Brian Benben

Brian Benben

Born: June 18, 1956
in Winchester, Virginia, USA
Brian Benben (born June 18, 1956) is an American actor of stage and television.

Movies for Brian Benben...

Title: Imposters
Character: Max
Released: February 7, 2017
Type: TV
Maddie, a persona shifting con-artist who is as beautiful as she is dangerous, leaves her unwitting victims tormented when they realize they have been used and robbed of everything – including their hearts. But things get complicated when her former targets, Ezra, Richard, and Jules team up to track her down.
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Title: Grace and Frankie
Character: Charles
Released: May 8, 2015
Type: TV
Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21st century world.
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Title: Scandal
Character: Leonard Carnehan
Released: April 5, 2012
Type: TV
Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.
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Title: Private Practice
Character: Sheldon Wallace
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: TV
Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. She reunites with her friends from medical school, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside Wellness Center in Santa Monica.
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Mastersons of Manhattan
Title: Mastersons of Manhattan
Character: Joseph Finley
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A look at the life of two sisters who come from a socially prominent family in New York.
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Working with a Master: John Landis
Title: Working with a Master: John Landis
Character: Self
Released: June 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Short documentary about John Landis and his horror works.
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Title: Masters of Horror
Character: Detective Dwight Faraday
Released: October 28, 2005
Type: TV
An anthology series written and directed by the most famous names in horror.
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Title: Kingpin
Character: Dr. Heywood Klein
Released: February 2, 2003
Type: TV
Kingpin is an American crime drama television series which debuted on the NBC network in the U.S. and CTV in Canada on February 2, 2003 and lasted 6 episodes. NBC's answer to The Sopranos and also influenced by The Godfather, Macbeth and Traffik, the story was about a Mexican drug trafficker named Miguel Cadena and his family life. It was to be followed by a television series, but low ratings canceled those plans. Commercials for the mini-series on NBC featured the song "Más" by the Mexican band Kinky.
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Sister Mary Explains It All
Title: Sister Mary Explains It All
Character: Gary Sullivan
Released: May 27, 2001
Type: Movie
As Sister Mary delivers a lecture on sin and its consequences, she's interrupted by several of her former students, who have little positive to say about how a Catholic education has impacted their lives.
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The Flamingo Rising
Title: The Flamingo Rising
Character: Hubert T. Lee
Released: February 4, 2001
Type: Movie
When Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a feud erupts between Lee and Turner Knight, the owner of the funeral home. As Lee's many promotional ideas become more and more outrageous, he continues to enrage Knight until one of the promotions backfires with grave consequences.
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Title: The Brian Benben Show
Character: Himself
Released: September 21, 1998
Type: TV
The Brian Benben Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS in 1998. It stars Brian Benben as a long time news anchor at KYLA-TV news in Los Angeles who is replaced by a younger person when the ratings begin to drop. The series was cancelled after only four episodes aired.
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Radioland Murders
Title: Radioland Murders
Character: Roger Henderson
Released: October 21, 1994
Type: Movie
A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.
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Title: Dream On
Character: Martin Tupper
Released: July 8, 1990
Type: TV
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.
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Dark Angel
Title: Dark Angel
Character: Special Agent Laurence Smith
Released: January 26, 1990
Type: Movie
Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...
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Mortal Sins
Title: Mortal Sins
Character: Nathan Weinschank
Released: September 22, 1989
Type: Movie
A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.
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Clean and Sober
Title: Clean and Sober
Character: Martin Laux
Released: August 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the mentorship of counselor Craig, Daryl accepts that he has a substance abuse problem. As he falls in love with fellow patient Charlie, Daryl begins committing to a newly sober life.
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Title: A Year in the Life
Character: Billy Putzi
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
Following the success of the three-part miniseries of the same name, the drama series follows the daily lives of Seattle's Gardner family. Joe Gardner is the owner of a successful plastics business and the father of four adult children. The Gardner family includes twice-divorced daughter Anne, who returns home with her two teenaged children; daughter Lindley and husband Jim, parents of a newborn baby daughter; black sheep son Jack; and conservative youngest son Sam, newly married to free-spirited Kay.
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Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
Title: Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
Character: Tom Hayden
Released: May 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Combines in an innovative manner dramatic recreations (largely faithful to the actual trial transcripts) with documentary footage and interviews with the actual defendants.
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Title: Kay O'Brien
Released: September 26, 1986
Type: TV
Kay O'Brien is an American television series set at fictional Manhattan General Hospital, which aired for one season on CBS during the 1986-87 television season.
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Title: Mr. Sunshine
Released: March 28, 1986
Type: TV
Mr. Sunshine is the title of an American sitcom that aired on the ABC network for a season beginning in 1986. The series followed the trials and tribulations of Paul Stark, a blind university professor. Co-stars were Barbara Babcock and Leonard Frey. The series was controversial during its run, attracting criticism from interest groups claiming that Mr. Sunshine poked fun at the visually impaired by using the lead character's disability as a focus for much of the show's humor. Supporters of the series said the show treated the character and the disability respectfully.
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Title: Matlock
Character: Atty Warren Kreitzer
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: TV
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.
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Title: Tales from the Darkside
Character: Max Smith
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
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Gangster Wars
Title: Gangster Wars
Character: Michael Lasker
Released: April 9, 1981
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny) and Michael Lasker (Brian Benben) (a fictional character who was most likely modeled after Meyer Lansky), growing up in New York's ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise though organized crime.
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Title: The Gangster Chronicles
Character: Michael Lasker
Released: February 2, 1981
Type: TV
The Gangster Chronicles is an NBC American television crime drama mini series starring Michael Nouri, Joe Penny, Jon Polito, Louis Giambalvo and narrated by E.G. Marshall.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Hubert T. Lee
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.