Benjamin Patrick Aris (16 March 1937 – 4 September 2003) was an English actor who was best known for his parts in Hi-de-Hi! and To the Manor Born, and was also very active on stage. He was often cast as an eccentric, upper-class man.
Aris was born in London, and following World War II, he trained at the Arts Educational School. At the age of only 16, he joined a national tour of the show Zip Goes a Million. He then did his national service in the...
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Benjamin Patrick Aris (16 March 1937 – 4 September 2003) was an English actor who was best known for his parts in Hi-de-Hi! and To the Manor Born, and was also very active on stage. He was often cast as an eccentric, upper-class man.
Aris was born in London, and following World War II, he trained at the Arts Educational School. At the age of only 16, he joined a national tour of the show Zip Goes a Million. He then did his national service in the Army and following that appeared in many musicals and films including The Plague of the Zombies, The Charge of the Light Brigade and Hamlet. Aris was in the 1960 production of "Pieces of Eight" at the Apollo Theatre in London as well as the 1969 production of "Hamlet" at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
His first television role was in the sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em in 1973. The following year he appeared in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, a 1974 Doctor Who serial. His other early television roles included Sam and the River (1975),...
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