Benmont Tench
Acting • Born 1953-09-07
Biography
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
34 credits
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
Movie • 2021
Himself
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
Movie • 1986
Self
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - High Grass Dogs - Live from the Fillmore
Movie • 1999
Himself
Del Shannon: The Runaway
Movie
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: 400 Days
Movie • 1995
Self
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Live in Concert
Movie • 2003
keyboards
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at the Docks, Hamburg
Movie • 1999
keyboards
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Rock Goes to College
Movie • 1980
Performer
Mike Campbell: The Guitars
Movie • 2012
Self
Tom Petty: Going Home
Movie • 1994
Self
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Take the Highway Live
Movie • 1992
Self
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Live at the Olympic (The Last DJ)
Movie • 2003
Keyboards
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Pack Up the Plantation - Live!
Movie • 1986
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live from Gatorville
Movie • 2008
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Playback
Movie • 1995
Self
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
Movie • 2007
Self
Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
Movie • 2010
Self
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - A Bunch Of Videos And Some Other Stuff
Movie • 1989
Self
Live Aid
Movie • 1985
Self
Live Aid
Movie • 2004
Self
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at Rockpalast
Movie • 1977
Heartbreakers Beach Party
Movie • 2024
Self
Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
Movie
Self
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: VH1 Storytellers
Movie • 1999
Self
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: 30th Anniversary Concert
Movie • 2006
The Session Man
Movie • 2025
Self
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Old Grey Whistle Test
Movie • 1978
Classic Albums
TV • 1997
Self
MTV Video Music Awards
TV • 1984
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Musical Guest
Behind the Music
TV • 1997
Self
The Old Grey Whistle Test
TV • 1971
Rockpalast
TV • 1974