Dave Benson Phillips

Dave Benson-Phillips (born 3 February 1965) is a British children's television presenter who gained high popularity as the host of the children's game show Get Your Own Back, shown on BBC One (later CBBC) between 1991 and 2003. In 2005 he was among the select few honoured by induction into the Children's Walk of Fame.

Career

Between 1989 and 1997, Dave Benson-Phillips was also a presenter on Playdays, especially its memorable "Playground Stop" segment, in which he enabled viewers to become knowledgeable about Makaton, a basic sign language which is typically used with special needs children. After Get Your Own Back discontinued production, he kept a busy work schedule in children's and preschool educational television, particularly for the BBC and Playhouse Disney. He is widely known for his saying 'Crank it up'.

In 1996, Phillips also hosted CITV Saturday morning gameshow Wake Up in the Wild Room

He also hosted a local weekly segment every day on the Worthing, West Sussex radio station, 107.7 Splash FM. He produced a video of Makaton Nursery Rhymes in 1991, being a very rare example of sign language video recordings for children.

Benson-Phillips lives in Hanging Heaton with his wife Emma and their son Benjamin. He has a passion for music which he has had from an early age and 2 years ago was re-united with his teenage band to play lead guitarist in The Gullibles^{[citation needed]}. He also runs a removal company and an inflatables hire company^[1].

He is returning to the stage to star in a Christmas production of Jack & the Beanstalk at The Grange Theatre, Northwich, as the King of giddy oop on Wednesday 14th December to Saturday 31st December 2011.

Filmography

• Wake Up in the Wild Room
• Fun Song Factory
• Playdays
• Get Your Own Back
• Planet Cook
• Petswap
• Playhouse Disney
• Bite Size
• Dream Street
• Dave's Factory
• Dave Benson's Gunge Guzzlers (Channel 5)

Videos and DVDS

• Fun Song Factory
• A Day Full of Surprise and Songs
• Makaton - Nursery Rhymes
• Wow! That's What I Call Nursery Rhymes
• Get Up And Go
• Dave And The Animals
• Wiz Waz's
• The Magical World Of Animals
• Roald Dahl - The Enormous Crocodile

References

1. ^ , www.davebensonphillips.co.uk 

External links

• Dave Benson Phillips's website
• Biographical entry at UKGAMESHOWS.com
• Dave Benson Phillips at the Internet Movie Database
• disco dancing dave, a computer-animated musical website
• A page from the Children's Walk of Fame website highlighting three of its inductees—Chris Packham, Dave Benson Phillips (listed as Dave Benson-Philips) and The Story of Tracy Beaker (listed as Tracey Beaker)
• dailymail.co.uk

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