S3, Ep3 12 Dec. 1997 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, Patricia Routledge, John Graham Davies, Suzanne Maddock, Kevin Foster, Ian Burfield, Andrew Barrow
Brian Finch
Derek Benfield was born on March 11 1926 in Bradford, Yorkshire, the third of four children of a journalist with the Telegraph & Argus.
David Cook (series creator),
Stand-up comedian who broke new ground with his television series The Larry
Populist Right-wing former Mayor of Toronto whose drunken antics scandalised
As a sort of Dallas without the glitz, between 1972 and 1976 the series gripped some 15 million television viewers anxious not to miss the next boardroom brawl or bedroom encounter. It also proved popular in Holland, Sweden and Israel.
There were parts in dramas such as Great Expectations and The Knowledge before he became a regular in the cult children's science fiction drama Timeslip, broadcast in 1970-71.
In recent years he was most familiar to television viewers in the role of Patricia Routledge's long-suffering husband in the BBC detective series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, in which she stars as a fussing, somewhat self-righteous private eye in Yorkshire.
As Robert Wainthropp, Benfield is living on money from a redundancy payment until his pension kicks in, and is quietly horrified by his wife's new passion for detection which she sometimes funds by plundering their savings.
Philanthropist and heir to the Littlewoods empire who became a generous patron
Army officer who knocked out two Tiger tanks in Germany
A well-to-do woman hires Hetty to find out why her soon-to-be-married daughter is being stalked and photographed by a stranger in the village.
Over the years Benfield took roles in many staples, such as Lovejoy, Peak Practice, Casualty and Poirot.
Benfield's first television appearance was in the BBC serial Return to the Lost Planet, after which he had roles in popular programmes such as Emergency Ward Ten, Z Cars, and Dixon of Dock Green (for which he also wrote four scripts).
Derek Benfield (11 March 1926 – 10 March 2009) was a British playwright and actor. His first appearances as a professional were for Brian Rix at Ilkley and Bridlington, after which he acted for many years in various repertory companies, including Salisbury, Worthing and Preston – it was in Preston that he met his future wife, Susan Lyall Grant, whom he married in 1953, and there that he wrote his first play, Young at Heart.
Having previously posed as an Irishwoman on a housing estate, Hetty now Don's an Australian accent, where she's employed by an upper class woman to discover why her daughter is being photographed by an unknown man.
Click the link below to see what others say about Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Season 3! A well-to-do woman hires Hetty to find out why her soon-to-be-married daughter is being stalked and photographed by a stranger in the village.
Benfield then trained at Rada, where he won the Gertrude Lawrence Award for his performance in French Without Tears; this was the only occasion on which Miss Lawrence herself presented the prize. He also appeared with Colin Baker as John Hallam in the Doctor Who audio play Catch-1782.
Benfield also had a long-running part in one of the most popular television series of the 1970s.
Touch and Go was translated into French by Marc Camoletti and ran for a year in his theatre in Paris; last Christmas it had a successful run at the Mill at Sonning.
When he returned to England his instructions were: "Sgt Benfield in charge of party. He was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bingley Grammar School.
S3, Ep3 12 Dec. 1997 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, Patricia Routledge, John Graham Davies, Suzanne Maddock, Kevin Foster, Ian Burfield, Andrew Barrow
Brian Finch
Derek Benfield was born on March 11 1926 in Bradford, Yorkshire, the third of four children of a journalist with the Telegraph & Argus.
David Cook (series creator),
Stand-up comedian who broke new ground with his television series The Larry
Populist Right-wing former Mayor of Toronto whose drunken antics scandalised
As a sort of Dallas without the glitz, between 1972 and 1976 the series gripped some 15 million television viewers anxious not to miss the next boardroom brawl or bedroom encounter. It also proved popular in Holland, Sweden and Israel.
There were parts in dramas such as Great Expectations and The Knowledge before he became a regular in the cult children's science fiction drama Timeslip, broadcast in 1970-71.
In recent years he was most familiar to television viewers in the role of Patricia Routledge's long-suffering husband in the BBC detective series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, in which she stars as a fussing, somewhat self-righteous private eye in Yorkshire.
As Robert Wainthropp, Benfield is living on money from a redundancy payment until his pension kicks in, and is quietly horrified by his wife's new passion for detection which she sometimes funds by plundering their savings.
Philanthropist and heir to the Littlewoods empire who became a generous patron
Army officer who knocked out two Tiger tanks in Germany
A well-to-do woman hires Hetty to find out why her soon-to-be-married daughter is being stalked and photographed by a stranger in the village.
Over the years Benfield took roles in many staples, such as Lovejoy, Peak Practice, Casualty and Poirot.
Benfield's first television appearance was in the BBC serial Return to the Lost Planet, after which he had roles in popular programmes such as Emergency Ward Ten, Z Cars, and Dixon of Dock Green (for which he also wrote four scripts).
Derek Benfield (11 March 1926 – 10 March 2009) was a British playwright and actor. His first appearances as a professional were for Brian Rix at Ilkley and Bridlington, after which he acted for many years in various repertory companies, including Salisbury, Worthing and Preston – it was in Preston that he met his future wife, Susan Lyall Grant, whom he married in 1953, and there that he wrote his first play, Young at Heart.
Having previously posed as an Irishwoman on a housing estate, Hetty now Don's an Australian accent, where she's employed by an upper class woman to discover why her daughter is being photographed by an unknown man.
Click the link below to see what others say about Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Season 3! A well-to-do woman hires Hetty to find out why her soon-to-be-married daughter is being stalked and photographed by a stranger in the village.
Benfield then trained at Rada, where he won the Gertrude Lawrence Award for his performance in French Without Tears; this was the only occasion on which Miss Lawrence herself presented the prize. He also appeared with Colin Baker as John Hallam in the Doctor Who audio play Catch-1782.
Benfield also had a long-running part in one of the most popular television series of the 1970s.
Touch and Go was translated into French by Marc Camoletti and ran for a year in his theatre in Paris; last Christmas it had a successful run at the Mill at Sonning.
When he returned to England his instructions were: "Sgt Benfield in charge of party. He was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bingley Grammar School.
why did derek benfield leave hetty wainthropp investigates
Derek Benfield with Patricia Routledge in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates …
Later he was Walter Greenhalgh in Coronation Street and Albert Handyside, Rumpole's clerk, in two series of Rumpole of the Bailey.
He was educated at Bingley Grammar School, and during the holidays cut his teeth as an actor at the Bradford Civic Theatre under the direction of Esme Church.
The Brothers concerned a warring family, the Hammonds, which owned a haulage firm, and Benfield played the company's foreman, Bill Riley.
The headline on the tabloid being read by the hotel clerk is "Di's Fly Boy," obviously referring to a then current romance of Princess Diana.
S3, Ep3 12 Dec. 1997 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, Patricia Routledge, John Graham Davies, Suzanne Maddock, Kevin Foster, Ian Burfield, Andrew Barrow
Brian Finch
Derek Benfield was born on March 11 1926 in Bradford, Yorkshire, the third of four children of a journalist with the Telegraph & Argus.
David Cook (series creator),
Stand-up comedian who broke new ground with his television series The Larry
Populist Right-wing former Mayor of Toronto whose drunken antics scandalised
As a sort of Dallas without the glitz, between 1972 and 1976 the series gripped some 15 million television viewers anxious not to miss the next boardroom brawl or bedroom encounter. It also proved popular in Holland, Sweden and Israel.
There were parts in dramas such as Great Expectations and The Knowledge before he became a regular in the cult children's science fiction drama Timeslip, broadcast in 1970-71.
In recent years he was most familiar to television viewers in the role of Patricia Routledge's long-suffering husband in the BBC detective series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, in which she stars as a fussing, somewhat self-righteous private eye in Yorkshire.
As Robert Wainthropp, Benfield is living on money from a redundancy payment until his pension kicks in, and is quietly horrified by his wife's new passion for detection which she sometimes funds by plundering their savings.
Philanthropist and heir to the Littlewoods empire who became a generous patron
Army officer who knocked out two Tiger tanks in Germany
A well-to-do woman hires Hetty to find out why her soon-to-be-married daughter is being stalked and photographed by a stranger in the village.
Over the years Benfield took roles in many staples, such as Lovejoy, Peak Practice, Casualty and Poirot.
Benfield's first television appearance was in the BBC serial Return to the Lost Planet, after which he had roles in popular programmes such as Emergency Ward Ten, Z Cars, and Dixon of Dock Green (for which he also wrote four scripts).
Derek Benfield (11 March 1926 – 10 March 2009) was a British playwright and actor. His first appearances as a professional were for Brian Rix at Ilkley and Bridlington, after which he acted for many years in various repertory companies, including Salisbury, Worthing and Preston – it was in Preston that he met his future wife, Susan Lyall Grant, whom he married in 1953, and there that he wrote his first play, Young at Heart.
Having previously posed as an Irishwoman on a housing estate, Hetty now Don's an Australian accent, where she's employed by an upper class woman to discover why her daughter is being photographed by an unknown man.
Click the link below to see what others say about Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Season 3! A well-to-do woman hires Hetty to find out why her soon-to-be-married daughter is being stalked and photographed by a stranger in the village.
Benfield then trained at Rada, where he won the Gertrude Lawrence Award for his performance in French Without Tears; this was the only occasion on which Miss Lawrence herself presented the prize. He also appeared with Colin Baker as John Hallam in the Doctor Who audio play Catch-1782.
Benfield also had a long-running part in one of the most popular television series of the 1970s.
Touch and Go was translated into French by Marc Camoletti and ran for a year in his theatre in Paris; last Christmas it had a successful run at the Mill at Sonning.
When he returned to England his instructions were: "Sgt Benfield in charge of party. He was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bingley Grammar School.
