Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

In the meantime, Amos and Andy depicted African-Americans in more typical working class and professional roles. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street. That said, Anderson was playing a servant, as with other shows with African-American leads, such as Ethel Waters in Beulah. Lionel Barrymore is entombed in the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California. Benny's call of "Rochester," and Anderson's answers (often a raspy "Yes, Boss," but just as often a snappy joke at Benny's expense) were among the weekly highlights of the show, and some newspapers reportedly listed the show as The Eddie Anderson Show, with Benny relegated to a secondary role (this despite the show's opening title being repeated each week by announcer Don Wilson). Potter, the miserly banker, in It's a Wonderful Life, 1946. Anderson was as responsible as was Benny for the show's tremendous success across so many segments of American society, and the relationship between Anderson and Benny became more complex and intimate as the years went by. He is perhaps currently best known as Mr.

(Anderson was of course not Benny's butler in real life, as many listeners of the time apparently thought in somewhat condescending fashion.) Anderson was also well-known for his role in the groundbreaking musical film, Cabin in the Sky. Years later, after breaking his hip twice, he was confined to a wheelchair, but still acted. Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (September 18, 1905 - February 28, 1977) was an African-American comic actor and star of movies, television and especially old-time radio, where he played the butler Rochester to Jack Benny's eponymous title character on The Jack Benny Show. He played the irascible Doctor Gillespie in a series of Doctor Kildare and Doctor Gillespie movies in the 1930s and 1940s. He won an Oscar in 1931 for best actor in Free Soul, after having been nominated in 1930 for best director for Madame X. Barrymore made a name for himself on stage before going to Hollywood in 1924.

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died in Van Nuys, California. Lionel Barrymore (April 28, 1878 - November 15, 1954), original name: Lionel Blythe, was an American actor of stage, radio and film, elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore. Barrymore family.