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Benjamin Whitrow

Actor

Born - 17 February 1937, Oxford, Engfland
Died - 28 September 2017

Oval-faced, patrician English character actor, a formidable Shakesperian, but best remembered for his performance as Mr Bennet in the 1995 BBC-TV version of Pride and Prejudice, after coming into demand on big and small screens in early middle age. Films included The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), Quadrophenia (1979), Brimstone & Treacle (1982), Clockwise (1986), Personal Services (1987), Hawks (1988), On the Black Hill (1988), Chaplin (1992), Restoration (1995), The Saint (1997), a voice in Chicken Run (2000), Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006), Bomber (2009) and A Cake for Mabel (2013), his last.