Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
Highest Rated: 95% 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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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 14% | Broadway Rhythm | Eddie (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 81% | 80% | Cabin in the Sky | Joe Jackson (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 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 | 75% | Tales of Manhattan | Rev. Lazarus (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 89% | 80% | 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 | 76% | 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 | 20% | 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 | 75% | Thanks for the Memory | Janitor (Character) | - | 1938 |
| 95% | 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% | 85% | The Green Pastures | Noah (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Three Men on a Horse | Moses (Character) | - | 1936 |
| 80% | 64% | What Price Hollywood? | James, Max's Butler (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1932 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | What's My Line? | Guest | 1952 |