Paul Benedict

Paul Benedict

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Benedict, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title : Paul Benedict
  • Popularity : 8.966
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1938-09-17
  • Place of Birth : Silver City, New Mexico, United States
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Paul Benedict Movies

  • 1991
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    The Addams Family

    The Addams Family

    7.052 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 1983
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    The Man with Two Brains

    The Man with Two Brains

    6.2 1983 HD

    A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.

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  • 1972
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    Jeremiah Johnson

    Jeremiah Johnson

    7.288 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    Arthur 2: On the Rocks

    Arthur 2: On the Rocks

    5.5 1988 HD

    Arthur loses his fortune for staying with Linda, right as the two were preparing to adopt a child. As their marriage suffers, Arthur plans for a way...

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  • 1977
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    The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'

    The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'

    1 1977 HD

    Documentary of the making of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1977)

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  • 1972
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    Up the Sandbox

    Up the Sandbox

    5.9 1972 HD

    Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her...

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  • 1977
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    The Goodbye Girl

    The Goodbye Girl

    6.886 1977 HD

    After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling...

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  • 1975
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    Mandingo

    Mandingo

    6.7 1975 HD

    Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond...

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  • 1994
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    Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

    Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

    4.835 1994 HD

    When an abused heiress grows to giant size because of her encounter with aliens, she decides to get revenge on her cheating husband and those who...

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  • 1982
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    The Electric Grandmother

    The Electric Grandmother

    6.8 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    1 1965 HD

    Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation...

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  • 1979
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    Billy in the Lowlands

    Billy in the Lowlands

    1 1979 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

    The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

    5 1971 HD

    A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.

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  • 1988
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    The Chair

    The Chair

    3.2 1988 HD

    A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.

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  • 2008
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    Side by Each

    Side by Each

    1 2008 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    They Might Be Giants

    They Might Be Giants

    6.9 1971 HD

    After the death of his wife, wealthy retiree Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in which he is the legendary detective Sherlock...

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  • 1980
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    Desperate Moves

    Desperate Moves

    1 1980 HD

    A naive young man from rural Oregon travels to San Francisco to pursue his big city dreams.

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  • 1972
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    Deadhead Miles

    Deadhead Miles

    5.4 1972 HD

    A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non...

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  • 1995
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    Guns & Lipstick

    Guns & Lipstick

    2 1995 HD

    A female private investigator's latest client turns up murdered, and she is thrust into a deadly underworld of bi-sexual strippers, a Chinese...

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  • 1990
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    Sibling Rivalry

    Sibling Rivalry

    5.1 1990 HD

    Marjorie Turner is suffocating in her marriage and day to day life. An extramarital affair with a stranger seems to be the answer until her paramour...

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  • 1996
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    Waiting for Guffman

    Waiting for Guffman

    7 1996 HD

    Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn...

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  • 1974
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    The Front Page

    The Front Page

    7.262 1974 HD

    A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

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  • 1984
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    This Is Spinal Tap

    This Is Spinal Tap

    7.427 1984 HD

    "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...

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  • 1988
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    Cocktail

    Cocktail

    6.104 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1990
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    The Freshman

    The Freshman

    6.268 1990 HD

    After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds...

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  • 2003
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    A Mighty Wind

    A Mighty Wind

    6.761 2003 HD

    Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion...

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  • 1971
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    Taking Off

    Taking Off

    6.915 1971 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    Cold Turkey

    Cold Turkey

    6.2 1971 HD

    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...

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  • 2004
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    After the Sunset

    After the Sunset

    6.163 2004 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    The Devil's Advocate

    The Devil's Advocate

    7.467 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Isn't She Great

    Isn't She Great

    4.8 2000 HD

    An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of "The...

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  • 1999
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    A Fish in the Bathtub

    A Fish in the Bathtub

    6.9 1999 HD

    A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.

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  • 1992
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    The Return of Spinal Tap

    The Return of Spinal Tap

    6.2 1992 HD

    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 are now --...

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  • 1993
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    Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's

    Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's

    1 1993 HD

    Newswoman Fay Sommerfield takes a morally outraged look at excessive violence, bad language and sacrilege that pass for entertainment in the early...

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  • 1989
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    Babycakes

    Babycakes

    7 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1975
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    Hustling

    Hustling

    6 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    The Virgin President

    The Virgin President

    7 1968 HD

    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...

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  • 1984
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    The Lonely Guy

    The Lonely Guy

    6.331 1984 HD

    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.

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  • 1976
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    Bad Dog

    Bad Dog

    1 1976 HD

    A day in the life from dog’s point of view.

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.5 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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  • 1989
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    Seinfeld

    Seinfeld

    8.278 1989 HD

    A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.

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  • 1985
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    7.7 1985 HD

    This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two...

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  • 1971
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    All in the Family

    All in the Family

    7.837 1971 HD

    Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.

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  • 1975
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    The Jeffersons

    The Jeffersons

    7.296 1975 HD

    Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from...

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  • 1973
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    Kojak

    Kojak

    6.942 1973 HD

    A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

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  • 1984
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    Mama Malone

    Mama Malone

    1 1984 HD

    Mama Malone is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March 7, 1984 to July 21, 1984 starring British character actress Lila Kaye as the title...

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  • 1979
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    Sweepstakes

    Sweepstakes

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1989
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    Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt

    8 1989 HD

    Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in...

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  • 1969
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    Sesame Street

    Sesame Street

    7.1 1969 HD

    On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy,...

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  • 1987
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    A Different World

    A Different World

    7 1987 HD

    A Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a...

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  • 1975
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    NBC Special Treat

    NBC Special Treat

    1 1975 HD

    An anthology series of television specials geared towards teenagers.

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  • 1982
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    The Blue and the Gray

    The Blue and the Gray

    6.9 1982 HD

    The Blue and the Gray is a television miniseries that first aired on CBS in three installments on November 14, November 16, and November 17, 1982....

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  • 1995
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    The Drew Carey Show

    The Drew Carey Show

    6.549 1995 HD

    Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with...

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  • 1970
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    The Drew Carey Show

    The Drew Carey Show

    7.296 1970 HD

    Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from...

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