Ben Wright (actor)

Infobox actor
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name = Ben Wright


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birthdate = birth date|1915|05|5
location = London, England
deathdate = death date and age|1989|07|9|1915|05|5 (heart failure)
deathplace = Burbank, California, USA
occupation = Actor
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Ben Wright (May 5, 1915 – July 9, 1989) was an English actor in radio, film, and television.

Life and work

Wright worked extensively in American radio, supplying crisp, erudite diction as the radio incarnation of Sherlock Holmes (1949–1950) and Inspector Peter Black on "Pursuit" (1951–1952). However, he considered himself a dialectician, playing Indian servant Tulku on "The Green Lama", Chinese bellhop Hey Boy on the radio version of "Have Gun Will Travel", and various dialect roles on "Nightbeat" and the anthology "Escape". His roles in the latter ranged from the Cockney protagonist of "The Man Who Worked Miracles" to the famed Arabian hero of "The Voyages of Sinbad." Other radio credits included work on "Gunsmoke", "Crime Classics", and "Suspense".

In film and TV, he was busy on and off-camera. He was seen as the Nazi Herr Zeller in "The Sound of Music", and had small roles in Billy Wilder's "The Fortune Cookie", "Judgment at Nuremberg", and "My Fair Lady", amongst others. On TV, he guested on such series as "Hogan's Heroes" (as various Nazi officers), "Combat!", "Get Smart", "Bonanza", "Gunsmoke", "The Twilight Zone" , It Takes A Thief, and "The Rockford Files".

Wright also worked heavily as a voice actor, and was often heard on "The Outer Limits", as various alien voices, and also appeared on-camera. Other voice work included playing the narrator in "Cleopatra" with Elizabeth Taylor, the BBC announcer in the film version of "The Diary of Anne Frank", and featured animation roles in several Disney movies: "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" (as Roger Radcliff), "The Jungle Book" (as Mowgli's wolf father, Rama), and "The Little Mermaid" (as Grimsby). The latter was his final role.

External links

*imdb name|id=0942220|name= Ben Wright
* [http://www.voicechasers.com/database/showactor.php?actorid=1520 Ben Wright's voice credits]