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# Ben Garant

## Identity

Ben Garant

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-ben-garant
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-ben-garant
- **IMDb ID:** nm0304830
- **TMDB ID:** 59413
- **Wikidata ID:** Q548479
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ben_Garant, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q548479, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304830/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59413

Writer. Born 14 September 1970 in Cookeville, Tennessee, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 14 September 1970, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA
- **Active:** 2005–2009
- **Also known as:** Robert Ben Garant,  ロバート・ベン・ガラント
- **Frequently works with:** [Thomas Lennon](https://film.one/person/thomas-lennon.md), [Ben Stiller](https://film.one/person/ben-stiller.md), [Chris Columbus](https://film.one/person/chris-columbus.md), [Michael Barnathan](https://film.one/person/michael-barnathan.md), [Shawn Levy](https://film.one/person/shawn-levy.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ben_Garant, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q548479, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304830/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59413

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Pacifier*](https://film.one/film/the-pacifier.md) (36)

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## Biography

Robert Ben Garant is an American screenwriter, producer, director, actor and comedian. He was born on 14 September 1970 in Cookeville, Tennessee, and attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Garant is a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe The State and a co-creator of the series Reno 911!, in which he appears as Deputy Travis Junior. He has frequently collaborated as a writer with Thomas Lennon. Their screenplays include The Pacifier (2005), Night at the Museum (2006), its sequels Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), and other films such as Taxi (2004), Herbie Fully Loaded (2005) and Balls of Fury (2007), which Garant also directed.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Pacifier* (2005), Fi1m 36, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-pacifier.md)

## Complete filmography (43)

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

- *Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist* (2022), Executive Producer, Characters
- *The Bob's Burgers Movie* (2022), as Critter (voice)
- *Reno 911! Defunded* (2022), series, as Deputy Travis Junior · Director, Creator
- *Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon* (2021), as Deputy Travis Junior · Director, Executive Producer, Characters, Writer
- *Action #1* (2021), Producer, Writer
- *Reno 911!* (2020), series, as Deputy Travis Junior · Creator
- *Raising Buchanan* (2019), as Lancaster Guy
- *Baywatch* (2017), Story
- *The Veil* (2016), Screenplay, Producer
- *Bajillion Dollar Propertie$* (2016), series, as Gio · Director
- *Crash Test: With Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer* (2015), as Studio Security
- *The Odd Couple* (2015), series, as Officer
- *Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb* (2014), Characters
- *Jessabelle* (2014), Writer
- *Rocky and Bullwinkle* (2014), as Narrator (voice) · Screenplay
- *Mr. Peabody & Sherman* (2014), as Egyptian Spectator / Italian Peasant #1 (voice) · Additional Dialogue
- *Hell Baby* (2013), as Father Sebastian · Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *Bunk* (2012), series, Actor
- *Key & Peele* (2012), series, as Person at People Park #2 — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/key-and-peele.md)
- *All Star Bowling Trick Shots* (2012), Actor
- *Charlie Brown: Blockhead's Revenge* (2011), as Pig-Pen · Director
- *Bob's Burgers* (2011), series, as Critter (voice), Mitchell (voice), Torpedo (voice)
- *Monkey Mischief* (2009), Writer
- *Archer* (2009), series, as Rudi (voice)
- *Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian* (2009), Writer, Characters
- *3Way* (2008), series, Director
- *Balls Out: The Making of 'Balls of Fury'* (2007), Actor
- *Balls of Fury* (2007), Director, Screenplay
- *Reno 911!: Miami* (2007), as Deputy Travis Junior · Executive Producer, Director, Writer
- *Living with Lew* (2007), Actor
- *Night at the Museum* (2006), Screenplay
- *Let's Go to Prison* (2006), Writer
- *Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas* (2006), as Campus Cop
- *Herbie Fully Loaded* (2005), Commercial Director, Screenplay, Story
- *The Pacifier* (2005), Screenplay — Fi1m 36, [page](https://film.one/film/the-pacifier.md)
- *Taxi* (2004), Screenplay
- *Reno 911!* (2003), series, as Deputy Travis Junior · Producer, Director, Writer, Creator
- *Viva Variety* (1997), series, Creator
- *The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special* (1995), as Various
- *The State* (1994), series, as Various Characters
- *I'm Your Man* (1992), as Party Attendee with Mohawk · Screenplay
- *The Casket Girls*, Writer
- *MTV: The State, Skits and Stickers*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Lennon and Garant at the 10th Annual Final Draft Awards at the Paramount Theatre at the Paramount Studios. (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/3664258/gallery-c0badf5b5e6b.jpg) Lennon and Garant at the 10th Annual Final Draft Awards at the Paramount Theatre at the Paramount Studios. (2015) — Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV from Culver City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Ben_Garant_and_Thomas_Lennon_February_2015.jpg/1280px-Ben_Garant_and_Thomas_Lennon_February_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ben Garant](https://film.one/media/person/3664258/gallery-27d7ca24c0b0.jpg) Ben Garant — Elizabeth78, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Ben_Garant.jpg/1280px-Ben_Garant.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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