Benson has appeared in the British films Quadrophenia (1979), Scum (1979),[1] Love, Honour and Obey (2000),[1] Alien Autopsy (2006), This Is England (2006),[1] Somers Town (2008),[1] and Mum & Dad (2008).
[3] Benson appears as a policeman in the video for Goldie Looking Chain's single "Guns Don't Kill People Rappers Do".
Benson also appeared alongside Pauline Quirke, Robert Lindsay and Daniela Denby-Ashe, as a bank robber in the 2008 episode "Let's Not Be Heisty" of the BBC sitcom My Family.
[4] Benson appeared alongside Jimmy Nail in the BBC TV show Parents of the Band, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
[5] In 2012 (released 2013 in the UK), he played an ageing rock star alongside Phil Daniels and Keith Allen in Sara Sugarman's film Vinyl.