Career
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 British Broadcasting Corporation Television Shakespeare Series, Reuben with Bill Maynard in Alan Plater"s Trinity Tales, Henry VII in The Black Adder, Bernard in All Creatures Great and Small, Bor in the Doctor Who serial Terminus.
Recent roles include the made for television 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 played Bernie Scripps in Heartbeat between 1995 and 2010.
In the television-series "Bernie" Scripps ran Aidensfield Garage, and the local funeral service. He was often involved helping first Claude Greengrass (Bill Maynard), his half-brother Vernon Scripps (Geoffrey Hughes) and later Peggy Armstrong (Gwen Taylor) with disastrous money-making schemes.