Paul Benedict

Paul Benedict

出生 : 1938-09-17, Silver City, New Mexico, United States

死亡 : 2008-12-01

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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 . Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Benedict, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Side by Each
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.
After the Sunset
Night Shift Guard
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.
みんなのうた
Martin Berg
1960年代にフォーク・ブームの潮流を作った伝説のマネージャーがこの世を去った。彼の長男は追悼コンサートを画策するが……。“アメリカン・パイ”シリーズのユージーン・レビーが出演するコメディ作品。
Isn't She Great
Prof. Brainiac
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.
A Fish in the Bathtub
Milo
A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.
ディアボロス/悪魔の扉
Walter Krasna (uncredited)
新進気鋭の若き弁護士ケヴィンはその才能と野心を認められ、NYのミルトン法律事務所に夢のような条件でスカウトされる。そして次第に失われていく良心……そこは、悪魔の巣窟だったのだ。
Waiting for Guffman
Roy Loomis
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.
Guns & Lipstick
Mickey
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.
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
Dr. Victor Loeb
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.
Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
Malcolm Maltved
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.
The Return of Spinal Tap
Hotel Concierge (uncredited)
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 (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer) are now -- and where it all began in Squatney, England. Also, catch up with director Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner), ex-Polymer marketing whiz Artie Fufkin (Paul Shaffer), and Jeanine (June Chadwick), who now owns a shop specializing in itchy Irish clothing.
アダムス・ファミリー
Judge Womack
当主ゴメス、妻モーティシア、子供たちウェンズデーとパグズリー、モーティシアの母グラニー、それに物言わぬ執事ラーチと“手”。このアダムス・ファミリーの財産を狙う顧問弁護士は、金貸しの息子をゴメスの生き別れの兄フェスターとして屋敷に送り込む。
Sibling Rivalry
Dr. Plotner
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)..
The Freshman
Arthur Fleeber
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.
Babycakes
Magleby
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.
The Chair
Warden Edward Dwyer
A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.
カクテル
Finance Teacher
一獲千金を夢見るバーテンダーが、真実の愛に目覚めるまでを描いた青春映画。軍隊を除隊したブライアンはエリートビジネスマンになろうとニューヨークに降り立った。しかし学歴のない彼を雇う企業はどこにも無く、通りすがりにバーの求人をみつけアルバイトをしながら大学に通う事にするが……。
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Fairchild
Arthur, that irrepressible drunk, tries to sober up and get a job. Meanwhile, Ralph Marolla is conniving to trick the hapless boozer into marrying his daughter so he can gain entrée to Arthur's $750 million fortune.
This Is Spinal Tap
Tucker 'Smitty' Brown
"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.
The Lonely Guy
Dr. Zook (voice) (uncredited)
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.
The Man with Two Brains
Butler
A brain surgeon tries to end his unhappy marriage to spend more time with a disembodied brain.
The Electric Grandmother
Guido Fantoccini
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.
Desperate Moves
Cosmo
A naive young man from rural Oregon travels to San Francisco to pursue his big city dreams.
Billy in the Lowlands
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.
The Goodbye Girl
Mark
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.
Bad Dog
Owner
A day in the life from dog’s point of view.
Mandingo
Brownlee
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. Meanwhile, Warren buys a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and to earn money as a prize-fighter.
Hustling
Lester Traube
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.
The Front Page
Plunkett
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
Up the Sandbox
Dr. Beineke
A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, 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.
大いなる勇者
Reverend Lindquist
両親を殺され孤児になった少年を引き取り、インディアンの女性を妻にしてロッキー山脈で暮らすジョンソン。文明を逃れ自然とともに暮らす決心をした彼が、山の王者になるまでを描いた感動巨編。
Deadhead Miles
Hitchhiker
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.
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Shots O'Toole
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
They Might Be Giants
Chestnut Man
Every hero has a weakness, and Sherlock Holmes' weakness was Moriarty. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve mysteries and search for Moriarty in 1970s New York City. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is a psychotic paranoid and Dr. Watson is a female psychiatrist fascinated by his case is almost beside the point.
Taking Off
Ben Lockston
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.
Cold Turkey
Zen Buddhist
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.
The Virgin President
Rutherford Melon
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.
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
Wells Fargo Ferguson
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.