John Banks

John Banks portrayed the Eighth Doctor companion, Henrick, in Doctor Who, first appearing in Blood and Iron.

Prior to Doctor Who
Banks first acting role was as an Italian soldier in six episodes of the BBC sitcom, 'Allo 'Allo between 1988-1989, though for legal reasons, he wasn't allowed to use his actual name so was credited under the pseudonym John Readman.

Work on Doctor Who
John Banks was chosen to play a new male companion named Benjamin Henrick, who would debut in the final story of Season 27. He was now allowed to be credited with his actual name.

Banks continued to play Henrick up until The Prisoner of Time in Season 31, where Henrick was killed off.

Banks returned to play Henrick in Series 5 of Leftover, which was a mini-series named End of Days.

He made a brief cameo as a UNIT soldier at the start of Doctor Who: Genesis.

Banks returned to provide the English Dub voice for Erik Långström in Mysteriet Doktorn.

After Doctor Who
Banks later went on to play minor roles in TV shows such as Footballer's Wives, Hollyoaks, Corronation Street and Emerdale, he also appeared as a Prison warden in the 2012 film The Estate.

Banks also served as the narrator for many audiobooks.

Actor
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As Henrick

 * Blood and Iron
 * Night Thoughts
 * Glory School
 * The Hostage
 * Lungbarrow
 * Nightshade
 * The Path Not Taken
 * Transit
 * Love and War
 * The Highest Science
 * Lucifer Rising
 * Illegal Alien
 * Conquest of the Daleks
 * An Earthly Child
 * The Enemy Within
 * The Left-Handed Hummingbird
 * The Reverent Peril
 * The Legend of Merlin
 * The Lords of Time
 * Legacy
 * Knight Falls
 * Pipe Dreams
 * The Sanctuary of Confession
 * Blood Heat
 * The Long Game
 * The Prisoner of Time

As Fred

 * Transit
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As Henrick

 * End of Days
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As UNIT Personnel

 * Doctor Who: Genesis
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As Erik Långström

 * The Living Plastic
 * The Ancient People
 * The Demons
 * The Mind Machine
 * The Space Conflict
 * Dinosaur Invasion
 * The Metal Men
 * Ghosts of the Lake
 * The Robots
 * The Time Window
 * The Conspiracy
 * Memories of Time
 * The Earth Project
 * The Fight for Time
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