John Levene
Acting • Born 1941-12-24
Biography
John Levene is an actor, comedian, and singer, best known for his role as Sergeant - later Corporal - Benton in the British sci-fi television show Doctor Who. Levene has also worked as a cruise ship entertainer, and as a voice-over artist for entities such as The Walt Disney Company and The Queen Mary Hotel. He also established the audio-visual company Genesis Communications, which has worked with companies such as British Airways and KFC.
Filmography
55 credits
Permission to Kill
Movie • 1975
Adams
Dark Places
Movie • 1973
Doctor
Return to Devil's End
Movie • 1993
Self
Doctor Who: Inferno
Movie • 1970
Sergeant Benton / Platoon Under Leader Benton
ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
Movie • 2001
Psychomania
Movie • 1973
Constable
Lay Down Your Arms
Movie • 1970
Ernie
Doctor on Display: The Museum of Classic Sci-Fi
Movie • 2022
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Movie • 1970
Sergeant Benton
The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years
Movie • 2017
Living with Levene
Movie • 2012
Self
Satan Hates You
Movie • 2010
The Reverend Bernie Shanks
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Movie • 1975
RSM Benton
Wartime
Movie • 1988
John Benton
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Movie • 1971
Sergeant Benton
Chronotrip
Movie • 2002
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
Movie • 1972
Sergeant Benton
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Movie • 1972
Sergeant Benton
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
Movie • 1973
Sergeant Benton
Doctor Who: Robot
Movie • 1975
RSM Benton
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
Movie • 1975
RSM Benton
Myth Runner
Movie • 1987
Himself
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Movie • 1973
Sergeant Benton
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Movie • 1968
Corporal Benton
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
Movie • 1971
Sergeant Benton
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Movie • 1974
Sergeant Benton
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Movie • 1974
Sergeant Benton
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
Movie • 1968
Yeti
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Movie • 1971
Sergeant Benton
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Movie • 1971
Sergeant Benton
Automatons
Movie • 2006
Communications Captain
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie • 2008
Sergeant Benton (archive footage)
Scotch Mist in Sussex
Movie • 2013
Remembering Douglas Camfield
Movie • 2013
Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster
Movie • 2023
John Levene: In Conversation
Movie • 2025
Self
CanniBallistic!
Movie • 2002
Bernie Shanks
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
RSM Benton
Softly, Softly
TV • 1966
Z-Cars
TV • 1962
UFO
TV • 1970
Interceptor Pilot
Callan
TV • 1967
The Adventurer
TV • 1972
Tony
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Constable
Detective
TV • 1964
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Sergeant Benton
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Platoon Under Leader Benton
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Sgt. Benton
Tales of the Tardis
TV • 2023
Sergeant Benton
Big Bad BeetleBorgs
TV • 1996
Lord T.N. Crumpetts
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
John Benton
Whoops Baghdad
TV • 1973
Cassim
Myth Makers
TV • 2015
Himself
The Growing Pains of PC Penrose
TV • 1975
Motorist
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
TV • 2018
Self