# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-benjamin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:25:34.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-benjamin"
name: "Richard Benjamin"
slug: "richard-benjamin"
description: "Richard Samuel Benjamin is an American actor and 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 and Saturday the 14th (1981). In 1968, Benjamin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance on the CBS sitcom He & She, which aired from 1967-1968. In 1976, Benjamin received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture for his performance as aged vaudevillian Willy Clark's comedically long-suffering nephew, confidante and talent agent, Ben Clark, in Herbert Ross' The Sunshine Boys (1975), based on Neil Simon's 1972 hit stage play of the same name."
tagline: "American actor and film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Benjamin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1938-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.564664670320357
  historical:           22.128008
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000907/"
    handle:    "nm0000907"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump