John Bennett was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire, then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, followed by a wide repertory theatre experience including Bromley, Bristol Old Vic, Dundee, the Edinburgh Festival and Watford before going to London's West End.
Often cast as a villain, Bennett had many roles on television including Market in Honey Lane, Porridge, Survivors, The Avengers, Strange Report, Bergerac, The Professiona...
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
As Joseph Goebbels
The Tenth Man
As Jules
Watership Down
As Captain Holly (voice)
The Dybbuk
As Messenger
The House That Dripped Blood
As Detective Inspector Holloway (segment "Framework Story")
The Greek Tycoon
As Servant
Give My Regards to Broad Street
As Mr. Rath
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
As Sigmund Freud
The Pirates of Blood River
As Penal Colony Guard (uncredited)
The House in Nightmare Park
As Patel
Postman's Knock
As Pete
Split Second
As Dr Schulman
Victim
As Undercover Detective (uncredited)
Not 360
As Actor
Chaos and Cadavers
As Mr Resurrection
The Syndicate
As Dr. Singh
Anything Can Happen
As Geoff Bridges
The War That Never Ends
As Corcyran Representative
Lawrence of Arabia
As Arab Sheik (uncredited)
Priest
As Father Redstone
A Taste of Money
The Pianist
As Dr. Ehrlich
The Face of Darkness
As Inquisitor & Psychiatrist
The Shadow-Line
The House on Garibaldi Street
As Aaron Lazar
The Fifth Element
As Priest
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
As Chaplain / Father
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
As Li H'sen Chang
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
As Wriothesley
The Plague Dogs
As Don (voice)
Tai-Pan
As Orlov
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
As Pseudolus' mark
The Challenge
As Spider
Alien Nation: Millennium
As Officer Laskau
Antonia and Jane
As Uncle Irwin Carlinsky
Kangaroo Man
As Doctor
The Message
As Salool
Minority Report
As Adulation #4
The Mirror Crack'd
As Barnsby ("Murder at Midnight")
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
As General Finch
Bridge of Dragons
As The Registrar
Crooks Anonymous
As Thomas
Breathtaking
As Mr. Henshaw
The Barber of Stamford Hill
Kaleidoscope
As Poker Player
Eye of the Needle
As Kleinmann
Needle
As Chief Constable
Pews
As Liftchick
Return Fare
As Dr Robbins
Murder Most Horrid
As DCI Graham Barlow
Rome
As Elderly Priest
The Bill
Softly, Softly
Jonathan Creek
As Frank Geiger
Blake's 7
As Coser
Z-Cars
Tales of the Unexpected
As Royden
The Avengers
As Sykes
Heartbeat
As Terence Young
Crown Court
The Saint
As Muller
Survivors
As Jim
Jake and the Fatman
I, Claudius
Dixon of Dock Green
As Victor Lane
Hunter
As Uniform Officer
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
Waking the Dead
As Professor George Rosenthal
Hallmark Hall of Fame
As Jules
Lillie
No Hiding Place
The Cleopatras
As Philocles
New Tricks
1990
Fall of Eagles
As Georges Clemenceau
Sunday-Night Play
As Zagornetz
Sir Francis Drake
As Tomas
Lorna Doone
Porridge
As Medical Officer
Anna Karenina
Detective
The Main Chance
As Raul Ramira
Brett
The Edwardians
Fathers and Sons
Cadfael
As Lazarus the Leper
Doctor Who
As Li H'sen Chang
Saracen
As Nugent
The Forsyte Saga
As Philip Bosinney
Return of the Saint
As Colonel Ramon Perrez
Bergerac
As Aaron Rosenbaum
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
As Richard Erskine
Armadillo
As Father
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder
As Lew Kohl
Miss Marple
As Richard Erskine
Mulberry
As The Stranger
Strange Report
As Jack White
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
As Chaplain / Father
The Professionals
As Inspector Truitt