Hugh Bonneville as Henry Avery. * Henry Every (1659 – after 1696), aka: John Avery, Henry Bridgeman, &amp; &quot;Long Ben&quot; to his crew -- was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s.  He was called  &quot;The Arch Pirate&quot; and &quot;The King of Pirates&quot; by contemporaries because he was one of the few pirate captains to retire with his loot without being arrested or killed in battle...