Robert Benchley Movies

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...

A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man...

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.