Benmont Tench
Known for: Acting
Born: September 7, 1953
Place of birth: Gainesville, Florida, USA
Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III is a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and one of contemporary music’s finest organ players, piano players, anything- with-keys players. In addition to all of the Heartbreakers recordings, Tench has played on records by Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson, Green Day, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, the Dixie Chicks, the Replacements, John Prine, Waylon Jennings, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, just to name a few.
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Filmography
27 movies · 6 TV shows, newest first
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The Session Man
2025
6.2
Heartbreakers Beach Party
2024
6.8
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
2021
8.0
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
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Mike Campbell: The Guitars
2012
6.3
Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
2010
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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live from Gatorville
2008
7.7
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
2007
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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: 30th Anniversary Concert
2006
9.2
Live Aid
2004
8.0
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Live at the Olympic (The Last DJ)
2003
6.7
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Live in Concert
2003
7.5
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - High Grass Dogs - Live from the Fillmore
1999
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: VH1 Storytellers
1999
7.0
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at the Docks, Hamburg
1999
7.3
Behind the Music
1997
7.7
Classic Albums
1997
8.0
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Playback
1995
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: 400 Days
19959.0
Tom Petty: Going Home
1994
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Take the Highway Live
1992
7.0
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - A Bunch Of Videos And Some Other Stuff
1989
9.5
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
1986
10.0
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Pack Up the Plantation - Live!
1986
7.9
Live Aid
1985
7.9
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
8.0
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Rock Goes to College
1980
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Old Grey Whistle Test
1978
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
10.0
Rockpalast
1974
8.3
The Old Grey Whistle Test
1971
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Del Shannon: The Runaway
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Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
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