Christopher Benjamin

Christopher Benjamin (born 27 December 1934-7 February 2021 ) appeared in several Doctor Who stories: as Sir Keith Gold in Inferno, Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng-Chiang, and Colonel Hugh in The Unicorn and the Wasp. He also voiced Tardelli in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story Grand Theft Cosmos.

Benjamin's other credits include Danger Man,, The Saint, and. He also appeared in the 2016 film.

In 2009, Benjamin returned to the role of Henry Gordon Jago in The Mahogany Murders, an instalment of Big Finish Productions' The Companion Chronicles, and continued to play him in Jago & Litefoot.

After the sad death of Trevor Baxter the Jago & Litefoot series was discontinued but Benjamin returned to the role again in 2019 in The Diary of River Song audio story The Talents of Greel and 2020 in The Paternoster Gang audio story Merry Christmas, Mr Jago.

He had earlier been considered for the role of Toby in The Evil of the Daleks (DWM 200) and later for Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars. (TCH 24)