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Robert Benton
Birth at
29 September 1932
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Robert Benton was born on September 29, 1932 in Waxahachie (Texas, USA). He studied at the University of Texas and worked as an artist. In 1956, he began working as an editor at Esquire, where he met David Newman, who became his longtime co-author. In 1967, they wrote a script that was abandoned by two dozen directors, and then Arthur Penn took up it and created a film that went down in the history of world cinema - Bonnie and Clyde. For their debut, the writers were nominated for an Oscar. They
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Robert Benton was born on September 29, 1932 in Waxahachie (Texas, USA). He studied at the University of Texas and worked as an artist. In 1956, he began working as an editor at Esquire, where he met David Newman, who became his longtime co-author. In 1967, they wrote a script that was abandoned by two dozen directors, and then Arthur Penn took up it and created a film that went down in the history of world cinema - Bonnie and Clyde. For their debut, the writers were nominated for an Oscar. They continued to work together until 1977, writing the scripts What's Up, Doc? (1969) and The Late Show (1977). In 1972, Benton made his debut as a director, directing the script for the Western Bad Company. In 1978, he co-wrote the screenplay of the famous “Superman”, and his colleague was Mario Puzo. Significant audience and commercial success fell to the share of Robert Benton’s drama Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), in which the main roles were played by Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep. After the psychological detective “In the Silence of the Night” (1982) in the style of A. Hitchcock, the director again turned to the melodrama and shot the picture “A Place in the Heart” (1984), with Sally Field in the title role. The film won two Oscars - one for Benton's screenplay - and a prize at the West Berlin Film Festival. Among his other films - the comedy "Nadine" (1987) with Kim Basinger, the gangster tape based on the novel by E. Doctorow "Billy Bathgate" (1991), the comedy "No Fools" ("Shooting Sparrow", 1994) with the brilliant Paul Newman, the thriller "Twilight" (1998). In 2003, Robert Benton directed the drama Stained Reputation, which starred Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman and Ed Harris.