Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

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...

Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.

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

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

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

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

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

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

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...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."

After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink...