
John Levene
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Permission to Kill
1975

Dark Places
1973

Return to Devil's End
1993

Doctor Who: Inferno
1970

ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
2001

Psychomania
1973

Lay Down Your Arms
1970

Doctor on Display: The Museum of Classic Sci-Fi
2022

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970

The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years
2017

Living with Levene
2012

Satan Hates You
2010

Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
1975

Wartime
1988

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
1971

Chronotrip
2002

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
1972

Doctor Who: The Time Monster
1972

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
1973

Doctor Who: Robot
1975

Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
1975

Myth Runner
1987

Doctor Who: The Green Death
1973

Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968

Doctor Who: The Dæmons
1971

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
1974

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
1974

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
1968

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
1971

Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
1971

Automatons
2006

The Ties That Bind Us
2008

Scotch Mist in Sussex
2013

Remembering Douglas Camfield
2013

Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster
2023

John Levene: In Conversation
2025

CanniBallistic!
2002

Doctor Who
1963

Softly, Softly
1966

Z-Cars
1962

UFO
1970

Callan
1967

The Adventurer
1972

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971

Detective
1964

Doctor Who
1963

Doctor Who
1963

Doctor Who
1963

Tales of the Tardis
2023

Big Bad BeetleBorgs
1996

Doctor Who
1963

Whoops Baghdad
1973

Myth Makers
2015

The Growing Pains of PC Penrose
1975

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018