Ben Aris

Nascimento : 1937-03-16, London, England, UK

Morte : 2003-09-04

História

Benjamin Patrick Aris (16 March 1937 – 4 September 2003) was an English actor who was best known for his parts in Hi-de-Hi! and To the Manor Born, and was also very active on stage. He was often cast as an eccentric, upper-class, or upper-middle class, man.

Filmes

Uma Paixão em Florença
Col. Trail
Em plena Florença de 1938, a viúva britânica Mary Panton (Kristin Scott Thomas) viaja por uma vila italiana, onde se vê envolvida num triângulo amoroso e em intrigas políticas. Quando seu velho amigo Sir Edgar (James Fox) pede sua mão em casamento, Mary pede alguns dias para pensar na proposta. Durante este tempo, Mary conhece num jantar um americano (Sean Penn) com quem acaba se envolvendo romanticamente e para quem revela seu terrível segredo.
U.F.O. The Movie
The legendary Roy 'Chubby' Brown stars in his very first feature length movie. Chubby is captured by a gang of feminist aliens from the 25th century and beamed up to their spaceship during his live show in Blackpool. Put on trial for crimes against woman, he is soon found guilty and sentenced to the ultimate penalty. Is this the end of the planet's favourite son? Will he escape? Or will Chubby be terminated? Co-starring super model Sara Stockbridge and Roger Lloyd Pack, 'Trig' from Only Fools and Horses. U.F.O. is the bawdiest, most outrageous celluloid experience of the year or indeed any year.
Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors
Scotland Yard Commissioner
Biopic purporting to tell the real story behind the marriage of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson from their initial courtship through their eventual separation.
King of the Wind
Squire Dunn
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time.
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Party Guest
Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation officer - and girlfriend - gets him community work teaching youngsters how to lead law-abiding lives. This displeases Sterling,as he needs the young delinquents for his bicycle stealing ring.
A Hazard of Hearts
Lieutenant of Dragoons
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.
Night Train to Murder
Theatre Manager
When Eric's niece Kathy becomes one of the heirs to a considerable fortune, her life (and those of the other heirs) is placed in jeopardy by the actions of a mysterious inter-loper.
The Falklands Factor
Mr. Edmund Burke M.P.
Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the Falkland Islands. A major international crisis explodes. What follows may sound strangely familiar, but is firmly based on the historical record and the actual speeches and writings of the time.
Christmas Spirits
Charles Aintrey
Julia, a Hollywood property scout, is looking for a house to star in a horror movie, she finds more than she bargained for at Glebes Hall. Unaired in the UK.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Inspector Newcomen
Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Lord Tarquin of Staines
Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert, who was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident.
Fearless Frank
The outrageous - and not entirely reliable - memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.
The After Dinner Joke
Bruce Wingfield
A comic extravaganza about a young woman's adventures in the world of big business charity.
A Sauna das Loucas
Patron with Bicycle
No leito de morte, o pai de Carmine Vespucci diz para ele "buscar Proclo". Com "o golpe", Gaetano diz a um motorista de táxi para levá-lo onde Carmine não o encontra. Ele chega ao Ritz, um balneário gay, onde é perseguido amorosamente pelo "caçador gordinho" Paul B. Price e pelo artista Googie Gomez, que acredita que ele é um produtor da Broadway. Seus guias através do Ritz são o porteiro Abe, o habitual Chris e o mensageiro Tiger e Duff. O detetive Michael Brick e seu empregador Carmine localizam Gateano no Ritz, assim como sua esposa Vivian.
I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight
Trampas B. Hildebrand
Virginal nerd Jon Pigeon, manages to secure a job in a sex research institute where the patients run about the corridors naked, nude aerobics are encouraged and no man is safe from the crotch-grabbing tea lady. In his attempts to seduce pretty office secretary Cheryl, Pigeon invents a machine called Agnes that emits a 'sonic aphrodisiac' guaranteed to turn any man or woman into an slathering sex maniac. Although his attempts to zap Cheryl are singularly unsuccessful, Pigeon gets some interesting results when he accidentally turns the 'sex ray' on his bullying boss Nutbrown and the prudish Mary Watchtower.
Enemy
Andrew
Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.
O Heróico Covarde
Fireman
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
Alfie, O Eterno Sedutor
Ad Man
Alfie meets his romantic match when the modern-day Casanova falls in love with a career woman. Alfie soon realises that Abby, a magazine editor, is just as romantically ruthless as he is.
Tommy
Reverend Simpson
Um jovem surdo, mudo e cego torna-se mestre no fliperama e conquista seguidores, o que cria uma aparente religião.
Vampira
Policeman
In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from several beautiful models, but during the transfusion, Vampira's race turns from white to black.
Juggernaut: Inferno em Alto-Mar
The Walker
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Lieutenant Shears
The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because dinosaurs have appeared mysteriously. It turns out the dinosaurs are being brought to London via a time machine to further a plan to revert London to a pre-technological level.
O Lucky Man!
Mr MacIntyre/Dr Hyder/Flight Lt. Wallace
This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.
Savage Messiah
Thomas Buff
The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”
The Music Lovers
Young Lieutenant
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.
Carter, o Vingador
Architect (uncredited)
Jack Carter trabalha como cobrador de dívidas para um agiota em Los Angeles e viaja para Newcastle em virtude do funeral de seu irmão. Ele começa a desconfiar que a morte do irmão não foi um acidente e inicia uma busca no submundo da cidade para descobrir a verdade.
The Reckoning
Party Guest
Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him - after 37 years - back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes "a matter of honour" for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police
Hamlet
Rosencrantz
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Se…
John Thomas
Em uma escola pública inglesa estuda o jovem Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell). Ele lidera um grupo de alunos rebeldes, os Crusaders. Insatisfeitos com o opressor sistema educacional, eles planejam uma grande vingança.
A Carga da Brigada Ligeira
Lt. Maxse
1954. O capitão Louis Edward Nolan (David Hemmings) é um oficial do exército que está desapontado com seu comandante, o lorde Cardigan (Trevor Howard). Ele é enviado à Turquia juntamente com o lorde Raglan (John Gielgud), um oficial desastrado que tem problemas de memória. A missão deles é combater a invasão russa ao local, durante a Guerra da Criméia.
Lionheart
Capt. Harris
A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy.
The Plague of the Zombies
John Martinus
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences.
West 11
Partygoer
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...