Harry Benson
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Harry Benson

Dec 2, 1929 - Glasgow, Scotland

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.

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Movie2010Smash His CameraSelf - Photojournalist
Movie2011Bobby Fischer Against the Worldself
Movie2011America in Pictures - The Story of Life MagazineSelf
Movie2016Harry Benson: Shoot FirstSelf
Movie2024Beatles '64Self
TV Show1982Faerie Tale TheatreThe Grandfather Clock1

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Movie2011Bobby Fischer Against the WorldStill PhotographerCamera