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Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin John Whitrow (17 February 1937 – 28 September 2017) was a British actor. He was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for his role as Mr Bennet in the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice, and voiced the role of Fowler in the 2000 animated film Chicken Run. His other film appearances include Quadrophenia (1979), Personal Services (1987) and Bomber (2009). He has 5 grandchildren, 2 of them being Max Whitrow and Milo Whitrow, the sons of Tom Whitrow, the producer of This is MY House and Four in a Bed.
Whitrow was born on 17 February 1937 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, the son of Mary Alexandra (Flaunders) and Philip Whitrow, a teacher at St Edward's School, Oxford.
Whitrow attended two independent schools: The Dragon School in Oxford and Tonbridge School, in the town of Tonbridge in Kent, followed by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Whitrow made his professional debut in Peter Ludwig Brent’s Chance of Heaven at the Irving Theatre in 1955. He then served in the King's Dragoon Guards during his national service from 1956 to 1958, and was partly stationed in Malaya.
In 1959, after leaving the army, he resumed his acting career playing Hector Hushabye in George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House at the Empire, Belfast. He then spent an eight-year apprenticeship in rep before joining the National Theatre company at The Old Vic under Laurence Olivier, who praised him saying "Benjamin Whitrow has never given a bad performance”.
He performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company on multiple occasions. In 1981 he appeared in Passion Play by Peter Nichols. In 1991 he played Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He returned again in 2000, to play Sir Anthony Absolute in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals, and, the following year, Justice Shallow in Henry IV, Part II, a role in which, according to theatre critic Michael Coveney, he was "unforgettably hilarious".
In 1980 he played J.R. Ackerley, writer and literary editor of The Listener, in a dramatised biography We Think The World Of You, titled after Ackerley's 1960 novel of the same name, for the BBC's flagship arts programme Omnibus. That year's series won Best Programme/Series Without Category at the 1981 British Academy Television Awards.
In 1982 he appeared as the businessman in the film version of Brimstone and Treacle by Dennis Potter, directed by Richard Loncraine, which was nominated for the Gold Hugo for Best Feature at that year's Chicago International Film Festival, the Golden Charybdis at the Taormina International Film Festival, and which won the Grand Prix des Amériques at the Montreal World Film Festival.
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Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin John Whitrow (17 February 1937 – 28 September 2017) was a British actor. He was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for his role as Mr Bennet in the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice, and voiced the role of Fowler in the 2000 animated film Chicken Run. His other film appearances include Quadrophenia (1979), Personal Services (1987) and Bomber (2009). He has 5 grandchildren, 2 of them being Max Whitrow and Milo Whitrow, the sons of Tom Whitrow, the producer of This is MY House and Four in a Bed.
Whitrow was born on 17 February 1937 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, the son of Mary Alexandra (Flaunders) and Philip Whitrow, a teacher at St Edward's School, Oxford.
Whitrow attended two independent schools: The Dragon School in Oxford and Tonbridge School, in the town of Tonbridge in Kent, followed by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Whitrow made his professional debut in Peter Ludwig Brent’s Chance of Heaven at the Irving Theatre in 1955. He then served in the King's Dragoon Guards during his national service from 1956 to 1958, and was partly stationed in Malaya.
In 1959, after leaving the army, he resumed his acting career playing Hector Hushabye in George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House at the Empire, Belfast. He then spent an eight-year apprenticeship in rep before joining the National Theatre company at The Old Vic under Laurence Olivier, who praised him saying "Benjamin Whitrow has never given a bad performance”.
He performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company on multiple occasions. In 1981 he appeared in Passion Play by Peter Nichols. In 1991 he played Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He returned again in 2000, to play Sir Anthony Absolute in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals, and, the following year, Justice Shallow in Henry IV, Part II, a role in which, according to theatre critic Michael Coveney, he was "unforgettably hilarious".
In 1980 he played J.R. Ackerley, writer and literary editor of The Listener, in a dramatised biography We Think The World Of You, titled after Ackerley's 1960 novel of the same name, for the BBC's flagship arts programme Omnibus. That year's series won Best Programme/Series Without Category at the 1981 British Academy Television Awards.
In 1982 he appeared as the businessman in the film version of Brimstone and Treacle by Dennis Potter, directed by Richard Loncraine, which was nominated for the Gold Hugo for Best Feature at that year's Chicago International Film Festival, the Golden Charybdis at the Taormina International Film Festival, and which won the Grand Prix des Amériques at the Montreal World Film Festival.