Jay Benedict

Jay Benedict

Jay Benedict (April 11, 1951 – April 4, 2020) was an American actor who spent most of his life and career in the United Kingdom. He was frequently cast as American characters in British films and television programmes. He was best known for his television roles as Doug Hamilton in the soap opera Emmerdale, and as Captain/Major John Kieffer in the detective drama Foyle's War, in the episodes "Invasion" and "All Clear". He also played Russ Jorden, Newt's father, in the special "Extended Edition" of the film Aliens. Benedict was born in Burbank, California. He moved to Europe with his family in the 1960s, and spent most of his working life in England. He was of half German descent. His theatrical credits include The Rocky Horror Show in the Kings Road in the early 1970s, Harold Pinter's production of Sweet Bird of Youth, The Reverend Lee in The Foreigner and Riccardo in Franco Zeffirelli's production of Filumena in which he played opposite Pierce Brosnan in the latter's first stage role, and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in a touring production of "One Day at a Time". In 2013, he appeared opposite Steven Berkoff and Andree Bernard in the world premiere of the former's one act play An Actor's Lament at The Berkoff Performing Arts Centre at Alton College, followed by a second performance at The Sinden Theatre, Homewood School, Tenterden in Kent, two nights at The Maltings Theatre & Cinema in Berwick-upon-Tweed and then a three-week run at the Assembly Hall in Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In May 2014, it was revived with a short run at the Theatre Royal, Margate with a further one-week run scheduled at The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, in September 2014. In August 2014, he returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the world premiere of Terry Jastrow's The Trial of Jane Fonda, playing World War II veteran Archie Bellows. He also appeared widely on television, most notably as Frank Crowe in an episode of the BBC's award-winning 2003 television miniseries Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, John E. Jones III in Nova's Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, Alan Kalanak in the 2001 Christmas Special edition of Jonathan Creek and Yves Houdet in Thames Television's mini-series of Angus Wilson's Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. Other television appearances include Lilyhammer as Agent Becker, Queen Victoria's Men (Lord Melbourne), Sharpe's Honour (General Verigny), Bergerac (Martin Colley), Death Train (Halloran), Harnessing Peacocks (Eli Drew) and Only Love (Roger). He provided the voice for Shiro Hagen in Star Fleet, the English adaptation of the Japanese X-Bomber. His first film role, at the age of 11, was in the 1963 Tony Saytor film La Bande à Bobo. In 1977, he played Deak in the Tosche Station scenes in Star Wars, which were deleted from the film before release. Subsequent film appearances include The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (Didier le Clair), Icon (Carey Jordan), The White Knight (Turkish Ambassador), The Russia House (Spikey), Saving Grace (the MC), Rewind and The Dark Knight Rises (Rich Twit). In 2003 he was third lead in Vicente Aranda's version of Carmen, playing Don Prospero. ... Source: Article "Jay Benedict" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Jay Benedict
  • Popularity: 1.826
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1951-04-11
  • Place of Birth: Burbank, California, USA
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Jay Benedict Movies

  • 2004
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    Secret Agents

    Secret Agents

    5.2 2004 HD

    From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government...

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  • 2003
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    Carmen

    Carmen

    5.2 2003 HD

    A french writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Carmen, who has enchanted José, a young soldier, awakening his most fervent...

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  • 1985
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    The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

    The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

    6.2 1985 HD

    Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their...

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  • 2006
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    The Maidens' Conspiracy

    The Maidens' Conspiracy

    3.9 2006 HD

    Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his...

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  • 1998
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    Only Love

    Only Love

    5.4 1998 HD

    Two young lovers whose romantic dreams were shattered, are reunited years later in this sweeping story of fobidden love.

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  • 1982
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    Victor/Victoria

    Victor/Victoria

    7.3 1982 HD

    A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

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  • 1990
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    Dark Obsession

    Dark Obsession

    3 1990 HD

    Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money...

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  • 2007
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    The Apocalypse Code

    The Apocalypse Code

    4.9 2007 HD

    Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four nuclear bombs from a sunken American submarine and hides them in four major cities throughout the world. The...

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  • 2005
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    Nature Unleashed: Earthquake

    Nature Unleashed: Earthquake

    6.6 2005 HD

    An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.

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  • 2005
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    Mosquito Man

    Mosquito Man

    5.3 2005 HD

    Police lieutenant detective Thomas 'Thom' Randall's steady girl-friend, Dr. Jennifer 'Jen' Allen, is Dr. Aaron Michaels's main assistant on his...

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  • 1977
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    Come Back, Little Sheba

    Come Back, Little Sheba

    1 1977 HD

    An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.

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  • 1989
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    The Hostage of Europe

    The Hostage of Europe

    6 1989 HD

    On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate...

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  • 1983
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    The Lonely Lady

    The Lonely Lady

    4.9 1983 HD

    A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.

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  • 1963
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    La bande à Bobo

    La bande à Bobo

    1 1963 HD

    In Castallet, a village in Provence, cats are swarming and disturbing the peace and quiet of the inhabitants. The municipality decides to get rid of...

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  • 1984
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    Where Is Parsifal?

    Where Is Parsifal?

    3.5 1984 HD

    Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he...

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  • 2012
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    The Dark Knight Rises

    The Dark Knight Rises

    7.781 2012 HD

    Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and...

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  • 1986
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    Aliens

    Aliens

    7.948 1986 HD

    Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep...

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  • 2006
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    Djihad!

    Djihad!

    6 2006 HD

    A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young...

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  • 2002
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    The Alien Saga

    The Alien Saga

    6.4 2002 HD

    In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battling the ultimate biomechanical creature....

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  • 2015
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    Moonwalkers

    Moonwalkers

    6.1 2015 HD

    What if Apollo 11 never actually made it? What if, in reality, Stanley Kubrick secretly shot the famous images of the moon landing in a studio,...

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  • 2015
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    The Gamechangers

    The Gamechangers

    6.07 2015 HD

    The struggle of Houser's legal feud against American lawyer Jack Thompson, over the morality of the "Grand Theft Auto" video game series.

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  • 2016
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    I.T.

    I.T.

    5.395 2016 HD

    Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art “smart...

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  • 2016
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    Two Is a Family

    Two Is a Family

    7.748 2016 HD

    A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight...

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  • 2018
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    Hostile

    Hostile

    5.795 2018 HD

    Juliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only...

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  • 1992
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    Shining Through

    Shining Through

    6.515 1992 HD

    Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World...

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  • 2017
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    Madame

    Madame

    5.907 2017 HD

    Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends,...

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  • 1979
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    Hanover Street

    Hanover Street

    5.6 1979 HD

    Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

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  • 2011
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    Page Eight

    Page Eight

    6.6 2011 HD

    Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.

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  • 2000
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    Saving Grace

    Saving Grace

    6.5 2000 HD

    Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late...

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  • 1997
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    Double Team

    Double Team

    5.128 1997 HD

    A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and...

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  • 1994
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    The Patriots

    The Patriots

    6.619 1994 HD

    Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After...

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  • 1990
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    The Russia House

    The Russia House

    6.1 1990 HD

    Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to...

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  • 2000
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    RKO 281

    RKO 281

    6.4 2000 HD

    In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with...

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  • 2001
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    Hotel!

    Hotel!

    4.5 2001 HD

    The US president unexpectedly checks into a sleepy hotel in the heart of England, where he is held hostage by terrorists and, even worse, attended to...

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  • 1996
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    Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

    Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

    6.6 1996 HD

    Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his...

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  • 1993
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    Death Train

    Death Train

    4.9 1993 HD

    When a renegade Russian general sends a nuclear bomb hurtling toward the Middle East aboard a hijacked train, special agents are dispatched to disarm...

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  • 2007
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    Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

    Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

    6.6 2007 HD

    Award winning documentary on the case of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which concentrated on the question of whether or not intelligent...

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  • 2003
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    Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'

    Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'

    7.5 2003 HD

    This feature-length documentary, made especially for the 2003 Aliens (1986) DVD release, is incredibly informative with all its interviews with both...

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  • 1986
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    Un métier de seigneur

    Un métier de seigneur

    1 1986 HD

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  • 2012
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    Lilyhammer

    Lilyhammer

    7.3 2012 HD

    After Frank The Fixer Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he...

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  • 1997
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    Lexx

    Lexx

    7 1997 HD

    A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not...

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  • 2015
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    London Spy

    London Spy

    6.967 2015 HD

    A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of...

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  • 1997
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    Jonathan Creek

    Jonathan Creek

    7.4 1997 HD

    Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to...

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  • 1976
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    Laurence Olivier Presents

    Laurence Olivier Presents

    7 1976 HD

    Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of...

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  • 1991
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    2Point4 Children

    2Point4 Children

    7.194 1991 HD

    They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens. Plus just a few crazy ideas, escapades and mishaps. The...

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  • 1991
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    Maigret

    Maigret

    7.4 1991 HD

    The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

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  • 2014
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    Cilla

    Cilla

    7.1 2014 HD

    Three-part biopic of the Liverpudlian songbird who would later find fame and fortune. It tells of her rocky road to fame and captures the essence of...

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  • 1981
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    Bergerac

    Bergerac

    6.4 1981 HD

    Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...

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  • 1999
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    S Club 7

    S Club 7

    6.8 1999 HD

    Be sure to catch this brilliant comedy show starring the brilliant pop group S Club, one of the most successful pop groups around. The show is all...

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