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Robert Benchley

Born 15 September 1889 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, as Robert Charles Benchley.
Died 21 November 1945 in New York, New York, USA, of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Married Gertrude Darling, June 1914; son, Nathaniel Benchley, born 13 November 1915;
son, Robeert Benchley Jr., born 1919; until his death, 21 November 1945.

Robert Benchley attended Harvard University where he wrote for The Harvard Lampoon. Chiefly an author of short humour pieces, Robert began work in motion pictures in the mid-1920s writing intertitles for Distinctive Picture Corporation (1924) and Paramount Pictures Corporation (1926). As the sound film was burgeoning, Benchley began writing and starring in short films that presented his wry wit and acting style, including The Treasurer’s Report (1928) and The Sex Life od the Polyp (1928) for Fox Film Corporation.

Benchley intermittently continued his short film series for Universal Pictures Corporation (1933) and RKO Radio Pictures (1935), but his most-famous short films were made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1935-1939). Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Robert appeared in a number a feature films as a featured player, including in Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent (1940), You’ll Never Get Rich (1941), I Married a Witch (1942), and the posthumously-released The Bride Wore Boots (1946).

References: Website-IMDb; Website-Wikipedia.

 
Book : The Best of Robert Benchley by Robert Benchley

Book : The Benchley Roundup by Robert Benchley, edited by Nathaniel Benchley

Book : Of All Things by Robert Benchley

Book (Kindle) : Chips Off the Old Benchley by Robert Benchley

Book (Kindle) : My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew by Robert Benchley

Book : Robert Benchley: A Biography by Nathaniel Benchley

Book : Bon Mots, Wisecracks, and Gags: The Wit of Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and the Algonquin Round Table edited by Robert E. Drennan

DVD : The Robert Benchley Miniatures Collection

 
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