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Robert R. Benton is a Production Design and Set Dressing Artist American born on 10 april 1924 at Los Angeles (USA)

Robert R. Benton

Robert R. Benton
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Nationality USA
Birth 10 april 1924 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 7 december 2003 (at 79 years) at Santa Barbara (USA)

Robert R. Benton (10 April 1924 – 7 December 2003) was an American set decorator. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

Best films

Top Gun (1986)
(Set Decoration)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
(Set Decoration)
White Men Can't Jump (1992)
(Set Decoration)
The Amityville Horror (1979)
(Set Decoration)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
(Set Decoration)
Hud (1963)
(Set Decoration)

Usually with

Hal Pereira
Hal Pereira
(36 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(26 films)
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
(6 films)
John Carter
John Carter
(11 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert R. Benton (75 films)

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Art

Obsessed
Obsessed (1992)
, 1h18
Directed by Jonathan Sanger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Shannen Doherty, William Devane, Clare Carey, Lois Chiles, James Handy, Deanna Lund
Roles Set Decoration
Rating56% 2.8071852.8071852.8071852.8071852.807185
Lorie Brindel is a young marine surveyor who is attracted to older men, including one of her clients, Ed Bledsoe, a much older and twice-divorced man. After some flirting during her assessment of his yacht, they begin to date. While he is away on a business trip, Lorie moves in without asking. Although unhappy about it, he eventually relents and allows her to stay. As times passes, Lorie becomes more controlling of her romance with Ed, demanding that he be with her at all hours as well as have nobody else in his life. Lorie soon completely unravels from Ed's lack of commitment, and she cannot stand it when he chooses a golf tournament with some friends over her romantic weekend. Ed, never sure about their relationship in the first place, decides he's had enough and orders her to move out that day.
White Men Can't Jump, 1h55
Directed by Ron Shelton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell, Cylk Cozart, Kadeem Hardison
Roles Set Decoration
Rating67% 3.398633.398633.398633.398633.39863
Sidney Deane and a group of streetballers in Venice, California are playing a pickup basketball game. When one of the players on the other team gets hurt, Sidney urges his opponents to pick Billy Hoyle, a white bystander, to take the injured man's place, figuring he cannot play well because of his race. Billy proves to be much better than Sidney expected, leading his team to beat Sidney's, and he then beats Sidney for money in a one-on-one rematch.
Conagher
Conagher (1991)
, 1h34
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, Barry Corbin, Ken Curtis, Billy "Green" Bush, Buck Taylor
Roles Production Design
Rating71% 3.5936853.5936853.5936853.5936853.593685
The film opens with the Teale family moving west on a wagon into Indian Territory. They reach their home, and plan to go on the cattle business. The father, Jacob, rides out to get the cattle, promising to return in a month. However, he is killed along the way when his horse falls over on him, and he bleeds to death internally.
Another You, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jerry Houser, Mercedes Ruehl, Stephen Lang, Vanessa Williams
Roles Set Decoration
Rating53% 2.652572.652572.652572.652572.65257
George, a former mental patient and pathological liar, is released from the hospital, and he is quickly, purposefully mistaken for millionaire brewery heir Abe Fielding by a troop of actors hired by the dubious and unscrupulous business manager Rupert. Rupert needs George to believe he is Fielding in order to kill him off and inherit the Fielding Brewery and family fortune. Eddie Dash, a con man who tenuously and forcefully befriends George due to a community service assignment attempts at first to capitalize on George's mistaken identity--but after being conned by Rupert into killing George for profit, turns the tables on Rupert and helps George fake his death, only to come back to the land of the living and inheriting both the brewery and the Fielding fortune instead. Along the way, Eddie and George turn two of Rupert's female associates into allies and partners--while getting themselves into plenty of contrived comical chaos and hilarity.
Chances Are, 1h48
Directed by Emile Ardolino
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Robert Downey Jr., Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson, Christopher McDonald, Josef Sommer
Roles Set Decoration
Rating65% 3.2505653.2505653.2505653.2505653.250565
Young D.A. Louie Jeffries is hit by a car and dies in 1964, but manages to slip by the pearly gates and is instantly reborn. In 1987, 23 years later, his widow Corinne still misses him, ignoring the frustrated devotion of his best friend Phillip Train, who has pretty much raised his only daughter Miranda as his own. Miranda, while a student at Yale University meets Alex Finch, who works in the library but is about to graduate. After graduation, Alex schemes his way into the office of newspaper editor Ben Bradlee, at which time he meets Phillip, a journalist at Bradlee's newspaper. When Phillip brings Alex to meet the Jeffries family, Alex quickly realizes he is in fact Corinne's dead husband reborn.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1h44
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Crime, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about films, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'une souris, Buddy films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Joanna Cassidy, Lou Hirsch
Roles Set Decoration
Rating76% 3.8474553.8474553.8474553.8474553.847455
In 1947, cartoon characters are commonly referred to as "toons" and most work as paid actors in Hollywood. They frequently interact with humans and animals, and dwell in the animated district of Toontown, owned by businessman Marvin Acme. Amongst the toon stars is Roger Rabbit, who does comedy shorts with Baby Herman, but as of late his performances are poor. Meanwhile, R.K. Maroon, Roger’s employer and head of Maroon Studios, hires private detective Eddie Valiant to investigate rumors that Roger’s wife Jessica Rabbit is having an extramarital affair. Eddie himself is an alcoholic, following the murder of his brother Teddy at the hands of a toon. Going to the Ink & Paint Club, Eddie at first believes that Jessica is a rabbit (due to her last name), but surprised when he sees that she's a very attractive woman. He later attempts and manages to snap photographs of Marvin Acme playing patty cake with Jessica, showing them to Maroon and a distraught Roger who vows he and his wife will be happy, before running off.
Heartbreak Ridge, 2h5
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Mario Van Peebles, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.400513.400513.400513.400513.40051
Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway (Clint Eastwood) is nearing mandatory retirement from the Marine Corps when he finagles a transfer back to his old unit. On the bus trip to his new assignment, he meets fellow passenger "Stitch" Jones (Mario Van Peebles), a flashy wannabe rock musician who borrows money for a meal at a rest stop and then steals Highway's bus ticket, leaving him stranded.
Top Gun
Top Gun (1986)
, 1h50
Directed by Tony Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside
Roles Set Decoration
Rating69% 3.4512653.4512653.4512653.4512653.451265
United States Naval Aviator LT Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) LTJG Nick "Goose" Bradshaw fly the F-14A Tomcat aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65). They, with Maverick's wingman "Cougar" and his RIO "Merlin", intercept Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-28s over the Indian Ocean. Cougar engages one of the hostile aircraft and afterwards is too shaken to land, despite being low on fuel. Maverick defies orders and assists Cougar despite also being low on fuel. Cougar gives up his Wings of Gold, citing his newborn child that he has never seen. Despite his dislike for Maverick's recklessness, CAG "Stinger" sends him and Goose—now his top crew—to attend the Top Gun school at NAS Miramar.
Odd Jobs
Odd Jobs (1986)
, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Paul Reiser, Robert Townsend, Scott McGinnis, Rick Overton, Paul Provenza, Leo Burmester
Roles Production Design
Rating45% 2.2694852.2694852.2694852.2694852.269485
Starman
Starman (1984)
, 1h55
Directed by John Carpenter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Ted White, Dirk Blocker
Roles Set Decoration
Rating69% 3.499063.499063.499063.499063.49906
Launched in 1977, the Voyager 2 space probe carried a gold phonographic disk with a message of peace, inviting alien civilizations to visit Earth. The probe is intercepted by an alien ship which then sends a small scout vessel to establish first contact with Earth. However, instead of greeting the alien craft, the US government shoots it down. Crashing in Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin, the lone alien occupant, looking like a floating ball of glowing energy, finds the home of recently widowed Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen). While there, the alien uses a lock of hair from her deceased husband, Scott, to clone a new body for himself as a terrified Jenny watches. The alien "Starman" (Jeff Bridges) has seven small silver spheres with him which provide energy to perform miraculous feats. He uses the first to send a message to his people stating that Earth is hostile and his spacecraft has been destroyed. He arranges to rendezvous with them in three days time. He then uses the second sphere to create a holographic map of the United States, coercing Jenny into taking him to the rendezvous point in Arizona.
Jinxed!
Jinxed! (1982)
, 1h43
Directed by Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn, Val Avery, Jack Elam, Jacqueline Scott
Roles Set Decoration
Rating47% 2.3585052.3585052.3585052.3585052.358505
Harold Benson (Rip Torn) and his lounge-singer wife Bonita Friml (Bette Midler) follow a young blackjack dealer Willie Brodax (Ken Wahl) around the country. Harold has a blackjack winning jinx on Willie, and seemingly can't lose to him.
Jinxed!
Jinxed! (1982)
, 1h43
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn, Jack Elam, Val Avery, Jacqueline Scott
Roles Set Decoration
Rating47% 2.3585052.3585052.3585052.3585052.358505
Harold est un joueur professionnel qui fréquente les casinos de Las Vegas accompagné de sa femme, la chanteuse Bonita. Harold sympathise avec le jeune Willie dont la présence lui porte chance aux tables de jeux Mais Willie et Bonita se rencontrent et tombent amoureux. Bonita complote alors pour récupérer l'assurance-vie d'Harold et refaire sa vie avec Willie.
That Championship Season, 1h50
Directed by Jason Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Films based on plays
Actors Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen, Bruce Dern, Paul Sorvino, Stacy Keach, Arthur Franz
Roles Set Decoration
Rating62% 3.144463.144463.144463.144463.14446
It has been 25 years since the 1957 Fillmore High School (fictional) basketball team won the Pennsylvania state championship. The coach and four of the victors regularly gather to relive the glory of their shining moment.
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash, 1h32
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Danny Aiello, Danny Glover, Vincent Schiavelli
Roles Set Decoration
Rating42% 2.135112.135112.135112.135112.13511
Once a big-league baseball player known as the Philly Flash, he is now broke and a drunk, reduced to a life on the street, washing car windshields for spare change or trying to sell stolen wristwatches to passersby.
Second-Hand Hearts, 1h42
Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Blake, Barbara Harris, Bert Remsen, Shirley Stoler
Roles Set Decoration
Rating46% 2.3296452.3296452.3296452.3296452.329645