Robert Benchley

September 14, 1889 (56 years old at death)

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Known for Acting

Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, a newspaper columnist and an actor.

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Boogie Woogie

Writer

1945

I'm a Civilian Here Myself

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1945

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Why Daddy?

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1944

5.2

Important Business

Screenplay

1944

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No News Is Good News

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1943

4.0

The Witness

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1942

6.5

Crime Control

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1941

4.8

Waiting for Baby

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1941

The Trouble with Husbands

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1940

6.2

Home Movies

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1940

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That Inferior Feeling

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1940

5.4

See Your Doctor

Screenplay

1939

5.8

Home Early

Screenplay

1939

Dark Magic

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1939

6.0

How to Sub-Let

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1939

3.5

Mental Poise

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1938

5.5

How to Watch Football

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1938

4.8

How to Read

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1938

5.2

The Courtship of the Newt

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1938

How to Raise a Baby

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1938

5.0

An Evening Alone

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1938

6.5

Music Made Simple

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1938

How to Figure Income Tax

Writer

1938

6.0

A Night at the Movies

Writer

1937

5.7

The Romance of Digestion

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1937

8.0

How to Be a Detective

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1936

6.5

How to Vote

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1936

7.0

How to Behave

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1936

7.5

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How to Break 90 at Croquet

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1935

Murder on a Honeymoon

Screenplay

1935

6.4

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Your Technocracy and Mine

Writer

1933

Sky Devils

Writer

1932

4.0

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Stewed, Fried and Boiled

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1929

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Lesson No. 1

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1929

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Furnace Trouble

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1929

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The Spellbinder

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1928

The Sex Life of the Polyp

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1928

4.9

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The Treasurer's Report

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1928

3.0