John Bennett
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 25.997 |
| Birthday | 1928-05-08 |
| Place of Birth | Beckenham, Kent, England, UK |
| Also Known As | John Bennet, |
1978
Watership Down
7.189/599
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a...
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Watership Down
1971
The House That Dripped Blood
6.3/148
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
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The House That Dripped Blood
1991
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
5.1/14
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera hou...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
1973
The House in Nightmare Park
6.6/28
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s. Starring H...
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The House in Nightmare Park
1962
Postman's Knock
4.3/5
Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Inn...
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Postman's Knock
1976
The Shadow-Line
6/3
Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a...
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The Shadow-Line
1968
The Syndicate
0/0
Two vehicles lurch across the east African bush, carrying an ill-assorted party of prospectors who have formed a syndicate to search for uranium depos...
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The Syndicate
1973
Anything Can Happen
0/0
Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."
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Anything Can Happen
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
8/2906
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Law...
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Lawrence of Arabia
1960
A Taste of Money
0/0
An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho.
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A Taste of Money
2002
The Pianist
8.383/8974
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into...
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The Pianist
1976
The Face of Darkness
0/0
An MP arranges a bomb in a school playground as a pretext to bring back the death penalty.
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The Face of Darkness
1995
Priest
6.44/124
Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon b...
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Priest
1979
The House on Garibaldi Street
5.5/2
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
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The House on Garibaldi Street
1977
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
8.1/6
Death stalks the fogbound streets of Victorian London: young women are going missing, horribly mutilated bodies are found floating in the Thames and c...
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Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
1997
The Fifth Element
7.55/10501
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
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The Fifth Element
1972
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
5.8/16
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back ov...
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1988
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
0/0
BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)".
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Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
1982
The Plague Dogs
7.939/236
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, stuggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search partie...
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The Plague Dogs
1986
Tai-Pan
5.019/27
The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the...
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Tai-Pan
1966
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
6.105/100
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1960
The Challenge
5.3/9
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
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The Challenge
1996
Alien Nation: Millennium
4.9/19
It's 1999, and as the end of the millenium approaches, people are attempting to find spiritual enlightenment. But a few people want to skip all the wo...
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Alien Nation: Millennium
1990
Antonia and Jane
5.5/6
Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest f...
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Antonia and Jane
1995
Kangaroo Man
0/0
"Kangaroo Man" is produced by China Film Co., Ltd., directed by Liu Yiming drama, Qiu Xinzhi, Chen Wenmin to participate in the show. The film tells t...
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Kangaroo Man
1976
The Message
7.272/334
Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the Prophet Muhammad.
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The Message
2002
Minority Report
7.35/8479
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the...
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Minority Report
1980
The Mirror Crack'd
6.149/194
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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The Mirror Crack'd
1974
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
7/3
The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because dinosaurs have appeared mysteriously. It turns out the dinosau...
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Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
1999
Bridge of Dragons
5.431/72
The tough and cold mercenary Warchild, is working for the man who took care of his war training and upbringing, the greedy General Ruechang. Ruechang...
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Bridge of Dragons
1962
Crooks Anonymous
6.3/21
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a depart...
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Crooks Anonymous
2000
Breathtaking
3/2
A beautiful psychiatrist befriends an abused patient, ultimately leading to lust and murder.
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Breathtaking
1963
The Barber of Stamford Hill
0/0
Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn’t really got one – he’s a bachelor quite alone in the world. But that...
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The Barber of Stamford Hill
1966
Kaleidoscope
4.8/9
Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plat...
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Kaleidoscope
1981
Eye of the Needle
6.623/216
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of v...
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Eye of the Needle
1990
Needle
10/1
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and...
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Needle
1973
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
6.091/33
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provide...
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1978
The Greek Tycoon
5.5/27
A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.
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The Greek Tycoon
1984
Give My Regards to Broad Street
4.694/18
When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording...
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Give My Regards to Broad Street
2002
Not 360
0/0
The camera turns, slowly; we are near a hill, in a world where everything is absurd. The "voice actors" recite a banal script overlapping, in perfect...
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Not 360
1988
The Tenth Man
6.952/21
During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execu...
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The Tenth Man
1980
The Dybbuk
0/0
A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
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The Dybbuk
1962
The Pirates of Blood River
6/22
A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it...
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The Pirates of Blood River
1992
Split Second
5.9/298
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discove...
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Split Second
1961
Victim
7.409/126
Barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Farr's career and personal life...
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Victim
2003
Chaos and Cadavers
6/1
Two young newlyweds, geeky Edward and innocent but alluring Samantha, turn up at a majestic and remote country house hotel for their honeymoon, which...
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Chaos and Cadavers
1991
The War That Never Ends
0/0
The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and o...
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