Benmont Tench
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 7 September 1953 · Gainesville, 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
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: VH1 Storytellers
1999
Del Shannon: The Runaway
2026
6.2Heartbreakers Beach Party
2024
6.8Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
2021
6.3Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
2010
7.5Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - High Grass Dogs - Live from the Fillmore
1999
Acting 29
- 2026Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson as Self
- 2026Del Shannon: The Runaway
- 2025The Session Man as Self
- 2024Heartbreakers Beach Party as Self
- 2021Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free as Himself
- 2015It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2012Mike Campbell: The Guitars as Self
- 2010Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes as Self
- 2008Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live from Gatorville
- 2007Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream as Self
- 2006Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: 30th Anniversary Concert
- 2004Live Aid as Self
- 2003Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Live at the Olympic (The Last DJ) as Keyboards
- 2003Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Live in Concert as keyboards
- 1999Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - High Grass Dogs - Live from the Fillmore as Himself
- 1999Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: VH1 Storytellers as Self
- 1999Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at the Docks, Hamburg as keyboards
- 1995Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Playback as Self
- 1995Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: 400 Days as Self
- 1994Tom Petty: Going Home as Self
- 1992Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Take the Highway Live as Self
- 1989Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - A Bunch Of Videos And Some Other Stuff as Self
- 1986Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert as Self
- 1986Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Pack Up the Plantation - Live!
- 1985Live Aid as Self
- 1984MTV Video Music Awards as Self · 2 episodes
- 1980Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Rock Goes to College as Performer
- 1978Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Old Grey Whistle Test
- 1977Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at Rockpalast