Robby BensonFilmography

MXP: Most Xtreme Primate

Actors: Devin Douglas Drewitz, Robby Benson, Trevor Wright, Gwynyth Walsh

Synopsis: The third installment in the series of films that began with 2000's MVP: Most Valuable Primate finds the athletically inclined chimp Jack taking to the slopes. After hooking up with some kids in Colorado, the charming chimp is soon tearing up the mountainside on a snowboard. Starring Robby Benson Read More

Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse

Synopsis: This home video release finds an interesting way to repackage older Disney cartoons. Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse, finds Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, and all of the other beloved Disney animated characters unable to leave a holiday party. In order to pass the time Read More

Just a Dream

Actors: Rodney Grant, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy, Robby Benson, Carl Lumbly, Jeremy Sumpter

Synopsis: A wide-eyed young boy finds his small-town life turned upside down in the feature directorial debut from actor Danny Glover. Jeremy Sumpter of Frailty stars as Henry, a youngster in rural America who dreams of Hollywood when a big-studio movie crew comes to town to shoot a new picture. Also Read More

Dragonheart: A New Beginning

Actors: Chris Masterson, Robby Benson

Synopsis: While knights usually slay dragons, a would-be hero tries to save the world by keeping a dragon alive in this adventure fantasy. In ancient times, Geoff (Christopher Masterson), a young man who works as a stable boy, wants to prove himself by becoming a knight. Geoff trains on his own, diligently Read More

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Actors: Robby Benson, Dixie Carter, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: Robbie Benson lends his inimitable vocal stylings to this animated feature based on the book by L. Frank Baum. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

Reunited

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this TV sitcom, tattooed and body-pierced Joanne (Kelly De Martino), sporting a nose ring, seeks the biological mom she never met -- unhip, suburban Pittsburgh mom Nicki Beck (Kelly De Martino), who works at a local discount chain and lives with her husband Gary (Cliff Bemis) and cute Read More

Belle's Magical World

Actors: Robby Benson, Paige O'Hara, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Belle and the other characters from Disney's Beauty and the Beast return in this three-part story. Belle and the Beast learn a lesson about how to forgive and forget in "The Perfect Word"; a romantic evening takes a wrong turn -- down a step hill -- in "Fifi's Folly"; and the Beast gives a pet Read More

Area 51: The Alien Interview

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Area 51: The Alien Interview fuels the debate as to whether aliens are authentic and seek contact with humankind. Area 51 is a top-secret underground military base in the middle of Nevada whose existence government officials long denied. Some believe Area 51 is the center of the U.S. government's Read More

Friends: The One with Phoebe's Ex-Partner

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sherilyn Fenn guest stars as Chandler's (Matthew Perry) new girlfriend Ginger, who has an artificial leg and a low gross-out threshold. Meanwhile, Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) former singing partner Leslie (Elizabeth Daily) wants to stir up a promotional blitz for their deathless composition "Smelly Read More

Friends: The One with the Hypnosis Tape

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having gone back to smoking, Chandler (Matthew Perry) tries all sorts of things to quit, including a hypnosis tape (from the episode of the same title). Meanwhile, Monica's (Courteney Cox) date yields unexpected results. And Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) finds out that her half-brother Frank Jr. (Giovanni Ribisi Read More

Friends: The One Where Monica and Richard are Just Friends

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tom Selleck returns as Dr. Richard Burke, ex-beau of the much-younger Monica (Courteney Cox). Chancing to meet Richard at the video store, Monica is determined to keep all future encounters on a platonic basis. Meanwhile, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) girds up her courage to read The Shining (provided Read More

Friends: The One with the Ultimate Fighting Championship

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Pete (Jon Favreau) enters a grueling "ultimate fight," leading to a lot of hurt and a fateful decision by Monica (Courteney Cox). Ross' (David Schwimmer) new date Bonnie (Christine Taylor) once had a hair problem -- mainly, she didn't have any. Chandler's (Matthew Perry) new boss gives a whole new Read More

Friends: The One with All the Jealousy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Disgruntled Ross (David Schwimmer) thinks that Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston) new co-worker Mark (Steven Eckholdt) is a bit too friendly, while Rachel's former boss Gunther (James Michael Tyler) gets all moony-eyed. Monica (Courteney Cox) dates a poetic and somewhat xenophobic busboy named Julio (Carlos Gomez Read More

Friends: The One with the 'Ick' Factor

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Monica (Courteney Cox) discovers that her new boyfriend, Ethan (Stan Kirsch), is only a high school senior. Unfortunately, she finds out a bit too late to gently break off the relationship. Meanwhile, Ross (David Schwimmer) is both appalled and let down when he hears about Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston Read More

Webber's World

Actors: Jeffrey Tambor, Rita Taggart, Jennifer Tilly, David Arquette, Brian Bloom, Robby Benson

Synopsis: Incredible as it must seem to some, quite a few families and individuals have agreed to give up all or part of their privacy and permit a film crew to record their every act. Therefore, the premise of this send-up of "reality television" is not so far-fetched as might be supposed. In the story, a Read More

Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible: David and Goliath

Synopsis: From Hanna-Barbera's animated series depicting the tales of the bible, "David and Goliath" tells the tale of David's leadership and determination to follow his God. David uses the strength he finds in his faith and a mere slingshot in defense against the brute Goliath, and is thus able to prevent Read More

Deadly Exposure

Synopsis: An alcoholic, world-weary has-been Jewish reporter heads out for revenge against the white-supremacists who murdered his father in this grim political thriller. As the detective assigned to the case isn't very effective, the reporter begins his own investigation with the help of his lover, the Read More

Exosquad: Pirate Scourge

Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864

Synopsis: By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on his job tenaciously, having a strong sense of history. This is the third of four programs in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter Read More

Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863

Synopsis: President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the bloodshed from the fighting at Antietam and Fredericksburg distressed him greatly. 1863 was the Read More

Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862

Synopsis: A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This is the first of four videos in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter W. Kunhardt, this program is narrated by renowned actor James Read More

Betrayal of the Dove

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Harvey Korman, Helen Slater, Alan Thicke, Billy Zane

Synopsis: Divorcee Helen Slater doesn't mind single life, but she doesn't like being alone either. Her best pal Kelly LeBrock dutifully sets up a blind date. Outwardly charming doctor Billy Zane is Slater's companion for the evening, and things couldn't be rosier. But it turns out that neither Zane nor LeBrock Read More

Invasion of Privacy

Actors: Jennifer O'Neill, Robby Benson

Synopsis: Robby Benson stars as an insane ex-con obsessed with a magazine journalist (Jennifer O'Neill). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Homewrecker

Synopsis: Scientist Robby Benson creates the ultimate home appliance, a computer that handles every conceivable household chore. However, the machine becomes so enamored of its creator that it sets out to murder his wife. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865

Synopsis: This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days and hours of Abraham Lincoln's life. Viewers watch as Lincoln's enemies plot their final revenge on the man they believed had dishonored their heritage. The video also reveals Read More

Beauty and the Beast

Actors: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, Richard White, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Beauty and the Beast is widely considered the best animated Disney feature of the studio's 1980s/1990s renewal of the form. Based on the classic French fairy tale, it tells the story of Belle (voiced by Paige O'Hara), an intelligent young woman scorned by her townspeople for being a bookworm Read More

Modern Love

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Robby Benson, Karla de Vito, Rue McClanahan, Burt Reynolds, Frankie Valli

Synopsis: While working as a publicist, an average guy (Robby Benson) meets a girl (Karla DeVito, Robby's real-life wife), ends up marrying her and has a child (Lyric Benson, Robby's real daughter). Problems soon arise as the harried husband and father begins to crack under the pressure. ~ John Bush, All Read More

White Hot

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robby Benson, Danny Aiello, Tawny Kitaen, Kevin Gray, Tony Gillian

Synopsis: Also released under the title A Crack in the Mirror, this drama follows the events that befall a well-to-do couple when the husband's loss of a job tempts them into the lucrative drug trade. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Rent-A-Cop

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli, James Remar, Richard Masur, Dionne Warwick

Synopsis: Tony Church (Burt Reynolds) is a Chicago detective who loses his job when he is blamed for the deaths of his fellow officers gunned down in a botched drug bust. He becomes a bodyguard to hooker Della Roberts (Liza Minnelli), the lone witness who can identify the killer (James Remar). Bernie Casey Read More

Great Bible Stories: David & Goliath

Synopsis: In this animated children's feature, the beloved Bible stories of "David and Goliath" and "The Story of Gideon" are told. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

City Limits

Actors: Darrell Larson, John Stockwell, Kim Cattrall, Rae Dawn Chong, Robby Benson

Synopsis: This bleak post-apocalyptic science fiction actioner substitutes a plague instead of a bomb as the reason for civilization's demise but the result is the same -- grizzly motorcycle gangs with a ton of gasoline to burn. In City Limits the older generation has been wiped out by the plague, and the Read More

The Best of Candid Camera, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This video features some of the most hilarious gags ever cooked up by practical joke-meister Alan Funt and his gang. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Harry and Son

Actors: Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin, Wilford Brimley, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: Harry (Paul Newman), a middle-aged hardhat, has trouble communicating with his teenaged son Howard (Robby Benson). While Harry wants Howard to find a bread-and-butter job, the sensitive boy would rather pursue a writing career. Howard tries his best to please his dad, but ultimately realizes that Read More

California Girls

Actors: Al Music, Lantz Douglas, Mary McKinley, Alicia Allen, Barbara Parks

Synopsis: The thin storyline for this film is that three young women hope to gain a foothold in the acting profession, so they perform nude in front of the window of the disk jockey (Mad Man Jack played by Al Music) who is running a contest that would launch their careers. Along with many songs by a wide Read More

An Invasion of Privacy

Synopsis: Based on Joan Taylor's novel Asking for It, the made-for-TV An Invasion of Privacy stars Valerie Harper as recently divorced book illustrator Kate Bianchi. Moving into a remote, cloistered island community in Maine, Kate has barely arrived when she is raped by a local handyman. The hostile, inbred Read More

Running Brave

Actors: Robby Benson, Pat Hingle, Claudia Cron, Jeff McCracken, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: In the case of this dramatized story about a Native American who thrilled the world when he won the 10,000 meter run in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the subject is far nobler than the script, the dialogue, and the acting. Billy Mills (Robby Benson), a member of the Sioux tribe from South Dakota, ran Read More

Two of a Kind

Actors: George Burns, Robby Benson, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: Though Two of a Kind was hardly George Burns' television debut, it was his first dramatic TV appearance. Burns is cast as Ross "Boppy" Minor, who is shunted away to a nursing home by his unfeeling son-in-law Cliff Robertson. Robby Benson co-stars as Nolie Minor, Boppy's mentally retarded grandson. Read More

National Lampoon's Movie Madness

Actors: Peter Riegert, Diane Lane, Candy Clark, Teresa Ganzel, Anne Dusenberry

Synopsis: Originally divided into four segments and now cut to three, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies is a story about a man who is determined to get in touch with himself and sends his wife away so she can do the same thing. The next tale features a female business magnate who wreaks appropriate Read More

The Chosen

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller, Hildy Brooks

Synopsis: The overemphatic acting of Robby Benson was something of an endurance test to certain critics of the 1980s, but even these carpers were impressed by Benson's outstanding performance in The Chosen. Set in the Brooklyn of the 1940s, the film elucidates the friendship between two young Jews of Read More

Die Laughing

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Robby Benson, Linda Grovenor, Charles Durning, Elsa Lanchester, Bud Cort

Synopsis: In this black comedy, a humble cab driver spends his days daydreaming of becoming a rock-star. His blissful reverie is one day interrupted when ends up inadvertently blamed for the assassination of a world-renowned nuclear scientist. Soon afterward he finds that he has a stowaway, the late Read More

Tribute

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Robby Benson, Lee Remick, Kim Cattrall, Colleen Dewhurst

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon stars in an Academy Award-nominated performance as Scottie Templeton, a Broadway press agent dying of cancer, in Bernard Slade's film adaptation of his Broadway play (in which Lemmon originated the role). Divorced from his wife Maggie (Lee Remick), Scottie leads a happy-go-lucky life Read More

Ice Castles

Actors: Lynn-Holly Johnson, Robby Benson, Colleen Dewhurst, Tom Skerritt, Jennifer Warren

Synopsis: In this sports melodrama that boldly illustrates the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, Lynn-Holly Johnson plays Iowa farm girl Alexis Winston, who has a God-given talent for ice skating. With the encouragement and training of the local ice-skating rink operator Beulah Smith (Colleen Dewhurst Read More

Walk Proud

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robby Benson, Sarah Holcomb, Henry Darrow, Pepe Serna, Trinidad Silva

Synopsis: In this drama, a Chicano gang member falls in love with a beautiful, wealthy Anglo girl. She tries to get him to leave the gang, but the young man is too deeply involved in being macho to listen. Then his grandmother dies and he travels to Mexico for the funeral. There his mother decides to Read More

The End

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin, David Steinberg

Synopsis: At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's dying from "the same thing Ali MacGraw had in Love Story." Lawson's first reaction is to cry uncontrollably, much to the discomfort of his fellow elevator passengers. He heads to a nearby church Read More

Our Town

Actors: Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Sada Thompson, John Houseman, Hal Holbrook, Glynnis O'Connor, Robby Benson, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: This videotaped version of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play Our Town stars Hal Holbrook as the Stage Manager. Acting as narrator and assuming several different interlocutory roles throughout the production, Holbrook shows us life in Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, in the first few years of Read More

Richie

Synopsis: This powerful made-for-television drama made a memorable impact on audiences in the late '70s and has earned a cult following as a result. The story focuses on Richie (Robby Benson), a well-meaning but emotionally confused teen who finds it all too easy to turn to drugs when he feels the world Read More

One on One

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G.D. Spradlin, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith

Synopsis: Robby Benson plays a talented but naive high school basketball star who wins a scholarship to a perfection-driven college. Here he discovers that he's way out of his league, easily outclassed athletically by his opponents and by his own team. In addition, he runs up against the sort of Read More

Ode to Billy Joe

Actors: Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Joan Hotchkis, Sandy McPeak, James Best

Synopsis: Bobbie Gentry's hauntingly enigmatic 1967 hit single served as the inspiration of this story of unrequited teenage love. In 1953, Bobbie Lee Hartley (Glynnis O'Connor) is 15 years old and in love with 18-year-old Billy Joe McAllister (Robbie Benson). Unfortunately, Bobbie's father (Sandy McPeak) Read More

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

Actors: Julie Harris, Michael Cristofer, Robby Benson

Synopsis: Julie Harris stars as Mary Todd Lincoln in this look at the twilight of the former First Lady's life. After her husband's assassination, she finds herself heavily in debt and denied a pension due to her Southern ancestry, and spends the remainder of her life deeply depressed, dying impoverished Read More

The Virginia Hill Story

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: Long before the Warren Beatty/Annette Bening vehicle Bugsy (92), Harvey Keitel portrayed gangster Bugsy Siegel and Dyan Cannon costarred as Siegel's mistress Virginia Hill in the made-for-TV The Virginia Hill Story. Told in flashback, the film traces Virginia's life from the time she takes up with Read More

Lucky Lady

Actors: Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, Geoffrey Lewis, John Hillerman

Synopsis: During the Prohibition era, Walker (Burt Reynolds) and Kibby (Gene Hackman) run a liquor smuggling operation in Mexico; they team up with Claire (Liza Minnelli), a cabaret entertainer who has an "in" with several big-time nightclub owners. Complications ensue when both men fall in love with Read More

Death Be Not Proud

Synopsis: A teenage boy battles courageously against brain cancer in this moving made-for-television drama that is based on John Gunther's 1949 autobiographical account of his son's terrible illness. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

All the Kind Strangers

Actors: Samantha Eggar, Stacy Keach, Robby Benson

Synopsis: This made-for-TV rural horror film from director Burt Kennedy benefits from a fine cast and a tense Clyde Ware screenplay. Samantha Eggar and Stacy Keach play motorists held prisoner by a family of seven sweet-faced young orphans and their savage guard dogs. The children only want a mother and Read More

Remember When

Synopsis: In this drama set in WW II, an uncle living with a New England family shares his memories after the family's four sons head off for combat duty. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jeremy

Actors: Pat Wheel, Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Len Bari, Leo Cimino, Ned Wilson

Synopsis: Robby Benson went from journeyman juvenile player to full-fledged star in 1973's Jeremy. Benson plays the titular 15-year-old musician who falls in love with fellow high schooler Susan (Glynnis O'Connor), an aspiring dancer; he is supported throughout the relationship by two loving, understanding Read More

Jory

Actors: Robby Benson

Synopsis: A boy (Robby Benson) is forced to become a man when he is left orphaned in the Old West. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More