1. Richard Samuel Benjamin was born on May 22,1938 and is an American actor and film director.
32 Facts About Richard Benjamin
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Richard Benjamin has starred in a number of well-known films, including Goodbye, Columbus, Catch-22, Portnoy's Complaint, Westworld, The Last of Sheila and Saturday the 14th.
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In 1976, Richard Benjamin received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture for his performance as aged vaudevillian Willy Clark's comedically long-suffering nephew, confidant and talent agent, Ben Clark, in Herbert Ross' The Sunshine Boys, based on Neil Simon's 1972 hit stage play of the same name.
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Richard Benjamin was born in New York City, the son of Samuel Roger Richard Benjamin, a garment industry worker.
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Richard Benjamin attended the High School of Performing Arts and graduated from Northwestern University, where he was involved in many plays and studied in the Northwestern theater school.
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Richard Benjamin appeared on stage in The Taming of the Shrew and guest-starred on shows such as The New Breed and Dr Kildare.
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Richard Benjamin later toured in The Odd Couple with Dan Dailey.
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Richard Benjamin appeared alongside Anthony Perkins and Connie Stevens, and the show ran for 261 performances.
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Richard Benjamin followed it with a key support role in the film of Catch-22.
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Richard Benjamin was top billed in Diary of a Mad Housewife from the team of Eleanor and Frank Perry, appearing alongside Carrie Snodgress and Frank Langella.
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Richard Benjamin played the lead in The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, directed by the producer and the original author of The Graduate, though it was not as successful.
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Richard Benjamin acted in a comedy, The Steagle, the directorial debut of designer Paul Sylbert, which was little seen.
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In 1972 Richard Benjamin returned to Broadway with The Little Black Book, which only ran for nine performances.
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Richard Benjamin then acted in two more successful films, as part of an all-star cast in The Last of Sheila, from a script by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim, and in Westworld, directed by Michael Crichton and co-starring Yul Brynner.
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Richard Benjamin supported Walter Matthau and George Burns in the film adaptation of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.
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Richard Benjamin starred with Prentiss in The Norman Conquests on Broadway, which went for 76 performances.
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In Hollywood, Richard Benjamin supported Matthau and Glenda Jackson in House Calls.
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Richard Benjamin played a frustrated fiance of a woman who falls for the vampire Count Dracula in the surprise box-office smash Love at First Bite starring George Hamilton and Susan Saint James.
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Richard Benjamin has hosted Saturday Night Live twice, once by himself on April 7,1979 and the other nearly a year later on April 5,1980 with his wife Paula Prentiss.
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Richard Benjamin was top billed in Scavenger Hunt, an ensemble film.
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Richard Benjamin had directed in theatre and was keen to do it in film.
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Richard Benjamin had supporting roles in The Last Married Couple in America, How to Beat the High Co$t of Living, Witches' Brew, and First Family.
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Richard Benjamin was then called in at short notice to replace Blake Edwards on City Heat with Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds, which was a critical and commercial disappointment.
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Richard Benjamin directed a comedy for Steven Spielberg's company, The Money Pit with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long.
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Richard Benjamin then directed a thriller Little Nikita with Sidney Poitier and River Phoenix, and a comedy with Dan Aykroyd, My Stepmother Is an Alien.
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Richard Benjamin did another comedy, Downtown, with Anthony Edwards and Forest Whitaker.
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Richard Benjamin had a moderate hit with Mermaids starring Cher and Winona Ryder.
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Richard Benjamin returned to features with The Shrink Is In and Marci X, in which he had a small role.
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Richard Benjamin produced and directed a TV adaptation of Simon's The Goodbye Girl with Jeff Daniels and Patricia Heaton.
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In 2006, Richard Benjamin directed the award-winning cable television drama A Little Thing Called Murder, starring Australian Judy Davis.
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Richard Benjamin's later acting appearances on television include Ray Donovan and Childrens Hospital.
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Richard Benjamin had transferred from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and was a year ahead of Benjamin at the university.