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American actor and film director

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Born
1939
Works
5

Top works

  • Narragansett Bay
  • Providence
  • Rhode Island
  • Socialism and modern democratic techniques
  • Rhode Island

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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

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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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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).

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