Robert Benchley (1889-1945)

Alias:
Robert Charles Benchley
Роберт Бенчли

Birthplace:
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Born:
September 14, 1889

Died:
November 21, 1945

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

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Additional Dialogue:
1932  The Sport Parade
1933  Blind Adventure

Dialogue:
1932  The Sport Parade
1933  Blind Adventure
1940  Foreign Correspondent

Producer:
1932  The Sport Parade
1933  Blind Adventure
1939  See Your Doctor
1940  Foreign Correspondent

Screenplay:
1932  The Sport Parade
1933  Blind Adventure
1935  Murder on a Honeymoon
1939  Home Early
1939  See Your Doctor
1940  Foreign Correspondent

Story:
1932  The Sport Parade
1933  Blind Adventure
1935  Murder on a Honeymoon
1939  Home Early
1939  See Your Doctor
1940  Foreign Correspondent
1944  Why Daddy?

Title Graphics:
1926  The American Venus
1932  The Sport Parade
1933  Blind Adventure
1935  Murder on a Honeymoon
1939  Home Early
1939  See Your Doctor
1940  Foreign Correspondent
1944  Why Daddy?

Writer:
1926  The American Venus
1928  The Sex Life of the Polyp
1928  The Spellbinder
1928  The Treasurer's Report
1929  Furnace Trouble
1929  Lesson No. 1
1929  Stewed, Fried and Boiled
1932  Sky Devils
1932  The Sport Parade
1933  Blind Adventure
1933  Your Technocracy and Mine
1935  How to Break 90 at Croquet
1935  Murder on a Honeymoon
1936  How to Be a Detective
1936  How to Behave
1936  How to Vote
1937  A Night at the Movies
1937  The Romance of Digestion
1938  An Evening Alone
1938  How to Figure Income Tax
1938  How to Raise a Baby
1938  How to Read
1938  How to Watch Football
1938  Mental Poise
1938  Music Made Simple
1938  The Courtship of the Newt
1939  Dark Magic
1939  Home Early
1939  How to Sub-Let
1939  See Your Doctor
1940  Foreign Correspondent
1940  Home Movies
1940  That Inferior Feeling
1940  The Trouble with Husbands
1941  Crime Control
1941  Waiting for Baby
1942  The Witness
1943  No News Is Good News
1944  Why Daddy?
2004  Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6

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