Robert Benchley Movies

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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...

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

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

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

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

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...

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...

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...

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...

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

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

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...