-11-17
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobio
The Next Victim
1975-09-23
A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer.
Five Golden Hours
1961-02-01
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession unti
West of Zanzibar
1954-03-24
Game warden Bob Payton tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages o
The Trial of Oscar Wilde
1960-08-05
Courtroom account of the prosecution of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency with other men followed Wild
Pews
1980-01-12
Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together t
The Silent Invasion
1962-12-01
During WWII, a German garrison is stationed in the small French town of Mereux. French local Maria f
The Fur Collar
1962-12-01
A reporter feigns death, in order to trap a fugitive and uncover a spy ring.
Sands of the Desert
1960-09-08
In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it wou
The Omen Legacy
2001-10-30
The true stories that spawned the serie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very
Doctor at Sea
1955-07-12
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 a