Brian Edward Benben (born June 18, 1956) is an American actor, best known for his role as Martin Tupper in the HBO comedy television series Dream On (1990–1996), and also known as Sheldon Wallace on ABC medical drama Private Practice (2008–2013), and as Larry in I Come in Peace (1990).

In 1983 he appeared in the Broadway production of John Byrne's play Slab Boys with Kevin Bacon, Sean Penn, Val Kilmer and Jackie Earle Haley.

[3] Although his first national exposure was in the 1981 NBC miniseries-then-series The Gangster Chronicles,[4] He appeared in Matlock 'The Heiress' in 1988.

He had a starring role in the 1994, film Radioland Murders playing Mary Stuart Masterson's estranged husband.

In September 1998, he starred in an eponymous primetime CBS sitcom, The Brian Benben Show, which lasted only one month on the air.