Richard Benjamin
Highest Rated: 97% My Favorite Year (1982)
Lowest Rated: 8% Marci X (2003)
Birthday: May 22, 1938
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Best known for his characterizations of two Philip Roth characters, in "Goodbye Columbus" (1969) and "Portnoy's Complaint" (1972), Benjamin had walk-on juvenile parts in some 1950s films and first earned adult recognition on Broadway, starring in Neil Simon's "Star-Spangled Girl" (1966). He had directed "Barefoot in the Park" in London the previous year. Other off-beat acting highlights include "Catch-22" (1970) and "The Sunshine Boys" (1975).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41% | 35% | You People | Dr. Green (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 40% | 52% | Henry Poole Is Here | Dr. Fancher (Character) | $1.8M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | A Little Thing Called Murder | Director | - | 2006 |
| 36% | 38% | Keeping Up With the Steins | Rabbi Schulberg (Character) | $4.3M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Goodbye Girl |
Oliver Fry (Character), Director |
- | 2004 |
| 8% | 29% | Marci X |
Ben Feld (Character), Director |
$1.6M | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sports Pages | Director | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Laughter on the 23rd Floor | Director | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | The Shrink Is In | Director | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | The Pentagon Wars |
Casper Weinberger (Character), Director |
- | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Tourist Trap | Director | - | 1998 |
| 73% | 82% | Deconstructing Harry | Ken (Character) | $10.7M | 1997 |
| 15% | 63% | Mrs. Winterbourne | Director | $8.8M | 1996 |
| 12% | 37% | Milk Money | Director | $17.0M | 1994 |
| 33% | 29% | Made in America | Director | $41.8M | 1993 |
| 71% | 70% | Mermaids | Director | $34.9M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Downtown | Director | $2.2M | 1990 |
| 53% | 45% | Little Nikita | Director | $1.5M | 1988 |
| 20% | 30% | My Stepmother Is an Alien | Director | $12.9M | 1988 |
| 50% | 58% | The Money Pit | Director | $30.9M | 1986 |
| 22% | 24% | City Heat | Director | - | 1984 |
| 60% | 62% | Racing With the Moon | Director | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Packin' It In | Gary Webber (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 97% | 84% | My Favorite Year | Director | - | 1982 |
| 10% | 32% | Saturday the 14th | John (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 20% | 6% | First Family | Press Secretary Bunthorne (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Witches' Brew | Joshua Lightman (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | The Last Married Couple in America | Marv Cooper (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | Scavenger Hunt | Stuart Selsome (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | How to Beat the High Cost of Living | Albert (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 70% | 55% | Love at First Bite | Doctor Jeff Rosenberg (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 25% | 48% | House Calls | Dr. Norman Solomon (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fame | Meyer Shine (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Room to Run | Nick Loomis (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 72% | 73% | The Sunshine Boys | Ben Clark (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 89% | 86% | The Last of Sheila | Tom (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 85% | 70% | Westworld | Peter Martin (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Portnoy's Complaint | Alexander Portnoy (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Steagle | Harold Weiss (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker | William Alren (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 81% | 76% | Catch-22 | Maj. Danby (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 82% | 79% | Diary of a Mad Housewife | Jonathan Balser (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 92% | 50% | Goodbye, Columbus | Neil Klugman (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Thunder Over the Plains | Sergeant Shaw (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1953 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72% | 85% | Ray Donovan | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 96% | 95% | Pushing Daisies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Titus | Unknown (Character) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Mad About You | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| 44% | No Score Yet | Ink | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ray Bradbury Theater | Mr. Howard (Character) | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Semi-Tough | Director | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1979-1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Quark | Adam Quark (Character) | 1977-1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | He & She | Dick Hollister (Character) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vacation Playhouse | Ted Penny (Character) | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962-1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1963 |