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 (1983–85). He is also a
voice-over artist, having provided the voice of
James Bond for the video-game
The World Is Not Enough (
Nintendo 64 and
PlayStation version), and the voice of Roger Radcliffe in ''
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure. Between 1990 and 2006 he was also the voice of "Mind The Gap" on the London Underground Piccadilly line. Bentinck has a long list of theatre, television and film credits. He appeared in The Thick of It in 2005 and 2007 and starred with David Jason in The Royal Bodyguard'' in 2012. As himself, Bentinck has appeared on
Call My Bluff, won a round of
University Challenge, appeared on
Celebrity Mastermind and
Pointless Celebrities, and beaten
Judith Keppel on science in
Celebrity Eggheads. Bentinck has revoiced
Gérard Depardieu in the film
Nouvelle France, and
Chow Yun Fat in
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He 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. His first film role was as 'Harris',
Roger Moore's lieutenant in
North Sea Hijack; other film roles include William Goldman's
The Year of the Comet, the western,
The Pride of Wade Ellison as well as the short film,
Locked Up by Bugsy Riverbank Steel – winner of Best Foreign Short Film at the
Lanzarote Film Festival in 2013. Also
Fast Girls,
The Redistributors,
Rule Number Three with
Nicholas Hoult,
The Pirates of Penzance with
Kevin Kline,
Trevor Nunn's
Twelfth Night,
Vanity Fair, the U-boat commander in
Enigma, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and many short and student films. In 2018 he starred with Jack Roth as
Conrad in the Netflix movie,
Us And Them. He played the role of
Frederick Forsyth in the BBC television film
Reg (2016). On stage, after many London
fringe theatre appearances, 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, also at the Haymarket. Bentinck toured a one-man show,
Love Your Chocolates, – a mixture of stories, comedy songs and multi-media, and played Frank in
Educating Rita at the
Watermill Theatre,
Newbury, Berkshire, in 2009. 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. In March 2015, his children's book,
Colin The Campervan, was published by FBS Publishing. Bentinck's
autobiography Being David Archer – And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living was published by Constable in 2017. 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''. He has also narrated over sixty audiobooks. In the
2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to drama. Bentinck is also an
inventor with several
patents to his name, as well as a programmer/web site designer, musician and writer.
Television Bentinck's roles on television include: •
The Nevers •
Gentleman Jack •
Flack •
The Game • ''
The Politician's Husband'' •
The Royal Bodyguard •
Tales of the Unexpected (The Stinker) •
Twenty Twelve •
The Thick of It •
Doctors •
Broken News •
Shadow Play • ''
Sharpe's Rifles'' •
The Armando Iannucci Shows •
A Prince Among Men •
Grange Hill •
Made in Heaven •
Square Deal •
By the Sword Divided •
EastEnders •
Silent Witness •
The Crown Video games Bentinck has also done voicework for numerous videogame titles: •
The Feeble Files •
The World Is Not Enough •
007 Racing •
Prisoner of War •
Secret Weapons Over Normandy •
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing •
Knights of Honor •
Medieval II: Total War •
Heavenly Sword •
Hellgate: London •
Viking: Battle for Asgard •
Rhodan: Myth of the Illochim •
Memento Mori •
Divinity II •
Venetica •
Dragon Age II •
Star Wars: The Old Republic •
The Book of Unwritten Tales •
Deponia •
Risen 2: Dark Waters •
The Secret World •
The Night of the Rabbit •
The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief •
Total War: Rome II •
The Dark Eye: Demonicon • ''
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse'' •
Blackguards •
Dark Souls II •
Lego The Hobbit •
Grid Autosport •
Sacred 3 •
Risen 3: Titan Lords •
Dreamfall Chapters •
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 •
Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide •
Deponia Doomsday •
Dark Souls III •
Total War: Warhammer •
Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 •
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 •
Anno 1800 •
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum ==Titles==