Benmont Tench
Known for ActingBorn 1953-09-07Gainesville, 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.
Known for
Live Aid
1985 · as Self
Tom Petty: Going Home
1994 · as Self
Del Shannon: The Runaway
Live Aid
2004 · as Self
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
2007 · as Self
Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
as Self
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at the Docks, Hamburg
1999 · as keyboards
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Live at the Olympic (The Last DJ)
2003 · as Keyboards
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Old Grey Whistle Test
1978
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
2021 · as Himself
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
2015 · as Self (archive footage)
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
1986 · as Self
Heartbreakers Beach Party
2024 · as Self
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live from Gatorville
2008
The Session Man
2025 · as Self
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: 400 Days
1995 · as Self
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - High Grass Dogs - Live from the Fillmore
1999 · as Himself
Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
2010 · as Self