1. Tim Bentinck is Count Bentinck in the peerage of the Holy Roman Empire.
15 Facts About Tim Bentinck
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The son of the non-conformist intellectual Henry Tim Bentinck, Portland was born on a sheep station in Barton, Tasmania, Australia, but moved with his family to Berkhamsted in England at the age of two.
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Tim Bentinck was educated at a prep school, then Harrow School, and finally at the University of East Anglia, where he spent much of his time on productions of its drama society, before receiving a BA degree in the History of Art.
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Tim Bentinck has been an actor since 1978 and is known for the roles of David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers and Tom Lacey in the BBC TV drama series By the Sword Divided.
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Tim Bentinck is a voice-over artist, having provided the voice of James Bond for the video-game The World Is Not Enough, and the voice of Roger Radcliffe in 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure.
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Tim Bentinck has a long list of theatre, television and film credits.
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Tim Bentinck appeared in The Thick of It in 2005 and 2007 and starred with David Jason in The Royal Bodyguard in 2012.
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Tim Bentinck has revoiced Gerard Depardieu in the film Nouvelle France, and Chow Yun Fat in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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Tim Bentinck has provided post-production voices for many major US and UK film and television productions since helping provide the voices of both Scottish and English armies alongside Mel Gibson in Braveheart.
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Tim Bentinck played the role of Frederick Forsyth in the BBC television film Reg.
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On stage, after many London fringe theatre appearances, Tim Bentinck starred as the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1982, as Captain Brice in Arcadia at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and as Hubert Laurie in Night Must Fall, at the Haymarket.
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Tim Bentinck regularly writes travel articles for The Mail on Sunday and his book, Avant Garde A Clue, co-written with Albert Welling, is published on Kindle.
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Tim Bentinck has made many guest appearances in Big Finish audio dramas, including audio productions based on Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7 and Space 1999.
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Tim Bentinck took a seat in certain sittings of the House of Lords but made no speeches before losing the right and not standing for selective internal election, under the House of Lords Act 1999.
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Tim Bentinck married the milliner Judith "Judy" Ann Emerson was born on Newcastle-under-Lyme, 10 October 1952 and in London on 8 September 1979.