Ben Aris

Born: 1937-03-16

Benjamin Patrick Aris (16 March 1937 – 4 September 2003) was an English actor who was best known for his parts in Hi-de-Hi! and To the Manor Born, and was also very active on stage. He was often cast as an eccentric, upper-class, or upper-middle class, man.


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The Three Musketeers

as 1st Musketeer
Released: 1973-12-11

The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and...

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Juggernaut

as The Walker
Released: 1974-09-25

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs...

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if....

as John Thomas
Released: 1968-12-19

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the...

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Tommy

as Reverend Simpson
Released: 1975-03-19

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy...

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Get Carter

as Architect (uncredited)
Released: 1971-02-03

Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's...

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The Plague of the Zombies

as John Martinus
Released: 1966-01-09

Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting...

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

as Lt. Maxse
Released: 1968-04-10

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led...

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The Ritz

as Patron with Bicycle
Released: 1976-08-12

To escape from a mobster, businessman Gaetano Proclo orders a cab driver to take him to a place...

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Up at the Villa

as Col. Trail
Released: 2000-04-14

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale...

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O Lucky Man!

as Mr MacIntyre/Dr Hyder/Flight Lt. Wallace
Released: 1973-03-25

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed...

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Royal Flash

as Fireman
Released: 1975-10-10

Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of...

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Savage Messiah

as Thomas Buff
Released: 1972-06-27

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with...

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The Music Lovers

as Young Lieutenant
Released: 1971-02-12

Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual...

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The Falklands Factor

as Mr. Edmund Burke M.P.
Released: 1983-04-26

Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos...

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King of the Wind

as Squire Dunn
Released: 1990-05-25

In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel:...

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A Hazard of Hearts

as Lieutenant of Dragoons
Released: 1987-12-27

When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice,...

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Vampira

as Policeman
Released: 1974-10-10

In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from...

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The Reckoning

as Party Guest
Released: 1970-01-31

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After...

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Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors

as Scotland Yard Commissioner
Released: 1992-09-28

Biopic purporting to tell the real story behind the marriage of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson...

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Hamlet

as Rosencrantz
Released: 1969-12-21

Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the...

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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End

as Lord Tarquin of Staines
Released: 1980-11-07

Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert, who was accidentally...

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West 11

as Partygoer
Released: 1963-10-08

Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of...

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

as Inspector Newcomen
Released: 1980-11-20

Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

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U.F.O. The Movie

as Doctor
Released: 1993-12-10

The legendary Roy 'Chubby' Brown stars in his very first feature length movie. Chubby is...

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Fearless Frank

as uncredited
Released: 1978-10-04

The outrageous - and not entirely reliable - memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime...

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Alfie Darling

as Ad Man
Released: 1975-07-17

Alfie meets his romantic match when the modern-day Casanova falls in love with a career woman....

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Night Train to Murder

as Theatre Manager
Released: 1984-01-01

When Eric's niece Kathy becomes one of the heirs to a considerable fortune, her life (and those...

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I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight

as Trampas B. Hildebrand
Released: 1976-02-15

Virginal nerd Jon Pigeon, manages to secure a job in a sex research institute where the patients...

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Didn't You Kill My Brother?

as Party Guest
Released: 1988-03-19

Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been...

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Enemy

as Andrew
Released: 1976-01-01

Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.

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Lionheart

as Capt. Harris
Released: 1968-01-01

A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy.

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The After Dinner Joke

as Bruce Wingfield
Released: 1978-02-14

A comic extravaganza about a young woman's adventures in the world of big business charity.

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Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

as Lieutenant Shears
Released: 1974-02-16

The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Captain Fowler
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Doctor Who

as Lieutenant Shears
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Crown Court

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

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Bergerac

as Executive
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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The Comic Strip Presents...

as Party Guest
First aired: 1982-11-02

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are...

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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-02-15

Meet Frank Spencer, an eager young man trying to find his way in the world. He's enthusiastic,...

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The Kenny Everett Television Show

as Guest
First aired: 1982-02-25

Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.

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Hi-de-Hi!

as Julian Dalrymple-Sykes
First aired: 1981-02-19

Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom set in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960,...

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To the Manor Born

as Spalding
First aired: 1979-09-30

Sitcom about the love-hate relationship between upper-class Audrey fforbes Hamilton and Richard...

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You Rang, M'Lord?

as Special Branch Policeman
First aired: 1990-01-14

You Rang, M'Lord? is a British comedy series written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the...

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Target

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-09-09

A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

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Executive Stress

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-10-20

Executive Stress is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1986 to 1988. Produced by Thames...

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Hazell

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-01-16

Hazell is a British television series that ran from 1978–1979, about a fictional private...

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Young Charlie Chaplin

as Mr. Vernon
First aired: 1989-01-25

The challenging and spirited early life of cinema's first great comedic artist, Charlie Chaplin,...

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Clouds of Glory

as Robert Southey
First aired: 1978-07-09

Dramatization by Melvyn Bragg and Ken Russell of the lives of the poets Wordsworth and Coleridge.

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