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Robert Benton dead at 92: Oscar-winning filmmaker who made Meryl Streep a star in Kramer vs. Kramer passes away
Benson was also a screenwriter who penned the script for the Warren Beatty-Faye Dunaway classic Bonnie and Clyde.
Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Beatty and Faye Dunaway, overcame initial critical resistance in 1967 to the film's shocking violence and became one of the touchstones of 1960s culture and the start of a more open and creative era in Hollywood. His career soared in 1979 with his adaptation of the Avery Corman novel 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' about a self-absorbed advertising executive who becomes a loving parent to his young son after his wife walks out, only to have her return and ask for custody. Five years later, Benton was back in the Oscars race with a more personal film, 'Places in the Heart,' in which he drew upon family stories and childhood memories for his 1930s-set drama starring Fields as a mother of two in Texas who fights to hold on to her land after her husband is killed.
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