Movies: Robert Benchley

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 audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research o...

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

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

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

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

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short....

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his stock everyman and slightly bumbling character Joe Doakes to dramatize such situations. Situations that c...

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

A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office....

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen....

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live specimens, he has prepared a series of pictures of his subjects. He explains that...

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 lectures on physical witness in middle age....

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 remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love ...

Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tr...

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

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert Benchley always has the best advice about any social situation. Hilarity ensues....

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls....

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum....