 Benjamin Huntington Wright was an English actor best known for his role as Aira Zeller in the Sound of Music, and as the voices of Roger Radcliffe in 101 Dalmatians, and Sir Grimsby in The Little Mermaid. Wright was born May 15, 1915 in London, the United Kingdom, to an American father and an English mother. He entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of 16 and, upon graduation, began appearing in several West End theatrical productions. He would serve in the King's Royal Rifle Corps during World War II. In 1946, Wright came to the United States to attend a cousin's wedding, and he decided to move to California. He started his American acting career in radio quickly becoming in demand for his talent in performing accents and dialects. Among his many roles, he was the final actor to play Sherlock Holmes on the radio from 1949 to 1950. The Indian servant Telku on the Green Lama in 1949, he was Inspector Peter Black on pursuit from 1951 to 1952. The Chinese bellhop Hey Boy on the radio version of Have Gun Will Travel from 1958 to 1960, and various roles on series such as Escape, Nightbeat, Gunsmoke, Crime Classics, and Suspense. Along with his famous role as Aira Zeller in the Sound of Music in 1965, he also had minor roles in Judgment of Nuremberg in 1961, My Fair Lady in 1964, and The Fortune Cookie in 1966. He also regularly guest starred in television appearing in My Three Sons, Hogan's Heroes, McHale's Navy, Combat, Get Smart, Bonanza, and many more. He had reoccurring roles on Gunsmoke as the Billiard Parlor owner Dan Binney and the town barber, Virgil Engdahl, along with several other one-off roles throughout the course of the series. Wright also worked as a voice actor in film and television. He often provided alien voices for the television series The Outer Limits. In film, he was the narrator in Cleopatra in 1963, the BBC announcer in The Diary of Anne Frank in 1959, and beyond Disney's 101 Dalmatians in The Little Mermaid, he also performed in the Jungle Book in 1967 as Mowgli's wolffather Rama. Ben Wright's final role was the voice of Sir Grimsby in The Little Mermaid. A few months later, on June 23, 1989, he went to St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank, California for a quadruple bypass surgery, and he never recovered. He died on July 2, 1989, and he was survived by his wife, Marielle, a son, and a daughter. This biography was provided by Brian Kavanaugh with information taken from the news pilot and the website's TV Tropes, the internet movie database, the Los Angeles Times, and from Wikipedia. For old-time radio researchers, I'm your announcer Patrick Andre. Thank you for listening.