Robert Benchley Movies

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.

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...

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

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

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

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...

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

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...

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

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

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

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

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

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