Paul Benedict
Biography: 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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Birthday: September 17, 1938
Deathday: December 01, 2008
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The Addams Family
1991-11-22
The Addams Family
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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The Man with Two Brains
1983-06-10
The Man with Two Brains
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-10
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Jeremiah Johnson
1972-09-10
Jeremiah Johnson
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-10
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Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988-07-08
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-08
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The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977-01-01
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Overview: Documentary of the making of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Up the Sandbox
1972-12-21
Up the Sandbox
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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The Goodbye Girl
1977-11-27
The Goodbye Girl
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-27
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Mandingo
1975-06-06
Mandingo
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
1994-09-28
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-28
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The Electric Grandmother
1982-01-17
The Electric Grandmother
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-17
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The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
1965-12-31
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-31
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Billy in the Lowlands
1979-12-12
Billy in the Lowlands
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-12
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
1971-12-22
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Overview: A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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The Chair
1988-10-08
The Chair
Overview: A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.
Genres: Horror Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-08
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Side by Each
2008-01-01
Side by Each
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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They Might Be Giants
1971-06-09
They Might Be Giants
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-09
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Desperate Moves
1980-01-01
Desperate Moves
Overview: A naive young man from rural Oregon travels to San Francisco to pursue his big city dreams.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Deadhead Miles
1972-08-08
Deadhead Miles
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-08
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Guns & Lipstick
1995-08-27
Guns & Lipstick
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-27
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Sibling Rivalry
1990-10-26
Sibling Rivalry
Overview: Marjorie Turner is suffocating in her marriage and day to day life. An extramarital affair with a stranger seems to be the answer until her paramour has a fatal heart attack, and turns out to be less of a stranger than she could have thought...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-26
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Waiting for Guffman
1996-08-21
Waiting for Guffman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-21
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The Front Page
1974-11-01
The Front Page
Overview: A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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This Is Spinal Tap
1984-03-02
This Is Spinal Tap
Overview: "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.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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Cocktail
1988-07-29
Cocktail
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-29
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The Freshman
1990-07-20
The Freshman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-20
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After the Sunset
2004-11-12
After the Sunset
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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A Mighty Wind
2003-04-16
A Mighty Wind
Overview: Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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Isn't She Great
2000-01-28
Isn't She Great
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-28
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A Fish in the Bathtub
1999-03-01
A Fish in the Bathtub
Overview: A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-01
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The Devil's Advocate
1997-10-17
The Devil's Advocate
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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Taking Off
1971-03-28
Taking Off
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-28
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Cold Turkey
1971-02-19
Cold Turkey
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-19
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Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
1993-09-09
Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-09
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Babycakes
1989-02-14
Babycakes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-14
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Hustling
1975-02-22
Hustling
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-22
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The Virgin President
1968-11-18
The Virgin President
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-18
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The Lonely Guy
1984-01-27
The Lonely Guy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-27
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Bad Dog
1976-01-01
Bad Dog
Overview: A day in the life from dog’s point of view.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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