Ben Carruthers

{{Infobox person

|name = Ben Carruthers

|image = Ben Carruthers en Françoise Brion (cropped) - Ben Carruthers.jpg

|caption = Carruthers in 1967

|birth_date = {{birth date|1936|8|14|mf=y}}

|birth_place = Illinois, US

|death_date = {{death date and age|1983|9|27|1936|8|14|mf=y}}

|death_place = Los Angeles, California, US

|years_active = 1957–1971

|occupation = Actor

|children = 2

}}

Benito F. Carruthers (August 14, 1936 – September 27, 1983) was an American film actor, most notable for his role in John Cassavetes' debut feature film Shadows (1959). His other films included A High Wind in Jamaica (1965), Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967) as Glenn Gilpin, Fearless Frank (1967), To Grab the Ring (1968), The Lost Continent (1968), Riot (1969) as the unpredictable and psychotic Joe Surefoot,Turners Classic Movies [https://web.archive.org/web/20131002025552/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/movie-news.html?id=354460&name=Riot Jim Brown & Gene Hackman in Riot on DVD] Man in the Wilderness (1971), and Universal Soldier (1971).OV Guide [http://www.ovguide.com/ben-carruthers-9202a8c04000641f80000000100abc60# Ben Carruthers Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002121310/https://www.ovguide.com/ben-carruthers-9202a8c04000641f80000000100abc60 |date=2017-10-02 }}

Personal life

Carruthers was born in Illinois, United States.{{Citation needed |date=November 2023}}

He stood 6' 1".OV Guide [http://www.ovguide.com/ben-carruthers-9202a8c04000641f80000000100abc60# Ben Carruthers Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002121310/https://www.ovguide.com/ben-carruthers-9202a8c04000641f80000000100abc60 |date=2017-10-02 }}

His first son, Caine Carruthers, was a bass player and was in ska band The Untouchables.{{Cite web |author1=The Scorpion |date=March 14, 2017|title=Scorpion Q+A 342|url=https://www.megadeth.com/blogs/news/439810|access-date=April 1, 2025 |website=Megadeth|language=en}} Dijon Carruthers, his second son, was Megadeth's first drummer in 1983.{{cite web |title=David Ellefson & Jeff Young: Megadeth’s ‘So Far, So Good…So What!” Album: The Origin Story of Megadeth – 2022 – Kings of Thrash|url=https://fullinbloom.com/david-ellefson-jeff-young-megadeths-so-far-so-goodso-what-album-the-origin-story-of-megadeth-2022-kings-of-thrash/ |website=Full in Bloom |access-date=April 1, 2025}}

According to his son, Ben Carruthers died of spinal cancer in 1983 at the premature age of forty-seven, not liver failure as is often stated as his father’s cause of death.{{Citation needed |date=November 2023}}

Musical career

As lead singer of Ben Carruthers and the Deep, he recorded the track "Jack O' Diamonds" in 1965, a song he co-wrote using lyrics given to him by Bob Dylan.{{cite web | url=https://thebluemoment.com/2014/07/31/ben-carruthers-and-the-deep/ | title=Ben Carruthers and the Deep | date=31 July 2014 }}

Filmography

class="wikitable" border="1" \|+Feature films !Year !Title !Role !Notes
1958	The Beast of Budapest	Sentry	Uncredited
1959	Shadows	Ben
1961	Guns of the Trees	Ben
rowspan="2" \|1964	Goldstein	Jay
Lilith	Benito	Uncredited
rowspan="3" \|1965	Love 65	Benito
A High Wind in Jamaica	Alberto
Scruggs	Ben
rowspan="3" \|1967	Fearless Frank	The Cat
The Unknown Man of Shandigor	Manual / Manuel
The Dirty Dozen	Glenn Gilpin
rowspan="2" \|1968	To Grab the Ring	Alfred Lowell, Acteur
The Lost Continent	Ricaldi
1969	Riot	Surefoot
rowspan="2" \|1971	Man in the Wilderness	Longbow
Universal Soldier	Jesse