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Richard Benjamin
22 May 1938
Richard Benjamin played in 10 and created 11 movies in the Comedy, War, Music, Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi, Western, Horror, Romance, Fantasy, Music genres.
Richard Benjamin got succeed with average imdb rating 6.
Everywhere his film career, Richard Benjamin trafficked in neurotic, high-strung, self-interested characters upper class-halfway point-group characterizations. While attending the New York Huge Infuse with of Performing Arts, Benjamin made his first proficient condition appearances, and reportedly showed up in a mischief-maker of movie bit roles. He continued his camp training at Northwestern University, where he met actress Paula Prentiss, whom he married in 1961.
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... e, Hollywood was more interested in Paula than in Dick; thus, while Paula was co-starring with Jim Hutton at MGM, her husband was calm performing on put on. In 1965, Benjamin directed the London production of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Reservation; the following year, he made his Broadway acting burden in Simon's The Star Spangled Skirt, earning a Theatre World Present in the bargain. Co-starring with wife Paula, Benjamin appeared in the 1967 TV case comedy He and She, which gained a trustworthy cult following but was considered too New Yawk-ish for the hinterlands. Even so, He and She made Benjamin a esteem-above-the-legend lady, and it was in this understanding that he made his film matured screen illusion as angst-driven collegiate Neil Klugman in Goodbye Columbus (1969). He went on to demeanour Major Danby in the all-star Catch-22 (1969), monumentally insensitive husband Jonathan Balser in Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), the self-abusive (in every quickness of the ) christen integrity in Portnoy's Grouse (1972), the notable-by-default in Westworld (1973), ulcerated agent Ben Clark in The Sunshine Boys (1976) and erstwhile vampire huntsman Dr. Jeff Rosenberg in Love at First Bite (1980). Benjamin participated in another cult-TV item in 1978, when he starred in the 6-episode sci-fi lampoon Quark. In 1982, he made his film directorial bow with My Favorite Year (1982), a rollicking nostalgiafest inspired by TV's Golden Seniority.
Since that time, Benjamin has favored directing over performing.
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