Benny Goodman
Birthday
1909/05/30
Day of death
1986/06/13 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also know as
Benjamin David Goodman, The King of Swing, The Benny Goodman Sextet
Biography
The King of Swing! Famed clarinetist, composer ("Stompin' at the Savoy") and conductor, educated at the Lewis Institute in Chicago and a student of Schillinger and Schoepp. He was a clarinetist with the orchestras of Bix Beiderbecke, Jules Herbuveaux, Arnold Johnson and Ben Pollack, and also played in Broadway theater orchestras. He began to lead his own orchestras in 1934 at the Billy Rose Music Hall, then conducted the orchestra on the weekly radio program "Let's Dance" in 1934-1935, and...Read more
Acting
(1993) Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing
as Self (archive footage)
(1946) Make Mine Music
as Self (voice)
(1955) Allen in Movieland
as Self
(1954) Two for the Record
as Self
(1938) Hollywood Hotel
as Benny Goodman, Leader of His Orchestra
(1948) A Song Is Born
as Professor Magenbruch
(1943) The Gang's All Here
as Benny Goodman
(1941) Birth of the Blues
as Self (archive footage)
(1944) Sweet and Low-Down
as Benny Goodman
(1959) John Gunther's High Road
as Self
(1936) The Big Broadcast of 1937
as Benny Goodman
(2000) The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
as Self (archive footage)
(1944) The Shining Future
as Self
(1943) The Powers Girl
as Self - Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
(1929) Me and the Boys
as Self - Clarinet
(1983) Åke Hasselgård story
as ---
(1943) Stage Door Canteen
as Benny Goodman
(1942) Syncopation
as Benny Goodman
(1975) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1955) Music Land
as Orchestra Leader (archive footage)
(1976) Copland Conducts Copland
as Self - Clarinet
(1978) Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not
as Self
(2022) Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
as Self (archive footage)
(2004) Legends in Concert: Benny Goodman
as ---
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
(2001) Jazz
as Self (archive footage)
(1956) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
(1950) Star Time
as Self - Musician
(1978) The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1978) Bio’s Bahnhof
as Self
(1957) DuPont Show of the Month
as Self
(1959) The Big Party
as Self
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1959) The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self
(1963) The Danny Kaye Show
as Self