Jack Benny (1894 - 1974)

American comedian, vaudevillian, radio, television and film actor, and violinist

* February 14, 1894 Chicago, Illinois, USA
 as Benjamin Kubelsky
 December 26, 1974 Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA



Vintage magazines


Photoplay, October 1929
Photoplay, February 1930
Photoplay, March 1930

Photoplay, May 1930
Photoplay, May 1930
Stars et films d'aujourd'hui, nr. 4 1945

Stars et films d'aujourd'hui, nr. 12 1946

Books by Jack Benny


Jack Benny and his daughter Joan Sunday nights at seven Jack Benny and his daughter Joan
Sunday nights at seven, the Jack Benny story
New York, NY, 1990

Books with substantial mentioning of Jack Benny


Glenn Mitchell The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia Glenn Mitchell
The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia
London, 1996

Ronald L. Smith
Who's Who in Comedy, Comedians, Comics and Clowns From Vaudeville to Today's Stand-ups
New York, Oxford, 1992

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard with Gregory W. Mank and Charles Hoyt
The Funsters
New Rochelle, New York, 1979

Books with an entry on Jack Benny


David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Kay Weniger Das große Personenlexikon des Films Kay Weniger
Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Erster Band. A-C
Berlin, 2001

Anthony Slide (ed.) Selected Vaudeville Criticism Anthony Slide (ed.)
Selected Vaudeville Criticism
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1988

Stanley Appelbaum and James Camner (editors) Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs Stanley Appelbaum and James Camner (editors)
Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs, 361 Portraits from the 1860s to 1950
New York, 1981

Joe Franklin Encyclopedia of Comedians Joe Franklin
Encyclopedia of Comedians
Secaucus, N.J., 1979

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969