Robert Benchley Movies

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for...

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...

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

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

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...

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

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

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...

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

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...

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

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

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...