Richard Benjamin
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1939
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Narragansett Bay
- Providence
- Rhode Island
- Socialism and modern democratic techniques
- Rhode Island
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1913-11-22
- Active to
- 1976-12-04
Discography
- Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes / Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra1955
- Carnival of the Animals/The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra1962
- Serge Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Benjamin Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra1962
- Twentieth Century Church Music1963
- War Requiem1963
- Copland: The Red Pony & Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 201964
- Rejoice in the Lamb / Missa brevis / A Ceremony of Carols1965
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream1966
- Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op. 34 / Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra, Op. 101967
- Songs & Proverbs of William Blake - The Holy Sonnets of John Donne1969
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 178
- Total plays
- 3,722
Richard Benjamin knows about things. Another college dropout thinking that he can rap, he knows he is not alone in this category. Already hailed by the hip hop community as one of the young lyricists the industry should be on the look out for, he knows that praise and favor leave as quickly as they came. He knows that hard work, sharp skill, and relentlessness are all necessary to succeed. Even though his Capitol Hill Mixtape received over 6000 plays <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Be
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,134x
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 61,783x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 58,224x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,865x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,838x
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Key facts
- Born
- Richard Samuel Benjamin , ( 1938-05-22 ) May 22, 1938 (age 88) , New York City, U.S.
- Alma mater
- Northwestern University
- Occupations
- Actor director producer
- Years active
- 1962–present
- Spouse
- Paula Prentiss ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1961 )
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Richard Benjamin.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1938-05-22
- Commons category
- Richard Benjamin
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
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Richard Samuel Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) 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 (both 1973) 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 (starring opposite his wife Paula Prentiss), which aired from 1967-1968. In 1976, Benjamin received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture for his performance as aged vaudevillian Willy Clark's (Walter Matthau) 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.
After directing for television, his first film as a director was the 1982 comedy My Favorite Year, starring Peter O'Toole, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. His other films as a director include City Heat (1984), The Money Pit (1986), My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988), Mermaids (1990), Made in America (1993), Milk Money (1994), Mrs. Winterbourne (1996), and Marci X (2003).