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3 unusual facts about Dick Bentley


Charles Bentley

Dick Bentley (Charles Walter Bentley, 1907–1995), comedian and actor

Dick Bentley

In 1972 and 1974 Bentley was featured in the movies The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, derived from the Barry McKenzie comic strip in Private Eye.

In 1960 he returned to Australia to play a sheep drover in The Sundowners, starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr.


Joy Nichols

Guest appearances by fellow Australian Dick Bentley led to the pairing of Bentley's writer Denis Norden with Edwards and Nichols' writer Frank Muir on Take It From Here (1948–1960), starring Edwards, Bentley and Nichols, who both sang and played comedy.


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