Although his actress wife Paula Prentiss became a star by the early 1960s, it took Richard Benjamin almost fifteen years to establish his screen persona, but the wait was rewarding. After extensive work in theatre as actor and director, and his participation in the cult TV series He & She (1967), in which he co-starred with Prentiss, he won the starring role in the screen adaptation of Philip Roth's best-seller, Goodbye, Columbus (1969). That was followed by roles in Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971) and another Roth adaptation, Portnoy's Complaint (1972), that turned him into a prominent "archetype of East Coast Jewish intellectual agony", as critic Jonathan Romney defines him. But his forte was comedy and he won a Golden Globe when he repeated his stage role in the film version of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (1975). Although he still performs, Benjamin turned to direction since the 80s with the highly acclaimed comedy My Favorite Year (1982).
1927年2月20日生于美国佛罗里达州迈阿密一个黑人家庭。1945年首次在影片《那佛罗少年》中亮相，后偶尔在一些影片中跑龙套。1950年的《走投无路》是他首部主演的影片。1958年以反种族影片《挣脱锁链》赢得柏林影帝头衔，而迅速成为好莱坞头号黑人演员。1964年再以《田野里的百合花...
里弗·菲尼克斯因1977年全家前往美国洛杉矶凤凰城而得此名字。他十岁时，在父母的鼓励下，开始职业化的电视表演生涯。里弗·菲尼克斯初登银幕是在1985年的《冲向天外天》中，随后的三部影片：《伴我同行》、《蚊子海岸》和《印第安那琼斯和最后的十字军》则为他扬名影坛。
理查德·詹金斯，美国舞台，电影及电视演员，代表作：《新抢钱夫妻》、《北方风云》 、《谈谈情，跳跳舞》、《林中小屋》、等。 2015年9月，凭 《奥丽芙·基特里奇》获第67届艾美奖最佳男主角
哥伦比亚演员，曾出演《回环》、《交易》等。
