Charles Kenneth Anton Benda (3 June 1902 – 26 July 1978) was an English actor often on television. He appeared in British television series ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Avengers'', ''

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'', ''

The Prisoner ''The Prisoner'' is a 1967 British television series about an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village, where his captors designate him as Number Six and try to find out why he abruptl ...

'', '' Doctor Who'', ''

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'' and films ''

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'' is a 1970 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder. The film offers an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes, ...

'', '' The Ruling Class'', '' Horror Hospital'', ''

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'', ''

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It ''The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It'' is a 1977 comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring John Cleese. It is a low-budget spoof of the Sherlock Holmes detective series, as well as the mystery genre in gener ...

'', '' International Velvet'' and others. His stage appearances included small roles at

The Old Vic The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre in Waterloo, London, England. Established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, and renamed in 1833 the Royal Victoria Theatre. In 1871 it was rebuilt and reopened as the Royal ...

and with Peter Hall's National Theatre company.

Private life

Benda was the son of Charles Benda, a company director and merchant dealing in Oriental Goods. His grandparents, Anton Benda and his wife Frances Mandelbaum, both originally from the

Kingdom of Bavaria The Kingdom of Bavaria (german: Königreich Bayern; ; spelled ''Baiern'' until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German ...

, were naturalized as British subjects, and in the census of 1871 his grandfather was described as a foreign agent. On 2 June 1932, at St Peter’s, Cranley Gardens, he married Lucy Evelyn Alston, a daughter of Sir Beilby Alston. Their daughter Rosemary Evelyn was born in 1936. In 1960, she married Robert Calder-Smith and they had two daughters and three sons, Henrietta, Anthony, Victoria, Dominic and Benjamin. Benda retired to the Old Vicarage,

Crondall Crondall () is a village and large civil parish in the north east of Hampshire in England, in the Crondall Hundred surveyed in the Domesday Book of 1086. The village is on the gentle slopes of the low western end of the North Downs range, and has ...

, near Farnham, Surrey, where he died in July 1978.''Wills and Administrations (England & Wales) 1978'' (1979), p. 602 His widow survived him until 1991. Both are buried at Crondall.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Benda, Kenneth 1902 births 1978 deaths English male stage actors English male film actors English male television actors