Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley

Works, including

How to Sleep
, the film of 1935, and My Ten Years in a Quandary , the book of 1936, of Robert Charles Benchley, humorist, critic, and actor, often pitted an average American against the complexities of modern life.

People best knew Robert Charles Benchley as a newspaper columnist. He began at the Lampoon and meanwhile attended Harvard University and wrote many essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
From New York City and his peers at the Algonquin Round Table, short style brought acclaim, respect, and success to Benchley to contemporaries in the burgeoning industry.

Benchley contributed best remembered influential topical or absurdist essays to The New Yorker. He also made a name in Hollywood, when hi

Acting

2007

The Pixar Story
Movie

Robert Benchley (archive footage)

2004

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Movie

Robert Benchley (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

1987

The Ten-Year Lunch
Movie

Himself (archive footage)

1982

Showbiz Goes to War
Movie

(archive footage)

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie

Joseph Doakes in 'That Inferior Feeling' (archive footage)

1955

1946

1945

The Stork Club
Movie

Tom P. Curtis

1945

Duffy's Tavern
Movie

Robert Benchley

1944

Practically Yours
Movie

Judge Robert Simpson

1944

Janie
Movie

John Van Brunt

1944

Important Business
Movie

Joseph A. Doakes

1944

Important Business
Movie

Joseph A. Doakes

1944

Important Business
Movie

Joseph A. Doakes

1944

1943

My Tomato
Movie

Joseph A. Doakes

1943

The Sky's the Limit
Movie

Philip 'Phil' Harriman

1943

1942

I Married a Witch
Movie

Dr. Dudley White

1942

Syncopation
Movie

Doakes (scenes deleted)

1941

Bedtime Story
Movie

Eddie Turner

1941

1941

1935

How to Sleep
Movie

Host / Narrator

1935

China Seas
Movie

Charlie McCaleb

1933

1933

Headline Shooter
Movie

Radio Announcer

1932

The Sport Parade
Movie

Radio Announcer

Writing

Crew

1932

The Sport Parade
Movie

Additional Dialogue

Infos

Full Name
Robert Benchley
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
9/14/1889
Date of Death
11/21/1945
Website
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Also Known As

Роберт Бенчли

Robert Charles Benchley