By the time that Ben was 15, he had been starring in commercials and a neighbor who was in the North Carolina film business as a casting agent saw them and cast Ben as Duncan's friend in a cute movie.

Ben is a lanky, very 1970s Southern young man with a deep local accent. It's amazing that he grew up to loose the accent unless he wants it and study acting along with psychology and go out for Track and Field and then heavy linebacker plays as a superstar football player at Furman University. His height and build already pre-stage these feats and his romping with his friend is fun.

There is a story he tells of a trip with his fiance, Francesca Buller, to the north of England on vacation. There, in the hotel room in the middle of the night, what was playing on the telly but Duncan's World. Ben shouted to Fran that he was on TV and she teased him about this baby Ben movie unmercifully. But it was a start of a now almost 40-year career.