---
name: "Leo Benvenuti"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/leo-benvenuti"
fi1m_id: "leo-benvenuti"
imdb_id: "nm1080144"
tmdb_id: 61398
wikidata_id: "Q18536273"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "10 October 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T23:44:28.329092+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."
---

# Leo Benvenuti

## Identity

Leo Benvenuti

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/leo-benvenuti
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** leo-benvenuti
- **IMDb ID:** nm1080144
- **TMDB ID:** 61398
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18536273
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18536273, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1080144/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/61398

Writer. Born 10 October 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 10 October 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Active:** 1994–1996
- **Also known as:** Leonard William Benvenuti
- **Frequently works with:** [Steve Rudnick](https://film.one/person/steve-rudnick.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18536273, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1080144/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/61398

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Santa Clause*](https://film.one/film/the-santa-clause.md) (63)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Leo Benvenuti is an American screenwriter, also credited as Leonard William Benvenuti. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he met writing partner Steve Rudnick in 1978 while studying comedy at The Players Workshop of Second City. The pair began as performers before focusing on writing in the early 1990s.

Benvenuti and Rudnick wrote the screenplay for the Disney comedy *The Santa Clause* (1994). They also contributed to the screenplay for the sports fantasy *Space Jam* (1996). Their other film credits include the story for *The Santa Clause 2* (2002) and writing *Kicking & Screaming* (2005). On television they created and produced the sitcoms *The Second Half* (1993) and *Damon* (1998).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Santa Clause* (1994), Fi1m 63, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-santa-clause.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *The Santa Clauses* (2022), series, Characters
- *Space Jam: A New Legacy* (2021), Original Film Writer
- *The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause* (2006), Characters
- *Kicking & Screaming* (2005), Writer
- *The Santa Clause 2* (2002), Characters, Story
- *Damon* (1998), series, Creator
- *Space Jam* (1996), Writer
- *The Santa Clause* (1994), Screenplay — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-santa-clause.md)
- *The Second Half* (1993), series, Writer, Creator
- *Morning Man at 88.0* (1993), Actor
- *The Rosey & Buddy Show* (1992), Writer

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