Robert Benchley

Biography

Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, a newspaper columnist and an actor.

Filmography

The Reluctant Dragon
Robert Benchley
I Married a Witch
Dr. Dudley White
Nice Girl?
Prof. Oliver Wendel Holmes Dana
You'll Never Get Rich
Martin Cortland
Road to Utopia
Narrator
The Sky's the Limit
Philip 'Phil' Harriman
Dancing Lady
Ward King
Broadway Melody of 1938
Duffy
The Major and the Minor
Albert Osborne
Bedtime Story
Eddie Turner
China Seas
Charlie McCaleb
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
See Here, Private Hargrove
Mr. Holliday
Week-End at the Waldorf
Randy Morton
Three Girls About Town
Wilburforce Puddle, hotel manager
Syncopation
Doakes (scenes deleted)
Hired Wife
Roger Van Horn
Take a Letter, Darling
G.B. Atwater
Young and Willing
Arthur Kenny
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
Lecturer
How to Break 90 at Croquet
Joe Doakes
Furnace Trouble
Robert Benchley
Lesson No. 1
Lecturer
The Spellbinder
Robert Benchley
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Robert Benchley
Rafter Romance
Hubbell
The Stork Club
Tom P. Curtis
Flesh and Fantasy
Doakes
The Sex Life of the Polyp
Lecturer
Piccadilly Jim
Bill Macon
Headline Shooter
Radio Announcer
How to Be a Detective
Mr. Benchley
Practically Yours
Judge Robert Simpson
Live, Love and Learn
Oscar
How to Sleep
Host / Narrator
A Night at the Movies
Husband
The Bride Wore Boots
Uncle Todd Warren
The Treasurer's Report
Treasurer
Janie
John Van Brunt
Janie Gets Married
John Van Brunt
How to Start the Day
Lecturer
Foreign Correspondent
Stebbins
Kiss and Tell
George Archer
Pan-Americana
Charlie Corker
The Pixar Story
Robert Benchley (archive footage)
The Sport Parade
Radio Announcer
Social Register
Robert Benchley
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
How to Eat
Lecturer / Joe Doakes
Important Business
Joseph A. Doakes
How to Behave
Mr. Benchley
My Tomato
Joseph A. Doakes
How to Train a Dog
Lecturer / Dog Owner
Mental Poise
Psychoanalyst / Mr. Ostegraf
The Romance of Digestion
Joe Doakes
Snafu
Ben Stevens
An Hour for Lunch
Lecturer / Joe
How to Figure Income Tax
Joe Doakes
How to Vote
Mr. Robert Benchley
Why Daddy?
Joseph A. Doakes
Her Primitive Man
Martin Osborne
See Your Doctor
Lecturer / Joseph H. Doakes
Home Movies
Joe Doakes
It's in the Bag!
Parker
Nothing But Nerves
Mr. Benchley
How to Read
Lecturer
The National Barn Dance
J.B. Mitcham
Song of Russia
Hank Higgins
Boogie Woogie
Frederick Stumplefinger
That Inferior Feeling
Joseph H. 'Joe' Doakes
How to Watch Football
Football Fan
Home Early
Joe Doakes
Hollywood Victory Caravan
Robert Benchley
Duffy's Tavern
Robert Benchley
Your Technocracy and Mine
How to Raise a Baby
Lecturer Father
David O. Selznick: Your New Producer
Master of Ceremonies
How to Take a Vacation
Husband
Keeping in Shape
Joe Doakes
The Forgotten Man
Joe Doakes / Father
Waiting for Baby
Joe Doakes
No News Is Good News
Answer Man
The Day of Rest
Joe Doakes
Opening Day
City Treasurer Benchley
How to Sub-Let
Joe Doakes
Dark Magic
Joe Doakes
The Courtship of the Newt
Zoology Lecturer
An Evening Alone
Joe Doakes
Show-Business at War
Self
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
The Witness
Joe Doakes
Crime Control
Sgt. Benchley / Joe Doakes
The Trouble with Husbands
Joe Doakes
Music Made Simple
Robert Benchley
The Ten-Year Lunch
Himself (archive footage)
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Robert Benchley (archive sound)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Joseph Doakes in 'That Inferior Feeling' (archive footage)
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs