ACTOR

Richard Benjamin

1938 - Today

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Richard Samuel Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor and film director. He has starred in a number of well-known films, including Goodbye, Columbus (1969), Catch-22 (1970), Portnoy's Complaint (1972), Westworld, The Last of Sheila (both 1973) and Saturday the 14th (1981). In 1968, Benjamin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance on the CBS sitcom He & She (starring opposite his wife Paula Prentiss), which aired from 1967-1968. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Benjamin has received more than 2,360,570 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Benjamin is the 4,713th most popular actor (down from 3,918th in 2019), the 6,890th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,958th in 2019) and the 2,115th most popular American Actor.

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  • 2.4M

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  • 47.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Richard Benjamin ranks 4,713 out of 13,578. Before him are Doug Bradley, Tom Arnold, Paul McCrane, Jeri Ryan, Kay Kendall, and Marc Alaimo. After him are Richard Gant, Betty Field, Rajkumar, Ken Stott, Hélène Vincent, and Francisco Martínez Soria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Richard Benjamin ranks 396. Before him are Halit Akçatepe, Dolores Hart, Natalya Krachkovskaya, John Corigliano, Aleksei Petrenko, and Connie Stevens. After him are Gavino Ledda, Verna Bloom, Hariprasad Chaurasia, John Smith, Reni Santoni, and Eve Kivi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Benjamin ranks 6,890 out of 20,380. Before him are Cecilia Beaux (1855), Connie Stevens (1938), Adoniram Judson (1788), Tom Arnold (1959), Paul McCrane (1961), and Marc Alaimo (1942). After him are Edmonia Lewis (1844), Richard Gant (1944), Betty Field (1913), Robert Trump (1948), Alf Clausen (1941), and Charles Greene (1945).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Richard Benjamin ranks 2,115. Before him are Richard Simmons (1948), Matt Frewer (1958), Connie Stevens (1938), Tom Arnold (1959), Paul McCrane (1961), and Marc Alaimo (1942). After him are Richard Gant (1944), Betty Field (1913), Brenda Song (1988), Michael Learned (1939), Marie Doro (1882), and Dana Reeve (1961).

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Television and Movie Roles

Westworld
Peter Martin
Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds—ancient Rome, Medieval times and the Old West—populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
Aug 15o 19736.78 / 10
Deconstructing Harry
Ken
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Dec 12o 19977.268 / 10
The Last of Sheila
Tom
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game — but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
Jun 14o 19737 / 10