Harry Benson

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1929-12-02 (94 years old)

Place of Birth Glasgow, Scotland

Harry Benson

Biography

Born in Glasgow and raised in Troon, Scotland, arrived in America with the Beatles in 1964. His pictures have appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. He took over a hundred cover shots for People. Harry has photographed every U.S. president from Eisenhower to Barack H. Obama; was just feet away from Bobby Kennedy the night he was assassinated; in the room with Richard Nixon when he resigned; on the Meredith march with Martin Luther King, Jr., next to Coretta Scott King at her husband’s funeral; on maneuvers with the IRA; was there when the Berlin Wall went up and when it came down; and covered the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans.

Known For

Actor

2010
Smash His Camera

as Self - Photojournalist

1982
Faerie Tale Theatre

as The Grandfather Clock

Camera

2011
Bobby Fischer Against the World

as Still Photographer