Richard Benjamin - biography

“I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.”

“It’s the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere.  There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can’t get anywhere else.  And the speed that the people move.  It’s so different from other places.”

Richard Benjamin directed the following films:
My Favorite Year (1982)
City Heat (1984)
Racing with the Moon (1984)
The Money Pit (1986)
Little Nikita (1988)
My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Downtown (1990)
Mermaids (1990)
Made in America (1993)
Milk Money (1994)
Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
The Shrink Is In (2001)


Richard Benjamin has appeared in the following films:
Thunder Over the Plains (1953)
Crime Wave (1954)
Catch-22 (1970)
The Last of Sheila (1973)
Westworld (1973)
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
House Calls (1978)
Scavenger Hunt (1979)
The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
Witches’ Brew (1980)
First Family (1980)
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)