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

MTV Video Music Awards
1989
Behind the Music
1999
The Old Grey Whistle Test
1978
Classic Albums
2010
Rockpalast
1977
Live Aid
1985
Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
Tom Petty: Going Home
1994
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
2007
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
2021
Del Shannon: The Runaway
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
2015

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
32
2025
The Session Man
as Self
2024
Heartbreakers Beach Party
as Self
2021
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
as Himself
2015
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Mike Campbell: The Guitars
as Self
2010
Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
as Self
2010
Classic Albums
as Self
2008
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live from Gatorville
2007
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
as Self
2006
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: 30th Anniversary Concert
2004
Live Aid
as Self
2003
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Live in Concert
as keyboards
2003
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Live at the Olympic (The Last DJ)
as Keyboards
1999
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - High Grass Dogs - Live from the Fillmore
as Himself
1999
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at the Docks, Hamburg
as keyboards
1999
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: VH1 Storytellers
as Self
1999
Behind the Music
as Self
1995
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: 400 Days
as Self
1995
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Playback
as Self
1994
Tom Petty: Going Home
as Self
1992
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Take the Highway Live
as Self
1989
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - A Bunch Of Videos And Some Other Stuff
as Self
1989
MTV Video Music Awards
as Self
1986
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
as Self
1986
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Pack Up the Plantation - Live!
1985
Live Aid
as Self
1980
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Rock Goes to College
as Performer
1978
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Old Grey Whistle Test
1978
The Old Grey Whistle Test
1977
Rockpalast
Del Shannon: The Runaway
Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
as Self