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Richard Samuel Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor and film director.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richard Benjamin )〕 He has starred in a number of well-known film productions, including ''Goodbye, Columbus'' (1969), based on the novella by Philip Roth; ''Catch-22'' (1970), from the Joseph Heller best-seller; ''Westworld'' (1973), a science-fiction thriller by Michael Crichton,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/53970/Westworld/overview )〕 and ''The Sunshine Boys'' (1975), written by Neil Simon. After directing for television, Benjamin's first feature as director was 1982 comedy ''My Favorite Year'', for which star Peter O'Toole was Oscar-nominated. His other films as director include ''City Heat'' (1984), starring Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood, ''Made in America'' and ''The Money Pit'' (1986) with Tom Hanks . ==Life and acting career== Benjamin was born in New York City, the son of Samuel Roger Benjamin (1910-1997), a garment industry worker, and Chelsea Angelina (nee Roberts) Benjamin (1913-1959), a homemaker. He attended the High School of Performing Arts and graduated from Northwestern University, where he was involved in many plays and studied in the Northwestern theater school. He married actress Paula Prentiss on October 26, 1961; they have two children. They appeared together in short-lived television series ''He & She'' (1967–68) and the movie version of ''Catch-22'' (1970).〔 In 1978, he starred in the ambitious, but short-lived television series ''Quark''. Benjamin starred in ''Goodbye, Columbus'' (1969), based on the novella by Philip Roth,〔 as well as ''Diary of a Mad Housewife'', ''The Steagle'', ''The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker'', and another film based on a famous Roth work, ''Portnoy's Complaint'' (1972), in the title role. He played a sexually ambiguous murder suspect in ''The Last of Sheila'' (1973), a mystery conceived and co-scripted by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim. In an imaginative Michael Crichton story, ''Westworld'' (1973), Benjamin played a man vacationing as a make-believe cowboy in a theme park where he ends up being stalked by a robot gunslinger played by Yul Brynner.〔 Then he returned to comedy, with a supporting role as a harried theatrical agent in the Neil Simon hit ''The Sunshine Boys'' opposite Walter Matthau and George Burns,〔 and as Matthau's colleague at an ineptly run hospital in ''House Calls'' (1978). Benjamin also played a frustrated fiance of a woman who falls for the vampire Count Dracula in the surprise box-office smash ''Love at First Bite'' (1979) starring George Hamilton and Susan Saint James. On April 7, 1979, Benjamin hosted ''Saturday Night Live''.〔(The Internet Movie Database )〕 Benjamin's acting appearances have become less frequent. His later work includes a role in the Woody Allen comedy ''Deconstructing Harry'' (1997). He directed and appeared in ''Marci X'' (2003), a comedy starring Lisa Kudrow and Damon Wayans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Benjamin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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