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Richard Samuel Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor and film 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).
My Favorite Year is a 1982 American comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palumbo from a story written by Palumbo. The film tells the story of a young comedy writer [ 2 ] and stars Peter O'Toole , Mark Linn-Baker , Jessica Harper , and Joseph Bologna .
Prentiss has been married to actor-director Richard Benjamin since 1961. [20] [21] They have two children, son Ross and daughter Prentiss. [1] [22] There is a street named after Prentiss in San Antonio, Texas. [23]
He & She stars real-life married couple Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss as Dick and Paula Hollister, a successful cartoonist and his wife, a social worker.Hollister's cartoon Jetman had been so successful that it was now a network television series starring egomaniacal actor Oscar North (Jack Cassidy), as the titular Jetman.
Goodbye, Columbus is a 1969 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, directed by Larry Peerce and based on the 1959 novella by Philip Roth. The screenplay, by Arnold Schulman , won the Writers Guild of America Award .
The district attorney claimed that Prentiss, while incarcerated on the assault charge, had attempted to hire another inmate to kill three people, including her father and actor-director Richard Benjamin, her brother-in-law. On July 23, 1997, the court sentenced her to 19 years in prison. [3] [1]
The cast includes Walter Matthau as Clark, real-life experienced vaudevillian actor George Burns as Lewis, and Richard Benjamin as Ben, with Lee Meredith, F. Murray Abraham, Carol Arthur, Jennifer Lee, Rosetta LeNoire, Howard Hesseman and Ron Rifkin in supporting roles.
The Last of Sheila is a 1973 American whodunnit mystery film directed and produced by Herbert Ross and written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim.It starred Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, James Mason, Ian McShane, and Raquel Welch.