Robert Benchley Movies

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...

Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.

This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.