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Richard Benjamin

Born 1938 · American actor and film director

Richard Samuel Benjamin is an American actor and director. He has starred in a number of well-known films, including Goodbye, Columbus (1969), Catch-22 (1970), Portnoy's Complaint (1972), Westworld, The Last of Sheila and Saturday the 14th (1981). In 1968, Benjamin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance on the CBS sitcom He & She, which aired from 1967–1968. In 1976, Benjamin received a Golden Globe for his performance as aged vaudevillian Willy Clark's comedically long-suffering nephew, confidante and talent agent, Ben Clark, in Herbert Ross' The Sunshine Boys (1975), based on Neil Simon's 1972 hit stage play of the same name.

Richard Benjamin, in order

  1. 1967 He & She (TV series): acted
  2. 1969 Goodbye, Columbus: acted · directed by Larry Peerce
  3. 1970 Catch-22: acted · directed by Mike Nichols · critics 80%, audiences 76% · streaming on MGM+, Kanopy, Hoopla
  4. 1970 Diary of a Mad Housewife: acted · directed by Frank Perry
  5. 1971 The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker: acted · directed by Lawrence Turman
  6. 1971 The Steagle: acted · directed by Paul Sylbert
  7. 1972 Portnoy's Complaint: acted · directed by Ernest Lehman
  8. 1973 The Last of Sheila: acted · directed by Herbert Ross
  9. 1973 Westworld: acted · directed by Michael Crichton · critics 81%, audiences 70%
  10. 1975 The Sunshine Boys: acted · directed by Herbert Ross
  11. 1976 No Room to Run: acted · directed by Robert Michael Lewis
  12. 1977 Quark (TV series): acted
  13. 1978 House Calls: acted · directed by Howard Zieff
  14. 1979 Love at First Bite: acted · directed by Stan Dragoti
  15. 1979 Scavenger Hunt: acted · directed by Michael Schultz · audiences 74% · streaming on Plex, Tubi
  16. 1980 First Family: acted · directed by Buck Henry
  17. 1980 How to Beat the High Co$t of Living: acted · directed by Robert Scheerer
  18. 1981 Saturday the 14th: acted · directed by Howard R. Cohen
  19. 1982 My Favorite Year: directed
  20. 1983 Packin' It In (TV movie): acted · directed by Jud Taylor
  21. 1984 City Heat: directed · critics 25%, audiences 25%
  22. 1984 Racing with the Moon: directed, wrote · critics 89%, audiences 61% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Kanopy
  23. 1986 The Money Pit: directed · critics 52%, audiences 58%
  24. 1988 Little Nikita: directed
  25. 1988 My Stepmother Is an Alien: directed
  26. 1990 Downtown: directed
  27. 1990 Mermaids: directed · critics 71%, audiences 70% · streaming on Prime Video, Philo, Roku Channel
  28. 1993 Made in America: directed · critics 33%, audiences 29% · streaming on Plex
  29. 1994 Milk Money: directed
  30. 1996 Mrs. Winterbourne: directed
  31. 1997 Deconstructing Harry: acted · directed by Woody Allen · critics 71%, audiences 82% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, YouTube (free)
  32. 1998 The Pentagon Wars (TV movie): directed, acted
  33. 1998 Tourist Trap (TV movie): directed
  34. 2001 Laughter on the 23rd Floor (TV movie): directed
  35. 2001 The Shrink Is In (TV movie): directed
  36. 2003 Marci X: directed, acted
  37. 2004 The Goodbye Girl (TV movie): directed
  38. 2006 A Little Thing Called Murder (TV movie): directed
  39. 2006 Keeping Up with the Steins: acted · directed by Scott Marshall
  40. 2007 Pushing Daisies (TV series): acted
  41. 2008 Henry Poole Is Here: acted · directed by Mark Pellington
  42. 2023 Ex-Husbands: acted · directed by Noah Pritzker
  43. Back of Book: directed
  44. The Sports Pages (TV movie): directed