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Michael Bentine (January 26 1922 - November 26
1996) was a comedian, comic actor, and member of
the The Goon Show|Goons.

Bentine was born in Watford, of Anglo-Peruvian
parentage and grew-up in Folkestone, Kent. He was
educated in Eton College. In World War II he
served as an Royal Air Force|RAF Intelligence
officer, and took part in the liberation of
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He had acted
before the war, and afterwards he decided to
become a comedian, specialising in off-the-wall
humour, often involving cartoons and other types
of animation.  For example, a prominent feature of
his series, It's a Square World, was the imaginary
flea-circus.  He was also a television presenter
and writer.

He appeared in the Goon Show film Down Among the Z
Men, and at the time seemed perhaps the most
comfortable of the cast in working in a visual
medium.

During the 1960's he also took part in the first
Hovercraft expedition up the Amazon River|Amazon
river.

In later life, his interests included
parapsychology.  This partly arose as a result of
the premature death of his son.  

Appeared in:
*The Goon Show (1950-52)
*Round the Bend in Thirty Minutes (1959)
*It's a Square World (1960-64)
*The Golden Silents (1965)
*Michael Bentine's Potty Time (1973-80)
* ...and many other programmes

==External link==
*
http://www.rbadsign.demon.co.uk/michaelbentine.htm
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* http://www.smas.me.uk/ The Spike Milligan
Appreciation Society