Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and movie actor. From his beginnings at The Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from his peers at the Algonquin Round Table in New York City to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry.
Benchley photographed for Vanity Fair
Robert with elder brother Edmund, who was killed in the Battle of San Juan Hill when Robert was age nine.
Robert Benchley.
Joyce Compton and Robert Benchley in Bedtime Story (1941)
Foreign Correspondent (film)
Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American black-and-white spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter based in Britain who tries to expose enemy spies involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude to World War II. It stars Joel McCrea and features 19-year-old Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, and Robert Benchley, along with Edmund Gwenn.
Theatrical release poster
Joel McCrea as "John Jones", foreign correspondent
George Sanders as "ffolliott"
George Sanders, Laraine Day and Joel McCrea in pursuit of an assassin