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Paul Benedict was an American actor, director, and cinematographer. He was best known for his roles in the television series The Jeffersons and Sesame Street. He was born on September 17, 1938 in Silver City, New Mexico. Benedict attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied drama and was a member of the Texas Cowboys. He began his career in the theater, appearing in productions of The Fantasticks, The Threepenny Opera, and The Taming of the Shrew. Benedict made his film debut in the 1971 film The Hospital, and went on to appear in films such as The Goodbye Girl, The Great Muppet Caper, and The Money Pit. He also appeared in television series such as The Jeffersons, Sesame Street, and Cheers. Benedict was married to actress and director Susan Batson from 1975 until his death in 2008. He died of natural causes at the age of 70. At the time of his death, Benedict had an estimated net worth of $2 million.

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Paul Benedict Height, Weight & Measurements

At 70 years old, Paul Benedict height is 6' 4" (1.93 m) .

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Timeline

Lived on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. [June 2008]

" His final Broadway appearance was as Mayor Shinn in the 2000 revival of "The Music Man" and he took his final curtain call with Pinter's "No Man's Land" at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On TV, Paul made appearances on some of TV's most popular shows, including "Sweepstakes," "Mama Malone," "Murder, She Wrote," "The New Twilight Zone," "A Different World," "Tales from the Crypt," "Seinfeld" and "The Drew Carey Show.

Decades laterk, Pacino remembered his old colleague when he revived Eugene O'Neill's one-act, two-person drama "Hughie" on Broadway in 1996. Paul was cast as the hotel night clerk who listens patiently and endlessly to the forlorn ramblings of Pacino's hustler character.

He was awarded the 1988 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Direction for "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

" On film, Paul became a stock player for Christopher Guest and his hilarious "mockumentary" features -- This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Waiting For Guffman (1996) (as the long-awaited guest) and A Mighty Wind (2003).

Lear took a liking to Paul and began using him as a guest on some of his classic TV comedies, including "Maude" and "All in the Family," before casting him as Harry Bentley, the polite but put-upon white Englishman next door neighbor to affluent black couple Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley on the decade-long comedy series The Jeffersons (1975). It remains his best known oddball comedy role.

He also played the emissary of the governor in The Front Page (1974), a slave trader in Mandingo (1975), an untalented Shakespearean stage director in The Goodbye Girl (1977); an eccentric butler in The Man with Two Brains (1983); another butler in Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988); a business college professor in Cocktail (1988); a warden in The Chair (1988); a film school teacher in The Freshman (1990); an irritated judge in The Addams Family (1991); and a professor in Isn't She Great (2000). Benedict made an impression as a stage director as well, including "Any Given Day," the original production of "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune," and the Obie-winning "The Kathy and Mo Show.

He played an fascinating assortment of erudite, toothy and tweedy characters on film, one of his best remembered being that of Reverend Lindquist in Jeremiah Johnson (1972).

He continued in a quirky, humorous vein in Norman Lear's Cold Turkey (1971), as well as Taking Off (1971), They Might Be Giants (1971), The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971), Deadhead Miles (1972), Up the Sandbox (1972) and The Front Page (1974).

He then went on to appear in "Little Murders" (1969), "The White House Murder Case" (1970) and "Bad Habits" (1974).

Another familiar character would be The Mad Painter on the long-running children's PBS show Song of the Cloud Forest (1969).

Following his graduation from Suffolk University, Benedict began acting at the Theatre Company of Boston and performed with such up-and-coming hopefuls as Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino before moving to New York in 1968.

Paul made his unofficial Broadway debut in 1968 with "Leda Had a Little Swan," but it closed just before it officially opened.

Benedict began his on-camera career with the little seen western film spoof The Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1965) and then was seen in another spoof, the political satire The Virgin President (1968).

Genial, pleasant-voiced character actor Paul Benedict was born in New Mexico on September 17, 1938, and made hosts of stage, film and TV appearances in a career lasting five decades. The son of a doctor, he was diagnosed with acromegaly by an endocrinologist who happened to catch the nascent actor in a stage play. He underwent medical treatment that successfully prevented the advancing of the disease. Following military service with the Marine Corps. , Paul went on to a highly successful entertainment career using his spade-sized jaw and large nose often to humorous effect.