Acting • AGE 77
The King of Swing! Famed clarinetist, composer ("Stompin' at the Savoy") and conductor, educated at the Lewis Institute in Chicago and a student of Schillinger and Schoepp. He was a clarinetist with...


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Original Music Composer
2026

Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
Self (archive footage)
2022

Swing With Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Tony Bennett
2001

Jazz
Self (archive footage)
2001

The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
Self (archive footage)
2000

Louis Armstrong & Benny Goodman - Sounds in Motion
2000

The World of Polygoon
Self (archive footage)
1994

Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing
Self (archive footage)
1993

Åke Hasselgård story
1983

The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978

Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not
Self
1978

Copland Conducts Copland
Self - Clarinet
1976

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975

Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972

The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968

The Danny Kaye Show
Self
1963

Sackgasse
Original Music Composer
1963

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962

The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961

John Gunther's High Road
Self
1959

The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
1959

The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
1958

DuPont Show of the Month
Self
1957

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956

Allen in Movieland
Self
1955

Music Land
Orchestra Leader (archive footage)
1955

Two for the Record
Self
1954

What's My Line?
Self
1950

A Song Is Born
Professor Magenbruch
1948

The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948

All the Cats Join In
1946

Make Mine Music
Self (voice)
1946

Sweet and Low-Down
Benny Goodman
1944

The Shining Future
Self
1944

The Gang's All Here
Benny Goodman
1943

Stage Door Canteen
Benny Goodman
1943

The Powers Girl
Self - Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
1943

Syncopation
Benny Goodman
1942

Birth of the Blues
Self (archive footage)
1941

Hollywood Hotel
Benny Goodman, Leader of His Orchestra
1938

The Big Broadcast of 1937
Benny Goodman
1936