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Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Screen Story, Short Story Author Born: September 29, 1932 in Waxahachie, TX Biography:Director and screenwriter "Robert Benton" may not have achieved the legendary mainstream status associated with his peers Scorsese and Coppola, but this idiosyncratic filmmaker and screenwriter has had more than his share of major successes on the silver screen. Benton's best-known film as a director is "Kramer vs. Kramer", the 1979 winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Direction and Best Screenplay. He has also achieved considerable fame for his screenwriting partnership with "David Newman"; together they have written such big-screen favorites as "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) and "What's up Doc?" (1972). By himself, Benton wrote "Bad Company"; in 1978 he co-wrote Superman with "Mario Puzo".
A native of Waxahachie, TX, where he was born September 29, 1932, Benton began his career in 1956, when he was hired by Esquire magazine in New York. There he met "David Newman", who would become his writing... Full Biography
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