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Acting

Jack Benny

Career: Active from 1930 to 1974, busiest in 1930 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles: 27
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: To Be or Not to Be
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 31 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Jack Benny Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.6, average 5.4
Violence
1.4, average 4.1
Psychological
3.1, average 5.5
Tension
3.9, average 6.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Wholesome Entertainment 3
Classic Hollywood 2
Nostalgic 2
Family-Friendly Fun 2
Mistaken Identity 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

59

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title · average score 78

Mike Wallace Is Here

78

as (archive footage)

1990s

1 title · average score 88

That's Entertainment! III

88

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1970s

6 titles · average score 71

That's Entertainment, Part II

70

as (archive footage)

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

as (archive footage)

The Perry Como Christmas Show

as Santa Claus (uncredited)

Paper Moon

84

Thanks

The Man

67

as Jack Benny

Swing Out, Sweet Land

65

as Man Who Finds Silver Dollar

1960s

12 titles · average score 59

Here's Lucy

68

TV show · as Jack Benny

A Guide for the Married Man

54

as Technical Adviser

The Honey Pot

66

as Violinist Outside Restaurant (uncredited)

The Jack Benny Hour

as Jack Benny / Rosano

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

68

as Man in Car in Desert (uncredited)

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

66

TV show · as Self

The Lucy Show

47

TV show · as Jack Benny / Harry Tuttle

Gypsy

71

as Jack Benny (uncredited)

The Slowest Gun in the West

as Chicken Finsterwald

Jack Benny Christmas Show

as Jack Benny

Checkmate

40

TV show · as Jack Bowen

Who Was That Lady?

55

as Mr. Cosgrove / Mr. Cosgrove (uncredited)

1950s

11 titles · average score 68

The Mouse That Jack Built

71

as Jack (voice)

Rock-a-Bye Baby

66

as Carlos, the matador (uncredited)

The George Burns Show

TV show · as Jack Benny

Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show

as Jack Benny

Beau James

60

as Jack Benny

The Danny Thomas Show

66

TV show · as Jack Benny

General Electric Theater

68

TV show · as Tom Jones / Harold Fenton

Omnibus

75

TV show · as Athanael

Somebody Loves Me

75

as Jack Benny

The Jack Benny Program

54

TV show · as Jack Benny

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

79

TV show · as Jack Benny (uncredited)

1940s

12 titles · average score 63

The Lucky Stiff

Producer

The Great Lover

66

as Jack Benny (uncredited)

Is Everybody Listening?

as Jack Benny - Jack Benny Radio Program

Without Reservations

61

as Jack Benny (uncredited)

The Horn Blows at Midnight

54

as Athanael

It's in the Bag!

58

as Jack Benny

The Meanest Man in the World

51

as Richard Clarke

To Be or Not to Be

87

as Joseph Tura

George Washington Slept Here

67

as Bill Fuller

Charley's Aunt

58

as Babbs Babberley

Buck Benny Rides Again

62

as Jack Benny

Love Thy Neighbor

as Jack Benny

1930s

16 titles · average score 56

Man About Town

54

as Bob Temple

Artists and Models Abroad

as Buck Boswell

Artists & Models

60

as Mac Brewster

The Big Broadcast of 1937

59

as Jack Carson

College Holiday

38

as J. Davis Bowster

Broadway Melody of 1936

79

as Bert Keeler

It's in the Air

as Calvin Churchill

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

54

as Chad Denby

A Broadway Romeo

as Jack

The Rounder

56

as Mr. Bartlett

The Medicine Man

48

as Dr. John H. Harvey

Chasing Rainbows

59

as Eddie Rock