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Ben Wright(1915-1989)

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Ben Wright in Perry Mason (1957)
The Outer Limits:Forms Of Things Unknown
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The Forms of Things Unknown (1964)
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Ben Wright was born May 5, 1915, to an English mother and an American father in London, England, UK. At 16, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where classmates included such future stars as Ida Lupino. Upon graduating, he acted in several West End stage productions. When WWII broke out, he enlisted and served in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. He came to America in 1946 to attend a cousin's wedding and settled in Hollywood. He began his American acting career in radio, establishing himself as a master of dialects with such roles as Hey Boy, the Chinese servant, on "Have Gun, Will Travel" with John Dehner. His talent for dialects also kept him busy in the many WWII-related films and TV shows of the 1950s and '60s wherein he played countless Germans and Frenchmen as well as a variety of Englishmen for which he ensured the dialects were accurate depending on which part of England they were from. After years of radio, TV, stage and film work, he entered semi-retirement in the late 1970s, accepting occasional voice work and small guest appearances on TV. On June 16, 1989, after completing his last role, providing the voice of Grimsby in Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989), he entered St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank for quadruple bypass surgery from which he never recovered. He died of heart failure July 2, 1989.
BornMay 5, 1915
DiedJuly 2, 1989(74)
BornMay 5, 1915
DiedJuly 2, 1989(74)
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Larry Gates, Jon Lormer, and Ben Wright in The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Paul Newman, Leo G. Carroll, Rudolph Anders, Virginia Christine, Anna Lee, Elke Sommer, and Ben Wright in The Prize (1963)
Sara Lane, John McIntire, and Ben Wright in The Virginian (1962)
George N. Neise and Ben Wright in Pharaoh's Curse (1957)
Ralph Taeger and Ben Wright in Hondo (1967)
Dabney Coleman, Patrick O'Neal, Sara Shane, and Ben Wright in The Outer Limits (1963)
Patrick Macnee, Nehemiah Persoff, and Ben Wright in The Twilight Zone (1959)

Known for

Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath, Heather Menzies-Urich, and Debbie Turner in The Sound of Music (1965)
The Sound of Music
8.1
  • Herr Zeller
  • 1965
Jodi Benson in The Little Mermaid (1989)
The Little Mermaid
7.6
  • Grimsby(voice)
  • 1989
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
7.3
  • Roger Radcliffe
  • Man(voice)
  • 1961
Sterling Holloway, George Sanders, Sebastian Cabot, Phil Harris, Clint Howard, J. Pat O'Malley, Louis Prima, and Bruce Reitherman in The Jungle Book (1967)
The Jungle Book
7.6
  • Wolf(voice)
  • 1967

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Actor

  • Jodi Benson in The Little Mermaid (1989)
    The Little Mermaid
    • (voice)
  • Joe Howard and Beverly Leech in Mathnet (1987)
    Mathnet
  • Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982)
    Tales of the Gold Monkey
  • Jack Klugman in Quincy M.E. (1976)
    Quincy M.E.
    • (uncredited)
  • Turnover Smith
  • A Man Called Sloane (1979)
    A Man Called Sloane
  • Claude Akins, Brian Kerwin, and Mills Watson in The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979)
    The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
  • Little Women (1978)
    Little Women
  • The Rockford Files (1974)
    The Rockford Files
  • Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue (1977)
    Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue
  • Eddie Albert, Robert Wagner, and Sharon Gless in Switch (1975)
    Switch
  • McNamara's Band
  • Emergency! (1972)
    Emergency!
  • The Rhinemann Exchange (1977)
    The Rhinemann Exchange
  • The Bionic Woman (1976)
    The Bionic Woman

Soundtrack

  • The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song (1992)
    The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song

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The Little Mermaid: Diamond Edition

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    • May 5, 1915
    • London, England, UK
    • July 2, 1989
    • Burbank, California, USA(heart failure)
    • September 5, 1951 - July 2, 1989 (his death, 2 children)
  • Other works
    Unsold pilot: Co-starred with Joan Davis in a comedy pilot entitled "Joan of Arkansas" about a klutzy woman who was chosen by a computer to be the ideal candidate to be the first "man on the moon."

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  • Trivia
    When he voiced Grimsby in The Little Mermaid (1989), no one working on the film realized that he also voiced Roger Radcliff in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961). He had to tell them this.

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