Benson was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of seven, he first played the ukulele in a corner drug store, for which he was paid a few dollars. At the age of eight, he played guitar in an unlicensed nightclub on Friday and Saturday nights, but the police soon closed the club down. His release, Bad Benson , climbed to the top spot in the Billboard jazz chart.
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DISCOGRAPHY
Benson is an American sitcom television series that originally aired on ABC from September 13, , to April 19, The series was a spin-off of Soap in which the character Benson, portrayed by Robert Guillaume , first appeared as the wise-cracking yet level-headed African-American butler for the highly dysfunctional Tate family. However, Benson avoided the soap opera format of its parent series for a more conventional sitcom structure, and the lead character eventually moved from his service position to a role as lieutenant governor. Stadlen , who assisted Governor Gatling as chief of staff.
The Early Years
You can help clean up this page by correcting spelling and grammar, removing factual errors and rewriting sections to ensure they are clear and concise, and moving some elements when appropriate. Benson made his debut in J. Quintel 's animated short " 2 in the AM PM ", where one of the cashiers voiced by Sam Marin transformed into a prototype version of Benson after being drugged from candy. He then made his first appearance in the pilot. In the short film The Naive Man from Lolliland , proto-Pops calls his chauffeur Benson, however in the film Benson appears to be a human, not a gumball machine. He is voiced by Sam Marin. The gumballs may act as facial hair for Benson, as noted by storyboarder Benton Connor. It is also worth noting that the dispenser slot sits in a rather phallic position.
While visiting Hong Kong, Clayton is kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity. However, even upon learning the mistake, his captors don't let him go. The rest of the staff alert the police. The rescue attempts for Clayton do not go so well when the governor and Kraus end up being kidnapped also.
