Am i missing something?

I think he was really popular in the 70's. My mom grew up in Ireland and even she knew who he was and would flip out over him. I've seen several of his movies and have to agree with you gilbere71 he didn't seem like that great of an actor to me either, I just thought it was the movies and the time, heck all shows from the 70's- 80's seem to have sucked and the acting ughhhhh.

You're not missing anything, Benson has always been one of the absolute worst.

His comeback was doing voice overs as Prince Valiant and The Beast In Disney's Beauty and The Beast!

nepotism, for one.
But I never got him either; annoying screen precense

I agree with bad acting PLUS what are these other posts about his DEEP & RASPY voice?? I have always thought he had a high, whispering-type voice?!!! He does have beautiful eyes, IMO.

Robby Benson owed his late 70s popularity to his boyishly handsome face and crystalline blue eyes and mop of dark brown hair that made girls and young women swoon over him. Hollywood took note and realizing his handsome popularity with the female crowd, tried their best to make money out of it. I don't hold anything against Benson or Hollywood. It was all business. But Benson just wasn't that good of an actor. I suppose he was okay. His IMDB history shows that his popularity dropped off by the early 80s as he slid into the middle of the Hollywood B list but fortunately, Benson seems to have been able to parlay his previous fame and resulting Hollywood connections into maintaining a modicrum of steady acting work. For that I given Benson credit. Benson stayed out of the limelight and stayed out of trouble, apparently he might have been satisfied with just being a steady, workingman actor. Don't forget, at the height of his fame, Benson was mobbed everywhere he went, predictably by females and paparazzi. The lost of privacy and intrusion may have made Benson relieved when all that was over by the mid-80s and he could live a normal life again.

Well, when you read responses upon these boards concerning someone's agreeing with a poster's remarks, you may consider those as cop-outs of sorts because a responder might have little of note to add, but in this case, your essay rings so completely true that one would definitely have to consider that as a definitive reply, saying it all, and leaving nothing which anyone may add.

So, I agree completely, and agree that "that says it all."

But for a bit of additional information, the former A&E series "Biography" has an episode focusing upon Robby Benson (2002), when that program was heading into its homestretch (#911 of 1190) and winding down a bit in quality of production

"Robby Benson: From Boy to Beast... and Beyond," r
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0777316/combined

According to this, Robby (whom I occasionally mistake as "Robbie" for some strange reason) discusses his health problems of the mid-1980's (and probably ongoing), which also may have contributed a factor or two in his career decline.

So, as former posters have been commenting upon Robby's outstanding looks as hype to draw in the audiences for, oh, just about any old program, his outstanding looks really have accomplished such a purpose to magnetize captivated viewers to place Robbie at center stage, to the point which everyone and everything else about the show remains forgotten from the start.

And now, these days, according to IMDb's recent photographs, even Robby does not care one bit upon his looks, what with that mangy bears and unkempt hair and wild, wild wilderness appearance.

But if anyone has really gotten by on his looks, then one contender for the title, or at least a nomination, may have been that one, long before today's audiences ask, "Am i missing something?"

So, no, Robby really didn't need very much acting talent back in those days.

If Sheridan were here, he'd be appalled.

I've just watched "City Limits" for the first time on 20 yrs, & i can't believe he actually made more than 1 movie, talk about talentless. The movie didn't even need him in it, i think all he did was sit behind a desk & shuffle a few papers around.

Benson seems to have been able to parlay his previous fame and resulting Hollywood connections into maintaining a modicrum