Ben Wright Biography
Born: 1914
Died: 1989
More familiar for his radio work than his film appearances, American actor Ben Wright was active professionally from the early '40s. Dialects were a specialty with Wright, as witness his two-year hitch as Chinese bellhop Hey Boy on the radio version of Have Gun Will Travel. Most of Wright's film roles were supporting or bit appearances in such productions as A_Man_Called_Peter (1955), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), My_Fair_Lady (1964), and The_Fortune_Cookie (1964). On TV, Wright was one of Jack Webb's stock company (including fellow radio veterans Virginia_Gregg, Stacy_Harris, and Vic_Perrin) on the '60s version of Dragnet. Ben Wright's most frequently seen film appearance was as the humorless Nazi functionary Herr Zeller in the 1965 megahit The Sound of Music. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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