Director Robert Benton died at the age of 93.

Director Robert Benton has died at his home in Manhattan at the age of 92. This was reported by The New York Times on Tuesday, May 13.

Robert Benton was born in Dallas, USA on September 29, 1932. He became the first in his family to go to college. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied art. After that, he moved to New York to study art history at Columbia University. However, he was only able to pay for the first semester, after which he was drafted into the army. After returning from the service, he became the art editor of Esquire magazine from 1958 to 1964 and a contributing editor from 1964 to 1972.

Benton was the screenwriter and director of Kramer vs. Kramer, one of the most famous films of the 1970s. He also created the script for the film "Bonnie and Clyde". The film became a box office hit, was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including for the screenplay. He helped usher in a new era of adventurism in American cinema.

Over a 35-year career, Benton directed 11 feature films that covered a wide range of themes and moods, from an irreverent look at the Civil War ("Bad Company", 1972) to a poignant look at small-town life ("Nobody's a Fool", 1994) and idiosyncratic interpretations of the detective genre ("The Late Show", 1977 and "Twilight", 1998). His last film was the romantic drama "Feast of Love" in 2007.

Information about the director's death was confirmed by his long-time assistant and manager Marisa Forzano.