Peter Benson
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Good Doctor
2017 · 8.5
Supernatural
2005 · 8.3
Stargate SG-1
1997 · 8.3
Smallville
2001 · 8.2
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
2010 · 8.2
Guiding Emily
2023 · 8.2
Prodigal Son
2019 · 8.0
MECH-X4
2016 · 8.0
The Baby-Sitters Club
2020 · 7.9
Psych
2006 · 7.9
Chesapeake Shores
2016 · 7.8
Big Sky River: The Bridal Path
2023 · 7.8
Spooksville
2013 · 7.6
Mystery 101: Deadly History
2021 · 7.6
Hell on Wheels
2011 · 7.6
Dark Angel
2000 · 7.5
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play
2019 · 7.5
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Game of Cat and Mouse
2019 · 7.5
Continuum
2012 · 7.5
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek
2020 · 7.4
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
2021 · 7.4
Imposters
2017 · 7.3
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
2020 · 7.3
A Million Little Things
2018 · 7.2
Everything, Everything
2017 · 7.2
jPod
2008 · 7.2
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con A Con
2021 · 7.2
Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2018 · 7.2
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inheritance to Die For
2019 · 7.2
The 4400
2004 · 7.1
Reaper
2007 · 7.1
Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man
2019 · 7.1
Christmas Above the Clouds
2025 · 7.1
Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2017 · 7.0
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder
2022 · 7.0
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game
2018 · 7.0
Sweet Carolina
2021 · 7.0
At Home with Amy Sedaris
2017 · 6.9
The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco
2018 · 6.9
A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2017 · 6.9
A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2015 · 6.9
The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2016 · 6.9
Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2018 · 6.9
My Favorite Wedding
2017 · 6.9
Arrow
2012 · 6.8
Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2015 · 6.8
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again
2017 · 6.8
Debbie Macomber’s Joyful Mrs. Miracle
2024 · 6.7
UnREAL
2015 · 6.7
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2016 · 6.7
Big Sky River
2022 · 6.7
The Pregnancy Project
2012 · 6.7
Falling for Vermont
2017 · 6.6
My Husband's Deadly Past
2020 · 6.6
Wedding Every Weekend
2020 · 6.6
Motive
2013 · 6.5
Sugar & Vice: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
2026 · 6.5
Rufus
2016 · 6.5
Holiday Date
2019 · 6.5
Ice
2016 · 6.4
Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas
2021 · 6.4
Perfect Harmony
2022 · 6.3
Pick Me Up
2006 · 6.3
Baby Bootcamp
2014 · 6.3
A Bride for Christmas
2012 · 6.3
The More the Merrier
2025 · 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 · 6.2
Just One Kiss
2022 · 5.9
A Daughter's Nightmare
2014 · 5.9
37 Teen
2019 · 5.8
Lucky in Love
2014 · 5.8
Perfect High
2015 · 5.8
High Noon
2009 · 5.8
The Wedding Contract
2023 · 5.8
Ring of Fire
2012 · 5.7
The Mystery Cruise
2013 · 5.7
The Murders
2019 · 5.6
Going the Distance
2004 · 5.5
Christmas List
2016 · 5.5
Murder Unresolved
2016 · 5.5
Walking the Dog
2017 · 5.5
WW3
2001 · 5.4
What An Idiot
2016 · 5.4
Black Fly
2014 · 5.3
Dead Rising: Watchtower
2015 · 5.2
Slap Shot 3: The Junior League
2008 · 5.0
Air
2015 · 5.0
Murder on Spec
2006 · 4.9
Passion's Web
2007 · 4.8
The Break-up Artist
2009 · 4.3
One Angry Juror
2010 · 4.2
Ba'al
2008 · 4.0
Death Do Us Part
2014 · 3.5
Level Up
2012 · 2.6
GeoFreakZ
2011 · 0.0
Afterparty
2013 · 0.0
Mind Game
2006 · 0.0
I Wanna Date U
2015 · 0.0
The Money Pet
2011 · 0.0
Waiting 4 Goliath
2009 · 0.0