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Tony Benn
Sign in to saveAlso known as Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, Viscount Stansgate, 2nd Viscount Stansgate
British politician (1925–2014)
Film & TV
Marylebone, London, England, UK
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn was a British politician, writer, and diarist. He was a Member of Parliament for 47 years between the 1950 and 2001 general elections and a Cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s.
Known for
- Kenny Dalglish — Self - Politician / Activist2025
- The Atom: A Love Affair2019
- Laissez-faire — Self (archive footage)2015
- Tony Benn: Labour's Lost Leader — Self (Archive)2014
- Tony Benn: Will and Testament2014
- We Are Many2014
- The Spirit of '45 — Himself - Contributor2013
- Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain2013
- Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth2013
- Paul O Grady's Working Britain2013
via TMDB
Key facts
- Prime minister
- Harold Wilson James Callaghan
- Preceded by
- Eric Varley
- Succeeded by
- David Howell
- Leader
- Harold Wilson
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tony
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Marylebone
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- diarist
- Political party
- Labour Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Noble title
- Viscount Stansgate
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- Royal Air Force
- Military rank
- pilot officer
- Official website
- www.tonybenn.com
- Image
- Tony Benn2.jpg
- Work location
- London
Show 9 more facts
- date of death
- 2014-03-13
- Commons category
- Tony Benn
- date of birth
- 1925-04-03
- name in native language
- Tony Benn
- honorific prefix
- The Right Honourable
- cause of death
- chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- P10632
- Tony Benn
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- Guillain–Barré syndrome
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Encyclopedic overview
President of the Stop the War Coalition In office 21 September 2001 – 14 March 2014 Vice PresidentLindsey German Chairman
Andrew Murray
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tony Benn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.