---
name: "Tony Benn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tony-benn"
fi1m_id: "tony-benn"
imdb_id: "nm1125277"
tmdb_id: 226411
wikidata_id: "Q332412"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 April 1925"
died: "14 March 2014"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T20:01:35.883836+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tony Benn

## Identity

Tony Benn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tony-benn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tony-benn
- **IMDb ID:** nm1125277
- **TMDB ID:** 226411
- **Wikidata ID:** Q332412
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332412, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1125277/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/226411

Actor. Born 3 April 1925 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. Died 14 March 2014.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 April 1925, Marylebone, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 14 March 2014
- **Also known as:** Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332412, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1125277/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/226411

## Biography

Tony Benn (born Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn) was a British politician, writer and diarist who served as a Member of Parliament for 47 years from 1950 to 2001 and held Cabinet posts in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s.

He appeared as himself in several documentaries. These include *Taking Liberties* (2007), a film about civil liberties under the Blair government, and *Sicko* (2007).

Benn was born on 3 April 1925 in Marylebone, London, and died on 14 March 2014.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, bbc.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Taking Liberties* (2007), Fi1m 66, Actor — [page](https://film.one/film/taking-liberties.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Atom: A Love Affair* (2019), Actor
- *Tony Benn: Will and Testament* (2014), Actor
- *We Are Many* (2014), Actor
- *Paul O Grady's Working Britain* (2013), series, Actor
- *Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth* (2013), Actor
- *Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain* (2013), Actor
- *Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady* (2012), Actor
- *Entertaining the Troops* (2011), Actor
- *The Story of British Pathe* (2011), series, Actor
- *Unlawful Killing* (2011), Actor
- *13 Hours That Saved Britain* (2011), Actor
- *Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out* (2009), Actor
- *Beyond A Joke* (2009), series, Actor
- *The 60s: The Beatles Decade* (2008), series, Actor
- *Taking Liberties* (2007), Actor — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/taking-liberties.md)
- *The Sunday Edition* (2006), series, Actor
- *Folk Britannia* (2006), series, Actor
- *The Late Edition* (2005), series, Actor
- *30 Minutes* (2004), series, Actor
- *The Mark Steel Lectures* (2003), series, Actor
- *Designing The Decades* (2003), series, Actor
- *Strike: When Britain Went to War* (2003), Actor
- *Daily Politics* (2003), series, Actor
- *Timeshift* (2002), series, Actor
- *Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy* (2002), series, Actor
- *Missing Presumed Wiped* (2001), Actor
- *Clarkson's Car Years* (2000), series, Actor
- *Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun* (1999), series, Actor
- *Westminster: Behind Closed Doors with Tony Benn* (1995), Actor
- *Anyone for Pennis?* (1995), Actor
- *Thatcher: The Downing Street Years* (1993), series, Actor
- *The Big Story* (1993), series, Actor
- *Clive Anderson Talks Back* (1989), series, Actor
- *The Late Show* (1988), series, Actor
- *After Dark* (1987), series, Actor
- *Open Air* (1986), series, Actor
- *American Masters* (1986), series, Actor
- *Open Space* (1983), series, Actor
- *A Week in Politics* (1983), series, Actor
- *Timewatch* (1982), series, Actor
- *Weekend World* (1972), series, Actor
- *How We Used To Live* (1968), series, Actor
- *One Pair of Eyes* (1967), series, Actor
- *Late Night Line-Up* (1964), series, Actor
- *Horizon* (1964), series, Actor
- *Turning Points of History*, series, Actor
- *This Week*, series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Tony Benn](https://film.one/media/person/4156907/gallery-4d8c9d1a009e.jpg) Tony Benn — Isujosh, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Tony_Benn2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ateliers Sud Aviation (Saint-Martin-du-Touch). 11 décembre 1967. Plan taille de profil de Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (ministre anglais de la Technologie) et Jea](https://film.one/media/person/4156907/gallery-0bb7470e5752.jpg) Ateliers Sud Aviation (Saint-Martin-du-Touch). 11 décembre 1967. Plan taille de profil de Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (ministre anglais de la Technologie) et Jea — André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/11.12.67_Pr%C3%A9sentation_officielle_du_Concorde_%281967%29_-_53Fi1747.jpg/1280px-11.12.67_Pr%C3%A9sentation_officielle_du_Concorde_%281967%29_-_53Fi1747.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ateliers Sud Aviation (Saint-Martin-du-Touch). 11 décembre 1967. Plan taille de Maurice Papon (Président de Sud Aviation) remettant un souvenir (coffret) à Anth](https://film.one/media/person/4156907/gallery-e588f1218258.jpg) Ateliers Sud Aviation (Saint-Martin-du-Touch). 11 décembre 1967. Plan taille de Maurice Papon (Président de Sud Aviation) remettant un souvenir (coffret) à Anth — André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/11.12.67_Pr%C3%A9sentation_officielle_du_Concorde_%281967%29_-_53Fi1748.jpg/1280px-11.12.67_Pr%C3%A9sentation_officielle_du_Concorde_%281967%29_-_53Fi1748.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ateliers Sud Aviation (Saint-Martin-du-Touch). 11 décembre 1967. Plan taille de face du ministre anglais de la Technologie Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn découpant ](https://film.one/media/person/4156907/gallery-e49749f56755.jpg) Ateliers Sud Aviation (Saint-Martin-du-Touch). 11 décembre 1967. Plan taille de face du ministre anglais de la Technologie Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn découpant  — André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/11.12.67_Pr%C3%A9sentation_officielle_du_Concorde_%281967%29_-_53Fi1744.jpg/1280px-11.12.67_Pr%C3%A9sentation_officielle_du_Concorde_%281967%29_-_53Fi1744.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ateliers Sud Aviation (Saint-Martin-du-Touch). 11 décembre 1967. Plan taille du ministre anglais de la Technologie Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn remettant les cise](https://film.one/media/person/4156907/gallery-fddf37c0d464.jpg) Ateliers Sud Aviation (Saint-Martin-du-Touch). 11 décembre 1967. Plan taille du ministre anglais de la Technologie Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn remettant les cise — André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/11.12.67_Pr%C3%A9sentation_officielle_du_Concorde_%281967%29_-_53Fi1746.jpg/1280px-11.12.67_Pr%C3%A9sentation_officielle_du_Concorde_%281967%29_-_53Fi1746.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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