Martin Benjamin Benson (10 August 1918 – 28 February 2010)[1][2] was an English actor who appeared in films, theatre and television.

[3] Benson was born in the East End of London, into a Jewish family,[4] the son of a Russian-Jewish grocer and his Polish-Jewish wife who had left Russia at the revolution.

[1] After attending Tottenham Grammar School on a scholarship, he served in the 2nd Searchlight, Royal Artillery, during World War II.

[6] His films include The Blind Goddess (1948), Wheel of Fate (1953), Interpol (1957), The Strange World of Planet X (1958), Once More, with Feeling!

[8] In the same year he played the recurring character the Duke de Medici in the children's adventure series Sword of Freedom.