Person
Tony Benn
Acting · 1925–2014 · 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
Horizon
1964
Wogan
1982
GMTV
1993
Question Time
Self - Panellist
Panorama
1953
Newsnight
1980
Arena
Self
American Masters
1986
Later... with Jools Holland
Self
Timewatch
1982
Filmography
- 2019The Atom: A Love Affair
- 2015Laissez-faireSelf (archive footage)
- 2014Tony Benn: Will and Testament
- 2014We Are Many
- 2014Tony Benn: Labour's Lost LeaderSelf (Archive Footage)
- 2013Paul O Grady's Working Britain
- 2013Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
- 2013The Spirit of '45Himself - Contributor
- 2013Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain
- 2012London: The Modern BabylonSelf - Interviewee
- 2012Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret RutherfordSelf
- 2012Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady
- 2011Entertaining the Troops
- 2011The Story of British Pathe
- 2011Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year DuelSelf
- 2011Unlawful Killing
- 201113 Hours That Saved Britain
- 2011EthosSelf
- 2010In Confidence
- 2009The Week We Went To War
- 2009Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out
- 2009Beyond A Joke
- 2008The 60s: The Beatles Decade
- 2007SickoSelf
- 2007Taking Liberties
- 2006The Book Show
- 2006The Sunday Edition
- 2006Folk Britannia
- 2005Banned in the UKSelf
- 2005The Late Edition
- 200430 Minutes
- 2003The Mark Steel Lectures
- 2003Designing The Decades
- 2003Trust Me - I'm a PoliticianSelf
- 2003Strike: When Britain Went to War
- 2003This Week
- 2003Daily Politics
- 2002The Battle of OrgreaveSelf
- 2002TimeshiftSelf
- 2002Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
- 2001Missing Presumed Wiped
- 2001Cabinet ConfidentialSelf
- 2001Democracy Now!
- 2000Clarkson's Car Years
- 1999Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun
- 1999Paul Robeson: Here I StandSelf
- 1997HARDtalk
- 1997The ScarHimself (uncredited)
- 1996How to Be Prime MinisterSelf
- 1995Westminster: Behind Closed Doors with Tony Benn
- 1995The Wilderness YearsSelf
- 1995Odd Man Out: A Film Portrait of Enoch PowellSelf
- 1995Anyone for Pennis?
- 1995Harold Wilson: A LifeSelf
- 1994The Sunday Programme
- 1994Wasted WindfallSelf
- 1993Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
- 1993The Big Story
- 1993GMTV
- 1992Later... with Jools HollandSelf
- 1989Clive Anderson Talks Back
- 1989Blackpool WakesSelf
- 1988The Late Show
- 1987After Dark
- 1986Open Air
- 1986American Masters
- 1984Open To Question
- 1984Beyond and Behind the VoteHimself
- 1983The Red and the BlueSelf (uncredited)
- 1983Open Space
- 1983A Week in Politics
- 1983News from DurhamHimself
- 1982Timewatch
- 1982ShadesSelf (archive footage)
- 1982Wogan
- 1980Newsnight
- 1979Friday Night, Saturday Morning
- 1979Question TimeSelf - Panellist
- 1975ArenaSelf
- 1972Weekend World
- 1968How We Used To Live
- 1967One Pair of Eyes
- 1966The Money Programme
- 1964Late Night Line-Up
- 1964Horizon
- 1963World in Action
- 1953Panorama
- —This Week
- —Turning Points of History
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