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John Bentley
British film actor (1916-2009) · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Died at 92
John Bentley was a British film actor. He had a successful career as a leading man from the 1940s to the late '50s and was a popular heart-throb who appeared in many British B-movies during that time.
John Bentley is read about 35 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 8 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 120 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Still of the NightFilm, Night Watchman1976
The FrontFilm, Bartender1964
CrossroadsSeries, Hugh MortimerThursday TheatreSeries, 1964Malcolm Turnbull1963
Shadow of TreasonFilm, Steve1961
Mary Had a Little...Film, Dr. Malcolm Nettel1960Armchair Mystery TheatreSeries, Turner
Sacred WatersFilm, 1960Lemmy, ein Engländer1959
Interpol CallingSeries, Dave Carson
The Third ManSeries, 1959Paul Cessac1958African PatrolSeries, Chief Insp. Paul Derek
Submarine SeahawkFilm, 1958Lt. Cmdr. Paul Turner1957
IstanbulFilm, Insp. R.P. Nural1955
ConfessionFilm, Inspector Kessler1954
Mark SaberSeries, Dr. Lawrence
Double ExposureFilm, 1954Pete Fleming1953
Black OrchidFilm, Eric Blair1952
Hammer the ToffFilm, Richard Rollison1949Ten Little IndiansFilm, Philip Lombard1948
Calling Paul TempleFilm, Paul Temple1947
The Hills of DonegalFilm, Terry O'Keefe1916Born2 December 1916People around John
Close ties
- Terence Fisher Directed Final Appointment and Stolen Assignment
- Dinah Sheridan Also in Paul Temple Returns (1952)
George Breakston Directed Golden Ivory and The Scarlet Spear- John Gilling Directed Double Exposure (1954)
Rona Anderson Also in Torment, Double Exposure and The Flaw
Robert Urquhart Also in Paul Temple Returns and Tread Softly- Roy Ward Baker Produced The Singer Not the Song (1961)
- Clive Donner Directed The Sinister Man (1961)
Josef Sommer Also in The Front and Still of the Night
Joseph Pevney Directed Istanbul (1957)
Ken Hughes Directed Confession (1955)- Guy Green Directed River Beat (1954)
Patricia Owens Also in Bait and The Happiest Days of Your Life
Alfred Weidenmann Directed Sacred Waters (1960)
Laurence Naismith Also in The Singer Not the Song (1961)
Spencer Gordon Bennet Directed Submarine Seahawk (1958)- Francis Durbridge Wrote Paul Temple's Triumph (1950)
- David MacDonald Directed The Big Frame and Tread Softly
Peter Gawthorne Also in Paul Temple Returns and Salute the Toff
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
48 credits on file
Television 7
About this person
Later in his career, in the 1970s he appeared as Hugh Mortimer, Meg Richardson's ill-fated third husband in the English soap opera Crossroads. He also starred in the jungle adventure series African Patrol (1957) as Chief Inspector Paul Derek and made various other guest appearances in many popular TV series from the late 50s onwards.
