Richard Benjamin
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Richard Benjamin was born in New York City in 1938 and is an actor, director, and producer. It took him almost fifteen years to establish his screen persona, but his hard work paid off when he won the starring role in the screen adaptation of Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus (1969). He went on to star in Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971), and Portnoy's Complaint (1972), which earned him the title of "archetype of East Coast Jewish intellectual agony". He won a Golden Globe for his role in the film version of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (1975). Since the 1980s, Benjamin has focused more on directing, with his most acclaimed work being My Favorite Year (1982).
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor, Director, Producer
Birth Day May 22, 1938
Birth Place  New York City, New York, United States
Age 85 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Gemini
Alma mater Northwestern University
Occupation Actor Director Producer
Years active 1962–present
Spouse(s) Paula Prentiss (1961–present; 2 children)

💰 Net worth: $800,000 (2024)

Richard Benjamin, an esteemed Actor, Director, and Producer hailing from the United States, has accumulated a net worth estimated to be $800,000 in 2024. With a career spanning several decades, Benjamin has made significant contributions to the entertainment industry and has displayed his versatility through his exceptional performances on screen, behind the camera, and as a producer. This impressive net worth further underscores his success in the industry, highlighting his talent, dedication, and ability to excel in multiple creative roles.

Biography/Timeline

1910

Benjamin was born in New York City, the son of Samuel Roger Benjamin (1910–1997), a garment industry worker, and Chelsea Angelina (née Roberts) Benjamin (1913–1959), a homemaker. His family was Jewish. He attended the High School of Performing Arts and graduated from Northwestern University, where he was involved in many plays and studied in the Northwestern theater school.

1961

He married Actress Paula Prentiss on October 26, 1961; they have two children who are also actors: Ross Benjamin and Prentiss Benjamin. They appeared together in short-lived television series He & She (1967–68) and the movie version of Catch-22 (1970), as well as the Australian film No Room to Run (1976) and the 1981 horror spoof Saturday the 14th. In 1978, he starred in the ambitious but short-lived television series Quark.

1969

Benjamin starred in Goodbye, Columbus (1969), based on the novella by Philip Roth, as well as Diary of a Mad Housewife, The Steagle, The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, and another film based on a famous Roth work, Portnoy's Complaint (1972), in the title role.

1973

He played a sexually ambiguous murder suspect in The Last of Sheila (1973), a mystery conceived and co-scripted by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim. In an imaginative Michael Crichton story, Westworld (1973), Benjamin played a man vacationing as a make-believe Cowboy in a theme park where he ends up being stalked by a robot gunslinger played by Yul Brynner.

1978

Then he returned to comedy, with a supporting role as a harried theatrical agent in the Neil Simon hit The Sunshine Boys opposite Walter Matthau and George Burns, and as Matthau's colleague at an ineptly run hospital in House Calls (1978). Benjamin also played a frustrated fiance of a woman who falls for the vampire Count Dracula in the surprise box-office smash Love at First Bite (1979) starring George Hamilton and Susan Saint James.

1979

On April 7, 1979, Benjamin hosted Saturday Night Live.

1982

Benjamin's first film as a Director (after helming a small number of productions for television) was the highly acclaimed period comedy My Favorite Year (1982), which brought an Oscar nomination to its star, Peter O'Toole. Benjamin went on to direct a number of Hollywood films, mainly comedies, including City Heat (1984) with Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood and The Money Pit (1986) with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long. He also directed Cher and Winona Ryder in Mermaids (1990) and the 1993 romantic comedy Made in America that co-starred Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson.

1997

Benjamin's acting appearances have become less frequent. His later work includes a role in the Woody Allen comedy Deconstructing Harry (1997). He directed and appeared in Marci X (2003), a comedy starring Lisa Kudrow and Damon Wayans.

2006

In 2006, Benjamin directed award-winning cable television drama A Little Thing Called Murder, starring Australian Judy Davis. It was based on the true story of Sante and Kenny Kimes, mother and son grifters and killers.

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