Robert Benton
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6.5 Bad Company (1972)
7.0 Kramer vs Kramer (1979) 6.0 Still of the Night (1982) 6.8 Places in the Heart (1984) 5.0 Nadine (1987) 5.0 Billy Bathgate (1991) 6.5 Nobody's Fool (1994) 6.0 Twilight (1998) | Links: |
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Robert Benton,
who had co-scripted with David Newman
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967),
Joseph Mankiewicz's There Was a Crooked Man (1970) and
Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972),
debuted as director with the revisionist western Bad Company (1972).
He then directed the noir
The Late Show (1977) and the first installment of the superhero franchise
Superman (1978).
Kramer vs Kramer (1979), an adaptation of Avery Corman's 1977 novel, is a divorce drama. mediocre Hitchcock-style thriller Still of the Night (1982) realist Places in the Heart (1984), one of his best, the mediocre comedy Nadine (1987) Billy Bathgate (1991) is an adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's 1989 novel. Nobody's Fool (1994) is an adaptation of Richard Russo's 1993 novel. Twilight (1998) The Human Stain (2003) Feast of Love (2007) Benton died in 2025.
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