George Benson (actor)

George Benson
Born	George Christopher Benson (1911-01-11)11 January 1911 Cardiff, Wales
Died	17 June 1983(1983-06-17) (aged 72) London, England

George Christopher Benson (11 January 1911 – 17 June 1983) was a Welsh and English actor of both theatre and screen, whose career spanned from the 1930s to the late 1970s. He made his film debut in 1932 in Holiday Lovers written by Leslie Arliss,^[1] while his most notable work as a comic actor included supporting roles with George Formby (Keep Fit - 1937) and Ronnie Barker (A Home of Your Own - 1964).

Benson was born in Cardiff and educated at Blundell's School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (where he was the Silver Medallist in 1930). He served with the Royal Artillery for 6 years.

He married, first, Jane Ann Sterndale Bennett,^[2] a granddaughter of the composer.

Selected filmography

• Holiday Lovers (1932)
• The Man from Toronto (1933)
• Keep Fit (1937)
• Young Man's Fancy (1939)
• Convoy (1940)
• The October Man (1947)
• The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
• Cage of Gold (1950)
• Highly Dangerous (1950)
• The Man in the White Suit (1951)
• Appointment with Venus (1951)
• The Broken Horseshoe (1953)
• The Captain's Paradise (1953)
• Doctor in the House (1954)
• The Naked Truth (1957)
• Dracula (1958)
• Model for Murder (1959)
• Left Right and Centre (1959)
• The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960)
• A Home of Your Own (1964)
• A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
• The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
• The Strange Affair (1968)
• The Creeping Flesh (1973)

Sources

• Obituary of Mr George Benson, The Times, 21 June 1983 (pg. 12; Issue 61564; col G)
• IMDB

References

• Mander & Mitchison Library, Bristol University

External links

• George Benson at the Internet Movie Database
• George Benson at the Internet Broadway Database
• George Benson at Find a Grave