---
name: "Bennett Yellin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bennett-yellin"
fi1m_id: "bennett-yellin"
imdb_id: "nm0947395"
tmdb_id: 55162
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "8 November 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:00:38.462162+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Bennett Yellin

## Identity

Bennett Yellin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bennett-yellin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bennett-yellin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0947395
- **TMDB ID:** 55162
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947395/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55162

Writer. Born 8 November 1959 in Los Angeles.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 8 November 1959, Los Angeles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947395/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55162

## Biography

Bennett Yellin is an American screenwriter. He was born on 8 November 1959 in Los Angeles and studied fiction at UCLA before completing an MFA at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

While in graduate school he met Peter Farrelly; the pair began writing together and later collaborated with Bobby Farrelly. Their work includes the screenplay for the 1994 comedy *Dumb and Dumber*, on which Yellin received a shared writing credit. He also contributed to the 2014 sequel *Dumb and Dumber To* and received story credit on *Stuck on You* (2003).

Yellin has written for other films including *In the Blood* (2014), *Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead* (2008) and *Santa's Little Helper* (2015). Since 2007 he has maintained a writing partnership with James Robert Johnston.

*Sources: imdb.com, inparkmagazine.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dumb and Dumber* (1994), Fi1m 76, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/dumb-and-dumber.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Santa's Little Helper* (2015), Writer
- *Dumb and Dumber To* (2014), Writer
- *In the Blood* (2014), Screenplay
- *Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead* (2009), Writer
- *Stuck on You* (2003), Story
- *Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd* (2003), Characters, Executive Producer
- *The Pooch and the Pauper* (2000), Writer
- *Dumb and Dumber* (1995), series, Writer, Creator
- *Dumb and Dumber* (1994), Writer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/dumb-and-dumber.md)
- *Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim* (1987), Writer

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