Ben Harper (My Family)

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Ben Harper is a fictional character in the long-running British sitcom My Family. He is portrayed by Robert Lindsay.

Ben is a misanthropic dentist who is married to Susan Harper and has three children Nick, Janey and Michael. He shows little compassion for his family, his patients or anyone else he encounters. In most episodes he can be found trying to come up with ingenious plans to annoy his wife, get rid of his kids and sit on the sofa with a beer and the paper. He enjoys watching football and reading Tom Clancy, althouth it usually takes him the better part of a year to get through a single book. Ben and Susan have been married for about twenty-five years.

His children each have their different problems (with the possible exception of Michael), possibly due to the chronic lack of attention from their dad who doesn't seem to care about anyone. This lack of caring is shown to others outside of his family too, mainly towards his dental practice partner Roger Bailey.