Paul Benedict

Paul Benedict

Born: September 17, 1938
Died: December 1, 2008
in Silver City, New Mexico, United States
Paul Benedict (September 17, 1938 – December 1, 2008) was an American actor who made numerous appearances in television and movies beginning in the 1960s. He was known for his roles as The Number Painter on the popular PBS children's show Sesame Street, and as the quirky English neighbor "Harry Bentley" on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons. Often mistakenly credited as Charlie Bucket's school teacher (the uncredited role of Mr. Turkentine), in the cult classic Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, who was actually played by David Battley .

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Side by Each
Title: Side by Each
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Salty wants to launch his live-in boat and sail off, until crooks buy the boatyard, requiring him to move away. He soon meets and falls for a woman not knowing she is one of three triplet sisters, setting off comic consequences along the waterfront.
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After the Sunset
Title: After the Sunset
Character: Night Shift Guard
Released: November 12, 2004
Type: Movie
An FBI agent is suspicious of two master thieves, quietly enjoying their retirement near what may - or may not - be the biggest score of their careers.
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A Mighty Wind
Title: A Mighty Wind
Character: Martin Berg
Released: April 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell the story of '60s-era folk musicians, who, inspired by the death of their former manager, get back on the stage for one concert in New York City's Town Hall.
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Isn't She Great
Title: Isn't She Great
Character: Prof. Brainiac
Released: January 28, 2000
Type: Movie
An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of "The Valley of the Dolls" and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career, Susann meets a successful promoter who becomes her husband. After several failures to place her in commercials and a TV quiz show, he hits upon the idea for her to become a writer. In the pre-1960s, her books were looked upon as trash and non-printable. But then the sexual revolution hit and an audience was born for her books. The story shows the hidden behind-the-scenes story of Susann's life, including her autistic son and her continuing bout with cancer which she hid up until her death.
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A Fish in the Bathtub
Title: A Fish in the Bathtub
Character: Milo
Released: March 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.
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The Devil's Advocate
Title: The Devil's Advocate
Character: Walter Krasna (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.
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Waiting for Guffman
Title: Waiting for Guffman
Character: Not Guffman
Released: August 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.
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Guns & Lipstick
Title: Guns & Lipstick
Character: Mickey
Released: August 27, 1995
Type: Movie
A female private investigator's latest client turns up murdered, and she is thrust into a deadly underworld of bi-sexual strippers, a Chinese Godfather with a taste for young girls and the hunt for one very elusive gem.
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Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
Title: Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
Character: Dr. Victor Loeb
Released: September 28, 1994
Type: Movie
When an abused heiress grows to giant size because of her encounter with aliens, she decides to get revenge on her cheating husband and those who looked down on her.
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Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
Title: Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
Character: Malcolm Maltved
Released: September 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Newswoman Fay Sommerfield takes a morally outraged look at excessive violence, bad language and sacrilege that pass for entertainment in the early 90s. She illustrates this with clips from (fake) current hit films and music videos.
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The Return of Spinal Tap
Title: The Return of Spinal Tap
Character: Hotel Concierge (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1992
Type: Movie
Spinal Tap is back in a whole new feature-length rockumentary. Go behind the scenes and find out where the somewhat-less-than-fab three are now -- and where it all began in Squatney, England. Also, catch up with director Marty DiBergi, ex-Polymer marketing whiz Artie Fufkin, and Jeanine, who now owns a shop specializing in itchy Irish clothing.
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The Addams Family
Title: The Addams Family
Character: Judge Womack
Released: November 22, 1991
Type: Movie
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.
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Sibling Rivalry
Title: Sibling Rivalry
Character: Dr. Plotner
Released: October 26, 1990
Type: Movie
Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her 8 year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors)..
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The Freshman
Title: The Freshman
Character: Arthur Fleeber
Released: July 20, 1990
Type: Movie
After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Mr. Elinoff
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: TV
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Beaks
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Babycakes
Title: Babycakes
Character: Magleby
Released: February 14, 1989
Type: Movie
Grace is an overweight mortuary cosmetician who falls in love with Rob, a handsome subway train conductor who doesn't even know she exists. When she finally devises a way to meet him, they discover that although they are physically different, they have a lot more in common than they think.
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The Chair
Title: The Chair
Character: Warden Edward Dwyer
Released: October 8, 1988
Type: Movie
A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.
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Cocktail
Title: Cocktail
Character: Finance Teacher
Released: July 29, 1988
Type: Movie
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.
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Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Title: Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Character: Fairchild
Released: July 8, 1988
Type: Movie
Arthur loses his fortune for staying with Linda, right as the two were preparing to adopt a child. As their marriage suffers, Arthur plans for a way to get his money back, but first he must sober up and get a real job.
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Title: A Different World
Character: Mr. Ludlow
Released: September 24, 1987
Type: TV
A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC. It is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities. While it was a spin-off from The Cosby Show, A Different World would typically address issues that were avoided by The Cosby Show writers. One episode that aired in 1990 was one of the first American network television episodes to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Hoakie
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Friedrich Hoffman
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Mama Malone
Released: March 7, 1984
Type: TV
Mama Malone is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March 7, 1984 to July 21, 1984 starring British character actress Lila Kaye as the title character, an Italian homemaker who hosts a cooking show from her Brooklyn apartment. She never gets to properly instruct viewers on her recipes because friends and family members keep interrupting her show.
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This Is Spinal Tap
Title: This Is Spinal Tap
Character: Tucker 'Smitty' Brown
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
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The Lonely Guy
Title: The Lonely Guy
Character: Dr. Zook (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1984
Type: Movie
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
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The Man with Two Brains
Title: The Man with Two Brains
Character: Butler
Released: June 10, 1983
Type: Movie
A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
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Title: The Blue and the Gray
Character: Arbuthnot
Released: November 14, 1982
Type: TV
The Blue and the Gray is a television miniseries that first aired on CBS in three installments on November 14, November 16, and November 17, 1982. Set during the American Civil War, the series starred John Hammond, Stacy Keach, Lloyd Bridges, and Gregory Peck as President Abraham Lincoln. It was executive produced by Larry White and Lou Reda, in association with Columbia Pictures Television, then owned by The Coca-Cola Company.
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The Electric Grandmother
Title: The Electric Grandmother
Character: Guido Fantoccini
Released: January 17, 1982
Type: Movie
To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarre way. They receive three pieces, that when joined together, give a recording for an offer for an electric grandmother. They go to a bizarre factory, where they customize their new grandmother, and within a short time, she arrives. The android is equipped with everything needed as a parent and the boys are charmed. The daughter, however, still misses her mother and she bears no welcome for this interloper.
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Desperate Moves
Title: Desperate Moves
Character: Cosmo
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A naive young man from rural Oregon travels to San Francisco to pursue his big city dreams.
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Billy in the Lowlands
Title: Billy in the Lowlands
Released: December 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Billy is a rebellious teenager who lives with his mother and brother, and works in a foundry. His parents are separated and he has not seen his father, who lives in another state now, for years. After being arrested for joyriding in a car that was stolen by a friend, Billy is sent to a juvenile correction center. But when his grandfather dies, and Billy hears that his father will be coming into town for the funeral, he walks out of the facility, hoping to re-establish a relationship with him.
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Title: Sweepstakes
Released: January 26, 1979
Type: TV
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The Goodbye Girl
Title: The Goodbye Girl
Character: Mark
Released: November 27, 1977
Type: Movie
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
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The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Title: The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Documentary of the making of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1977)
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Bad Dog
Title: Bad Dog
Character: Owner
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A day in the life from dog’s point of view.
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Title: NBC Special Treat
Character: Telegraph Man
Released: October 21, 1975
Type: TV
An anthology series of television specials geared towards teenagers.
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Mandingo
Title: Mandingo
Character: Brownlee
Released: June 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter.
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Hustling
Title: Hustling
Character: Lester Traube
Released: February 22, 1975
Type: Movie
Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.
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Title: The Jeffersons
Character: Harry Bentley
Released: January 18, 1975
Type: TV
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.
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The Front Page
Title: The Front Page
Character: Plunkett
Released: November 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Kauldor
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Up the Sandbox
Title: Up the Sandbox
Character: Dr. Beineke
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
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Jeremiah Johnson
Title: Jeremiah Johnson
Character: Reverend Lindquist
Released: September 10, 1972
Type: Movie
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
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Deadhead Miles
Title: Deadhead Miles
Character: Hitchhiker
Released: August 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-weirding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, over-coated hitchhiker buddy.
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Title: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Character: Shots O'Toole
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
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They Might Be Giants
Title: They Might Be Giants
Character: Chestnut Man
Released: June 9, 1971
Type: Movie
After the death of his wife, wealthy retiree Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in which he is the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, even dressing like the character. Out of concern for Justin's money more than his health, his brother Blevins puts him under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Mildred Watson. As Dr. Watson grows fond of Justin, she begins to play along with his theories, eventually becoming an assistant in his investigations.
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Taking Off
Title: Taking Off
Character: Ben Lockston
Released: March 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
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Cold Turkey
Title: Cold Turkey
Character: Zen Buddhist
Released: February 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
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Title: All in the Family
Character: Harry Bentley
Released: January 12, 1971
Type: TV
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
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Title: Sesame Street
Character: The Mad Painter
Released: November 10, 1969
Type: TV
On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.
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The Virgin President
Title: The Virgin President
Character: Rutherford Melon
Released: November 18, 1968
Type: Movie
The President of the U.S. is suceeded by his naive, wide-eyed son, and his advisors try to take advantage of the situation by planning to drop an atomic bomb on Manhattan and blaming it on the Red Chinese.
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The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
Title: The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
Character: Wells Fargo Ferguson
Released: December 31, 1965
Type: Movie
Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation owner in order to humiliate him. He mistreats his wife, but she stoically refuses to complain to her father.