John Bentley

John Bentley may refer to:

John Bentley (MP) for Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)

John A. Bentley (1836–????), Wisconsin State Senator

John Bentley (politician) (1822–1894), Wisconsin State Assemblyman

John Edmund Bentley (1847–1913), English rugby international

John Bentley (football manager) (1860–1918), English football manager

John Bentley (rugby) (born 1966), English dual-code international rugby footballer

John Bentley (actor) (1916–2009), British actor

John Eric Bentley, American actor and voice actor

John Francis Bentley (30 January 1839 – 2 March 1902), English architect

John Bentley (musician) (born 1951), British bass guitarist for the UK band Squeeze

John Irving Bentley (1874–1966), physician and alleged victim of spontaneous human combustion

John Bentley (cricketer) (1787–1859), cricketer

The John Bentley School, Calne, Wiltshire, England

John Bentley (musician & office holder)

John Bentley (c. 1756 – 10 November 1813) was an English harpsichordist who was known in North America by the end of the American Revolution.

Bentley's musical career first brought him notability in Philadelphia where he founded the City Concerts. He formed a lasting connection with Quebec where he lived for 25 years. He held important positions there, the most notable being the overseer of roads. His main interest was music, and he should be considered an important part of Quebec's and Philadelphia's musical history.

External links

Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

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John Bentley (actor)

John Bentley (2 December 1916 – 13 August 2009) was a British film actor who emerged 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. Bentley died 13 August 2009, according to ATV News article online.

John Bentley was well known to cinema-goers in the '50s, generally in the role of a detective/policeman/official. Mainly confined to 'B' films which were low budget productions used to support a main feature, he also had his own TV series for a while and starred in 'Crossroads' in the 1970s. 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:

"Apart from the odd school play, I had very little interest in the theatrical world until I was sixteen and that was quite by accident. I got into the business through radio producer Martyn C. Webster. On one of his radio broadcasts he offered listeners to come to his studio and audition. Those who were good enough would be offered work at the station. I actually decided that I would be quite a good singer, so armed with a 78 record to accompany my performance, I sang for Martyn. He liked what he heard and offered me a part in a radio musical. And that is where the singing evolved into acting. Other radio dramas soon followed thankfully." As a result of singing for Webster, he was given the joint leading role in a radio musical, backed by the BBC Midland Orchestra and Chorus.

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'John Bentley' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

As Long as They're Happy (1955)

Actors: John Blythe (actor), Jack Buchanan (actor), Irving Davies (actor), Nigel Green (actor), Gilbert Harding (actor), Charles Hawtrey (actor), David Hurst (actor), Peter Illing (actor), Douglas Ives (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), Hugh McDermott (actor), Arthur Mullard (actor), Leslie Phillips (actor), Charles Ross (actor), Arnold Bell (actor),

Plot: A stockbroker's youngest daughter tricks an American singer into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home. Her two sisters and their oddball husbands also visit and the stockbroker notes the effect of the singer on his lovelorn family.

Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, based-on-play, five-word-title, reference-to-romeo-and-juliet
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical,

Quotes:

Gwen Bentley: It's not infatuation. I'm in love with him.::John Bentley: Don't be ridiculous. He's nearly as old as I am. You're only sixteen.::Gwen Bentley: Juliet was only fourteen when she fell in love with Romeo.::John Bentley: They were foreigners!

She Couldn't Say No (1954)

Actors: Barry Brooks (actor), Morgan Brown (actor), Edgar Buchanan (actor), Charles Cane (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), Clyde Courtright (actor), James Craven (actor), Ralph Dumke (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), Coleman Francis (actor), Dabbs Greer (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Keith Herrington (actor), Bob Hopkins (actor), Tol Avery (actor),

Plot: As usual with most of the RKO films from this era "presented" by RKO-owner Howard Hughes, the PCA number is usually 500-1000 digits lower than the one from other studios being released at the time, indicating it was released a year or more after it was completed. This one finds heiress Corby Lane (Jean Simmons) coming to a small Arkansas town to play Santa Claus because, when she was a small child traveling with her impoverished father, the townspeople saved her life by donating money needed for medical treatment. She meets and falls in love with "Doc" Sellers (Robert Mitchum), an easy-going doctor who enjoys fishing and the unhurried pace of the town. Corby's gesture of handing out money and lavish gifts to the citizens backfires when, after it has been publicized, the town becomes the destination of every wayward traveler and fortune seeker.

Keywords: alarm, benefactor, boarding-house, buying-a-car, car-showroom, charity, childbirth, convertible, diaper, doctor
Genres: Comedy, Drama,