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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).
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.
For one season (1967–1968), Prentiss co-starred with her husband, Richard Benjamin, in the CBS sitcom He & She. [12] For her role, Prentiss was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Comedy. In 1969 she appeared Off-Broadway in the double production, Arf and The Great Airplane Snatch, directed by Benjamin.
Richard Benjamin heads an outstanding cast." [ 5 ] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times described the film as an "honorable failure" in part because "Lehman does not have, or couldn't devise, a cinematic style equivalent to Roth's literary style."
The stars were Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss, who were married in real life. They accepted the parts because it gave them a chance to visit Sydney, and because the film was a thriller, and both were better known for comedy . "I haven't played a serious role like this before, I'm always comedy oriented," said Prentiss. [7]
Quark is a 1977 American science fiction sitcom starring Richard Benjamin. Broadcast on Friday nights at 8:00–8:30 p.m. on NBC, [1] the pilot aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978. The series was cancelled in April 1978. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the spy spoof Get Smart ...
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. [3]
The Money Pit is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a couple who attempt to renovate a recently purchased house. The film is a loose remake of the 1948 Cary Grant comedy film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House , and was filmed in New York City and Lattingtown, New York , and was ...