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John Bentley (born 16 April 1951, in Deptford, South East London) was the bassist for Squeeze from 1980 to 1982. He played on the albums Argybargy and East Side Story, generally considered to be the band's best by critics, as well as the darker and less acclaimed Sweets from a Stranger. Squeeze split up in 1982, and upon reuniting in 1985 band leaders Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook replaced Bentley with Keith Wilkinson. Bentley is set to perform as a Squeeze member once again on the band's "Quintessential Tour 2007" through the US and UK.
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John Bentley was a student at the Art Students League, New York with George Bridgman, Frank DuMond, and Robert Henri. He became a landscape painter and was an early member of the Woodstock Art Colony,exhibiting at the Buffalo Society of Artists. He was ... a WPA muralist, and his work is in several buildings in New York City and the Dutch Reformed Church of Woodstock. Source: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art".
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A fast, aggressive winger, John Bentley (aka "Bentos") won just four caps for England, with a nine year gap separating his first two appearances from his last. In between time John had enjoyed a successful career in rugby league and became a dual international by representing Great Britain. Bentley's test career in union began in 1988 against Ireland and he ... played in the first test against Australia in the summer. He and Rory Underwood scored breakaway tries to put England into an unexpected 13-3 lead, but the Aussies rallied and eventually won the match 22-16. John did not play in the second test defeat, and after the tour signed up for the rival code. When Bentley returned to union in 1996 to play for Newcastle, his performances earned him a surprise call up to the British Lions squad to tour South Africa ahead of more established names.
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Handsome, British stage actor John Bentley entered London's film industry in 1946, where he was immediately put to work grinding out inexpensive detective melodramas. He was seen as radio hero Paul Temple in an entertaining Boy's-Own-Adventure film series, then starred as John Creasey's gentleman sleuth "The Toff" in a brace of second features. Occasionally, Bentley ventured into "A"-picture territory, notably the 1956 Errol Flynn vehicle "Istanbul" (1956). In 1957, John Bentley starred as Inspector John Derek in the Kenya-filmed TV detective series "African Patrol". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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John Bentley was born in Doncaster, England, and developed an early interest in architecture. In 1857 he joined the office of Henry Clutton and within a few years was able to establish his own practice. Bentley converted to Roman Catholicism in 1862. He designed several churches and institutional buildings for the Roman Catholic Church in England; the most substantial and well known being the Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood, Westminster, London. Following the success of Westminster Cathedral, the Dioceses of Brooklyn, New York and Richmond, Virginia both approached Bentley to furnish designs for cathedral churches, although neither was ever built. Bentley visited Brooklyn, New York, in 1898 and upon his return to London prepared a design for the Diocese of Brooklyn; ... after Bentley's death in 1902 the project was indefinitely postponed.
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On January 7, 1920, John Bentley (age 38) and his wife Francis (sic) (age 37) were living in a rented downstairs flat at 1293 Belvidere, which was one block north of Jefferson Ave. and four blocks west of Cadillac Blvd. on Detroit's lower east side in Ward 19 (just west of Waterworks Park).
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