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Biography. Best known for his characterizations of two Philip Roth characters, in "Goodbye Columbus" (1969) and "Portnoy's Complaint" (1972), Benjamin had walk-on juvenile parts in some 1950s films and first earned adult recognition on Broadway, starring in Neil Simon's "Star-Spangled Girl" (1966). He had directed "Barefoot in the Park" in ...
Richard Samuel Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor and movie director. He directed City Heat (1984), The Money Pit (1986) and Made in America (1993). He was the lead actor in the short-lived 1978 TV series "Quark" where he played the Captain of a Sanitation Starship as "Adam Quark"
Career. Prentiss had many supporting roles in films and television series in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including Get Smart' s "The Little Black Book", Hogan's Heroes ' "The Missing Klink" (1969), and on the Baretta episode "Half a Million Dollar Baby". She provided the voice of an alien species in the comedy film My Stepmother Is an Alien ...
Oct 30, 1981 · Saturday the 14th: Directed by Howard R. Cohen. With Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Jeffrey Tambor, Severn Darden. A family inherits an old mansion which houses the dangerous 'Book of Evil' that has all the monsters of the world trapped inside it.
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Paula Prentiss. Actress: Where the Boys Are. Discovered by a talent scout at Northwestern University in 1958, Paula Prentiss was signed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and teamed with Jim Hutton in a string of comedies. She rapidly became one of the best American comediennes of the 1960s. Her funny voice inflections, free acting style and brunette good looks established her as a leading lady in ...
Box office. $4 million [2] or $2.2 million [3] Saturday the 14th is a 1981 American comedy horror film starring real-life husband and wife Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin, co-written and directed by Howard R. Cohen and produced by Julie Corman . Despite the implications of the film's title, it is a spoof of classic horror movies from the ...
Nov 30, 2018 · Richard "Dick" Benjamin was born in New York City on May 22, 1938 to a Jewish family. His father, Roger Benjamin, worked in the garment industry. Dick attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. He later graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago).
