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 .
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| Name | Paul Benedict |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Silver City, New Mexico, United States |
| Date of Birth | 1938-09-17 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 70 |
| Deathday | 2008-12-01 |
Paul Benedict Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Bad Dog | Owner | 1976-01-01 | A day in the life from dog’s point of view…. |
| Billy in the Lowlands | 1979-12-12 | 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… | |
| Deadhead Miles | Hitchhiker | 1972-08-08 | A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non seq… |
| The Virgin President | Rutherford Melon | 1968-11-18 | 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 atom… |
| The Electric Grandmother | Guido Fantoccini | 1982-01-17 | 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… |
| The Chair | Warden Edward Dwyer | 1988-10-08 | A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it…. |
| The Man with Two Brains | Butler | 1983-06-10 | A brain surgeon tries to end his unhappy marriage to spend more time with a disembodied brain…. |
| The Goodbye Girl | Mark | 1977-11-01 | Paula (an unemployed dancer) and her 10-year-old daughter live in a Manhattan apartment with Tony, Paula’s married boyfriend. Tony takes an acting job… |
| Desperate Moves | Cosmo | 1980-01-01 | A naive young man from rural Oregon travels to San Francisco to pursue his big city dreams…. |
| The Double-Barrelled Detective Story | Wells Fargo Ferguson | 1965-12-31 | Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation … |
| Side by Each | 2008-01-01 | 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 no… | |
| Arthur 2: On the Rocks | Fairchild | 1988-07-08 | 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… |
| Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman | Dr. Victor Loeb | 1993-12-11 | Nancy Archer has had an alien encounter and it’s left her 50 ft. tall! Now she sees the men in her life from a new angle – looking down on them – and … |
| A Fish in the Bathtub | Milo | 1999-03-01 | A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub…. |
| Taking Off | Ben Lockston | 1971-05-17 | 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 chil… |
| Guns & Lipstick | Mickey | 1995-08-27 | A female private investigator’s latest client turns up murdered, and she is thrust into a deadly underworld of bi-sexual strippers, a Chinese Godfathe… |
| Jeremiah Johnson | Reverend Lindquist | 1972-09-10 | 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 th… |
| Up the Sandbox | Dr. Beineke | 1972-12-21 | 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 m… |
| Isn’t She Great | Prof. Brainiac | 2000-01-28 | An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of “The Vall… |
| Hustling | Lester Traube | 1975-02-22 | 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 … |
| Mandingo | Brownlee | 1975-06-06 | Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settle… |
| Cold Turkey | Zen Buddhist | 1971-02-19 | 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 c… |
| Babycakes | Magleby | 1989-02-14 | 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 f… |
| The Addams Family | Judge Womack | 1991-11-22 | 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 h… |
| They Might Be Giants | Chestnut Man | 1971-06-09 | Every hero has a weakness, and Sherlock Holmes’ weakness was Moriarty. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve mysteries and search for Moriarty in 1970s… |
| The Freshman | Arthur Fleeber | 1990-07-20 | After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds h… |
| Sibling Rivalry | Dr. Plotner | 1990-10-26 | 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… |
| This Is Spinal Tap | Tucker ‘Smitty’ Brown | 1984-05-04 | “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… |
| Cocktail | Finance Teacher | 1988-07-29 | 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 ar… |
| Smile | Orren Brooks | 1975-01-01 | It’s time again for California’s “Young American Miss” beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who gi… |
| Waiting for Guffman | Roy Loomis | 1996-08-21 | Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn tha… |
| The Front Page | Plunkett | 1974-11-01 | A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit…. |
| The Return of Spinal Tap | Hotel Concierge (uncredited) | 1992-12-31 | 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 G… |
| The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight | Shots O’Toole | 1971-12-22 | A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals…. |
| A Mighty Wind | Martin Berg | 2003-04-16 | In “A Mighty Wind”, director Christopher Guest reunites the team from “Best In Show” and “Waiting for Guffman” to tell tell the story of 60’s-era folk… |
| Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90’s | Malcolm Maltved | 1993-09-09 | Newswoman Fay Sommerfield takes a morally outraged look at excessive violence, bad language and sacrilege that pass for entertainment in the early 90s… |
| After the Sunset | Night Shift Guard | 2004-11-12 | 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… |
| Moonstruck | Diner | 1987-12-16 | No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his yo… |
| The Devil’s Advocate | Walter Krasna (uncredited) | 1997-10-17 | 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… |
| The Lonely Guy | Dr. Zook (voice) (uncredited) | 1984-01-27 | 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…. |
Paul Benedict Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Director | Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up†from working-class Queens to a … | ||
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