He provided voice work for the TV series Exosquad, The Legend of Prince Valiant, and House of Mouse. As a director Benson has directed episodes of the TV series Evening Shade, Thunder Alley, Ellen, Friends, The Naked Truth, and Jesse. Benson won a Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children for Beauty and the Beast in 1993. He has been nominated for Golden Globe Awards in 1974 for Most Promising Newcomer – Male, and in 1983 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series of Motion Picture Made for TV. Benson authored the 2007 novel Who Stole the Funny?: A Novel of Hollywood. He has been a professor for New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, the University of South Carolina, the University of Utah, and Indiana University.