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Richard Benjamin
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Directed one Oscar nominated performance:
Peter O'Toole
in
My Favorite Year (1982)
.
In the mid-1950s, another actor,
Richard Lightner
, also worked under the name of Richard Benjamin and his credits are often erroneously included with those of the better known Richard Benjamin, who first acted professionally in the mid-1960s.
For his work in
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
, he's one of only 7 actors to win the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture without receiving an Oscar nomination for the same performance. The other 6 are, in chronological order:
Millard Mitchell
in
My Six Convicts (1952)
,
Earl Holliman
in
The Rainmaker (1956)
,
Stephen Boyd
in
Ben-Hur (1959)
,
Oskar Werner
in
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
,
Richard Attenborough
,
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
and
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
and
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
in
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
.
Father of son
Ross Benjamin
(born in 1974) and daughter,
Prentiss Benjamin
(born in 1978), with wife
Paula Prentiss
.
Brother-in-law of
Ann Prentiss
.
Tested for the role of "Ted Henderson" in
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
.
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