Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
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
#2re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:54pmActually, he probably best known for playing George & Weezy's annoying neighbor, Bentley, on The Jeffersons.
#2re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:57pm...and the painter on Sesame Street.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#3re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
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
#4re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#5re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/4/08 at 3:46pmActually, his name wasn't Guffman, it was Loomis, as in Roy Loomis.
#6re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/4/08 at 3:49pm
I enjoyed his work very much. Especially in Guffman,
RIP
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#7re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/4/08 at 3:51pmThe 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.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/4/08 at 4:15pm
Very sad. He was relatively young, too.
"May flights of angels sing him to his rest." (HAMLET)
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#9re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/4/08 at 4:37pm
I saw him in The Music Man revival back in 2000. He was very funny.
RIP
#10re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/4/08 at 4:50pmHe 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 . . .?
#11re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#12re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/4/08 at 9:55pmLoved him as the NYU professor in "The Freshman" RIP.
#13re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/4/08 at 10:15pmRIP Paul.
Jack King
Featured Actor Joined: 12/1/08
#14re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#15re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/5/08 at 2:33am
A kind man, a good man, a true man.
And dedicated to his craft.
RIP.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#16re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/5/08 at 11:34amWas he still in The Music Man during Eric McCormack's run?
sparrman
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/07
#17re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/5/08 at 11:37amHe suffered from acromegaly; I wonder if that had anything to do with his rather premature death.
BS
Understudy Joined: 6/2/05
#18re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/5/08 at 11:45amHe was terrific in the original off-broadway production of Little Murders. He played the minister.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#19re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/6/08 at 3:44pmI 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.
gremley
Swing Joined: 12/6/08
#20re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70
Posted: 12/6/08 at 6:50pmSad loss. I remember him from The Music Man.
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