Richard Benjamin
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Richard Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor and film director.
He has starred in a number of productions, including the 1969 film, Goodbye, Columbus based upon the novella of the same name by Philip Roth, and with Yul Brynner in Westworld in 1973.
Benjamin was born in New York City, New York. He married actress Paula Prentiss on October 26, 1961 and they have two children. He was graduated from Northwestern University where he was involved in many plays and studied in the famous Northwestern theater school. Benjamin is Jewish.[1] He and his wife appeared together in the short-lived television series He & She (1967-68). In 1978, he starred in the ambitious, but short-lived, television series Quark.
[edit] Filmography
- Dr. Kildare
- Vacation Playhouse
- He & She (1967) TV Series
- Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
- Catch-22 (1970)
- Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
- The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971)
- The Steagle (1971)
- Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
- The Last of Sheila (1973)
- Westworld (1973)
- The Sunshine Boys (1975)
- No Room to Run (1978) (TV)
- House Calls (1978)
- Quark
- Fame (1978) (TV)
- Love At First Bite (1979)
- Scavenger Hunt (1979)
- Witches' Brew (1980)
- The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
- Saturday Night Live
- How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
- First Family (1980)
- Listening Skills (1981)
- Managing Meetings (1981)
- Insight - Goodbye (1981) TV Episode
- Saturday the 14th (1981)
- Packin' It In (1983) (TV)
- Lift (1992)
- The Ray Bradbury Theater
- Ink - The English-Speaking Patients (1997) TV Episode
- Deconstructing Harry (1997)
- The Pentagon Wars (1998) (TV)
- Mad About You - Valentine's Day (1999) TV Episode
- Titus - The Reconciliation (2000) TV Episode
- The Shrink Is In (2001)
- Marci X (2003)
- The Goodbye Girl (2004) (TV)
- Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] External links
- Richard Benjamin at the Internet Movie Database
- Richard Benjamin at the Notable Names Database
- Richard Benjamin at TV.com
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