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Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Highest Rated: 94% You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Lowest Rated: 78% The Green Pastures (1936)

Birthday: Sep 18, 1905

Birthplace: Oakland, California, USA

This gravel-voiced African-American comic player from the vaudeville stage and nightclub revues is best remembered for playing Jack Benny's worried valet and straight man, Rochester, for 28 years on Benny's radio and later TV show (1950-65). Although he entered films in the late 1920s, and appeared as Noah in "Green Pastures" (1936) and Uncle Peter in "Gone With the Wind" (1939), Anderson had his most notable film performance as the lead opposite Ethel Waters in Vincente Minnelli's all-black musical "Cabin in the Sky" (1943).

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Highest rated movies

94% 88% You Can't Take It With You
Watchlist 90% 92% Gone With the Wind Watchlist
89% 81% Topper Returns
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81% 80% Cabin in the Sky
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80% 65% What Price Hollywood?
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78% 86% The Green Pastures
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Kiss the Boys Goodbye
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20% The Meanest Man in the World
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Going Places
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48% Brewster's Millions
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Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson BUCK BENNY RIDES AGAIN, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, 1940 THE GREEN PASTURES, Eddie Anderson, 1936 THE GREEN PASTURES, Eddie Anderson, 1936 IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD, Eddie Rochester Anderson, 1963 KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, 1941 MAN ABOUT TOWN, Eddie Anderson, 1939 THE SAILOR TAKES A WIFE, June Allyson, Eddie Anderson, 1945 TALES OF MANHATTAN, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, 1942, TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. WHAT'S BUZZIN, COUSIN?, Eddie Anderson, Theresa Harris, 1943 View more photos

Filmography

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No Score Yet No Score Yet You Can Change the World Self - 1950
No Score Yet 17% The Show-Off Eddie (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 48% Brewster's Millions Jackson (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Love a Bandleader Newton H. Newton (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet 12% Broadway Rhythm Eddie (Character) - 1944
81% 80% Cabin in the Sky Joe Jackson (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 20% The Meanest Man in the World Shufro (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's Buzzin' Cousin Rochester (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 74% Tales of Manhattan Rev. Lazarus (Character) - 1942
89% 81% Topper Returns Eddie (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kiss the Boys Goodbye George (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love Thy Neighbor Rochester Van Jones (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 60% Buck Benny Rides Again Rochester Van Jones (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 74% You Can't Cheat an Honest Man Rochester (Character) - 1939
90% 92% Gone With the Wind Uncle Peter (Character) $198.7M 1939
No Score Yet 29% Honolulu Washington (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Man About Town Rochester (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Going Places George (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 78% Thanks for the Memory Janitor (Character) - 1938
94% 88% You Can't Take It With You Donald (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Exposed William (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Public Wedding Man Carrying Coat (Character) - 1937
78% 86% The Green Pastures Noah (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 57% Three Men on a Horse Moses (Character) - 1936
80% 65% What Price Hollywood? James, Max's Butler (uncredited) (Character) - 1932

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet The Jack Benny Program: The Lost Episodes Unknown (Character) 1950-1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bachelor Father Unknown (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Red Skelton Show Unknown (Character) 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1952