Ben Stein

Birth Name:

Benjamin Jeremy Stein

Birth Place:

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Profession

Actor, Writer, Producer, Soundtrack, Music department

Won the Malcolm Forbes Award for excellence in financial writing in 2009
Graduated from Columbia University with a degree in economics in 1966 and earned his law degree from Yale in 1970
After writing several editorials in defense of President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal, he was hired by Pat Buchanan to become Nixon's speechwriter
Became a film and television critic for The Wall Street Journal in 1974 and went on to contribute to numerous screenplays and books during the early 1980s
Began his career as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission and also taught film and law courses at the University of California at Santa Cruz
A speaker on economics, politics and education, he now writes for The American Spectator and appears as a regular commentator on Fox News and CNN
Best known for playing the economics teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and as the host of the game show "Win Ben Stein's Money․"

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