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Ben Wright (May 5, 1915 - July 9, 1989) was a British actor in radio, film, and television.
Ben Wright is an English footballer, currently playing for Lincoln City whom he joined in August 2007.
Ben began his career in the youth system at Deeping Rangers and was also part of the Deepings School team which won the Lincolnshire Schools County Cup in 1999. He was soon snapped up by local football conference side Kettering Town and began to attract scouts from the football league, appearing twice for Leeds United in the FA Premier Academy Under-19 League before joining Bristol City for £30,000 in March 1999.
He spent the majority of his time at Bristol City in first the youth team and then the reserves but found first-team opportunities hard to come by, though he did spend a week on trial with Bolton Wanderers and a month on loan with Woking. In April 2001 he linked up with his former manager Benny Lennartsson at Norwegian club Viking.
He spent two seasons with Viking and attracted attention when he scored a 90th minute header against Chelsea in a UEFA Cup First Round, First Leg, match at Stamford Bridge in September 2002. Though Viking lost the game 2-1, it was a vital away goal and put real pressure on the Chelsea team for the away leg which they subsequently lost 4-2. For the 2003 Norwegian season, Ben linked up with I.K. Start and went on to spent five seasons with the club, finishing as the club's leading goalscorer when they won the First Division title and promotion to the Tippeligaen in 2004. In September 2005, he suffered a broken left leg in training, an injury that kept him out of much of the 2005 and 2006 seasons. Recovering fitness, he spent the remainder of the 2006 season on loan to the Norwegian championship side Moss FK.
In the summer of 2007, he elected to return to England and trialled with Barnet. He was spotted by the Lincoln City management and turned down a contract offer from Barnet to join Lincoln at the beginning of August 2007.
Ben Wright (born December 5, 1987 in Preston) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He plays for Glamorgan. He has yet to feature heavily for his county, but was selected to play in the England Under-19 tour to play against Bangladesh in 2005-06.
In the 2007 season Wright featured a lot more prominently for Glamorgan. He scored his maiden first class century against Leicestershire CCC at Grace road during the season.
He was selected for the home U19 series and captained the team for a test in place of the suspended Rory Hamilton-Brown.
Ben Wright was born May 15, 1915, to an English mother and an American father in London, England, UK. At 16, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where classmates included such future stars as Ida Lupino. Upon graduating, he acted in several West End stage productions. When WWII broke out, he enlisted and served in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. He came to America in 1946 to attend a cousin's wedding and settled in Hollywood. He began his American acting career in radio, establishing himself as a master of dialects with such roles as Hey Boy, the Chinese servant, on "Have Gun, Will Travel" with John Dehner. His talent for dialects also kept him busy in the many WWII-related films and TV shows of the 1950s and '60s wherein he played countless Germans and Frenchmen as well as a variety of Englishmen for which he ensured the dialects were accurate depending on which part of England they were from. After years of radio, TV, stage and film work, he entered semi-retirement in the late 1970s, accepting occasional voice work and small guest appearances on TV. On June 16, 1989, after completing his last role, providing the voice of Grimsby in Disney's Little Mermaid, The (1989), he entered St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank for quadruple bypass surgery from which he never recovered. He died of heart failure July 2, 1989.







