Robert Benchley Movies

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

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

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.

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

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

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

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

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

A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...