Robert Benchley Movies

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able...

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

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

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

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

Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...

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

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

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

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...

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

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

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...

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...