Career
Hendry was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and educated at Culford School. His acting career began in 1959 and within a year he had landed the lead role of Dr. Geoffrey Brent in the crime series Police Surgeon. The series only ran for twelve episodes but Hendry was next cast in the very similar role of Dr. David Keel in a new action-adventure series entitled The Avengers. Initially, Hendry was the star of this series, which co-starred Patrick Macnee as John Steed. However, production of the first season was curtailed by a strike and Hendry used the opportunity to depart the series and begin a film career. (The Avengers continued for the rest of the decade with Macnee as its star.)
Hendry had a lead role in films such as The October Wedding (1959), Live Now - Pay Later (1962), Girl In The Headlines (1963), The Hill (1965) opposite Sean Connery and in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (also 1965). He appeared in TV series such as Armchair Theatre, Danger Man, The Saint, The Gold Robbers, The Persuaders, Dial M For Murder, Churchill's People, Thriller (UK TV series), The New Avengers, Van Der Valk, Supernatural, Crown Court, For Maddie With Love, The Enigma Files, Bergerac, The Chinese Detective, Jemima Shore Investigates and Brookside. Earlier he had taken the lead role as struck-off solicitor Alex Lambert in the TV series The Informer (1966–67).
In the early 1970s, Hendry took lead roles in several TV series such as The Adventures of Don Quick (1970) and The Lotus Eaters (1972–73). He guest starred, alongside Brian Blessed, in the first episode of The Sweeney, entitled 'Ringer', made in 1974 and broadcast early in 1975. He also appeared in a number of films, including the Hammer entry Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1974). Among the more widely seen films he appeared in during this time were Get Carter (1971, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor), Theatre of Blood (1973) opposite Vincent Price, The Passenger (1975) and Damien: Omen II (1978).
He starred in Gerry Anderson's film, Doppelgänger (1969), also known as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.
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