Paul Benedict Biography (1938-)

Born September 17, 1938, in Silver City, NM; son of Mitchell M. (a doctor) and Alma Marie (a journalist; maiden name, Loring) Benedict. Addresses:Agent: The Gage Group, 14724 Ventura Blvd., Suite 505, Los Angeles, CA 91403.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor, director
Birth Details: September 17, 1938; Silver City, New Mexico, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
(Stage debut) Chaplain, The Lady's Not for Burning, Image Theatre,Boston, MA, 1962
Sailor Shawnee, Live Like Pigs, Actor's Playhouse, New York City,1965
Mother, The Infantry, Eight-first Street Theatre, New York City, 1966
Reverend Dupas, Little Murders, Circle in the Square Theatre, NewYork City, 1969
Interviewer, news seller, man, Wills, and a man, The Local Stigmatic, Actor's Playhouse, 1969
Stiles, The White House Murder Case, Circle in the Square Theatre,1970
Dr. Jason Pepper, "Ravenswood" and Hugh Gumbs, "Dunelawn," Bad Habits, Astor Place Theatre, New York City, 1974
Lieutenant Drew, The Unvarnished Truth, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1985
Ira Drew, It's Only a Play, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City,1986
Ira Drew, It's Only a Play, James A. Doolittle Theatre, UCLA, 1992
Scrooge, A Christmas Carol, Huntington Theatre Company, Boston, MA, 1992-93
Arsenic and Old Lace, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1994-95
Johann Dwornitschek, The Play's the Thing, Criterion Center StageRight, New York City, 1995
Desk clerk, Hughie, Circle in the Square Theatre, 1996
Mayor Shinn, The Music Man, Neil Simon Theatre, New York City, 2000-2001
The Unexpected Man, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Wellfleet, MA, 2003
Also appeared as Freddy, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA; in Ah, Wilderness!, Huntington, Boston,MA; Light Up the Sky, Hartford Stage, Hartford, CT; Hughie, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles.
Stage Director
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, New York City, 1987, then Westside Theatre/Upstairs, New York City
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1988-89
Prelude and Liebestod, One-Act Play Festival, Nat Horne Theatre, New York City, 1989
The Kathy & Mo Show: Parallel Lives, Westside Arts Theatre/Downstairs, New York City, 1989
Bad Habits, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage 1, New York City, 1990
The Old Boy, 1991-92
Any Given Day, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1993
Strictly Academic, Primary Stages, New York City, 2003
Also directed Beyond Therapy and Geniuses, both Los AngelesPublic Theatre; It's Only a Play, Artists and Directors Theatre; Crimes of the Heart, Trinity Square Playhouse, Rhode Island; Any GivenDay, Longacre Theatre, New York City.
Film Appearances
Wells Fargo Ferguson, The Double-Barreled Detective Story, Saloon,1965
Rutherford Melon, The Virgin President, New Line, 1968
Zen Buddhist, Cold Turkey, Tandem Productions, 1969
Ben Lockston, Taking Off, Universal, 1970
Chestnut man, They Might Be Giants, Universal, 1971
Shots O'Toole, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (also known as The Gang That Couldn't Shoot), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1971
Dr. Beineke, Up the Sandbox, National General, 1972
Reverend Lindquist, Jeremiah Johnson, Warner Bros., 1972
Tramp, Deadhead Miles, 1972

Plunkett, The Front Page, Universal, 1974
Brownlee, Mandingo, Paramount, 1975
Orren Brooks, Smile, United Artists, 1975
Mark Morgenweiss, The Goodbye Girl (also known as Neil Simon's"The Goodbye Girl"), Warner Bros., 1977
Billy's father, Billy in the Lowlands, FIF, 1979
Cosmo, Desperate Moves (also known as A Desperate Case, Rollerboy, Save the Last Dance for Me, Steigler and Steigler, Stiegler: A Desperate Case, and Stiegler: A Serious Case), 1981
Butler, The Man with Two Brains, Warner Bros., 1983
Tucker "Smitty" Brown, This Is Spinal Tap, Embassy, 1984
(Uncredited) Voice of Dr. Zook, The Lonely Guy, 1984
Warden Eddie Dwyer, The Chair (also known as Hot Seat), Imperial Entertainment, 1988
Finance teacher, Cocktail, Buena Vista, 1988
Fairchild, Arthur 2: On the Rocks, Warner Bros., 1988
Dr. Plotner, Sibling Rivalry, Columbia, 1990
Arthur Fleeber, The Freshman, TriStar, 1990
Judge Womack, The Addams Family, Paramount, 1991
Mickey, Guns and Lipstick, 1995
Not Guffman (Mr. Roy Loomis), Waiting for Guffman, Sony Pictures Classics, 1996
(Uncredited) Walter Krasna, The Devil's Advocate (also known as Devil's Advocate and Im auftrag des teufels), 1997
Who Was That Man, 1998
Milo, A Fish in a Bathtub, 1998
Professor Brainiac, Isn't She Great (also known as Ist sie nicht groBartig?), Universal, 2000
Martin Berg, A Mighty Wind, Warner Bros., 2003
Night shift guard, After the Sunset, New Line Cinema, 2004
Chief Rod Rocks, A Second Wind, 2006
Television Appearances
Series
(Television debut) The mad painter, Sesame Street (also known as Les Amis de Sesame, Canadian Sesame Street, Open Sesame, Sesame Park, and The New Sesame Street), PBS, 1969-74
Harry Bentley, The Jeffersons, CBS, 1974-81, 1983-85
Mr. Pratt, The Guiding Light (also known as Guiding Light),CBS, 1999
Miniseries
Arbuthnot, The Blue and the Gray, CBS, 1982
Movies
Lester Traube, Hustling, ABC, 1975
Guido Fantoccini, The Electric Grandmother, 1981
Mr. Magleby, Babycakes, CBS, 1989
Dr. Loeb, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, HBO, 1993
Specials
Himself, The Making of "The Goodbye Girl" (documentary), 1977
Malcolm Maltved, Sex, Shock and Censorship in the '90s, Showtime,1993
Himself, Intimate Portrait: Stockard Channing (documentary), Lifetime, 2004
Episodic
Donald Kauldor, "Slay Ride," Kojak, 1974
Harry Bentley, "The Jeffersons Move On Up," All in the Family (also known as Those Were the Days), 1975
Minister, "All Psyched Out," Maude, 1975
Calvin Klinger, Mama Malone, CBS, 1984
Frederich Hoffman, "Sticks and Stones," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1985
Okie, "Song of the Younger World," The Twilight Zone, CBS, 1985
"Top Billing," Tales from the Crypt (also known as HBO's "Talesfrom the Crypt"), HBO, 1991
Mr. Ludlow, "Risk Around the Dollar," A Different World, NBC, 1991
Mr. Nicolides, "The Vase Shop," Morton & Hayes, 1991
Milt, "Tess Makes the Man," Pig Sty, UPN, 1995
Lester, One Life to Live, ABC, 1996
Mr. Elinoff, the cartoon editor at New Yorker, "The Cartoon," Seinfeld, NBC, 1998
Jeremy, "Drew and the Life-Size Jim Thome Cut-Out," The Drew Carey Show, ABC, 2002
Also appeared in Harry-O.
Television Work
Director, "The Truth Hurts," The Jeffersons, CBS, 1985

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