| Name |
Peter Benson |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
English |
| Date of Birth |
13-June-1943 |
| Place of Birth |
England, UK |
| Famous for |
Acting |
Peter Benson is a British actor probably best known as Bernie Scripps in the popular ITV1 TV-series Heartbeat, a drama about the police in the fictional "Aidensfield" in the 1960s. He has also had a number of other film and television roles, often playing weak or vacillating characters.
Benson's other television and theatre work includes the regional premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins. On television his credits include the Dauphin in Shaw's Saint Joan, Henry VI in all three parts of Henry VI and Richard III for the BBC Television Shakespeare Series, Reuben with Bill Maynard in Alan Plater's Trinity Tales, Henry VII in Blackadder, Bernard in All Creatures Great and Small, Bor in the Doctor Who serial Terminus. Recent roles include the made for TV film Merlin and A Touch of Frost.
He has also had parts in The Royal, Rumpole of the Bailey, Jeeves and Wooster, The Bill, Peak Practice,Casualty,Tenko, and Lovejoy, among others.
Benson has played Bernie Scripps in Heartbeat since 1995. In the TV-series 'Bernie' Scripps is running Aidensfield Garage, and the local funeral service. He's often involved helping first Claude Greengrass (Bill Maynard), his half-brother Vernon Scripps (Geoffrey Hughes) and last Peggy Armstrong (Gwen Taylor) with disastrous money-making schemes.
