Robert Ben Garant Filmography

Born:: Cookeville, TN
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: Known to many as the mustachioed Deputy Travis Junior on the farcical Reno 911!, Robert Ben Garant first made an impression with audiences on the sketch-comedy show The State, which ran on MTV from 1993 to 1995. The show's bizarre and outlandish sensibilities gave viewers a taste of what was to...Read More

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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson

Synopsis: Ben Stiller returns as Larry Daley, the unfortunate night watchman who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits in Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian, 20th Century Fox's tent-pole sequel from director Shawn Levy. Scott Frank, Robert Ben Garant, and Thomas Lennon Read More

5/22/09
The Incredible Shrinking Man

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Murphy

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy stars in this new incarnation of Richard Matheson's classic adventure, this time portrayed with a comic slant in the tale of a magician who must break a shrinking hex that's been thrown on him before he grows so small that he ceases to exist. The Reno 911! screenwriting duo of Thomas Lennon Read More

1/1/09
Reno 911!: Season 05

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash

2008
Balls of Fury

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, Maggie Q, James Hong

Synopsis: A disgraced former ping pong champion is drawn back into the world of high-stakes table tennis to carry out a top-secret mission in the feature directorial debut of Reno 911! writer/director Ben Garant. Far removed from the rigidly regulated world of professional sports, clandestine ping pong Read More

8/29/07
Reno 911!: Miami

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Lennie Loftin, Danny DeVito, Robert Ben Garant, Niecy Nash, Mary Birdsong

Synopsis: The bumbling cops of Comedy Central's hit television series take a trip to Miami Beach for a national police convention. After the trip there turns out to be much more difficult than anticipated, the bumbling crew must leap into action when the convention center becomes the target of a biological Read More

2/23/07
Night at the Museum

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry, Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams

Synopsis: The new night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History finds that the job comes with more responsibility than he ever dreamed in this wild fantasy comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke. Larry Daley (Stiller) is a Read More

12/22/06
Let's Go to Prison!

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dax Shepard, Will Arnett, Chi McBride, David Koechner, Dylan Baker

Synopsis: Bob Odenkirk's jail comedy Let's Go to Prison, stars Will Arnett as Nelson Biederman IV, the son of a judge who ends up being sentenced to serve time in Rossmore State Penitentiary. During one of his rare stints out of incarceration, career criminal John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) learns of the Read More

11/17/06
Reno 911!: Season 04

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash

2006
Herbie: Fully Loaded

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Justin Long, Breckin Meyer, Matt Dillon, Michael Keaton, Cheryl Hines

Synopsis: The world's wackiest Volkswagen is back in action in this action comedy. Maggie Peyton (Lindsay Lohan) is the 18-year-old daughter of Ray Peyton Sr. (Michael Keaton), a once-successful stock car driver whose career is not what it once was. Maggie loves racing and is in line for a job covering Read More

6/22/05
The Pacifier

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lauren Graham, Vin Diesel, Faith Ford, Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot

Synopsis: The toughest man in the American military faces a new kind of challenge -- looking after four kids in soccer-mom suburbia -- in this family-friendly comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Shane Wolf (Vin Diesel) is a former Navy SEAL who was assigned to protect a scientist working on a top-secret Read More

3/4/05
Reno 911!: Season 03

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash

2005
Taxi

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Gisele Bündchen, Jennifer Esposito, Ann-Margret, Henry Simmons

Synopsis: An inept cop suddenly gets a new partner in the person of a cabbie with attitude in this high-rolling comedy. Washburn (Jimmy Fallon) is a police officer who becomes the laughingstock of the department after a series of traffic accidents cause him to lose his driver's license. One day, Washburn Read More

10/8/04
Starsky & Hutch

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Fred Williamson, Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis

Synopsis: Starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in the title roles, this kitschy tongue-in cheek action comedy is based on the popular 1970s cop show of the same name. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (Wilson) and Dave Starsky (Stiller) are a tough pair of plain-clothes cops who drive a red and white Ford Torino and Read More

3/5/04
Reno 911!: Season 02

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash

Synopsis: The whole police reality show genre is savagely raked over the coals as Reno 911! enters its second season. The men and women of the Washoe County Sheriff's Department continue to allow cameras to follow them everywhere, though why they do it is anybody's guess, since the resulting videotapes Read More

2004
Reno 911!: Season 01

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash

Synopsis: The cinema vérité police documentary parody Reno 911! dispenses law and disorder during its first season on Comedy Central. The season's unscripted, totally improvised episodes follow various members of the Washoe County Sheriff's Department going about their duties, under the guidance of Read More

2003
Reno 911! [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Synopsis: A group of talented improv players were seen on this Comedy Central weekly, which mercilessly spoofed such reality series as Cops. Heading the Washoe County Sheriff's Department in Reno, NV, was Lt. Jim Dangle (played by Thomas Lennon, who also co-produced), a sexually ambivalent lawman who Read More

2003
The State [TV Series]

1994