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John Benfield is a Actor born on 11 september 1951
John Benfield is a British actor, who has appeared in 75 TV episodes or films starting in 1981. He lives in Oxford with his wife, Lillian, and son, Fred.
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Birth 11 september 1951
Death 16 june 2020 (at 68 years)
Death 16 june 2020 (at 68 years)
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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
, 1h44Directed by Andy Serkis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Wolves in film, Mise en scène d'un ours, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un tigre, L'enfance marginalisée, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Rohan Chand, Andy Serkis, Christian Bale, Matthew Rhys, Benedict Cumberbatch, Freida Pinto
Roles Wolf Elder (voice)
Rating64%
Enfant, Mowgli est élevé par une meute de loups au cœur de la jungle indienne. Tandis qu'il apprend les lois souvent âpres de la jungle, sous la responsabilité de l'ours Baloo et de la panthère Bagheera, Mowgli est accepté par les animaux de la jungle comme l'un des leurs – sauf par le terrible tigre Shere Khan. Mais des dangers bien plus redoutables guettent notre héros, au moment où il doit affronter ses origines humaines.
Cold Skin (2017)
Directed by Xavier Gens
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Actors David Oakes, Aura Garrido, Ray Stevenson, John Benfield
Roles Captain Axel
Rating60%
À l'automne 1914, alors que la première guerre mondiale a déjà commencé en Europe, un jeune climatologue débarque sur une île déserte située dans l'océan austral pour y travailler pendant un an. Il rencontre le gardien de phare, étrange personnage à la personnalité torturée. Il découvre rapidement qu'ils ne sont pas seuls. À la nuit tombée, d'étranges et redoutables créatures surgissent de la mer.
The Best Offer (2013)
, 2h11Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Peinture
Actors Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Donald Sutherland, Sylvia Hoeks, Philip Jackson, Liya Kebede
Roles Barman
Rating77%
The film tells a story of love and deceit, set in Europe (Trieste, Bolzano, Fidenza, Rome, Milan, Merano, Vienna, Prague) in the world of high-end art auctions and antiques. The story revolves around Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush), an aging and esteemed, but somewhat eccentric, managing director of an auction house. Oldman is hired by a reclusive young heiress, Claire Ibbetson (Sylvia Hoeks), to auction off the large collection of art and antiques left to her by her parents. Claire always refuses to be seen in person, obviously suffering from severe agoraphobia and never leaving her room. Soon enough Virgil, a life-long bachelor, understands that he has fallen in love with her.
Directed by Charles Binamé
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Paul Gross, Rick Cosnett, Greta Scacchi, Martha Burns, Heino Ferch, Tom Skerritt
Rating61%
The story begins while a nationwide referendum is being held to decide whether or not Canada will join the United States. The people of Canada vote to join the U.S., while Prime Minister Tom McLaughlin (Paul Gross) watches the results on the news. Sitting at the house of former Prime Minister Marc Lavigne (Guy Nadon; from H2O), he plots revenge, stating that one day, he would tell Lavigne the fable of "The Mouse and the Frog".
Speed Racer (2008)
, 2h15Directed by Lana et Lilly Wachowski
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Nicholas Elia, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox
Roles Cruncher Block
Rating61%
Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is an 18-year-old whose life and love has always been automobile racing. His parents Pops (John Goodman) and Mom (Susan Sarandon) run the independent Racer Motors, in which his brother Spritle (Paulie Litt), mechanic Sparky (Kick Gurry), and girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci) are also involved. As a child Speed idolized his record-setting older brother, Rex Racer (Scott Porter), who was killed while racing in the Casa Cristo 5000, a cross-country racing rally. Now embarking on his own career, Speed Racer is quickly sweeping the racing world with his skill behind the wheel of his brother's cars, the Mach 5 and his own Formula One car the Mach 6, but remains primarily interested in the art of the race and the well-being of his family.
Cassandra's Dream (2007)
, 1h48Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Sally Hawkins, Tom Wilkinson, John Benfield
Roles Father
Rating65%
Brothers Terry (Colin Farrell) and Ian (Ewan McGregor), who live in South London, were raised by a weak father Brian (John Benfield) who runs a restaurant, and a strong mother Dorothy (Clare Higgins) who taught her sons to look up to their uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson), a successful plastic surgeon and businessman.
Flood (2007)
, 1h50Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Météorologie, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films
Actors Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, David Suchet, Tom Courtenay, Joanne Whalley, Gottfried John
Roles Frank
Rating48%
A devastating flood strikes London when the Thames Barrier is overwhelmed by a huge surge of water. A storm surge travels between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, raising sea levels and coinciding with the spring tide. Several parts of Scotland are devastated, including Wick.
Evilenko (2004)
, 1h51Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Serial killer films
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, Ronald Pickup, Vernon Dobtcheff, John Benfield, Frances Barber
Rating61%
In 1984, in Kiev, schoolteacher Andrej Romanovich Evilenko is dismissed from his position after attempting to molest a student. Driven by his psychopathic urges and embittered by the collapse of the Soviet Union, Evilenko begins to rape, kill, and cannibalize women and children. It is hinted throughout the movie that Evilenko somehow gained the power to psychically influence his victims, which accounts for their lack of resistance and his continuous evasion of the authorities.
The Third Wave (2003)
, 1h55Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Jakob Eklund, Irina Björklund, John Benfield, Nicholas Farrell, Lennart Hjulström, Marie Richardson
Roles Stevens
Rating62%
Le crime organisé ronge l'Europe. Composée d'éminents financiers et de dealers ultra violents, "la troisième vague en est une des organisations les plus actives. Le commissaire Selberg, récemment nommé chef d'Europol, a pour objectif n°1 d'enrayer ce nouveau mal, et pour ce faire il ne voit qu'une solution: engager son protégé Johan Falk. Une jeune anglaise traquée, Selberg assassiné, Falk se lance dans une course contre la mort à travers l'Europe.....
Charlotte Gray (2002)
, 2h1Directed by Gillian Armstrong
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Cate Blanchett, Michael Gambon, James Fleet, Billy Crudup, Abigail Cruttenden, Rupert Penry-Jones
Roles Loque
Rating63%
In 1942, a young Scot, Charlotte Gray, travels to London to take a job in a surgery. On the train, a man enters her compartment and chats with her, asking questions about her life and expressing interest that she is fluent in French. He gives her his card with the date, time and address of a book launch. Social life in London is in full swing and her friends convince her to go. She soon meets RAF Flight Lieutenant Peter Gregory, but is interrupted by Richard Cannerley, the older man from the train, who urges her to meet some of his acquaintances and asks her to contact him when she leaves.
Lover's Prayer (2001)
, 1h46Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kirsten Dunst, Nick Stahl, Julie Walters, Geraldine James, Nathaniel Parker, James Fox
Roles Nirmansky
Rating48%
Au début de l'été 1833, Vladimir Petrovitch, âgé alors de seize ans, prépare sans zèle excessif ses examens d'entrée à l'université dans la propriété de ses parents, non loin de Moscou. Il tombe éperdument amoureux de Zénaïde, jeune femme de vingt-et-un ans d'une singulière beauté, qu'il observe de derrière la palissade séparant son jardin du parc. C'est en fait sa voisine fraîchement installée dans la maison attenante et qui vit là avec sa mère, la princesse Zassékine, personne désargentée réduite à une existence misérable.
24 Hours in London (2000)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Gary Olsen, Sara Stockbridge, John Sharian, Lorelei King, Richard Graham, Morgan Jones
Roles Chief Inspector Duggan
Rating35%
Crime lord Christian is in charge of the streets of London, he decides to exterminate a rival gang but leaves a witness in the process. Martha—the witness—is being protected by the police but Christians gang is unstopable. After her near-death experience in the police station; she is moved to another location to meet up with under-cover officers. Upon arrival the alleged under-cover cop is actually impersonating the identity of the officer that he and his accompliced just harvested organs from. In the end when Christian is dying in the hotel room, we learn the main protagonist is actually a mole for Christian and that one of Christians thugs is romantically involved with Martha. Turns out that Martha and her lover Tony hired the organ harvesters who are caught up in the middle, Christian is dead, the good/bad cop is left to die and the organ harvesters and the con couple (Martha and Tony) leave. After they leave the room the police force enters the room and the commissioner gives a nod signaling them to leave.
You're Dead... (1999)
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Rhys Ifans, Claire Skinner, John Hurt, John Benfield, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, David Schneider
Roles Insp. Badger
Rating56%
Owd Bob (1998)
Directed by Rodney Gibbons
Actors James Cromwell, Jemima Rooper, Colm Meaney, John Benfield, Anthony Booth, Moira A.S. Brooker
Rating61%
Cousin Bette (1998)
, 1h48Directed by Desmond McAnuff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Hugh Laurie, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine Chaplin, Kelly Macdonald
Roles Dr. Bianchon
Rating61%
At the deathbed of her wealthy cousin Adeline (Chaplin), poor seamstress Bette Fischer (Lange) promises to take care of her cousin's family. However Baron Hector Hulot (Laurie), her late cousin's husband, still knowingly treats her as a "housekeeper", giving her charge over his daughter Hortense (Kelly Macdonald). Refusing the offer to stay in Hulot's home, Bette returns to her apartment in a rundown poorer district of Paris, where she makes costumes for a Burlesque theatre. She becomes friends with the headliner of the show, famed courtesan Jenny Cadine (Shue). Bette finds a source of comfort in Count Wenceslas Steinbach (Aden Young), a young but promising artist who has fallen on hard times. Besotted by the young man, Bette does everything possible to provide for him such as buying him food and motivating him to continue with his work. One day, Bette tells Hortense of her "sweetheart" Wenceslas.