The photocurrent from neat liquid benzene has been studied for excitation energies from threshold to 10.3 eV and for externally applied electric fields from 1 to 50 kV/cm, Using a power law fit to the energy dependence of the threshold current, an onset of epsilon(t) = 7.65 +/- 0.1 eV has been obtained. The field dependence was fit to an exponential radial probability density for thermalized ion-pair separation distances with an average separation distance of (r) = 23 +/- 2 Angstrom at an excitation energy, epsilon, of 8.86 eV (1.2 eV above threshold). Photocurrent was too weak to establish a dependence of (r) on excitation energy. The quantum yield for photocurrent at 8.86 eV was determined by comparison with the photocurrent from TMPD in 2,2,4-trimethylpentane (isooctane) to be 6.5 x 10(-4) at zero field. From this, the intrinsic molecular ionization probability at epsilon = 8.86 eV was determined to be 0.6 +/- 0.3.