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Benny Golson (January 25, 1929 – September 21, 2024) was an American bebop and hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie , more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career.
Bill Morrow and Beloin were signed to The Jack Benny Program for the 1936–1937 season and remained for seven years. [3] [4] He created the character of Mr. Billingsley, Benny's zany, oft-hungover boarder who frequently made non sequitur remarks. Beloin liked the character so much that he played the role. [5]
The song, "Benny 'Kid' Paret", was published in Broadside magazine that same month and was recorded later in the year by Turner's group, The New World Singers, for the 1963 Folkways album Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1. [12] [13] A 1962 poem by Australian ex-boxer Merv Lilley urged us to remember Benny Paret "when they're lacing leather on." [14]
Benny E. Dobbins, aka Ben, Bernie, or Bennie Dobbins (November 16, 1932 – February 5, 1988) [1] was an American stuntman, actor, stunt coordinator, and second unit director. As coordinator and director, Dobbins is known for films such as Planes, Trains and Automobiles , The Running Man , Extreme Prejudice , Ferris Bueller's Day Off , Commando ...
Benjamin "Benny" Delahauf Foulois was born on December 9, 1879, in Washington, Connecticut, [2] to a Franco-American pipe-fitter and a Boston-born nurse.
Venero Frank "Benny Eggs" Mangano (September 7, 1921 – August 18, 2017) was the underboss of the Genovese crime family.In 1991, Mangano was convicted of one count of extortion and a related conspiracy count for rigging windows contracts, and in 1993, was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison and fined $100,000.
Charles William Mumy Jr. (/ ˈ m uː m i /; born February 1, 1954 [2]) is an American actor, writer, producer, and musician.He came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor whose work included television appearances on Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and a role in the film Dear Brigitte, followed by a three-season role as Will Robinson in the ...
Bernard Joseph "Benny" Gallagher (born 10 June 1945) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, most famous as half of the popular duo Gallagher and Lyle.