Robby Benson

Biography: A porolific Actor/Director for many series and movies since the early 70's up until the current day.Lately his is appearing on the frosh NBC Sunday Night hit "American Dreams" as Professor Witt.

Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: The son of a writer father and actress mother, this dark-haired youth enjoyed success in the mid 1970s as a teen actor in coming-of-age movies: 1972's Jory (his big-screen debut), 1973's Jeremy 1975's Ode to Billy Joe and 1977's One on One (which he also cowrote), to name a few. He smoothed over rough relationships with screen dads Jack Lemmon in Tribute (1980) and Paul Newman in Harry and Son (1984). Still boyish-looking, Benson spends much of his time these days behind the camera. His 1988 motion-picture directorial debut, White Hot was also the first American movie shot in the high-definition television system. His 1990 domestic comedy, Modern Love was a family affair in that it costarred his wife, singer-actress KarlaA porolific Actor/Director for many series and movies since the early 70's up until the current day.Lately his is appearing on the frosh NBC Sunday Night hit "American Dreams" as Professor Witt.

Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:

The son of a writer father and actress mother, this dark-haired youth enjoyed success in the mid 1970s as a teen actor in coming-of-age movies: 1972's Jory (his big-screen debut), 1973's Jeremy 1975's Ode to Billy Joe and 1977's One on One (which he also cowrote), to name a few. He smoothed over rough relationships with screen dads Jack Lemmon in Tribute (1980) and Paul Newman in Harry and Son (1984). Still boyish-looking, Benson spends much of his time these days behind the camera. His 1988 motion-picture directorial debut, White Hot was also the first American movie shot in the high-definition television system. His 1990 domestic comedy, Modern Love was a family affair in that it costarred his wife, singer-actress Karla DeVito, and their children. The 1992 direct-to-video Invasion of Privacy a psychological thriller, cast him as an ex-con with a fixation on glamorous Jennifer O'Neill, and he was properly bloodcurdling. But his greatest triumph was as the (unrecognizable) voice of the Beast in Disney's animated Beauty and the Beast (1991), which has led to other cartoon assignments (including TV's "Exo-Squad") calling on his heretofore unsuspected vocal abilities.… Expand