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Tony Benn

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

Apr 3, 1925 (101 years old)

Place of Birth

Marylebone, London, England, UK

Biography

Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn was a British politician, writer, and diarist. He was a Member of Parliament for 47 years between the 1950 and 2001 general elections and a Cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s.

Known For

Acting
2019The Atom: A Love Affair
2015Laissez-faireSelf (archive footage)
2014Tony Benn: Labour's Lost LeaderSelf (Archive Footage)
2014Tony Benn: Will and Testament
2014We Are Many
2013The Spirit of '45Himself - Contributor
2013Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain
2013Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
2013Paul O Grady's Working Britain
2012London: The Modern BabylonSelf - Interviewee
2012Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret RutherfordSelf
2012Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady
2011EthosSelf
2011Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year DuelSelf
201113 Hours That Saved Britain
2011Unlawful Killing
2011Entertaining the Troops
2011The Story of British Pathe
2010In Confidence
2009Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out
2009Beyond A Joke
2009The Week We Went To War
2008The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2007SickoSelf
2007Taking Liberties
2006Folk Britannia
2006The Book Show
2006The Sunday Edition
2005Banned in the UKSelf
2005The Late Edition
200430 Minutes
2003Trust Me - I'm a PoliticianSelf
2003Designing The Decades
2003This Week
2003The Mark Steel Lectures
2003Daily Politics
2002The Battle of OrgreaveSelf
2002TimeshiftSelf - Postmaster General
2002TimeshiftSelf
2002Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
2002Timeshift
2001Cabinet ConfidentialSelf
2001Missing Presumed Wiped
2001Democracy Now!
2000Clarkson's Car Years
1999Paul Robeson: Here I StandSelf
1999Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun
1997The ScarHimself (uncredited)
1997HARDtalk
1996How to Be Prime MinisterSelf
1995Westminster: Behind Closed Doors with Tony Benn
1995Odd Man Out: A Film Portrait of Enoch PowellSelf
1995Harold Wilson: A LifeSelf
1995Anyone for Pennis?
1995The Wilderness YearsSelf
1994Wasted WindfallSelf
1994The Sunday Programme
1993Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
1993The Big Story
1993GMTV
1992Later... with Jools HollandSelf
1989Blackpool WakesSelf
1989Clive Anderson Talks Back
1988The Late Show
1987After Dark
1986Open Air
1986American Masters
1984Beyond and Behind the VoteHimself
1984Open To Question
1983News from DurhamHimself
1983The Red and the BlueSelf (uncredited)
1983Open Space
1983A Week in Politics
1982ShadesSelf (archive footage)
1982Wogan
1982Timewatch
1980Newsnight
1979Question TimeSelf - Panellist
1979Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1975Arena
1972Weekend World
1968How We Used To Live
1967One Pair of Eyes
1966The Money Programme
1964Horizon
1964Late Night Line-Up
1963World in Action
1953Panorama
-This Week
-Turning Points of History