21 Facts About Paul Benedict

Paul Bernard Benedict was an American actor who made numerous appearances in television and films, beginning in 1965.

Paul Benedict was known for his roles as The Number Painter on the PBS children's show Sesame Street and as the English neighbor Harry Bentley on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons.

Paul Benedict would go on to work with Lear in the coming years on various television projects.

Paul Benedict was best known for his role as Harry Bentley on the television series The Jeffersons.

Paul Benedict played this role from the series' inception in 1975 until 1981, and then returned in 1983 and remained until the end of the series in 1985.

Paul Benedict's character was a well-mannered Englishman who lived in the apartment next door to George and Louise Jefferson.

Paul Benedict worked at the United Nations as a translator and was a bachelor.

Paul Benedict was liked by all of the characters on the show except George Jefferson, who found him annoying, but they eventually became friends as the show progressed.

Paul Benedict played the recurring character The Number Painter on the children's PBS show Sesame Street.

Paul Benedict played the father of a fugitive teen runaway in the 1971 film Taking Off, which was Milos Forman's first American film.

Paul Benedict was the patiently eccentric butler in Dr Necessiter's Gothic-castle apartment in The Man With Two Brains, and had a short scene in the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, playing Tucker Smitty Brown, the awkward hotel desk clerk who checks in the band.

In 1988, Paul Benedict played Fairchild, Dudley Moore's butler in the movie Arthur 2: On the Rocks, the sequel to the hit 1981 film Arthur.

Paul Benedict made an appearance as the incorrectly assumed title character in the 1996 film Waiting for Guffman, another mockumentary involving many of the same writers and actors as This Is Spinal Tap.

Paul Benedict played Fay's father in the story of Rumpelstiltskin in the Between the Lions episode "Hay Day" and appeared on the TV show a Different World, season 4 episode 8 as Mr Ludlow.

Paul Benedict appeared in a 1998 Seinfeld episode as a magazine editor with The New Yorker who was questioned by Elaine about a cartoon in the magazine.

Paul Benedict's final television appearance was a guest spot on The Drew Carey Show in 2002.

Paul Benedict appeared Off-Broadway in 1986 in Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play.

Paul Benedict had directed a production of the work Off-off-Broadway several years before.

In 2007, Paul Benedict performed as "Hirst" in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

On December 1,2008, Paul Benedict was found dead of a brain hemorrhage at his home in Aquinnah, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Paul Benedict was awarded a posthumous Elliot Norton Award by the Boston Theater Critics Association in 2009.