---
name: "Tom Benedek"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-benedek"
fi1m_id: "tom-benedek"
imdb_id: "nm0070676"
tmdb_id: 64828
wikidata_id: "Q3530654"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "10 August 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T19:01:25.270460+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."
---

# Tom Benedek

## Identity

Tom Benedek

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tom-benedek
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tom-benedek
- **IMDb ID:** nm0070676
- **TMDB ID:** 64828
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3530654
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3530654, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070676/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64828

Writer. Born 10 August 1949 in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 10 August 1949, United States
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3530654, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070676/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64828

## Biography

Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for the 1985 science fiction comedy-drama *Cocoon*, directed by Ron Howard from a story by David Saperstein.

He is also credited as writer or co-writer on *The Adventures of Pinocchio* (1996) and *Zeus & Roxanne* (1997). Benedek has completed more than thirty-five writing assignments for major studios and has collaborated with directors including Robert Zemeckis, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Richard Rush and Harold Ramis.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1971, the first graduate of its Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration programme in film, and is a graduate of the Director’s Program at the American Film Institute. Benedek has taught screenwriting at the University of Southern California, the University of Michigan and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, screenwritingmasterclass.com, scua.library.umass.edu.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cocoon* (1985), Fi1m 75, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/cocoon.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *Zeus & Roxanne* (1997), Writer
- *The Adventures of Pinocchio* (1996), Screenplay
- *Cocoon* (1985), Screenplay — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/cocoon.md)

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