Robert Benchley
Date of birth: 1889-09-14
Place of birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Роберт Бенчли, Robert Charles Benchley
Biography
Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, a newspaper columnist and an actor.
Movie Credits
The Reluctant Dragon
1941-06-19
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gent
I Married a Witch
1942-10-30
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter
Nice Girl?
1941-02-21
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built
You'll Never Get Rich
1941-09-25
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfri
Road to Utopia
1946-02-27
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had bee
The Sky's the Limit
1943-07-13
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes in
Dancing Lady
1933-11-24
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the r
Broadway Melody of 1938
1937-08-20
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading
The Major and the Minor
1942-09-16
Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay ha
Bedtime Story
1941-12-25
A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is t
China Seas
1935-08-09
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo:
Showbiz Goes to War
1982-12-31
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944-03-18
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his t
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945-10-04
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a w
Three Girls About Town
1941-10-23
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next doo
Syncopation
1942-05-22
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
Hired Wife
1940-09-13
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his
Take a Letter, Darling
1942-05-06
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to
Young and Willing
1943-02-05
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' f
The Spellbinder
1928-12-13
The Spellbinder is a comedy short.
Lesson No. 1
1929-02-12
Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.
Furnace Trouble
1929-02-04
Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
1929-03-29
Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.
How to Break 90 at Croquet
1935-06-04
Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
1937-10-02
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robe
Rafter Romance
1933-09-01
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
The Stork Club
1945-12-28
After aspiring singer Judy Peabody rescues the elderly J.B. Bates from drowning, she assumes that th
Flesh and Fantasy
1943-10-29
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New O
The Sex Life of the Polyp
1928-07-25
Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a
Piccadilly Jim
1936-08-14
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at
How to Be a Detective
1936-10-17
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical
Headline Shooter
1933-07-28
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Practically Yours
1944-12-20
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, an
Live, Love and Learn
1937-10-29
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get mar
How to Sleep
1935-09-14
A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and in
A Night at the Movies
1937-11-06
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success s
The Bride Wore Boots
1946-06-05
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
The Treasurer's Report
1928-03-11
Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys b
Janie
1944-09-02
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
Janie Gets Married
1946-06-22
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her fath
How to Start the Day
1937-11-11
Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.
Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i
Kiss and Tell
1945-10-04
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-ye
Pan-Americana
1945-03-22
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.
The Pixar Story
2007-08-28
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's p
The Sport Parade
1932-11-11
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Social Register
1934-03-10
Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love,
How to Eat
1939-06-10
Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's a
Important Business
1944-04-29
Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."
How to Behave
1936-04-25
Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This lead
My Tomato
1943-12-04
Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eatin
How to Train a Dog
1936-07-01
This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.
Mental Poise
1938-12-10
In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.
The Romance of Digestion
1937-03-13
A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific
Snafu
1945-11-22
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family
An Hour for Lunch
1939-03-17
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunat
How to Figure Income Tax
1938-03-01
A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.
How to Vote
1936-09-04
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and h
Why Daddy?
1944-05-20
When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages h
Her Primitive Man
1944-05-29
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a speci
See Your Doctor
1939-12-16
A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who ge
Home Movies
1940-02-17
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
It's in the Bag!
1945-04-21
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Nothing But Nerves
1942-01-02
After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so
How to Read
1938-08-27
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
The National Barn Dance
1944-09-24
This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title bega
Song of Russia
1944-02-10
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi
Boogie Woogie
1945-06-15
While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night
That Inferior Feeling
1940-01-20
Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of aut
How to Watch Football
1938-10-07
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.
Home Early
1939-05-26
A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wi
Hollywood Victory Caravan
1945-09-30
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She pe
Duffy's Tavern
1945-09-28
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces t
Your Technocracy and Mine
1933-03-31
Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.
How to Raise a Baby
1938-07-01
American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.
The Forgotten Man
1941-05-22
Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming
David O. Selznick: Your New Producer
1935-01-01
Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selzn
Keeping in Shape
1942-06-22
Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.
How to Take a Vacation
1941-10-09
In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband atte
Waiting for Baby
1941-01-24
Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.
The Courtship of the Newt
1938-07-22
Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.
An Evening Alone
1938-05-13
Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.
Opening Day
1938-11-12
The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.
The Day of Rest
1939-09-05
Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.
No News Is Good News
1943-12-18
Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.
How to Sub-Let
1939-01-29
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
Dark Magic
1939-05-12
A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.
Show-Business at War
1943-05-21
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi
The Witness
1942-01-01
As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he exp
The Trouble with Husbands
1940-11-08
Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is
Crime Control
1941-04-11
A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human
Music Made Simple
1938-03-16
Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.
The Ten-Year Lunch
1987-09-28
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
2004-05-31
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy a
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1936-08-05
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States -
The Causes Of The Depression
Mr Benchley first expounded his interesting theory in December 1931, and as it remains the clearest