Ben Stein

Ben Stein
File:Actor Ben Stein.jpg Ben Stein speaking at a gala in honor of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, or TAPS, Washington, D.C. in 2008
Born	Benjamin Jeremy Stein (1944-11-25) November 25, 1944 Washington, D.C., United States
Residence	Beverly Hills, California, Malibu, California, Washington, D.C. Sandpoint, Idaho
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia University (B.A.) Yale Law School (J.D.)
Occupation	writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher, actor, humorist, game show host, screenwriter, comedian, speechwriter, author, economist, professor
Years active	1970–present (writer and lawyer) 1986-2009 (Actor)
Home town	Washington, D.C.
Net worth	US$20 million
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Alexandra Denman (1968–1974; 1977–present)
Children	Tom (adopted)
Parent(s)	Herbert Stein, Mildred (née Fishman) Stein
Website	http://www.benstein.com

Benjamin Jeremy "Ben" Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an American writer, lawyer, actor, and commentator on political and economic issues. He attained early success as a speechwriter for American presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Later, he entered the entertainment field and became an actor, comedian, and Emmy Award-winning game show host.

Stein has frequently written commentaries on economic, political, and social issues, along with financial advice to individual investors. He is the son of economist and writer Herbert Stein, who worked at the White House under President Nixon. His sister, Rachel, is also a writer. While as a character actor he is well known for his droning, monotonous delivery, in real life he is a public speaker on a wide range of economic and social issues.

Life and career

Early years

Stein was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Mildred (née Fishman), a homemaker, and Herbert Stein, a writer, economist, and presidential adviser. He is Jewish and grew up in the Woodside Forest neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland. Stein graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in 1962 along with classmate journalist Carl Bernstein; actress Goldie Hawn (class of 1963) was one year behind. Actor Sylvester Stallone was a schoolmate at Montgomery Hills Junior High School. He went on to major in economics at Columbia University's Columbia College, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and the Philolexian Society. After graduating with honors from Columbia in 1966, Stein went to Yale Law School, graduating in June 1970. He says that he did not have the highest grades in his class at Yale "by a long shot", but claims to have been voted valedictorian by the students because he was the "most popular".

Legal and academic career

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Stein speaking at Miami University in 2003

He was first a poverty lawyer in New Haven, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C. before becoming a trial lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission.

Stein's first teaching stint was as an adjunct professor, teaching about the political and social content of mass culture at American University in Washington, D.C. He subsequently taught classes at University of California, Santa Cruz on political and civil rights under the United States Constitution. At Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA, Stein taught libel law and United States securities law and its ethical aspects. He was a professor of law at Pepperdine University Law School, from about 1990 to 1997.

Stein was the commencement speaker for the Liberty University 2009 graduation on Saturday, May 9, at Williams Stadium. At this ceremony, the University awarded him an honorary degree. According to the school, Stein "delivered a message about creationism, patriotism, and value for humanity to graduates and their families."

Writing career

Stein writes frequently on a variety of topics, including politics, investing, and economics. He writes a regular column in the conservative magazines The American Spectator and Newsmax. He has also written for numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Penthouse, Los Angeles Magazine, and Barron's Magazine, where his discussion of the Michael Milken Drexel Burnham Lambert junk bond situation, as well as the ethical dimensions of management buyouts, attracted heavy US national attention in the 1980s and 1990s. He wrote a regular biweekly column for Yahoo! Finance online, with his last article dated August 7, 2009. His bestselling books (with investment advisor Phil DeMuth) include Yes, You Can Retire Comfortably, Can America Survive?, and Yes, You Can Time the Market. In 2009, he published a collection of essays, The Real Stars.

Stein was fired from his position as a Sunday Business columnist at The New York Times in August 2009, due to a policy prohibiting writers from performing product endorsements or advertising. Stein had recently become an advertising spokesperson for credit information company FreeScore.com, and according to a Times statement, had assumed there would be no conflict provided that he did not discuss credit scoring in general or FreeScore.com itself in his column. However, the publication felt that it would be inappropriate for him to write for them while he was involved in advertising, and terminated his contract. Writing in The Spectator, Stein states his belief that the real reasons for his firing were budget cuts at the Times, his criticism of President Obama, and pressure from those critical of Expelled, who "bamboozled some of the high pooh-bahs at the Times into thinking there was a conflict of interest".

Stein is currently an in-house journalist at Newsmax Magazine, a magazine by the conservative media group Newsmax Media.

Political career

Stein began his political career as a speechwriter and lawyer for President Richard Nixon, and later for President Gerald Ford. On May 3, 1976, Time magazine speculated on the possibility of Stein having actually been Deep Throat. Stein responded over the years by not only denying he was Deep Throat, but by going further and accusing journalist Bob Woodward of falsifying the famous secret source. In the May 14–21, 1998 edition of the Philadelphia City Paper, Stein is quoted saying, "Oh, I don't think there was a Deep Throat. That was a fake. I think there were several different sources and some they just made up." After Mark Felt's identity as Deep Throat was revealed, Stein stated that Richard Nixon would have prevented the rise to power of the Khmer Rouge if he had not been forced to resign. For his actions leading to that resignation, Stein said:

If there is such a thing as karma, if there is such a thing as justice in this life or the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the worst future of any man on this earth. And Bob Woodward is right behind him, with Ben Bradlee bringing up the rear. Out of their smug arrogance and contempt, they hatched the worst nightmare imaginable: genocide.

In 2005, Stein said in the American Spectator:

Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POWs, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel's life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad?

Oh, now I remember. He lied. He was a politician who lied. How remarkable. He lied to protect his subordinates who were covering up a ridiculous burglary that no one to this date has any clue about its purpose. He lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going. That was his crime. He was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace. And he succeeded.

That is his legacy. He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton—a lying, conniving peacemaker.

On June 24, 2008, Stein received the Freedom of Expression Award at the Entertainment Merchants Association's Home Entertainment Awards for "his outspoken economic and political beliefs."

Career in the media

Stein became a Hollywood consultant before he moved into acting. His film career was launched by his performance as the monotonous economics teacher in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In one scene, he gives an unscripted economics lecture, relying on his own experience in economics. The topics covered in his lecture are the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 and the then-current debate over supply-side economics. The film's director, John Hughes, told him to speak about something he knew well. The only scripted lines are those in which he calls attendance, repeating "Bueller?...Bueller?" in a monotone voice.

Stein played similarly bland and unemotional characters. He had a recurring role in the TV series The Wonder Years and played himself in Dave.

He also appeared in several television advertisements, most notably for the product "Clear Eyes" throughout the 1990s and 2000s (decade) ("The difference is clear ... Clear Eyes." "Clear Eyes, wow!"). Many advertisements spoof movies of the day, such as one where Stein is a painter (a play on The Da Vinci Code). Before this, he appeared for Godfather's Pizza in 1987 and as a bland science teacher in 1990 for Sprinkled Chips Ahoy! cookies. In 2013, Stein began appearing in advertisements for small business accounting service firm 1800Accountant.

In 1997, Stein was given his own game show by Comedy Central, titled Win Ben Stein's Money, along with co-host Jimmy Kimmel (replaced by Nancy Pimental and later by Sal Iacono). True to its name, the money that contestants won on the show was subtracted from the $5,000 pay that Stein earned per episode (in addition to his salary). The show won five Daytime Emmy Awards before ending its run in 2003.

In 1999, during the height of Win Ben Stein's Money's popularity, Comedy Central gave Stein another show, a talk show with celebrity guests entitled Turn Ben Stein On. One of the mainstays of the show was Stein's dog, Puppy Wuppy, who had free run of the set.

Other movies and television shows in which Stein has appeared include Charles in Charge; Seinfeld; Full House; Casper; Casper: A Spirited Beginning; Casper Meets Wendy; The Mask and its sequel, Son of the Mask as well as the television show, The Mask: Animated Series; Earthworm Jim; Star Search; MacGyver; Richie Rich; Game Show Moments Gone Bananas; Cavuto on Business; The O'Reilly Factor; CBS News Sunday Morning; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Family Guy; the Michael Berger-hosted version of Match Game; The Fairly OddParents; Duckman; Married... with Children; The Emperor's New School; My Girl 2; Ghostbusters II; and the intelligent design documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

In addition, Stein's voice roles include The Pixies, magical creatures on the animated series The Fairly OddParents; Mr. Purutu on the animated series The Emperor's New School; Professor Wisenstein in Bruno the Kid; the birthday party clown, Mr. Giggles, on The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius; a bingo caller on Rugrats; and Pip on Animaniacs. Futterman in Freakazoid. Stein also voiced a psychiatrist, again named after himself, in the USA TV series Duckman; he once appeared in the sitcom Married... with Children as a receptionist in the animal afterlife. He also made a cameo appearance in the comic book Young Justice, as Ali Ben Styn. Another cameo appearance was as Rabbi Goldberg in the Family Guy episodes "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" and "Family Goy". Stein also voiced the character Sam Schmaltz in the 1996 computer adventure game Toonstruck.

In addition, Stein has written for the television industry, including outlines for the TV movie Murder in Mississippi and for the lengthy ABC miniseries Amerika. He has also contributed to the creation of the well-liked TV comedy Fernwood 2 Night.

Stein hosted a show on VH1 called America's Most Smartest Model. The show aimed to find the smartest among fourteen models through a series of challenges.

On May 14, 2006, during an appearance on the Fox News program Your World with Neil Cavuto, Stein called for a tax increase of 3.5% for wealthy Americans, to be earmarked for soldiers and military initiatives. Stein wrote an editorial for The New York Times critical of those who would rather make money in the world of finance than fight terrorism.

On December 28, 2009, Stein appeared on CNN's Larry King Live with Ron Paul to discuss the attempted bombing of an American plane on Christmas Day 2009. Stein said that Paul's stance that the United States were "occupiers" in Iraq and Afghanistan "is the same anti-Semitic argument we've heard over and over again." The comment started a shouting match between the two men and prompted anger from Paul supporters and those who believe Stein went too far in calling Paul's argument anti-Semitic. Stein issued an apology on December 30, 2009.

He was an occasional political and economics commentator on CNBC's The Kudlow Report.

Financial and economic commentary

In the period preceding the late-2000s recession, Stein made frequent and vehement claims that the economy was not in recession, and that the issues in the housing market would not affect the broader economy. On March 18, 2007, in a column for CBS News' online version of CBS News Sunday Morning, Stein famously proclaimed in the beginning of the subprime mortgage crisis that the foreclosure problem would "blow over and the people who buy now, in due time, will be glad they did," the economy was "still very strong," and the "smart money" was "now trying to buy—not sell—as much distressed merchandise" in mortgages as possible.

In an August 12, 2007 column in The New York Times, titled "Chicken Little's Brethren, on the Trading Floor", Stein, while acknowledging "I don't know where the bottom is on subprime. I don't know how bad the problems are at Bear (Bear Stearns)" claimed that "subprime losses are wildly out of all proportion to the likely damage to the economy from the subprime problems," and "(t)his economy is extremely strong. Profits are superb. The world economy is exploding with growth. To be sure, terrible problems lurk in the future: a slow-motion dollar crisis, huge Medicare deficits and energy shortages. But for now, the sell-off seems extreme, not to say nutty. Some smart, brave people will make a fortune buying in these days, and then we'll all wonder what the scare was about."

On August 18, 2007, on Fox News Channel's Cavuto on Business, Stein appeared with other financial experts dismissing worries of a coming credit crunch. Thirteen months later, in the Global Financial Crisis of September 2008, global stock markets crashed, Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by the US government, AIG was bailed out by the Federal Reserve, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America Corporation, and Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs confirmed that they would become traditional bank holding companies.

In a Yahoo! Finance article written on October 17, 2008, Stein explained that his understanding of the debt obligations based on real estate loans was less than the "staggeringly large" amount of obligations that were created through trade in derivatives of those, and so why it wasn't as similar to collapse of junk bond empire in early 1990s as he'd thought it would be: "Where I missed the boat was not realizing how large were the CDS [credit default swaps] based on the junk mortgage bonds."

Business commentator Henry Blodget wrote a piece for Business Insider in January 2008 entitled "Ben Stein is an Idiot," stating that Stein's criticism of those with bearish views and positions on the market was either "delusional," or a deliberate and "shrewd" attempt to create false controversy and drive up web traffic.

Personal life

Stein is married to entertainment lawyer Alexandra Denman, who is from Arkansas. The couple has a son, Tommy, who was adopted as an infant, in 1987. They were married in 1968, but later divorced in 1974. Eventually, they got back together, and in 1977, they were married again. Stein lives with Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. He also has a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho. Stein also owns an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., which he inherited from his parents.

Political views and advocacy

Abortion

Stein is an opponent of the legalization of abortion and was given a Pro-Life Award in 2003 by the National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund.

Larry Craig scandal

In 2007, Stein chastised the police and the GOP leadership for their response to the Larry Craig scandal. Stein said that Craig's sexuality should not be an issue: "A party that believes in individual rights should be rallying to his defense, not making him walk the plank."

Tax code

Stein has criticized the United States Internal Revenue Code for being too lenient on the wealthy. He has repeated the observation made by Warren Buffett, one of the richest individuals in the world (who pays mostly capital gains tax), that Buffett pays a lower overall tax rate than his secretaries (who pay income taxes and payroll taxes). Stein has advocated increasing taxation on the wealthy. However, in 2010, after Obama proposed not extending tax cuts for the highest earning taxpayers, Stein stated he was being punished, saying: "But for what? I don't own slaves. I employ a lot of people full- and part-time and they are all happy with their pay. When charity calls, I almost always write out a check. I don't have a yacht or ponies or a plane. My wife doesn't wear a tiara. I don't gamble." In 2012, Stein stated that due to the tremendous amount of national debt, he agreed with Obama's proposal to increase taxes on the wealthy and that ultimately everyone's taxes should be raised to avoid defaulting on the debt.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

When the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested for sexual assault and attempted rape in 2011, Stein published a controversial editorial in The American Spectator in which he closely scrutinized Strauss-Kahn's accuser and cited Strauss-Kahn's education, wealth, and position as reasons to believe he was unlikely to have committed the crime.

In life, events tend to follow patterns. People who commit crimes tend to be criminals, for example. Can anyone tell me any economists who have been convicted of violent sex crimes?

Stein's editorial was widely criticized. Jon Stewart dedicated an entire segment on The Daily Show to his response.

Ferguson shooting

In response to the death of Michael Brown, Stein made the following comment:

The idea of calling this poor young man unarmed when he was 6'4", 300 pounds, full of muscles, apparently, according to what I read in The New York Times, on marijuana. To call him unarmed is like calling Sonny Liston unarmed or Cassius Clay unarmed. He wasn't unarmed. He was armed with his incredibly strong, scary self.

Evolution

See also: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Stein has denounced the scientific theory of evolution, which he and other intelligent design advocates call "Darwinism", declaring it to be "a painful, bloody chapter in the history of ideologies", "the most compelling argument yet for Imperialism", and the inspiration for the Holocaust. Stein does not say belief in evolution alone leads to genocide, but that scientific materialism is a necessary component. He co-wrote and stars in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a film that aims to persuade viewers that evolution was instrumental to the rise of the eugenics movement, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, and portrays advocates of intelligent design as victims of intellectual discrimination by the scientific community, which has rejected intelligent design as creationist pseudoscience.

The media response to the film has been largely unfavorable. It received a 11% meta-score from Rotten Tomatoes. Multiple reviews, including those of USA Today and Scientific American, have described the film as propaganda.

In a Trinity Broadcasting Network interview with Paul Crouch, Jr. regarding the movie, Stein made the following statement about science and religion:

Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed ... that was horrifying beyond words, and that's where science—in my opinion, this is just an opinion—that's where science leads you.

Crouch: That's right.

Stein: ... Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.

The Anti-Defamation League issued a statement condemning the film's misuse of the Holocaust and its imagery, "Using the Holocaust in order to tarnish those who promote the theory of evolution is outrageous and trivializes the complex factors that led to the mass extermination of European Jewry".

At the University of Vermont, Stein was invited to receive an honorary degree and be the commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2009. The university president Dan Fogel received complaints about Stein's planned appearance, due to Stein's views on evolution. Stein declined his commencement invitation.

At the private, Christian Liberty University 2009 graduation Stein was awarded an honorary degree and, according to the university, "spoke extensively about his work on Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed".

Other

Stein endorsed John McCain, calling him an "impressive guy". That year, he also stated that he would vote for Ralph Nader for President. In January 2012, Stein appeared in political advertisements sponsored by Associated Industries of Florida supporting legislation that would create three resort casinos in South Florida. He claimed in late 2014 that President Barack Obama was the most racist president in American history, saying Obama "made everything about race".

Bibliography

Stein's book titles to date (7 fiction, 21 nonfiction) include:

Year	Title	Publisher	ISBN
1978
	On the Brink: A Novel (coauthor: Herbert Stein)	Ballantine Books	0-345-27650-7
1978	Dreemz (hardcover: California Dreemz)	Ballantine Books	0-345-28156-X
1979	The View from Sunset Boulevard: America as brought to you by the people who make television	Basic Books	0-465-09032-X
1982	'Ludes	St. Martin's Press	0-312-50012-2
1986	Her Only Sin	St. Martin's Press	0-312-90636-6
1988	Hollywood Days, Hollywood Nights: the Diary of a Mad Screenwriter	Bantam Books	0-553-34520-6
1992	A License to Steal: the Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation	Simon & Schuster	0-671-74272-8
2002	How to Ruin Your Life	Hay House	1-56170-974-3
2003	How to Ruin Your Love Life	Hay House	1-4019-0240-5
2004	How to Ruin Your Financial Life	Hay House	1-4019-0241-3
	Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, the Truth, and What to Do About It	New Beginnings Press	1-4019-0333-9
2005	Yes, You Can Be a Successful Income Investor: Reaching for Yield in Today's Market	New Beginnings Press	1-4019-0319-3
	Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably: The Baby-Boom Retirement Crisis and how to Beat It	New Beginnings Press	1-4019-0318-5
2006	How Successful People Win: Using "Bunkhouse Logic" to Get What You Want in Life	Hay House	1-56170-975-1
2007	The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?	New Beginnings Press	1-40191-144-7
2008	How to Ruin the United States of America	New Beginnings Press	1-40191-869-7
2012	How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio	Wiley	1-11833-873-1

Filmography

Year	Title	Credit			Notes
		Actor	Writer	Role
1976	All's Fair				Consultant
1977	Fernwood 2 Night				Creative consultant
1984	The Wild Life	Yes		Surplus Salesman
1986	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Yes		Economics Teacher
1987	Planes, Trains & Automobiles	Yes		Wichita Airport Representative
1987–1990	Charles in Charge	Yes		Role: Stanley Willard	Four episodes
1988	Frankenstein General Hospital	Yes		Dr. Who
1988	The Boost		Yes
1989	Ghostbusters II	Yes		Public Works Official
1989	Easy Wheels	Yes		Preacher
1989–1991	The Wonder Years	Yes		Mr. Cantwell	Twelve episodes
1991	Soapdish	Yes		Nitwit Executive
1991	MacGyver	Yes		Major Snead	Episode: "Honest Abe"
1992	Honeymoon in Vegas	Yes		Walter
1992	Mastergate	Yes		Marvin Rotweiler
1993	Melrose Place	Yes		Loan Officer	Episode: "My New Partner"
1993	Dave	Yes		Himself
1993	Dennis the Menace	Yes		Boss
1993	Me and the Kid	Yes		Fred Herbert
1993	Full House	Yes		Elliott Warner	Episode: "Another Opening, Another No Show"
1993	Animaniacs	Yes		Francis "Pip" Pumphandle (voice)	Episode: "Chairman of the Bored/Planets Song/Astro-Buttons"
1993	The Day My Parents Ran Away	Yes		Dr. Lillianfarb
1993–1994	Hearts Afire	Yes		Mr. Starnes	Two episodes
1994	My Girl 2	Yes		Stanley Rosenfeld
1994	Love & War	Yes		Dr. Baxter	Episode: "Are the Stars Out Tonight?"
1994	Mr. Write	Yes		Eliott	Uncredited
1994	North	Yes		Curator
1994	The Mask	Yes		Dr. Arthur Neuman
1994	Richie Rich	Yes		School Teacher
1995	Tales from the Crypt	Yes		Andrews	Episode: "Doctor of Horror"
1995	Miami Rhapsody	Yes		Rabbi
1995	Miami Rhapsody	Yes		Rabbi
1995	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Yes		Pro Lawyer	Episosde: "Whine, Whine, Whine"
1995	Casper	Yes		Mr. Rugg
1995	Married... with Children	Yes		Thomas	Episode: "Requiem for a Dead Briard"
1995	Freakazoid!	Yes		H.A. Futterman (voice)	Episode: "Relax-O-Vision/Fatman and Boy Blubber/Limbo Lock-Up/Terror Palace"
1995	Live Shot	Yes		Hal / Herb	Two episodes
1995	The Marshal	Yes		Ben	Episode: "Time Off for Clever Behavior"
1995–1996	The Mask: Animated Series	Yes		Dr. Arthur Neuman (voice)	Three episodes
1996	The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper	Yes		Mr. Happ (voice)	Episode: "Paranormal Press/Another Spooky and Poil Moment/Deadstock"
1996	Bruno the Kid	Yes		Professor Wisenstein (voice)
1996	Earthworm Jim	Yes		Dr. Houston / Rosebud (voice)	Two episodes
1996	Toonstruck	Yes		Sam Schmaltz	Video game
1996–1997	Duckman	Yes		Dr. Ben Stein / Lionel Stein (voices)	Nine episodes
1997	Seinfeld	Yes		Shellbach	Episode: "The Comeback"
1997	Murphy Brown	Yes		Williams	Episode: "How to Marry a Billionaire"
1997	A Smile Like Yours	Yes		Clinic Video Narrator (voice)
1997	101 Dalmatians: The Series	Yes		Waiter (voice)	Episode: "Two Faces of Anita"
1997	Casper: A Spirited Beginning	Yes		Grocer
1997	Total Security	Yes		Sam Hinkle	Episode: "Citizen Canine"
1997	Rugrats	Yes		Bingo Caller (voice)	Episode: "Grandpa's Bad Bug/Lady Luck"
1997–2002	Win Ben Stein's Money			Himself	Host
1998	Muppets Tonight	Yes		The Sad And Lonely Man That Science Has Left Dr. Honeydew	Episode: "Andie MacDowell"
1998	Breakfast with Einstein	Yes		Jack
1998	Men in White	Yes		Men in Strangemeister's Head
1998	Casper Meets Wendy	Yes		Lawyer	Uncredited
1998	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys	Yes			Voice role
1998	The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs	Yes		Ernst Stavro Blowfish	Episode: "I.H.R.F./Oatz"
1998	Pinky and the Brain	Yes		Francis "Pip" Pumphandle	Episode: "Star Warners"
1998	The Hughleys	Yes		Dr. Mopp	Episode: "I'm Shrinnnking"
1998	Tannenbaum	Yes		Car Lot Owner
1999	Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain	Yes		Rockin' Johnny Hot	Episode: "At the Hop!"
1999	Wakko's Wish	Yes		Desire Fulfillment Facilitator (voice)
1999	Shasta McNasty	Yes		Himself	Episode: "Adult Education"
1999	Turn Ben Stein On			Himself	Host, executive producer, theme music composer
2000	The Man Show	Yes		Juggy University Professor	Episode: "X-Ray Specs"
2001	The Drew Carey Show	Yes		Heavenly Guide	Episode: "Drew's in a Coma"
2001	Lloyd in Space	Yes		Ranger Wormy	Episode: "Caution: Wormhole!"
2001	Osmosis Jones	Yes		Doc	Uncredited
2002	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius	Yes		Giggles the Clown (voice)	Episode: "Hall Monster/Hypno Birthday to You"
2002	Santa vs. the Snowman 3D	Yes		Spunky the Elf (voice)
2002	Most Outrageous Game Show Moments			Himself	Co-host
2002	Do Over	Yes		Teacher	Episode: "Joel Larsen's Day Off"
2003–2009	Family Guy	Yes		Rabbi Goldberg (voice)	Two episodes
2004	Son of the Mask	Yes		Dr. Neuman
2004–2008	The Fairly OddParents	Yes		Various characters (voices)	Eight episodes
2004–2009	As Told by Ginger	Yes		Buddy Baker (voice)	Three episodes
2005	Game Show Moments Gone Bananas			Himself	Presenter
2006	The Fairly OddParents in Fairy Idol	Yes		Pixies / Sanderson (voice)
2006	Mayor Dog	Yes		Narrator
2006	Totally Awesome	Yes		Narrator
2006	The Emperor's New School	Yes		Mr. Purutu (voice)	Eight episodes
2007	America's Most Smartest Model			Himself	Host
2007	Your Mommy Kills Animals			Himself
2008	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed		Yes	Himself	Documentary
2012–present	Cavuto on Business			Himself	Panelist

External links

• Ben Stein on "Politicking with Larry King"

• Ben Stein at the Internet Movie Database
• Ben Stein's Official Website
• A Tribute to Ben Stein on YouTube
• Ben Stein's column on Yahoo! Finance
• Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Booknotes interview with Stein on A License to Steal, January 30, 1993.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Pat Sajak	Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host 1999 with Jimmy Kimmel	Succeeded by Bob Barker and Tom Bergeron