Eddie “Rochester” Anderson (1905–1977) was an American comic actor who became famous playing Rochester, the valet to Jack Benny’s eponymous title character on the long-running radio and television series The Jack Benny Program.
Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson |
| Also Know | Eddie Anderson, Edmund Lincoln Anderson, Rochester |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Oakland, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1905-09-18 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 71 |
| Deathday | 1977-02-28 |
Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| You Can Change The World | Rochester | 1950-02-25 | Comedian Jack Benny has his butler, Rochester, call several of his celebrity friends over to the house. Benny introduces them to a Catholic priest, wh… |
| Brother Bill | Brother Bill | 1945-12-04 | The Jubalaires perform “Brother Bill”…. |
| The Green Pastures | Noah | 1936-08-01 | God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah’s Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black … |
| Buck Benny Rides Again | Rochester | 1940-05-31 | Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing … |
| Cabin in the Sky | Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Jackson | 1943-04-09 | When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for si… |
| I Love a Bandleader | Newton H. Newton | 1945-09-13 | A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he’s a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music…. |
| What’s Buzzin’, Cousin? | Rochester | 1943-07-08 | Musicians help a woman (Ann Miller) and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel…. |
| Is Everybody Listening? | 1947-09-05 | A documentary about the 82% of US citizens that listen to the radio for their entertainment, news and sport…. | |
| The Mouse That Jack Built | Rochester (voice) | 1959-04-03 | In this spoof of “The Jack Benny Program”, a mouse with Jack Benny’s personality and poor violin playing ability lives, along with a mouse version of … |
| The Meanest Man in the World | Shufro | 1943-02-12 | Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend’s advice and tr… |
| Brewster’s Millions | Jackson | 1945-04-07 | Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relat… |
| Love Thy Neighbor | Rochester | 1940-12-27 | Capitalizing on the famous radio ‘feud’ between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each oth… |
| The Show-Off | Eddie | 1946-12-01 | Red Skelton stars in this adaptation of the George Kelly play…. |
| TV in Black: The First Fifty Years | 2004-01-01 | Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium’s first half-century. Actors, writers and hi… | |
| Birth of the Blues | Louey | 1941-11-07 | Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which… |
| The Sailor Takes a Wife | Harry | 1945-12-28 | While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman’s canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each… |
| Hat Check Girl | Walter (uncredited) | 1932-10-08 | Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Bu… |
| What Price Hollywood? | Max’s Butler James (uncredited) | 1932-06-24 | Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaura… |
| Jack Benny’s 20th Anniversary TV Special | Self | 1970-11-16 | … |
| The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli | (archive footage) | 1973-01-01 | … |
| Broadway Rhythm | Eddie | 1944-01-19 | Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in… |
| Topper Returns | Edward (“Eddie”), the Chauffeur | 1941-03-21 | Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it’s Gail Richards, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of h… |
| White Bondage | Old Glory (uncredited) | 1937-08-05 | A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated…. |
| Tales of Manhattan | Rev. Lazarus | 1942-08-05 | Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video relea… |
| Thanks for the Memory | Janitor | 1938-11-11 | Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick’s publish… |
| Rainbow on the River | Doctor (uncredited) | 1936-12-18 | A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn’t know in New York…. |
| The Gay Bride | 2nd bootblack (uncredited) | 1934-12-14 | Mary wants to marriy a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable…. |
| Three Men on a Horse | Moses, the Elevator Operator | 1936-11-21 | A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers…. |
| Melody For Two | Exodus Johnson | 1937-05-01 | A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band…. |
| Exposed | William | 1938-11-05 | A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted…. |
| Man About Town | Rochester | 1939-06-29 | Producer Bob Temple, who’s brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won’t take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he pick… |
| Kiss the Boys Goodbye | George | 1941-08-01 | New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her ro… |
| Reckless Living | Dreamboat | 1938-03-01 | This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo (his previous starre… |
| Over the Goal | William | 1937-10-16 | The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would s… |
| You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man | Cheerful | 1939-02-17 | Fields plays “Larsen E. Whipsnade”, the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step a… |
| Honolulu | Washington | 1939-02-03 | Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason’s fan… |
| Show-Business at War | Self | 1943-05-21 | A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort…. |
| It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Second Cab Driver | 1963-11-07 | A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is t… |
| One Mile From Heaven | Henry Bangs | 1937-08-18 | A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds…. |
| Bill Cracks Down | Chauffeur | 1937-03-22 | William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he … |
| Transient Lady | ‘Noxious’ | 1935-03-04 | A senator’s brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent…. |
| When Love Is Young | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 1937-03-26 | In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a m… |
| You Can’t Take It with You | Donald | 1938-09-01 | Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish m… |
| Gold Diggers in Paris | Doorman | 1938-06-11 | When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetar… |
| You Can’t Get Away with Murder | Sam (uncredited) | 1939-03-23 | Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie’s sister Madge’s fiance Fred Burke, F… |
| Going Places | Groom | 1938-12-31 | A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for…. |
| Star Spangled Rhythm | Rochester | 1942-03-05 | Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he’s the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie… |
| While New York Sleeps | Janitor | 1938-12-16 | Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers)…. |
| From Hell to Heaven | Sam’s Pal (uncredited) | 1933-02-24 | The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in di… |
| Two in a Crowd | Swipe (uncredited) | 1936-10-03 | When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress… |
| Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to ‘It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World’ | (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 | A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World…. |
| His Night Out | Bellhop (uncredited) | 1935-10-01 | When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by th… |
| Public Wedding | Man Carrying Coat | 1937-07-09 | The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake ‘public wedding’ in the mouth of their unprofita… |
| Jezebel | Gros Bat | 1938-03-26 | In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her…. |
| Show Boat | Boonville man speaking film’s first line | 1936-05-17 | Despite her mother’s objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company’s new leading lady…. |
| Terror Aboard | Seaman (uncredited) | 1933-04-14 | An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened…. |
| Wake Up and Live | Elevator Operator | 1937-08-23 | Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell…. |
| Gone with the Wind | Aunt Pittypat’s Coachman ‘Uncle Peter’ | 1939-12-15 | The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen…. |
| I Love That Man | Charlie – Porter (uncredited) | 1933-07-07 | Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a … |
| Love Is News | Man Getting Marriage License (uncredited) | 1937-02-26 | When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are e… |
| Kentucky | Groom | 1938-12-30 | Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with … |
| That’s Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 | Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num… |
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