Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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Stage, 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

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re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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

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

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re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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

...and the painter on Sesame Street.

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re: 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

#5

re: 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

#6

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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

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

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re: 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

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#8

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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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#9

re: 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)

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re: 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

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#11

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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 . . .?

#12

re: 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.

#13

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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

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

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re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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

RIP Paul.

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re: 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. :)

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re: 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.

#17

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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

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

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re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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

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

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re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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

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

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re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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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#21

re: Stage, screen actor Paul Benedict dead at 70

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

Sad loss. I remember him from The Music Man.