Martin Benson (1918 - 2010)
Film Deaths[]
- Mystery Junction (1951) [Steve Harding]: Shot in the chest by Pearl Cameron. His final act is to kill Philip Dale.
- Recoil (1953) [Farnborough]: Shot twice in the back by the dying Kieron Moore to stop him shooting Elizabeth Sellars.
- Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959) [Ali]: Shot by Harry Baird on the instructions of Gregoire Aslan.
- Night Creatures (1962) '[Mr. Rash]: Stabbed with a spear by Milton Reid.
- A Shot in the Dark (1964) [Maurice]: Accidentally blown up (along with Maurice Kaufmann Moira Redmond, George Sanders, Tracy Reed and Vanda Godsell) by a car bomb that Herbert Lom had intended to kill Peter Sellers. (Played for comic effect.)
- Goldfinger (1964) [Mr. Solo]: Shot once in the chest with a silenced handgun by Harold Sakata, who was supposedly driving him to the airport. Instead Harold goes to an auto-wrecking yard, where he crushes the car with Martin's body inside.
- Battle Beneath the Earth (1967) [Gen. Chan Lu]: Blown up when the bomb explodes.
- The Message (1976) [Abu-Jahal] Has a spear thrown into his chest causing him to fall off his horse.
- The Omen (1976) [Father Spiletto]: Dies of a slow painful death (off-screen, presumably after the film ends) from injuries of being severely burned. (His death is mentioned in the 1981 sequel The Final Conflict.)
- Sphinx (1981) [Muhammed]: Shot by Frank Langella.
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Notable Connections[]
- Ex-Mr. Joan Hayward