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Robby Benson (born Robin David Segal; January 21, 1956 [1]) is an American actor, director, and musician. He rose to prominence as a teen idol in the late 1970s, appearing in the films Ode To Billy Joe (1976), One on One (1977) and Ice Castles (1978).
Robby Benson. Actor: Beauty and the Beast. Robby Benson is an American writer, director, composer, lyricist, actor, professor of film, filmmaker and novelist. He began his career in the theater, (Oliver, The King and I); on Broadway (co-starring in Zelda, The Rothschilds and Joseph Papp's The Pirates of Penzance, where he met and fell in love ...
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Robby Benson (born Robin David Segal; January 21, 1956) is an American actor, director, and musician. He rose to prominence as a teen idol in the late 1970s, appearing in the films Ode To Billy Joe (1976), One on One (1977) and Ice Castles (1978).
- His parents inspired him to become an actor. “I was pretty young when the bug hit me,” Robby Benson shared. His mom performed in theater at their home in Michigan and his first stage role was in The King & I. When he heard that the next show was going to be Oliver!
- He was acting on Broadway before he was a teenager. Acting wasn’t just a side hobby for the young actor, who found himself acting on Broadway with Ed Bagley in Zelda when he was just twelve-years-old.
- Robby skipped three grades thanks to his excellent math skills. When he was a kid, Robby Benson had remarkable math skills. He would take home school workbooks that were meant to last the whole school year and complete them in a night for fun.
- He’s had four open heart surgeries, the first in his twenties. Benson has always been a fit runner, so he was shocked when a doctor checkup required by his insurance led to the discovery of a heart issue that needed immediate surgery.
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As a child actor, Benson appeared in commercials, a soap opera, television, film and on Broadway. While Benson seemed to disappear from Hollywood during the 1980’s, he was still steadily acting. In 1991 Robby Benson became the voice of the Beast in Disney’s animated “Beauty and the Beast”.