Jack Benny

Jack Benny (80)

1894-02-14 - 1974-12-26 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

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.    

On Movies

  • Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
  • The Perry Como Christmas Show
  • The Man
  • Honor America Day
  • The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians
  • The Jack Benny Birthday Special
  • The Dean Martin Christmas Show
  • Jack Benny's Bag
  • A Guide for the Married Man
  • The Honey Pot
  • Bob Hope Christmas Show
  • The Jack Benny Hour
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • Gypsy
  • Jack Benny Christmas Show
  • The Slowest Gun in the West
  • Who Was That Lady?
  • Who Was That Lady?
  • The Mouse That Jack Built
  • Rock-a-Bye Baby
  • Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show
  • Beau James
  • The Bing Crosby Show
  • Stars in the Eye
  • Somebody Loves Me
  • You Can Change The World
  • The Great Lover
  • Without Reservations
  • The Horn Blows at Midnight
  • It's in the Bag!
  • Hollywood Canteen
  • The Meanest Man in the World
  • George Washington Slept Here
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • Charley's Aunt
  • Three Of A Kind
  • Love Thy Neighbor
  • Buck Benny Rides Again
  • Man About Town
  • Artists and Models Abroad
  • Artists & Models
  • College Holiday
  • The Big Broadcast of 1937
  • It's in the Air
  • Broadway Melody of 1936
  • Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
  • Taxi Tangle
  • The Medicine Man
  • Children of Pleasure
  • Lord Byron of Broadway
  • The Rounder
  • Chasing Rainbows
  • The Song Writers' Revue
  • The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  • Bright Moments

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