Benda married Romola Campfield, and they had two daughters, Eleonora and Basia, who were both artists.

Benda was fiercely proud of his Polish heritage and became closely associated with the Polish-American cultural institution, The Kosciuszko Foundation (see below).

[5] He was honored with the ‘Polonia Restituta’ decoration by the Polish government following World War I.

Benda also created the masks for stage productions in New York and London for such writers as Eugene O'Neill and Noël Coward.

[6] At Busby Berkeley's behest, Benda created scores of masks for the spectacular conclusion of Broadway Serenade (1939), including the faces of “all the great composers”.

[7] Articles by and about Benda and his masks appeared regularly in many of the same magazines and publications that carried his illustrations.

He also wrote a book, Masks,[8] a study of his own designs and unique construction techniques.