Benjamin Huntington Wright (5 May 1915 â€" 2 July 1989) was an
Englishâ€"American actor in radio, film, and television.Ben Wright was
born in London to an American father and an English mother. At the age
of 16, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Upon graduating,
he acted in several West End stage productions. When World War II
broke out, he enlisted and served in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. He
came to the U.S. in 1946 to attend a cousin's wedding and settled in
Hollywood.Wright worked extensively in American radio, supplying
crisp, erudite diction as the radio incarnation of Sherlock Holmes:302
(1949â€"1950) and Inspector Peter Black on Pursuit
(1951â€"1952).:277â€"78 However, he considered himself a
dialectician,[citation needed] playing Indian servant Tulku on The
Green Lama,:139 Chinese bellhop Hey Boy on the radio version of Have
Gun Will Travel,:146 various dialect roles on the U.K. radio program
Nightbeat, and the anthology series, Escape,:110 on which his roles
ranged from the Cockney protagonist of The Man Who Worked Miracles to
the famed Arabian hero of The Voyages of Sinbad. His other radio
credits included Gunsmoke, Crime Classics, and Suspense.
Ben Wright (English actor) Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter
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