Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

[Yankeefan007]

Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#1

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:51pm

Found at his home in Martha's Vineyard.

Best known for playing Not Guffman in "Waiting for..."

RIP.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/12/04/paul_benedict_70_actor_at_home_in_tv_sitcoms_modern_and_classical_dramas/
Updated On: 12/4/08 at 02:51 PM

[madbrian]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#2

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:54pm

Actually, he probably best known for playing George & Weezy's annoying neighbor, Bentley, on The Jeffersons.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[doodlenyc]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#2

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:57pm

...and the painter on Sesame Street.

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[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#3

Posted: 12/4/08 at 3:05pm

I worked with him at the Roundabout a few years ago.
Funny, very Smart, loved word games,a kind man.
Everytime we went out to dinner or a function people always yelled: "BENTLY!"

RIP

[South Fl Marc]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#4

Posted: 12/4/08 at 3:10pm

When I think of him it's as the crazy director in the movie "The Goodbye Girl".

He was very funny.

RIP

[Josh Freilich]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#5

Posted: 12/4/08 at 3:46pm

Actually, his name wasn't Guffman, it was Loomis, as in Roy Loomis.

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[Jane2]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#6

Posted: 12/4/08 at 3:49pm

I enjoyed his work very much. Especially in Guffman,

RIP

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[Auggie27]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#7

Posted: 12/4/08 at 3:51pm

The Roy Loomis moment is an iconic one in films. To me, worth every episode of JEFFERSONS. But I loved him in MUSIC MAN with Bierko and Luker, too. He found a new way to play the mayor that wasn't so over-the-top.

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[Dollypop]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#8

Posted: 12/4/08 at 4:15pm

Very sad. He was relatively young, too.

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[ThankstoPhantom]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#9

Posted: 12/4/08 at 4:37pm

I saw him in The Music Man revival back in 2000. He was very funny.

RIP

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[NYUKULELE]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#10

Posted: 12/4/08 at 4:50pm

He co-starred in a movie I once wrote. It was so bad I'm ashamed to mention the title. But he was excellent, and a warm funny man on the set. It wasn't the script (as written) or the acting. That leaves . . .?

[LimelightMike]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#11

Posted: 12/4/08 at 5:02pm

Thank you, Mr. Benedict for the love and the laughter.
May 'The Man Upstairs' smile upon you, and welcome you
with open arms and gentle heart. RIP.

[mc1227]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#12

Posted: 12/4/08 at 9:55pm

Loved him as the NYU professor in "The Freshman" RIP.

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[broadwayfan7]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#13

Posted: 12/4/08 at 10:15pm

RIP Paul.

"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."

[Jack King]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#14

Posted: 12/4/08 at 11:10pm

That is sad. You folks surely gave a great bio of him. I only recalled him from The Jeffersons and as Loomis who sat down in the audience in "Guffman.

And to Dollypop, I agree 70 is relatively young. Heh. I turned 70 in October. :)

[Q]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#15

Posted: 12/5/08 at 2:33am

A kind man, a good man, a true man.

And dedicated to his craft.

RIP.

[Mattbrain]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#16

Posted: 12/5/08 at 11:34am

Was he still in The Music Man during Eric McCormack's run?

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[sparrman]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#17

Posted: 12/5/08 at 11:37am

He suffered from acromegaly; I wonder if that had anything to do with his rather premature death.

[BS]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#18

Posted: 12/5/08 at 11:45am

He was terrific in the original off-broadway production of Little Murders. He played the minister.

[Mattbrain]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#19

Posted: 12/6/08 at 3:44pm

I really would like to know if he was in The Music Man at the same time as Eric McCormack because that's when I saw the show and I don't know if Mr. Benedict had left the production by then.

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[gremley]

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70#20

Posted: 12/6/08 at 6:50pm

Sad loss. I remember him from The Music Man.