Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn was a British politician, writer, and diarist. He was a Member of Parliament for 47 years between the 1950 and 2001 general elections and a Cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s.

KNOWN FOR

Newsnight
2006
Arena
1989
Panorama
1959
Later... with Jools Holland
2003
Democracy Now!
2009
Wogan
1987
Horizon
1969
Question Time
1980
GMTV
2008
American Masters
1999
This Week
2003
World in Action
1968

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
92
2025
Kenny Dalglish
as Self - Politician / Activist
2019
The Atom: A Love Affair
2017
Timeshift
as Self - Postmaster General
2016
Timeshift
as Self
2015
Laissez-faire
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Tony Benn: Labour's Lost Leader
as Self (Archive)
2014
Tony Benn: Will and Testament
2014
We Are Many
2013
The Spirit of '45
as Himself - Contributor
2013
Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain
2013
Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
2013
Paul O Grady's Working Britain
2012
London: The Modern Babylon
as Self - Interviewee
2012
Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret Rutherford
as Self
2012
Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady
2011
Ethos
as Self
2011
Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel
as Self
2011
13 Hours That Saved Britain
2011
Unlawful Killing
2011
Entertaining the Troops
2011
The Story of British Pathe
2010
In Confidence
2009
Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out
2009
Timewatch
2009
Beyond A Joke
2009
The Week We Went To War
2009
Democracy Now!
2008
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008
GMTV
2007
Sicko
as Self
2007
Taking Liberties
2007
HARDtalk
2007
The Book Show
2007
The Late Edition
2007
Daily Politics
2007
The Sunday Edition
2006
Folk Britannia
2006
Timeshift
2006
Newsnight
2005
Banned in the UK
as Self
2005
Turning Points of History
2005
30 Minutes
2004
The Mark Steel Lectures
2003
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
as Self
2003
Strike: When Britain Went to War
2003
Designing The Decades
2003
Later... with Jools Holland
as Self
2003
This Week
2002
The Battle of Orgreave
as Self
2002
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
2001
Cabinet Confidential
as Self
2001
Missing Presumed Wiped
2000
Clarkson's Car Years
1999
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
as Self
1999
American Masters
1999
Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun
1997
The Scar
as Himself (uncredited)
1996
How to Be Prime Minister
as Self
1996
The Sunday Programme
1995
Westminster: Behind Closed Doors with Tony Benn
1995
Odd Man Out: A Film Portrait of Enoch Powell
as Self
1995
Harold Wilson: A Life
as Self
1995
Anyone for Pennis?
1995
The Wilderness Years
as Self
1994
Wasted Windfall
as Self
1994
The Late Show
1994
The Big Story
1993
How We Used To Live
1993
Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
1992
A Week in Politics
1991
Clive Anderson Talks Back
1989
Blackpool Wakes
as Self
1989
After Dark
1989
Open Air
1989
Arena
as Self
1987
Wogan
1985
Open To Question
1984
Beyond and Behind the Vote
as Himself
1983
News from Durham
as Himself
1983
The Red and the Blue
as Self (uncredited)
1983
Open Space
1982
Shades
as Self (archive footage)
1980
Question Time
as Self - Panellist
1979
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1972
The Money Programme
1972
Weekend World
1971
Late Night Line-Up
1969
Horizon
1968
One Pair of Eyes
1968
World in Action
1964
This Week
1959
Panorama