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Peter Benson
Born: Unknown in Canada
Peter Benson is a Canadian actor, writer, director, and producer for film and television, known for playing Detective Arthur Smith in Hallmark's Aurora Teagarden Mystery series. He is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School and also has an honors degree in Communications from Carleton University. He has been married to fellow actor Julia Benson since 2009.
Rated Filmography (76)
Sorted by Score8.0
Guiding Emily
2023
8.0
Mystery 101: Deadly History
2021
7.8
Big Sky River: The Bridal Path
2023
7.5
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Game of Cat and Mouse
2019
7.5
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play
2019
7.4
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek
2020
7.4
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
2021
7.3
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
2020
7.2
Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2018
7.2
Everything, Everything
2017
7.2
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inheritance to Die For
2019
7.2
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con A Con
2021
7.2
Christmas Above the Clouds
2025
7.1
Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man
2019
7.1
Love and Sunshine
2019
7.1
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game
2018
7.0
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder
2022
7.0
Sweet Carolina
2021
7.0
Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2017
6.9
A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2017
6.9
A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2015
6.9
My Favorite Wedding
2017
6.9
Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2018
6.9
The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2016
6.8
Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2015
6.8
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again
2017
6.8
The Wrong Patient
2018
6.7
Big Sky River
2022
6.7
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2016
6.7
The Pregnancy Project
2012
6.6
Wedding Every Weekend
2020
6.6
My Husband's Deadly Past
2020
6.5
Debbie Macomber’s Joyful Mrs. Miracle
2024
6.5
Falling for Vermont
2017
6.5
Rufus
2016
6.4
Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas
2021
6.4
Holiday Date
2019
6.3
Pick Me Up
2006
6.3
Baby Bootcamp
2014
6.3
Perfect Harmony
2022
6.3
Sugar & Vice: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
2026
6.3
The More the Merrier
2025
6.3
A Bride for Christmas
2012
6.2
Infidelity in Suburbia
2017
6.2
Love Under the Rainbow
2019
6.2
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
2019
6.2
Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride
2018
6.2
Seasoned With Love
2021
6.0
Lies Between Friends
2022
5.9
A Daughter's Nightmare
2014
5.9
Just One Kiss
2022
5.8
The Wedding Contract
2023
5.8
High Noon
2009
5.8
37 Teen
2019
5.8
Perfect High
2015
5.8
Lucky in Love
2014
5.7
The Mystery Cruise
2013
5.6
Stolen Dreams
2015
5.5
Christmas List
2016
5.5
A Surrogate's Nightmare
2017
5.5
Murder Unresolved
2016
5.5
Going the Distance
2004
5.5
Walking the Dog
2017
5.4
WW3
2001
5.4
What An Idiot
2016
5.3
Black Fly
2014
5.2
Dead Rising: Watchtower
2015
5.0
Slap Shot 3: The Junior League
2008
5.0
Air
2015
4.8
Passion's Web
2007
4.7
Murder on Spec
2006
4.7
The Accidental Witness
2006
4.3
The Break-up Artist
2009
4.2
One Angry Juror
2010
4.0
Ba'al
2008
3.5
Death Do Us Part
2014