# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-benjamin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:30:10.493Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-benjamin"
name: "Christopher Benjamin"
slug: "christopher-benjamin"
description: "Christopher John Benjamin was an English actor with many stage and television credits from 1958 to 2016. He played Henry Gordon Jago in the 1977 Doctor Who story The Talons of Weng-Chiang, a role he reprised for the audio drama series Jago & Litefoot, and made two other appearances in the series, portraying Sir Keith Gold in Inferno (1970) and Colonel Hugh Curbishley in \"The Unicorn and the Wasp\" (2008). He also provided the voice of Rowf in the animated film The Plague Dogs (1982). His radio acting career included two BBC Radio adaptations of Christopher Lee's crime drama Colvil and Soames."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Cropped_Photo_of_Christopher_Benjamin.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1934-12-27"
deathDate: "2025-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.92
  momentum:             5.820073512309832
  historical:           7.769050666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071290/"
    handle:    "nm0071290"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1e07e833-76d9-4e55-8c43-91885f9d12cb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Benjamin_(actor)"
    title: "Christopher Benjamin (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Benjamin"
    title: "Christopher Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%92'%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "כריסטופר בנג'מין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Бенджамин, Кристофер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Benjamin"
    title: "Christopher Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Benjamin"
    title: "Christopher Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Benjamin"
    title: "Christopher Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2966550"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94021"
    title: "Christopher Benjamin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump