A doe-eyed, dark-haired stage-trained actor, Robby Benson moved from teenaged star of the 1970s to sitcom director and voice actor in the 1990s. The son of screenwriter Jerry Segal and nightclub singer Ann Benson, he began his career as a toddler, appearing in TV commercials and summer stock productions. By the time he was approaching his teens, Benson was appearing on Broadway and even had his bar mitzvah on the stage of the Lunt-Fontanne Theater where he was appearing in the musical "The Rothschilds".Benson made his film debut in the lead of the middling Western "Jory" (1972) but garnered
