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Peter Benson
Born: 13th Jun 1943 Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK - Died 6th Sep 2018
Dept: Acting
Peter Benson was an English actor, best known for playing the role of Bernie Scripps in the television series Heartbeat between 1995 and 2010.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 49
Film: 23 (47%)
Television: 26 (53%)
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Filmography
Jan 2003 (first aired)
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles. ... view
Character:
Bernie Scripps (1 ep.)
1994
Alan Bleasdale's comic crime caper for Channel 4 about a former getaway driver desperate to leave his life of crime behind. Featuring Alfred Molina, D ... view
Character:
Priest
May 1993 (first aired)
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors w ... view
Character:
Terry Alston (1 ep.)
Dec 1992 (first aired)
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like ... view
Character:
Bernard Elliott (2 ep.)
Nov 1992 (first aired)
When big-hearted Joe Thompson discovers the pain infertility is causing his brother Paul, he suggests to Paul's wife that he act as secret sperm donor ... view
Character:
Gerald (1 ep.)
Apr 1992 (first aired)
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ... view
Character:
Bernie Scripps (240 ep.)
1992
The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution. ... view
Character:
Dr. Gares
Apr 1990 (first aired)
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories.
It aired on the ITV network from 1 ... view
Character:
Mr Rowbotham (1 ep.)
Apr 1990 (first aired)
Perfect Scoundrels first broadcast in 1990 on British television. A comedy-drama following two con-men doing their best to separate various people fro ... view
Character:
Huber (1 ep.)
Apr 1990 (first aired)
The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at ... view
Character:
Arthur Dolland (1 ep.)
Mar 1987 (first aired)
Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wi ... view
Character:
Perkins (3 ep.)
Jan 1986 (first aired)
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “di ... view
Character:
Peter Farquar (1 ep.)
Aug 1985 (first aired)
Albion Market is a short-lived British soap opera, intended as a companion to Coronation Street on ITV. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (100 ep.)
1985
A saucy comedy for the Bank Holiday about.... saucy seaside postcards. What do the characters on the seaside postcards get up to in private? ... view
Character:
Dad
1985
Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers, ... view
Character:
Peggram
Character:
Peggram (1 ep.)
Jun 1983 (first aired)
Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ag ... view
Character:
Henry VII (1 ep.)
1983
The TARDIS attaches itself to a space liner after Turlough, still under the Black Guardian's influence, damages its controls. The Doctor and Nyssa mee ... view
Character:
Bor
1983
For the infantrymen, old hands and raw recruits, 36 hours of forced march and a night in pouring rain are followed by a day in a muddy cornfield, faci ... view
Character:
Sniffer
1983
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duk ... view
Character:
King Henry VI
1983
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts. ... view
Character:
King Henry VI
1983
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts. ... view
Character:
King Henry VI
1983
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts. ... view
Character:
King Henry VI
1982
At the moment money is scarce and times are hard for everyone -even villains like Charlie and Denny are feeling the pinch. But their luck could change ... view
Character:
Lenny
Oct 1981 (first aired)
Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of wom ... view
Character:
Jim (1 ep.)
Oct 1981 (first aired)
A a serial in ten parts on the lives of one of the most intriguing families in history. ... view
Character:
Gaspare Pato (10 ep.)
1981
The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdit ... view
Character:
Clown's Servant
1980
Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to liv ... view
Character:
Black Wizard
1980
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then ... view
Character:
Second Gravedigger
Apr 1980 (first aired)
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for a single series of fifteen episodes in 1980. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewi ... view
Character:
Mr. Borrit (1 ep.)
1979
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the ... view
Character:
Religious Fanatic (uncredited)
1978
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train. ... view
Character:
Station Despatcher
1978
A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a commercial traveller and an ... view
Character:
Arnold
1978
Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Ver ... view
Character:
Charlie Nye
Sep 1978 (first aired)
Two large, interrelated south London families struggle to believe that blood is thicker than water. ... view
Character:
Spanish Waiter (1 ep.)
1978
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learne ... view
Character:
Harry the Shepherd
Character:
Peter Phipps (1 ep.)
Jan 1978 (first aired)
The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshi ... view
Character:
Bernard Wain (2 ep.)
1978
A made-for-TV retelling of the story "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," directed by Ben Rea, featuring Jim Dale as the Soldier, Freddie Jones as the des ... view
Character:
A Shoemaker
Sep 1977 (first aired)
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979. ... view
Character:
Arnold (1 ep.)
Dec 1975 (first aired)
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Hor ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Nov 1975 (first aired)
On their way to London for the Rugby League final, a group of northerners start telling each other stories, in the manner of Chaucer's pilgrims in The ... view
Character:
Reuben (3 ep.)
1975
Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line? ... view
Character:
Mack
Dec 1974 (first aired)
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britai ... view
Character:
Robert Hooke, MA (1 ep.)
Mar 1974 (first aired)
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC. ... view
Character:
Lenny (1 ep.)
Oct 1973 (first aired)
A series of plays from Birmingham by new writers. ... view
Character:
Mack (1 ep.)
1970
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers hav ... view
Character:
Brander
1969
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman. ... view
Character:
Mr. Jingle
Nov 1963 (first aired)
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling ... view
Character:
The Doctor (4 ep.)