Benjamin Jeremy Stein was born on November 25,1944 and is an American writer, lawyer, actor, comedian, and commentator on political and economic issues.
53 Facts About Ben Stein
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Ben Stein began his career as a speechwriter for US presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford before entering the entertainment field as an actor, comedian, and game show host.
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Ben Stein is best known on screen as the economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as the host of Win Ben Stein's Money, and as Dr Arthur Neuman in The Mask and Son of the Mask.
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Ben Stein was born in Washington, DC, the son of Mildred, a homemaker, and Herbert Ben Stein, a writer, economist, and presidential adviser.
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Ben Stein is Jewish and grew up in the Woodside Forest neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Ben Stein graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in 1962 along with classmate journalist Carl Bernstein ; actress Goldie Hawn was one year behind.
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Ben Stein went on to major in economics at Columbia University's Columbia College, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and the Philolexian Society.
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Ben Stein was first a poverty lawyer in New Haven, Connecticut, and Washington, DC before becoming a trial lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission.
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Ben Stein's first teaching stint was as an adjunct professor, teaching about the political and social content of mass culture at American University in Washington, DC He subsequently taught classes at the University of California, Santa Cruz on political and civil rights under the United States Constitution.
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At Pepperdine University Ben Stein taught libel law and United States securities law and its ethical aspects.
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Ben Stein was a professor of law and economics at Pepperdine University Law School from about 1990 to 1997.
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Ben Stein writes a regular column in the conservative media outlets The American Spectator and Newsmax.
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Ben Stein has written for numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Penthouse, Los Angeles Magazine, and Barron's Magazine.
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Ben Stein was fired from his position as a Sunday Business columnist at The New York Times in August 2009 owing to a policy prohibiting writers from making product endorsements or advertising.
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Ben Stein had recently become an advertising spokesman for credit information company Freescore.
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Ben Stein began his political career as a speechwriter and lawyer for President Richard Nixon, and later for President Gerald Ford.
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On May 3,1976, Time magazine speculated on the possibility of Ben Stein having actually been Deep Throat.
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Ben Stein responded over the years not only by denying he was Deep Throat but by going further and accusing journalist Bob Woodward of falsifying the famous secret source.
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Ben Stein lied to protect his subordinates who were covering up a ridiculous burglary that no one to this date has any clue about its purpose.
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Ben Stein lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going.
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Ben Stein was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace.
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Ben Stein acted as the monotonous economics teacher in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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Ben Stein had a recurring role in the TV series The Wonder Years and played himself in Dave.
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True to its name, the money that contestants won on the show was subtracted from the $5,000 pay that Ben Stein earned per episode.
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In 2001, Ben Stein appeared on a celebrity episode of The Weakest Link entitled "TV Hosts Edition" alongside other television hosts and was voted off in round 6 despite being that round's Strongest Link.
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Ben Stein voiced a psychiatrist, again named after himself, in the USA TV series Duckman; he once appeared in the sitcom Married.
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Ben Stein made a cameo appearance in the comic book Young Justice, as Ali Ben Styn.
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Ben Stein voiced the character Sam Schmaltz in the 1996 computer adventure game Toonstruck.
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Ben Stein has written for the television industry, including outlines for the TV movie Murder in Mississippi and for the lengthy ABC miniseries Amerika.
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Ben Stein has contributed to the creation of the talk show parody series Fernwood 2 Night.
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Ben Stein hosted a show on VH1 called America's Most Smartest Model.
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Ben Stein wrote an editorial for The New York Times critical of those who would rather make money in the world of finance than fight terrorism.
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On December 28,2009, Ben Stein appeared on CNN's Larry King Live with Ron Paul to discuss the attempted bombing of an American plane on Christmas Day 2009.
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Ben Stein said that Paul's stance that the United States were "occupiers" in Iraq and Afghanistan was antisemitic.
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Ben Stein has a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho, and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC, which he inherited from his parents.
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In 2014, performance artist Tanya Ma claimed that a financial arrangement between her and Ben Stein had turned inappropriate.
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Ben Stein is a supporter of the criminalization of abortion and was given an anti-abortion award in 2003 by the National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund.
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In 2007, Ben Stein chastised the police and the GOP leadership for their response to the Larry Craig scandal.
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Ben Stein has criticized the United States Internal Revenue Code for being too lenient on the wealthy.
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Ben Stein has repeated the observation made by Warren Buffett, one of the richest individuals in the world, that Buffett pays a lower overall tax rate than his secretaries.
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Ben Stein objected to Obama's proposal in 2010 not to extend tax cuts for the highest earning taxpayers in the midst of the recession, saying that.
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In 2012, Ben Stein stated that due to the tremendous amount of national debt, he agreed with Obama's proposal to increase taxes on the wealthy and that ultimately everyone's taxes should be raised to avoid defaulting on the debt.
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Ben Stein's editorial was criticized by a number of media outlets.
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Ben Stein was armed with his incredibly strong, scary self.
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Ben Stein does not say belief in evolution alone leads to genocide, but that scientific materialism is a necessary component.
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Ben Stein co-wrote and stars in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a film that aims to persuade viewers that evolution was instrumental to the rise of the eugenics movement, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, and portrays advocates of intelligent design as victims of intellectual discrimination by the scientific community, which has rejected intelligent design as creationist pseudoscience.
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At the University of Vermont, Ben Stein was invited to receive an honorary degree and be the commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2009.
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University President Dan Fogel received complaints about Ben Stein's planned appearance, due to Ben Stein's views on evolution.
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At the private, Christian Liberty University 2009 graduation, Ben Stein was awarded an honorary degree and, according to the university, "spoke extensively about his work on Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed".
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Ben Stein endorsed John McCain for president in 2008, calling him "an impressive guy".
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In January 2012, Ben Stein appeared in political advertisements sponsored by Associated Industries of Florida supporting legislation that would create three resort casinos in South Florida.
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Ben Stein claimed in late 2014 that President Barack Obama was the most racist president in American history, saying Obama "made everything about race".
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In 2016, Ben Stein reprised the famous attendance scene from Ferris Bueller in a campaign ad for Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley.