Biography
Ben Wright was an English actor. Born in London in 1915, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began his career on the West End stage before serving in the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the Second World War. He moved to the United States in 1946 and worked extensively in radio, film and television.
He is known for his role as Herr Zeller in The Sound of Music (1965) and for voice work in Disney animated features, including Roger Radcliffe in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), Rama in The Jungle Book (1967) and Grimsby in The Little Mermaid (1989), his final role. Other film credits include Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and Cleopatra (1963).
