Benmont Tench
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
1975
Series
MTV Video Music Awards
Self
1984
Series
Behind the Music
Self
1997
Series
The Old Grey Whistle Test
1971
Series
Rockpalast
1974
Series
Classic Albums
Self
1997
Film
Live Aid
Self
1985
Film
Live Aid
Self
2004
Film
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
Himself
2021
Film
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Live at the Olympic (The Last DJ)
Keyboards
2003
Film
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
The Session Man
Self
2025
Film
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
Self
2007
Film
Heartbreakers Beach Party
Self
2024
Film
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Live in Concert
keyboards
2003
Film
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at the Docks, Hamburg
keyboards
1999
Film
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: 400 Days
Self
1995
Film
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: 30th Anniversary Concert
2006
Film
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Playback
Self
1995
Film
Del Shannon: The Runaway
Film
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live from Gatorville
2008
Film
Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
Self
2010
Film
Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
Self
Film
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
Self
1986
Tom Petty: Going Home
Self
1994
Film
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Take the Highway Live
Self
1992
Film
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - High Grass Dogs - Live from the Fillmore
Himself
1999
Film
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Pack Up the Plantation - Live!
1986
Film
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: VH1 Storytellers
Self
1999
Film
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Old Grey Whistle Test
1978
Film
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Rock Goes to College
Performer
1980
Film
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - A Bunch Of Videos And Some Other Stuff
Self
1989
Mike Campbell: The Guitars
Self
2012