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 (archive footage) (uncredited)
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)
2004
- Elf: Christmas in Tinseltown as Self (archive)
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 2 as Self (archive footage)
- The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1 as Self (archive footage)
1998
- The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self - Roastee (archive footage)
1997
- Vaudeville as Self (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
- Remembering Marilyn as Self (archive footage)
- Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1982
- Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
- Showbiz Goes to War as Self (archive footage)
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self (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 Julie Andrews Hour as Self
- The Man as Jack Benny
1971
- The Great Radio Comedians as Self
1970
- Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special as Self
- Honor America Day as Self
- Swing Out, Sweet Land as Man Who Finds Silver Dollar
- The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians as Self (voice)
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
- The Honey Pot as Violinist Outside Restaurant (uncredited)
1965
- Bob Hope Christmas Show as Self
- The Jack Benny Hour as Jack Benny / Rosano
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Lucy Show as Harry Tuttle
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Gypsy as Jack Benny (uncredited)
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Comedian (archive footage)
- 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 as Self
- 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 - Host
1954
- The George Gobel Show as Self
- The Bing Crosby Show as Self
1953
- General Electric Theater as Tom Jones
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Omnibus as Athanael
- The Liberace Show as Self
- Somebody Loves Me as Jack Benny
- Stars in the Eye as Himself
- Screen Snapshots: Memorial to Al Jolson as Self - Narrator
1950
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Jack Benny (uncredited)
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- The Jack Benny Program as Jack Benny
- 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
- It's in the Bag! as Jack Benny
- The Horn Blows at Midnight as Athanael
1944
- Hollywood Canteen as Self
1943
- Show-Business at War as Self
- The Meanest Man in the World as Richard Clarke
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
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Jack Benny
- Love Thy Neighbor as Jack Benny
1939
- Man About Town as Bob Temple
1938
- Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 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
- It's in the Air as Calvin Churchill
- Broadway Melody of 1936 as Bert Keeler
1934
- Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round as Chad Denby
1933
- Mr. Broadway as Jack Benny
1931
- Taxi Tangle as Man in taxi
- A Broadway Romeo as Jack
1930
- Lord Byron of Broadway as Voice on Radio
- The Rounder as Mr. Bartlett
- The Medicine Man as Dr. John H. Harvey
- Chasing Rainbows as Eddie Rock
- Children of Pleasure as Radio Performer Jack (uncredited)
- The Voice of Hollywood No. 13 as Self
1929
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self - Master of Ceremonies
- The Song Writers' Revue as Himself