Robert Benchley

Biography

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

Known For

Robert Benchley

The Reluctant Dragon

Dr. Dudley White

I Married a Witch

Prof. Oliver Wendel Holmes Dana

Nice Girl?

Martin Cortland

You'll Never Get Rich

Narrator

Road to Utopia

Philip 'Phil' Harriman

The Sky's the Limit

Ward King

Dancing Lady

Duffy

Broadway Melody of 1938

Mr. Osborne

The Major and the Minor

Eddie Turner

Bedtime Story

Charlie McCaleb

China Seas

(archive footage)

Showbiz Goes to War

Mr. Holliday

See Here, Private Hargrove

Randy Morton

Week-End at the Waldorf

Wilburforce Puddle, hotel manager

Three Girls About Town

Doakes (scenes deleted)

Syncopation

Roger Van Horn

Hired Wife

G.B. Atwater

Take a Letter, Darling

Arthur Kenny

Young and Willing

Lecturer

Stewed, Fried and Boiled

Joe Doakes

How to Break 90 at Croquet

Robert Benchley

Furnace Trouble

Lecturer

Lesson No. 1

Robert Benchley

The Spellbinder

Robert Benchley

Sunday Night at the Trocadero

Hubbell

Rafter Romance

Tom P. Curtis

The Stork Club

Doakes

Flesh and Fantasy

Lecturer

The Sex Life of the Polyp

Bill Macon

Piccadilly Jim

Radio Announcer

Headline Shooter

Mr. Benchley

How to Be a Detective

Judge Robert Simpson

Practically Yours

Oscar

Live, Love and Learn

Host / Narrator

How to Sleep

Husband

A Night at the Movies

Uncle Todd Warren

The Bride Wore Boots

Treasurer

The Treasurer's Report

John Van Brunt

Janie

John Van Brunt

Janie Gets Married

Lecturer

How to Start the Day

Stebbins

Foreign Correspondent

George Archer

Kiss and Tell

Charlie Corker

Pan-Americana

Robert Benchley (archive footage)

The Pixar Story

Radio Announcer

The Sport Parade

Robert Benchley

Social Register

Lecturer / Joe Doakes

How to Eat

Joseph A. Doakes

Important Business

Mr. Benchley

How to Behave

Joseph A. Doakes

My Tomato

Lecturer / Dog Owner

How to Train a Dog

Psychoanalyst / Mr. Ostegraf

Mental Poise

Joe Doakes

The Romance of Digestion

Ben Stevens

Snafu

Lecturer / Joe

An Hour for Lunch

Joe Doakes

How to Figure Income Tax

Mr. Robert Benchley

How to Vote

Joseph A. Doakes

Why Daddy?

Martin Osborne

Her Primitive Man

Lecturer / Joseph H. Doakes

See Your Doctor

Joe Doakes

Home Movies

Parker

It's in the Bag!

Mr. Benchley

Nothing But Nerves

Lecturer

How to Read

J.B. Mitcham

The National Barn Dance

Hank Higgins

Song of Russia

Frederick Stumplefinger

Boogie Woogie

Joseph H. 'Joe' Doakes

That Inferior Feeling

Football Fan

How to Watch Football

Joe Doakes

Home Early

Robert Benchley

Hollywood Victory Caravan

Robert Benchley

Duffy's Tavern

Your Technocracy and Mine

Lecturer Father

How to Raise a Baby

Master of Ceremonies

David O. Selznick: Your New Producer

Husband

How to Take a Vacation

Joe Doakes

Keeping in Shape

Joe Doakes / Father

The Forgotten Man

Joe Doakes

Waiting for Baby

Answer Man

No News Is Good News

Joe Doakes

The Day of Rest

City Treasurer Benchley

Opening Day

Joe Doakes

How to Sub-Let

Joe Doakes

Dark Magic

Zoology Lecturer

The Courtship of the Newt

Joe Doakes

An Evening Alone

Self

Show-Business at War

(archive footage)

That's Entertainment, Part II

Joe Doakes

The Witness

Sgt. Benchley / Joe Doakes

Crime Control

Joe Doakes

The Trouble with Husbands

Robert Benchley

Music Made Simple

Himself (archive footage)

The Ten-Year Lunch

Robert Benchley (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6

Joseph Doakes in 'That Inferior Feeling' (archive footage)

The Big Parade of Comedy

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

Mr. Benchley

The Causes Of The Depression

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

98

Gender

Male

Birthday

1889-09-14

Place of Birth

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As

Роберт Бенчли