John Bentley (2 December 1916 â€" 13 August 2009) was a British film
actor who appeared in the 1970s as Hugh Mortimer, Meg Richardson's
ill-fated new husband in the soap opera Crossroads. He also starred in
the jungle adventure series African Patrol (1957) as Chief Inspector
Paul Derek and made various other guest appearances.John Bentley was
well known to cinema-goers in the 1950s, generally in the role of a
detective/policeman/official, mainly in "B" films. He was also an
accomplished singer and stage actor.Born in Sparkhill, Birmingham, in
1916, Bentley was brought up by his mother after his father, a
furniture retailer, died when he was a toddler. He arrived in acting
quite by chance, in his own words:
actor who appeared in the 1970s as Hugh Mortimer, Meg Richardson's
ill-fated new husband in the soap opera Crossroads. He also starred in
the jungle adventure series African Patrol (1957) as Chief Inspector
Paul Derek and made various other guest appearances.John Bentley was
well known to cinema-goers in the 1950s, generally in the role of a
detective/policeman/official, mainly in "B" films. He was also an
accomplished singer and stage actor.Born in Sparkhill, Birmingham, in
1916, Bentley was brought up by his mother after his father, a
furniture retailer, died when he was a toddler. He arrived in acting
quite by chance, in his own words:
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