Birthname: Robert Charles Benchley
| Sign | Virgo |
| Born | Sep 15, 1889 Worcester, MA |
| Died | Nov 21, 1945 New York City, NY |
| Age | Died at 56 |
Robert Benchley | |
| Job | Writer, critic, film actor |
| Known for | Well-meaning busybodies |
| Top Roles | Stebbins, Duffy, Raleigh's P.R. Man, Uncle George Archer, Martin Cortland, Narrator |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Romance, Musical, Short Films, Drama, Adventure |
| Top Topics | Romance (Comic), World War II, Broadway |
| Top Collaborators | Robert Z. Leonard (Director), William A. Seiter (Director), Mitchell Leisen (Director), Arthur Loft |
| Shares birthday with | Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Penny Singleton see more.. |
Robert Benchley Overview:
Character actor, Robert Benchley, was born Robert Charles Benchley on Sep 15, 1889 in Worcester, MA. Benchley died at the age of 56 on Nov 21, 1945 in New York City, NY .
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One of the great Hollywood wits of the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's, Robert Benchley possessed impeccable comic timing. His appearances as supporting actor in feature films, often in the character of a well-meaning busybody, were almost always occasions to savor. He also instigated and presented a brilliant series of comedy shorts, most of which began "How to...". One of these bumbling diatribes, How to Sleep (1935), won an Oscar.
(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).HONORS and AWARDS:
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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.
Robert Benchley BlogHub Articles:
Birthday of the Week: Robert Benchley
By Beth Daniels on Sep 17, 2014 From Mildred's FatburgersBorn Robert Charles Benchley, September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945 Biography Robert Benchley: A Biography, By Nathaniel Benchley, McGraw-Hill, 1955 Advice for Getting Rid of Hiccups "Roll down a long, inclined lawn, snatching a mouthful of grass up each time the face... Read full article
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Robert Benchley Quotes:
Mr. Osborne: Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
Lecturer: Now the only way in which a polyp resembles other animals at all is that at certain periods of its growth, it does take a sentimental interest in polyps of the... oppositie sex. Now, this presents a very complicated situation as the polyp has no definite sex itself. That is... it's neither one thing or the other. By that I mean the same polyp may be either a boy or a girl according to what or how it happened to feel like being.
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