- Born Name: Edmund Lincoln Anderson
- Birthday: 1905-09-18 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Medium: Actor
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Eddie Anderson (comedian), Jack Benny, camel, and Eddie Anderson disembarking train in Los Angeles, 1943Edmund Lincoln Anderson (September 18, 1905 – February 28, 1977), often known as Eddie Rochester Anderson, was an American comic actor who became famous playing Rochester van Jones (usually known simply as Rochester), the valet to Jack Bennys eponymous title character on the long-running radio and television series The Jack Benny Program. Anderson also owned Burnt Cork, a Thoroughbred racehorse that ran in the 1943 Kentucky Derby.