Robert Benchley
American writer and actor (1889-1945) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 56
Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist, newspaper columnist and actor.
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William A. Seiter Directed Nice Girl? and Rafter Romance
Rosalind Russell Also in Live, Love and Learn and Hired Wife
William Fox Produced The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
Robert Z. Leonard Directed Dancing Lady (1933)
Mitchell Leisen Produced Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
Joe Pasternak Produced Nice Girl? and Song of Russia
Roy Rowland Directed A Night at the Movies and How to Read
Hal Walker Directed Duffy's Tavern and The Stork Club
Samuel Bischoff Produced You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Edward H. Griffith Directed The Sky's the Limit (1943)
Arthur Hornblow, Jr. Produced The Major and the Minor (1942)
Thomas Hardie Chalmers Directed The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
Fred Astaire Also in Dancing Lady and You'll Never Get Rich
Ginger Rogers Also in The Major and the Minor (1942)
Eve Arden Also in Dancing Lady and Bedtime Story
Cecil Kellaway Also in Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
Binnie Barnes Also in It's in the Bag! (1945)
Bess Flowers Also in I Married a Witch and Flesh and Fantasy
Nana Bryant Also in The Reluctant Dragon and Nice Girl?
Richard Wallace Directed It's in the Bag! (1945)
Diana Lynn Also in Duffy's Tavern (1945)
Edmund Mortimer Also in Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Cyril Ring Also in I Married a Witch and Duffy's Tavern
Barnett Parker Also in Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
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From his beginnings at The Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from his peers at the Algonquin Round Table in New York City to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry.
