Jay Benedict

Jay Benedict (born April 11, 1951) is a British actor and voice actor, best known in the UK for his role as Major John Kieffer in the TV Series Foyle's War.

Career
Benedict was born in Burbank, California, but his family left the United States for Europe when he was a child. He has lived and worked in Europe since the 1960's. His first film role, at the age of 11, was in the 1963 Tony Saytor film La Bande à Bobo. He would later stage act early in his career, with notable credits such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the Kings Road in the early 70's and Sweet Bird Youth.

In 1977 he played Deak in the Tosche Station scenes in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope which were deleted from the film before release. Subsequent film appearances include the extended, "Special Edition" version of Aliens (Russ Jorden), The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (Didier le Clair), Icon (Carey Jordan), The White Knight (Turkish Ambassador), The Russia House (Spikey), Saving Grace (the MC) and Rewind. In 2003 he was third lead in Vicente Aranda's version of Carmen, playing Don Prospero.

In addition to English, he also works in French and Spanish, and has performed widely on the continent, appearing as Paul Matthiews in the French day-time soap opera Cap des Pins and William Wilbur in Le Grand Charles (a French mini series on Charles De Gaulle), among many other roles.

He is married to actress Phoebe Scholfield and together they run Sync or Swim, an ADR/Loop group (see dubbing). They have also translated and written movies together - such as The Card Player (Il Cartaio) - which they translated into English.

In what little spare time he has, Jay reviews books for the literary website Vulpes Libris and feels he’s failed dismally if his review doesn’t elicit at least ONE outraged response.

TV Series

 * Star Fleet (1980-1981) - Shiro Hagen, Number One, Additional Voices

Films

 * Fugitive Alien (1986) - Rocky
 * Star Force: Fugitive Alien II (1987) - Rocky

OVAs & Specials

 * Crying Freeman (1988-1994) - Chen (ep. 2) (Manga UK Dub)

Anime Films

 * Space Adventure Cobra (1982) - Cassius (Manga UK Dub)