Acting · Writing · 1889 to 1945

Robert Benchley

Every film, by IMDb rating

The career

Robert Benchley, acting career by IMDb rating5-film averagePeak eraLongest 7+ run

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193228 films1946

Current formLast 5: 6.88 vs career 6.87 (+0.01)

As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes

Average

6.87

11 rated films

Vote weighted

6.90

bigger films count more

Median

6.8

half are better

Consistency

±0.33

rating spread

Career

15y

1932 to 1946

Total votes

77.8K

across every film

Best

7.4

Foreign Correspondent

Worst

7.1

I Married a Witch

Newest first

Acting filmography

1946	The Bride Wore Boots	Uncle Todd Warren	·	593
1946	Janie Gets Married	John Van Brunt	·	324
1945	It's in the Bag!	Parker	·	680
1945	Kiss and Tell	Uncle George Archer	·	308
1945	Road to Utopia	Narrator	7.1	4,003
1945	The Stork Club	Tom P. Curtis	·	860
1945	Week-End at the Waldorf	Randy Morton	6.6	1,538
1944	Song of Russia	Hank Higgins	·	352
1944	Janie	John Van Brunt	·	579
1943	The Sky's the Limit	Phil Harriman	6.3	1,330
1943	Young and Willing	Arthur Kenny	·	370
1942	I Married a Witch	Dr. Dudley White	7.1	11,069
1942	The Major and the Minor	Albert Osborne	7.3	8,653
1942	Take a Letter, Darling	G.B. Atwater	·	648
1941	Bedtime Story	Eddie Turner	·	798
1941	Nice Girl?	Prof. Oliver Wendall Holmes Dana	·	506
1941	The Reluctant Dragon	Robert Benchley	6.7	4,346
1941	Three Girls About Town	Wilburforce Puddle	·	402
1941	You'll Never Get Rich	Martin Cortland	6.7	3,338
1940	Foreign Correspondent	Stebbins	7.4	26,498

Better together?

The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.

Takes

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