Jonathan Aris
Biography
Jonathan Aris is a British stage, film and television actor, he is the son of the late British character actor Ben Aris but, despite having a thespian as a father, acting was not his first choice. He studied painting at Camberwell School of Art and read Russian and Italian at Cambridge University before training as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Like his father, Jonathan has chiefly been seen in character roles, notably on television as the private secretary to the (female) Prime Minister in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006). He also does a great number of voice-overs for television commercials and narration for documentaries. He has made numerous stage appearances and was in the original London cast of "Fame - the Musical".
Movie Appearances
Birthday Girl
as D.I. O'Fetiger
2001
Riot at the Rite
as Jean Cocteau
2005
The Jackal
as Alexander Radzinski
1997
Flawless
as Boyle
2007
Eroica
as Paul Dorfmueller
2003
Gulliver's Travels
as Lilliputian Scientist
2010
Only Love
as Emil Becker
1998
The World's End
as Group Leader
2013
Sightseers
as Ian
2012
She Will
as Podrick Lochran
2022
The Project
as Bob
2002
Not Only But Always
as Jonathan Miller
2004
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
as Bernard
2007
Bright Star
as Mr. Hunt
2009
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
as Anderson
2013
Race
as Alfred J. Lill
2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Senator Jebel
2016
The Martian
as Brendan Hatch
2015
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
as Stanley Soward
2008
Planespotting
as Wayne Groves
2005
TV Appearances
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
as Sir Richard Leavis
2006
Good Omens
as Quartermaster Angel
2019
Sherlock
as Dr Anderson
2010
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Receptionist
1989
The Game
as Alan Montag
2014
The North Water
as Corbyn
2021
The Sixth Commandment
as DCI Mark Glover
2023
Broken News
as Stewart Frewett - ESN Network Reporter
2005
Peep Show
as Ben Prenderghast
2003
A Very British Scandal
as Judge Wheatley
2021
The Little House
as Doctor McFadden
2010
Bonekickers
2008