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Profile of Michael Bentine on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Michael Bentine  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 26th January 1922
   
Place of Birth: Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Michael Bentine (January 26, 1922 - November 26, 1996) was a comedian, comic actor, and member of the Goons.

Bentine was born in Watford, of Anglo-Peruvian parentage and grew-up in Folkestone, Kent. He was educated in Eton College. In World War II he served as an RAF Intelligence officer, and took part in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He had acted before the war, and afterwards he decided to become a comedian, specialising in off-the-wall humour, often involving cartoons and other types of animation. For example, a prominent feature of his series, It's a Square World, was the imaginary flea-circus.

He was also a television presenter and writer.

He appeared in the Goon Show film Down Among the Z Men, and at the time seemed perhaps the most comfortable of the cast in working in a visual medium.

During the 1960's he also took part in the first Hovercraft expedition up the Amazon river.

In later life, his interests included parapsychology; this partly arose as a result of the premature death of his son.

Appeared in:

  • The Goon Show (1950-52)
  • Round the Bend in Thirty Minutes (1959)
  • It's a Square World (1960-64)
  • The Golden Silents (1965)
  • Michael Bentine's Potty Time (1973-80)
  • ...and many other programmes

External link

  • http://www.rbadsign.demon.co.uk/michaelbentine.html
  • The Spike Milligan Appreciation Society

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