Robert Benchley Movies

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...

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...

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

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

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...

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

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

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

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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...