RIP Paul Benedict (aka Mr. Bentley from the Jeffersons)

"I'm just as God made me, sir."

 

He wasn't British? He was born in New Mexico?

I had no idea.

 

And God was having fun when he made that face.

 

Is he movin' on up?

 

Kind of a reverse on British/Scottish actors playing U.S.-sounding characters. R.I.P. to a man who created a character that was a master of passive-aggressive.

 

This...this...twisted old fruit.....

One of my fave scenes from that movie. I hope he figured out how to get 14 people on a king leisure bed.

 

He was also in Krull. I know that because it was on HBO every other movie when I was 12 or so.

 

RIP. Nobody ever did a better Ducky Dempster impersonation.

He also played a slave owner in that cinematic classic "Mandingo," and had some parts in the Shearer-Guest-McKean mockumentaries.

 

I still refer to anyone getting the door slammed in their face as getting a Bentley.

 

Wouldn't it be great if, at the end of the funeral, it's Sherman Hensley who shuts the casket?

 

And calls him a honky as he does it?