Jack Benny
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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Here's Lucy
6.69
The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
The Lucy Show
7
The Merv Griffin Show
5.75
General Electric Theater
6.25
The Jack Benny Program
7.813
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
6.5
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
5.8
This Is Your Life
6.455
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
The DuPont Show of the Week
6
The George Burns Show
0
The Liberace Show
0
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
The Bob Hope Show
7
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
6.941
Startime
6
The George Gobel Show
7.333
General Electric Theater
6.25
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
Tony Awards
5.1
The Lucy Show
7
The Bob Hope Show
7
The Bob Hope Show
7
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Checkmate
4.1
The Julie Andrews Hour
6
Tony Awards
5.1
What's My Line?
6.9
The Dick Cavett Show
6.7
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
5.4
Omnibus
6
The Danny Kaye Show
6.3
Kraft Music Hall
4.667
Kraft Music Hall
4.667
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
6.5
Movies
To Be or Not to Be
7.835
A Guide for the Married Man
5.9
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
6.971
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
5.7
George Washington Slept Here
6.333
Beatles: Big Beat Box
0
Charley's Aunt
5.8
Broadway Melody of 1936
6.364
Hollywood Canteen
7.3
The Horn Blows at Midnight
5.8
Mr. Broadway
0
Showbiz Goes to War
10
Buck Benny Rides Again
0
The Great Radio Comedians
8
The Mouse That Jack Built
6.7
Is Everybody Listening?
5
Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special
0
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
6
Beatles Stories
7.6
Artists & Models
6
Chasing Rainbows
4
The Medicine Man
4.6
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
6
Love Thy Neighbor
6.5
Somebody Loves Me
8.5
The Last Laugh
6.9
The Song Writers' Revue
1
The Big Broadcast of 1937
5.4
College Holiday
5.2
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
4.4
Artists and Models Abroad
4.5
Man About Town
4.5
Who Was That Lady?
6.2
The Slowest Gun in the West
2
The Man
6.3
Lord Byron of Broadway
4.7
Three Of A Kind
0
Jack Benny Christmas Show
0
Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show
0
Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny
0
It's in the Air
5
The Meanest Man in the World
6.4
The Bing Crosby Show
0
Gypsy
6.4
Mike Wallace Is Here
6.5
It's in the Bag!
5
The Jack Benny Hour
0
TV's Funniest Comedians - 14 Stars Do Classic Routines
0
The Rounder
5.5
Screen Snapshots: Memorial to Al Jolson
0
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
10
That's Entertainment! III
6.973
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
7.6
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7
Stars in the Eye
0
Swing Out, Sweet Land
6
Children of Pleasure
4.7
General Foods Opening Night
0
Show-Business at War
7
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
2
That's Entertainment, Part II
6.855
You Can Change The World
5.8
Hollywood Goes to Town
7
The Perry Como Christmas Show
6.5
Beau James
5.7
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians
6
Studio 54
6.416
Jack Benny: Comedy in Bloom
0
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
6
Without Reservations
6.2
The Jack Benny Birthday Special
0
Who Was That Lady?
6.2
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
0
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
0
Taxi Tangle
1
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
5
Honor America Day
0
Bright Moments
0
The Honey Pot
6.5
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
0
Bob Hope Christmas Show
0
Jack Benny's Bag
0
Rock-a-Bye Baby
6.8
The Great Lover
6.8
Pioneers of Primetime
0
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
0
A Broadway Romeo
5.7
The Best of Johnny Carson
0