Peter Bensley was an Australian "pin up" actor of the 1980s. One of Bensley's earliest roles was as Dennis Braithwaite on the Seven Network drama series Class Of '74. He also appeared in ABC Television children's show, Waterloo Street with long hair.
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- Peter Bensley was an Australian "pin up" actor of the 1980s. One of Bensley's earliest roles was as Dennis Braithwaite on the Seven Network drama series Class Of '74. He also appeared in ABC Television children's show, Waterloo Street with long hair. Bensley then went on to appear in such soap operas as The Restless Years, The Young Doctors in which he played Dr Mike Newman from 1980 until the show finished in 1982, Prisoner in which he played one of the 3 male prisoners Matt Delaney for 34 episodes, Neighbours and Home and Away. In 2009 he will be back on Neighbours for a 2 episode guest role as Dean Naughton (due to screen in Australia in May). In the 1980s Bensley appeared as a nude centrefold in magazine Cleo wearing only strategically placed scuba gear and also featured in a cheeky advertisement for Palmolive Gold, in which he is seen in bed with fellow The Young Doctors actress Judy McBurney, and semi naked in a shower. In 1983 he played the title role of Stanley in the film "Stanley; Every Home Should Have One". In 1992, Bensley appeared as Dr. John Austin in the Australian mini-series The New Adventures of Black Beauty. In 1995, Bensley appeared in the Australian / New Zealand co-production Mirror, Mirror, as "Andrew Tiegan", the father of "Jo Tiegan". Bensley also appeared in the long-running television series Water Rats about the Sydney Harbour Water Police Squad, in which he had the major role of Chief Inspector Jeff Hawker. Bensley was a member of the cast of Water Rats for the entire series (1996-2001). His first fiction book "On a Wing and a Prayer" was published in 2006. Bensley and his partner have 3 children, and currently live on Sydney's northern beaches.
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- Peter Bensley was an Australian "pin up" actor of the 1980s. One of Bensley's earliest roles was as Dennis Braithwaite on the Seven Network drama series Class Of '74. He also appeared in ABC Television children's show, Waterloo Street with long hair.
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