Robby Benson

Robby’s Career Credits

Robby has the highest respect for the crews and talented men and women behind the camera on all these projects.

Directing – ABC

Complete Savages

  • Mel Gibson [exec. prod.]
  • Keith Carradine; cameo by Mel Gibson

8 Simple Rules For Dating My Daughter

  • Flody Suarez, Tracy Gamble [exec. prod.]
  • John Ritter’s last two completed episodes

I’m With Her

  • Marco Pennette, Chris Henchy [exec. prod.]

Ellen

  • Touchstone
  • 25 episodes

Two Guys and a Girl

  • 20th Century Fox

Dharma & Greg

  • 20th Century Fox
  • Bill Prady [exec. prod.]

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

  • Viacom
  • Pilot

Baby Bob

  • Viacom
  • Michael Salzman [exec. prod.]

Bob Patterson

  • Jason Alexander [exec. prod.]

Brother’s Keeper

  • Universal Don Todd [exec. prod.]

Untitled Chris Elliot

  • Mark Lawrence [exec. prod.]
  • Pilot

Common Law

  • Witt-Thomas (Greg Giraldo)
  • Pilot

Game Night

  • Witt-Thomas (Terry Bradshaw)
  • Pilot

Thunder Alley

  • Wind Dancer (Ed Asner, Haley Joel Osment)
  • Matt Williams, David McFadzean, Carmen Finestra [exec. prod.]
  • 21 episodes

Bringing Up Jack

  • ABC Prods (ordered for 6 episodes)
  • Pilot

Directing – NBC

Friends

  • WB Bright Kauffman Crane
  • 6 episodes“The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion” (Robin Williams & Billy Crystal)“The One With The Hypnosis Tape” (Giovanni Ribisi & Debra Jo Rupp)“The One With Phoebe’s Ex-Partner”“The One Where Monica and Richard are Friends” (Tom Selleck)“The One With All The Jealousy”

    “The One With The Ick Factor”

Jesse

  • Bright Kauffman Crane (Christina Applegate)
  • 8 episodes

Jersey

  • Brillstein Grey
  • Pilot

The Naked Truth

  • Brillstein Grey (Tea Leoni)
  • 12 episodes

Lee Evans Project

  • Warren Littlefield
  • Pilot

Directing – CBS

Local Zeroes (1)

  • Col/TriStar/CBSP (Chao/Todd/Benson)
  • Pilot/Creator/Prod

Local Zeroes (2)

  • Col/TriStar/CBSP (Chao/Todd/Benson)
  • Pilot/Creator/Prod

Style and Substance

  • Peter Tolin Touchstone (Kathleen Turner)
  • Pilot

Meant For Each Other

  • Disney
  • Rudnick/Benvenuti [exec. prod.](Jon Faverou)
  • Pilot

George Wendt Show

  • Disney/Touchstone (picked up 6 episodes)
  • Pilot

Pearl

  • Witt-Thomas

Muddling Through

  • Columbia P (JenniferAniston)

Good Advice

  • (Shelly Long,Treat Williams,Teri Garr)

Family Album

  • Bright Kauffman Crane (Peter Scolari)

Evening Shade

  • Mozark/Burt Reynolds Prods.

Directing – HBO

Dream On

  • Bright Kauffman Crane (Brian Benben, Louise Fletcher)
  • 1 episode — “Try Not to Remember”
  • RECEIVED CABLE ACE BEST DIRECTOR NOMINATION

Directing – OTHER NETWORKS

The Huntress

  • USA(Annette O’Toole)
  • Series Exec Producer

Haley Wagner, Star

  • Viacom
  • Pilot

Kevin’s Castle

  • Nelvana/Disney Channel
  • Pilot

Reunited

  • UPN Castle Rock(Julie Haggerty, Cliff Bemis)
  • Pilot

Life With Roger

  • Pilot

Monty

  • FOX Touchstone(Henry Winkler, David Schwimmer)

Kids, Incorporated

  • Disney Channel(Jennifer Love Hewitt)

True Confessions

  • Landsburg Prod.(Adam Arkin; Frances Conroy)

Directing – FILM

Modern Love

  • Sony/SVS/Lyric Films
  • Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Composer (Robby Benson, Karla DeVito, Rue McClanahan, Louise Lasser, Cliff Bemis, Kay Ballard, introducing Lyric Benson, and Burt Reynolds as Colonel Parker)

White Hot

  • Academy Ent. (Danny Aiello, Robby Benson)
  • Directed first full-length feature shot on High Definition Video in North America

Music

Open Heart

  • Theatrical Musical
  • Composer/Lyricist/Author

The Breakfast Club

  • A&M/Universal
  • John Hughes [w/d]
  • Soundtrack
  • Composer
  • “We Are Not Alone” performed by Karla DeVito
  • RECEIVED GOLD RECORD FOR SONGWRITING

Swept Away – Diana Ross

  • RCA
    “Nobody Makes Me Crazy”
  • Composer
  • RECEIVED GOLD RECORD FOR SONGWRITING

Walk Proud

  • Universal Pictures
  • Soundtrack
  • Composer

Modern Love

  • Sony/SVS
  • Soundtrack
  • Composer and Producer

Die Laughing

  • Orion
  • Soundtrack
  • Composer

Beauty and the Beast

  • Walt Disney Pictures
  • Feature Soundtrack
  • RECEIVED GOLD RECORD FOR PERFORMANCE

Dirty Love

  • Theatrical Musical
  • Composer/Lyricist/Author

Robby Benson

  • CD Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist

Wake ’em Up in Tokyo! – Karla DeVito

  • A&M
  • 6 tracks
  • Composer

Acting – Film

One on One

  • Warner Bros. (Annette O’Toole)
  • Also Writer

The Chosen

  • Contemporary Films (co-starring Rod Steiger)

Tribute

  • 20th Century Fox (co-starring Jack Lemmon)

Ice Castles

  • Columbia
  • Donald Wrye [d] (Colleen Dewhurst, Tom Skerritt)

Ode to Billy Joe

  • Warner Bros. (Glynnis O’Connor)

Running Brave

  • ITC/Buena Vista/Filmtrust, Irminskin Band (Pat Hingle)

Jeremy

  • United Artists (co-starring Glynnis O’Connor)
  • FILM AWARD AT CANNE FILM FEST; ROBBY NOMINATED FOR GOLDEN GLOBE®

Just a Dream

  • Showtime
  • Danny Glover [d] (Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy)

Beauty and the Beast

  • Walt Disney Pictures
  • Voice of BEAST
  • ONLY ANIMATED FEATURE EVER NOMINATED FOR ACADEMY AWARD® BEST PICTURE

Modern Love

  • Sony/SVS Lyric Films
  • Also Writer, Producer, Composer

White Hot

  • Academy Ent.
  • Robby Benson [d] (Danny Aiello)

Rent a Cop

  • Kings Road/ITC (Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli)

Harry and Son

  • Orion
  • Paul Newman [d] (co-starring Paul Newman)

Die Laughing

  • Orion, Warner Bros. (with Charles Durning) — Also Writer, Producer, Composer

Walk Proud

  • Universal Pictures
  • Lawrence Turman
  • Also Music Co-composer

The End

  • United Artists, Larry Gordon (Burt Reynolds, Dom de Luise)

Lucky Lady

  • Stanley Donan [d]
  • (Burt Reynolds, Gene Hackman, Liza Minelli)

The Godfather Part II

  • Paramount
  • Francis Ford Coppola [d]

Jory

  • Avco-Embassy Pictures

Acting – Television

Death Be Not Proud

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame
  • RECEIVED GOLDEN GLOBE® BEST ACTOR NOMINATION 1975

Our Town

  • George Schaeffer [d] (co-starring Hal Holbrook)

Two of a Kind

  • CBS – G.E. Theatre (co-star George Burns)
  • RECEIVED GOLDEN GLOBE® BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR NOMINATION

The Death of Richie

(co-starring Ben Gazzara)

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

(co-starring Julie Harris, role of Todd Lincoln)

California Girls

  • ABC Pictures – Movie of the Week

Ed Sullivan Show

(performing with the Broadway cast “The Rothschilds”)

American Dreams

  • NBC
  • Jonathan Prince/Dick Clark [p] (recurring)

The Huntress

  • USA
  • Robby Benson [p] [d] (Annette O’Toole, guest star cameo)

Lefty

  • CBS
  • Brad Grey/Sylvester Stallone [p]
  • Pilot

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

  • ABC Viacom
  • Pilot [d] (guest star cameo)

Caroline in the City

  • NBC CBS Prods.

Family Album

  • CBS Lorimar; Bright/Kauffman/Crane Prods.
  • Benson [d] (cameo)

Precious Victims

  • CBS TV Movie (co-star Park Overall, Richard Thomas)

Road To Avonlea

  • CBC Disney Channel

Evening Shade

  • CBS
  • Mozark, Burt Reynolds Prods. (Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning)

Hitchiker

  • HBO Lewis Chesler Prods. (shot in Paris)

Tough Cookies

  • CBS Witt-Thomas
  • Star

American Bandstand

  • Dick Clark Prod. (playing composition for film Walk Proud)

The Virginia Hill Story

(co-starring Dyan Cannon)

Remember When

(co-starring Jack Warden)

All the Kind Strangers

(co-starring John Savage)

Acting – Theater

BROADWAY:

Pirates of Penzance

  • Joseph Papp [p]
  • Dan Berlinghoff [c]
  • (Kevin Kline, Karla DeVito)

Open Hearts, the Musical

  • Book, music and lyrics by Robby Benson
  • Licensed and published by Samuel French, 2006

Dude

  • Rado and Ragni [w]

The Rothchilds

  • Hilly Elkins [p] (Hal Linden)

Zelda

  • Delbert Mann [d] (Co-Starring Ed Begley, Sr.)

 

OTHERS:

King Of Hearts

  • A. J. Antoon [d]
  • Steve Tesich [w]

Oliver

  • Imperial Theatre, Japan

Love Letters

  • Ted Wyiant [d]
  • Canon Theatre, LA

Evita

Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?

  • John Kenley [p]

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