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
Newsnight
1980
Panorama
1953
Horizon
1964
Democracy Now!
2001
Arena
Self
Question Time
Self - Panellist
Wogan
1982
GMTV
1993
American Masters
1986
World in Action
1963
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)
- 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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