Robby Benson
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Dallas, Texas, USA
When 13-year-old Robby Benson appeared with "Josephine the Plumber" (Jane Withers) in a well-circulated TV commercial of the late 1960s, he was already a ten-year veteran of show business. The son of a writer and a stage actress, Benson went from the straw-hat theater circuit to the leading role of Oliver in a 1964 Japanese touring production. At fourteen he made his Broadway debut, and at that same time became the first of five actors to play the role of Bruce Carson on the TV daytime drama Search for Tomorrow. In films from 1972, Benson specialized in playing sensitive teenagers with severe emotional and/or physical problems. He also was frequently co-starred in romantic roles with young actress Glynnis O'Connor, notably in the 1973 film Jeremy and the 1977 TV production of Our Town. While his early theatrical films were generally okay, Benson was better served in made-for-TV movies: he was excellent as the dying son of author John Gunther in Death Be Not Proud (1975) and as George Burns' mentally retarded grandson in Two of a Kind (83). Benson endured an awkward period in the 1980s when, except for such career highlights as The Chosen (1981), he seemed to be pulling out the same bag of acting tricks in role after role. An effort to establish himself as a producer resulted in the unsuccessful Die Laughing (1979). He backed away from show business in 1984 when he underwent delicate open-heart surgery; the ordeal seemed to strengthen his resolve to broaden his performing skills. He starred as a tough Chicago cop in a brief TV series Tough Cookies (1986), and in 1988 directed his first film, Crack in the Mirror. Benson's most successful film project of recent years was one in which his face was never seen: as the growling, deep-voiced Beast in the Disney cartoon feature Beauty and the Beast (though touted in some articles as his voiceover debut, Benson had actually been dubbing TV cartoons for several years, notably the 1991 series Pirates of Dark Water).
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | A Feeling of Home |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | A Feeling of Home |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | Straight Outta Tompkins |
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$8.5k | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Billy |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Billy: The Early Years |
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$0.4M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Max Lucado: Children's Treasury |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | MXP: Most Xtreme Primate |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | MXP: Most Extreme Primate |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Just a Dream |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Beauty and the Beast: DVD Read-Along |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | The Last of Mrs. Lincoln |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | MXP: Most Xtreme Primate |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Mickey's Magical Christmas - Snowed in at the House of Mouse |
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— | 2001 |
40% | Dragonheart - A New Beginning |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Crippled Lamb |
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— | 2000 |
17% | Belle's Magical World |
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— | 1998 |
13% | Beauty and the Beast - The Enchanted Christmas |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | At Home with the Webbers |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Precious Victims |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Deadly Exposure |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Invasion of Privacy |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Betrayal of the Dove |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865 |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864 |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Homewrecker |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863 |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862 |
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— | 1992 |
94% | Beauty and the Beast |
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$47.7M | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Beauty And The Beast Sing-a-long |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Modern Love |
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— | 1990 |
15% | Rent-A-Cop |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | White Hot |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Great Bible Stories: David & Goliath |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | City Limits |
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— | 1985 |
33% | Harry & Son |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | California Girls |
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— | 1984 |
18% | Two of a Kind |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Running Brave |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Two of a Kind |
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— | 1982 |
0% | National Lampoon's Movie Madness |
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— | 1982 |
75% | The Chosen |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Tribute |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Die Laughing |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Walk Proud |
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— | 1979 |
60% | The End |
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— | 1978 |
44% | Ice Castles |
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— | 1978 |
88% | One on One |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Richie |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Our Town |
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— | 1977 |
20% | Ode to Billy Joe |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | The Last of Mrs. Lincoln |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | The Virginia Hill Story |
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— | 1976 |
0% | Lucky Lady |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Death Be Not Proud |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | All the Kind Strangers |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Jeremy |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Jory |
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— | 1972 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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45% |
Complete Savages
2004-2005
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58% |
8 Simple Rules
2002-2005
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85% |
American Dreams
2002-2005
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58% |
I'm With Her
2003-2004
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6% |
Bob Patterson
2001
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No Score Yet |
Two Guys and a Girl
1998-2001
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No Score Yet |
Brother's Keeper
1998-1999
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72% |
Miami Vice
1984-1990
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46% |
Jesse
1998-2000
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64% |
The Naked Truth
1995-1998
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No Score Yet |
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996-2003
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79% |
Friends
1994-2004
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No Score Yet |
Dream On
1990-1996
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100% |
Exosquad
1993-1994
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No Score Yet |
Evening Shade
1990-1994
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Quotes from Robby Benson's Characters
Mrs. Potts: | What should we do, Master? |
Beast: | It doesn't matter now. Just let them come. |
Beast: | I wanna do something for her... but what? |
Cogsworth/Narrator: | Well, there's the usual things: flowers... chocolates... promises you don't intend to keep... |
Beast: | I'll show you to your room. |
Belle: | My room? But I thought... |
Beast: | Do you wanna stay in the tower? |
Belle: | No. |
Beast: | Then follow me. |
Beast: | THAT HURTS!! |
Belle: | If you hadn't hold still, it wouldn't have hurt as much. |
Beast: | Well, if you hadn't have run away, this wouldn't have happened. |
Belle: | If you hadn't frightened me, I wouldn't have run away! |
Beast: | (Beat) Well YOU shouldn't have known better than going into the west wing! |
Beast: | [beat] Well YOU shouldn't have known better than going into the west wing! |
Belle: | Well you should learn to control your temper! |
Lumiere: | Oh, master, you look so...so |
Lumiere: | Oh, you look so... so... |
Beast: | Stupid |
Beast: | [fur done up in curls and bows] Stupid. |
Beast: | "I've never felt this way about anyone...I want to do something for her! But what? |
Beast: | I've never felt this way about anyone... I want to do something for her! But what? |
Cogsworth/Narrator: | "Oh there's the usual, [counting off on hand] flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep..." |
Cogsworth/Narrator: | Oh there's the usual, [counting off on hand] flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep... |
Belle: | By the way, thank you, for saving my life. |
Beast: | You're welcome. |
Beast: | [roars loudly] That hurts! |
Belle: | If you'd hold still it wouldn't hurt as much! |
Beast: | If you hadn't run away, this wouldn't have happened. |
Belle: | If you hadn't frightened me I wouldn't have run away. |
Beast: | [hesitates a bit] Well, you shouldn't have been in the west wing. |
Belle: | Well you should learn to control your temper! |
Beast: | You.. you came back |
Belle: | Of course I came back. I couldn't let them.. oh, this is all my fault if only I'd gotten here sooner. |
Beast: | Maybe... it's better - it's better this way. |
Belle: | Don't talk like that. You'll be all right. We're together now. Everything's going to be fine, you'll see. |
Beast: | At-at least... I got to see you... one last time. |
Beast: | If she doesn't eat with me, she doesn't eat at all! |
Beast: | If she doesn't eat with me, then she doesn't eat at all! |
Beast: | You can't stay there forever! |
Belle: | Yes, I can! |
Beast: | Fine! Then go ahead and STARVE! |
Cogsworth/Narrator: | Please, attempt to be a gentleman. |
Beast: | But she's being so difficult! |
Beast: | I'll show you to your room. |
Belle: | My room? But I thought- |
Belle: | My room? But I thought... |
Beast: | You wanna stay in the dungeon? |
Belle: | No. |
Beast: | Then follow me. |
Narrator: | I'm just fooling myself, she'll never see me as anything... but a monster. - The Beast |
Beast: | I'm just fooling myself, she'll never see me as anything... but a monster. |