Jack Benny
Born: 1894-02-14 in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died: 1974-12-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jack Benny (February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film. Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny played the role of the comic penny-pinching miser, insisting on remaining 39 years old on stage despite his actual age, and often playing the violin badly. Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "Well!" His radio and television programs, tremendously popular from the 1930s to the 1960s, were a foundational influence on the situation comedy genre. Dean Martin, on the celebrity roast for Johnny Carson in November 1973, introduced Benny as "the Satchel Paige of the world of comedy." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Benny, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2021
- The Automat as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Mike Wallace Is Here as (archive footage)
2018
- Studio 54 as Self (archive footage)
2016
- The Last Laugh as Self
2015
- Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration as Self / Shower of Stars (archive footage)
2011
- Beatles Stories as Self
2010
- The Best of Johnny Carson as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Beatles: Big Beat Box as Self (archive footage)
- The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1 as Self (archive footage)
- The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2 as Self (archive footage)
1998
- The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self - Roastee (archive footage)
1995
- Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny as Self (Archived footage)
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
1992
- Jack Benny: Comedy in Bloom as Himself
1988
- Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self (archive footage)
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1982
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television as Self (archive footage)
1974
- The Perry Como Christmas Show as Santa Claus (uncredited)
1973
- The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self
- Paper Moon ... (Thanks)
1972
- The Man as Jack Benny
- The Julie Andrews Hour as Self
1971
- The Great Radio Comedians as Self
1970
- Swing Out, Sweet Land as Man Who Finds Silver Dollar
- Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special as Self
- The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians as Self (voice)
- Honor America Day as Self
1969
- The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour as Self
- The Jack Benny Birthday Special as Self
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Here's Lucy as Jack Benny
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- The Dean Martin Christmas Show as Self (uncredited)
- Carnival Nights as Self
- Jack Benny's Bag as Self
1967
- A Guide for the Married Man as Technical Adviser (Ollie 'Sweet Lips')
- The Honey Pot as Violinist Outside Restaurant (uncredited)
1965
- The Jack Benny Hour as Jack Benny / Rosano
- Bob Hope Christmas Show as Self
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Lucy Show as Harry Tuttle
- Gypsy as Jack Benny (uncredited)
1961
- The DuPont Show of the Week as Self
1960
- Checkmate as Jack Bowen
- Who Was That Lady? as Mr. Cosgrove (uncredited)
- The Slowest Gun in the West as Chicken Finsterwald
- Jack Benny Christmas Show as Jack Benny
1959
- Startime
- The Mouse That Jack Built as Jack (voice)
1958
- Kraft Music Hall as Self
- Rock-a-Bye Baby as Carlos, the matador (uncredited)
- The George Burns Show as Jack Benny
- The All-Star Christmas Show as Self
1957
- Beau James as Jack Benny
- Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show as Jack Benny
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Co-Host
1954
- The George Gobel Show as Self
- The Bing Crosby Show as Self
1953
- General Electric Theater as Tom Jones
1952
- Omnibus as Athanael
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Somebody Loves Me as Jack Benny
- The Liberace Show
- Stars in the Eye as Himself
- Screen Snapshots: Memorial to Al Jolson as Self - Narrator
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- The Jack Benny Program as Jack Benny
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Jack Benny (uncredited)
- You Can Change The World as Self
1949
- The Great Lover as Jack Benny (uncredited)
- The Lucky Stiff ... (Producer)
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1947
- Is Everybody Listening? as Jack Benny - Jack Benny Radio Program
1946
- Without Reservations as Jack Benny (uncredited)
1945
- The Horn Blows at Midnight as Athanael
- It's in the Bag! as Jack Benny
1944
- Hollywood Canteen as Self
1943
- The Meanest Man in the World as Richard Clarke
- Show-Business at War as Self
1942
- To Be or Not to Be as Joseph Tura
- George Washington Slept Here as Bill Fuller
1941
- Charley's Aunt as Babbs Babberley
- Three Of A Kind as Himself
1940
- Love Thy Neighbor as Jack Benny
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Jack Benny
1939
- Man About Town as Bob Temple
1938
- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 as Self
- Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
- Artists and Models Abroad as Buck Boswell
1937
- Artists & Models as Mac Brewster
1936
- College Holiday as J. Davis Bowster
- The Big Broadcast of 1937 as Jack Carson
1935
- Broadway Melody of 1936 as Bert Keeler
- It's in the Air as Calvin Churchill
1934
- Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round as Chad Denby
1933
- Mr. Broadway as Jack Benny
1931
- A Broadway Romeo as Jack
- Taxi Tangle as Man in taxi
1930
- Chasing Rainbows as Eddie Rock
- The Rounder as Mr. Bartlett
- Lord Byron of Broadway as Voice on Radio
- Children of Pleasure as Radio Performer Jack (uncredited)
- The Medicine Man as Dr. John H. Harvey
1929
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self - Master of Ceremonies
- The Song Writers' Revue as Himself