Benjie — Summer of '42 Character Profile

About Benjie

The introverted, nerdy member of the core trio. Overcoming his initial fear of intimacy, he makes a decisive wartime commitment by enlisting in the Marines shortly after high school graduation.

Character Facts

Played by

Oliver Conant

Appears in

Summer of '42 (1971)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Benjie — Social Best Friends — Hermie (Gary Grimes)

  Close friends who share the group's summer adventures and anxieties.

• Benjie — Social Best Friends — Oscy (Jerry Houser)

  Part of the core trio navigating shared inexperience and friendship.

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More characters from Summer of '42

• Dorothy (Jennifer O'Neill)
• Hermie (Gary Grimes)
• Oscy (Jerry Houser)
• Aggie (Katherine Allentuck)
• Miriam (Christopher Norris)
• Druggist (Lou Frizzell)
• Dorothy's Husband (Walter Scott)
• Hermie's Mother (Maureen Stapleton)
• Narrator (Robert Mulligan)