Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
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Robert Benchley, 1899 - 1945 Writer and actor Robert Benchley was born on September 15, 1899 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Benchley was best known for being a humorist and comedian. While an undergraduate at Harvard University, he gave his first comedic performance impersonating a befuddled toon meer after-dinner speaker. He became a campus celebrity and he landed the position of editor of the Harvard Lampoon. Benchley worked as a drama critic at Life magazine in 1920. Under the pseudonym Guy Fawkes, he wrote The Wayward Press column for The New Yorker. He also briefly served as managing editor for Vanity Fair where his lieutenants were Dorothy Parker and Robert E. Sherwood. He quit in protest to the firing of Parker. The three of them were among the regulars of the Algonquin Round Table, which was a social circle of New York wits that included Harpo Marx and George Kaufman. As a member of the Algonquin Round Table, he became a poplular radio personality, film actor and screenwriter. Several of Benchley's humorous monologues were performed in short films, which include "The Treasurer's Report" (1928). His comic sketches were collected in fifteen volumes, including "My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew" (1936) and "Benchley Beside Himself" (1943). His son Nathaniel edited a collection of his essays, "The Benchley Roundup" (1954) and published a biography of his father in 1955. Robert Benchley died in 1945. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Robert Benchley
The Benchley Roundup: A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of his Favorites (1933) — Auteur — 222 exemplaren
The "Reel" Benchley: Robert Benchley at His Hilarious Best in Words and Pictures (1950) 11 exemplaren
Robert Benchley's Wayward Press: The Complete Collection of His the New Yorker Columns Written as Guy Fawkes (2008) 3 exemplaren
Robert C. Benchley Complete Humorous Essays Anthologies (Illustrated), Love Conquers All Of All Things 2 exemplaren
The Sunday Menace 2 exemplaren
The Bedside Manner or No More Nightmares 1 exemplaar
My Ten Years in a Quandary 1 exemplaar
Take the Witness! (in Law in Lit) 1 exemplaar
Robert Benchley Shorts (30 Shorts 1935 - 1944) 1 exemplaar
Turner Classic Movies presents 31 days of Oscar 1 exemplaar
Do Insects Think? 1 exemplaar
An Hour for lunch 1 exemplaar
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The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Medewerker — 54 exemplaren
Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera (1930) — Introductie, sommige edities — 36 exemplaren
The Defective Detective: Mystery Parodies by the Great Humorists (1992) — Medewerker — 14 exemplaren
1935 Essay Annual — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
RDCBLP v040 Winter of the White Seal | A Solitary Dance | The Sunday Menace — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
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- Benchley, Robert
- Officiële naam
- Benchley, Robert Charles
- Geboortedatum
- 1889-09-15
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1945-11-21
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- Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
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- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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- New York, New York, USA
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- New York, New York, USA
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- Harvard University (BA|1913)
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- Benchley, Nathaniel (son)
Benchley, Peter (grandson) - Organisaties
- Algonquin Round Table
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Vanity Fair
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- Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960)
Academy Award for Best Short Subject (1935) - Korte biografie
- Robert Benchley, humorist, critic, actor, writer and director was born in 1889 in Worcester, Massachusetts. His writing career began as early as his college days as president of the LAMPOON, in which he wrote many articles. His reputation as a humorist grew when he became editor of the New York Tribune's Sunday Magazine. During the 1920's he was the dramatic editor for both Life Magazine and the New Yorker. His career also included writing, acting and directing for MGM.
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Read it a while ago. Some of the humor is dated, as you'd imagine with stuff written in the 20's and 30's but some of it surprisingly holds up.
I think I was aware of Benchley via the 90's biopic of Dorothy Parker. He was her colleague & friend (& maybe lover? can't remember) and also a dry wit humorist member of Algonquin Round Table and writer for New Yorker (one of the first I think.)
I think I was aware of Benchley via the 90's biopic of Dorothy Parker. He was her colleague & friend (& maybe lover? can't remember) and also a dry wit humorist member of Algonquin Round Table and writer for New Yorker (one of the first I think.)
I don't appreciate much of the old New Yorker humor, but there's a lot of James Thurber I love, and I'll read anything by Bob Benchley that I can find, too.
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