Robert Benchley

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1889 age 0

   Born

2. 1940 age 51

   CreditForeign Correspondent

   CreditForeign Correspondentscreenwriter

3. 1941 age 52

   CreditThe Reluctant Dragon

4. 1945 age 56

   Died

• LCLarry Clemmons1 title
• WRWolfgang Reitherman1 title
• WCWilliam Cottrell1 title
• TSTed Sears1 title
• FCFrank Churchill1 title
• WDWalt Disney1 title
• NFNorm Ferguson1 title
• HLHamilton Luske1 title
• BHBen Hecht1 title
• HDHarry Davenport1 title

• There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. Both classes are extremely unpleasant to meet socially, leaving practically no one in the world whom one cares very much to know.

  Robert Benchley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall. … The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn’t do if your life depended on it.

  Robert Benchley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.

  Robert Benchley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• A baby is shown sitting on the floor. He appears to be about a year and a half old. Incidentally, he is a very plain baby. Strewn about him on the floor are the toys that he has been playing with. There are a ball, a rattle, a ring, a doll, a bell and a pair of roller-skates. Evidently, the candidate is supposed to be aghast at the roller-skates in the possession of such a small child.<br> The man who drew that picture had evidently never furnished playthings for a small child. I can imagine nothing that would delight a child of a year and a half more than a pair of roller-skates to chew and spin and hit himself in the face with. They could also be dropped on Daddy when Daddy was lying on the floor in an attempt to be sociable. Of all the toys arranged before the child, the roller-skates are the most logical. … That is my great trouble in taking tests and examinations of any kind. I always want to argue with the examiner, because the examiner is always so obviously wrong.

  Robert Benchley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn’t money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one’s hands.

  Robert Benchley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• In America there are two classes of travel — first class, and with children.

  Robert Benchley, CC BY-SA 4.0