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Robby Benson

Highest Rated: 96% Wait Until Dark (1967)

Lowest Rated: 0% Rent-A-Cop (1988)

Birthday: Jan 21, 1956

Birthplace: Dallas, Texas, USA

A professional child actor, Robby Benson became an internationally recognized teen idol in the era of David Cassidy and Donny Osmond with lead roles in such youth-market films as "Jory" (1973) and "Jeremy" (1973). Savvier and seemingly more grounded than many of his Tiger Beat contemporaries, the actor branched out from his popular cute guy turns in "Ode to Billy Joe" (1976) and "Ice Castles" (1978) to embrace edgier, more mature roles in the grim made-for-TV movie "The Death of Richie" (1977), the LA gang saga "Walk Proud" (1978) and the well-regarded period piece "The Chosen" (1981). Denied a lead role in "Star Wars" (1977) and opting out of "Apocalypse Now" (1979), Benson began actualizing his own film projects by 1977, beginning with the college basketball drama "One on One" (1977), which he co-wrote, and "Die Laughing" (1980), an Alfred Hitchcock pastiche that he produced in partnership with Jon Peters. Born with a congenital heart defect, Benson underwent open heart surgery for the first time in 1984 and dropped out of the high pressure life of a Hollywood leading man to focus on playing character parts and on directing his own films. A much in-demand TV director, a professor of filmmaking at New York University, and a busy voiceover artist - including that of the Beast in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" (1992) - Benson weathered an almost 50-year career in the industry, his endurance and positive attitude turning on its head the accepted wisdom that nice guys always finish last.

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Highest-Rated Movies

96% 91% Wait Until Dark
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95% 93% Beauty and the Beast Watchlist
78% 73% One on One
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75% 79% The Chosen
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44% 69% Ice Castles
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44% 78% Ode to Billy Joe
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40% 34% Dragonheart: A New Beginning
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30% 33% Lucky Lady
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30% 35% Harry and Son
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17% 71% Belle's Magical World
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Filmography

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Apple Seed 100% 2019 Sirom Actor Heart of Texas 2019 Wes Actor Straight Outta Tompkins 74% 2015 Executive Producer, Original Music Billy: The Early Years 60% 2008 Director MXP: Most Xtreme Primate 38% 2003 Edward Actor Just a Dream 38% 2002 Dr. Sturbuck Actor The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus 78% 2000 Young Santa Claus Voice Dragonheart: A New Beginning 40% 34% 2000 Drake Voice Belle's Magical World 17% 71% 1997 Beast Voice Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas 11% 55% 1997 Beast Voice Deadly Exposure 1993 Max Pierce Actor At Home With the Webbers 0% 1993 Roger Swade Actor Precious Victims 1993 Robert Sims Actor Betrayal of the Dove 36% 1992 Writer Invasion of Privacy 1992 Alex Pruitt Actor Homewrecker 38% 1992 David Whitson Actor Beauty and the Beast 95% 93% 1991 Beast Voice Prince Valiant: Knight of the Round Table 1991 Prince Valiant Voice Prince Valiant 1991 Prince Valiant Voice Modern Love 56% 1990 Greg Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter Rent-A-Cop 0% 17% 1988 Pitts Actor White Hot 1988 Scott Actor, Director Crack in the Mirror 1988 Scott Actor, Director City Limits 8% 1985 Carver Actor California Girls 1985 Nathan Bowzer Actor
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