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Richard Benner(1943-1990)

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Script and Continuity Department
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Richard Benner was born in 1943 in Sterling, Illinois, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Monsters (1988), Outrageous! (1977) and Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980). He died on 2 December 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Born1943
DiedDecember 2, 1990
Born1943
DiedDecember 2, 1990
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Known for

Monsters (1988)
Monsters
7.2
TV Series
  • Director(as Dick Benner)
Outrageous! (1977)
Outrageous!
6.9
  • Director
  • 1977
Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980)
Happy Birthday, Gemini
5.3
  • Director
  • 1980
Craig Russell in Too Outrageous! (1987)
Too Outrageous!
6.4
  • Director(as Dick Benner)
  • 1987

Credits

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Director

  • Stockard Channing, Faye Dunaway, Sarah Polley, Christopher Reeve, Dianne Wiest, and Ryan Gosling in Avonlea (1990)
    Avonlea
    8.5
    TV Series
    • Director (as Dick Benner)
    • 1990
  • C. David Johnson, Eric Peterson, and Sonja Smits in Street Legal (1987)
    Street Legal
    7.2
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 1988–1989
  • 9B (1988)
    9B
    7.3
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 1988
  • Monsters (1988)
    Monsters
    7.2
    TV Series
    • Director (as Dick Benner)
    • 1988
  • Craig Russell in Too Outrageous! (1987)
    Too Outrageous!
    6.4
    • Director (as Dick Benner)
    • 1987
  • Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980)
    Happy Birthday, Gemini
    5.3
    • Director
    • 1980
  • Outrageous! (1977)
    Outrageous!
    6.9
    • Director
    • 1977

Writer

  • Monsters (1988)
    Monsters
    7.2
    TV Series
    • written by (as Dick Benner)
    • 1988
  • Friday the 13th: The Series (1987)
    Friday the 13th: The Series
    7.6
    TV Series
    • written by (as Dick Benner)
    • 1988
  • Tales from the Darkside (1983)
    Tales from the Darkside
    7.4
    TV Series
    • written by (as Dick Benner)
    • 1987–1988
  • Craig Russell in Too Outrageous! (1987)
    Too Outrageous!
    6.4
    • written by (as Dick Benner)
    • 1987
  • Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980)
    Happy Birthday, Gemini
    5.3
    • screenplay
    • 1980
  • Outrageous! (1977)
    Outrageous!
    6.9
    • written by
    • 1977
  • Teleplay (1976)
    Teleplay
    4.3
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1976

Script and Continuity Department

  • Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, and Alyson Hannigan in My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
    My Stepmother Is an Alien
    5.4
    • script revisions (uncredited)
    • 1988

Personal details

  • Alternative name
    • Dick Benner
  • Born
    • 1943
    • Sterling, Illinois, USA
  • Died
    • December 2, 1990
    • Toronto, Ontario, Canada(AIDS)

Did you know

  • Trivia
    The January 25, 1988 draft of the script for My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) credits Jerico Stone as writer, with revisions by Frank Galati, Richard Benner, Susan Rice, Herschel Weingrod & Timothy Harris, Paul Rudnick, and Debra Frank & Carl Sautter, and a further rewrite by Jonathan Reynolds. Only four of the ten writers received credits in the final film.

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