Ben Blue (September 12,1901 - March 7, 1975), born Benjamin Bernstein, was a Canadian-American actor and comedian.

Born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec, Bernstein emigrated to the United States where he became a dance instructor, a dance school owner, and a nightclub proprietor. He began his motion picture career doing short films for Warner Brothers Studios in 1926, and later worked at the Hal Roach Studios, Paramount Pictures, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He also, like his "The Big Broadcast of 1938" co-star Bob Hope, was a radio comedian. In 1950, he had his own short-lived TV series, The Ben Blue Show, and was also a regular on The Frank Sinatra Show.

In 1951, Blue began concentrating on managing and appearing in nightclubs in Hollywood and San Francisco. Blue and Maxie Rosenbloom owned and performed in Hollywood's top nightclub in the 1940' called "Slapsie Maxie's". Again, in the 1960's he opened a nightclub in Santa Monica, California, called "Ben Blue's". It quickly became the "in" place and night-after-night was packed with top celebrities. Ben closed the club three years later because of health problems. Blue made the cover of TV Guide's June 11, 1954 Special Issue along with Alan Young, headlining an edition featuring that season's summer replacement shows. He also made appearances in TV shows such as The Jack Benny Program.

In 1958, he ran a significant short-running television program called Ben Blue's Brothers. The show didn't get picked upon a network, but the pilot was seen in 1965. In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, his role was the pilot of the Curtiss Jenny biplane that flew Sid Caesar & Edie Adams. Blue also made an appearance in the 1943 film Ziegfeld Follies. Ben Blue started making cameos in comedy movies around the 1960s. One of his most-recognized roles in films was as Luther Grilk in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. He especially had a part in Jerry Van Dyke's TV series Accidental Family in 1967. He worked his way until his final film appearance, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?, in 1968. He made his last TV appearance in Land of the Giants in 1969.

Ben Blue died in Hollywood on March 7, 1975 and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. After his death, his career papers covering 1935 to 1955 were deposited in the Special Collections at the UCLA Library.

Ben Blue was a movie and TV comedian born on September 12, 1901, in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Emigrating to the US, Blue became a dance instructor and dance school owner, as well as a nightclub proprietor. He began his film career in short subjects for Warner Brothers in 1926, and later worked at the Hal Roach Studios, Paramount and MGM. He also, like his Big Broadcast of 1938, The (1938) co-star Bob Hope (I), was a radio comedian. In 1950 he had his own TV series, "The Ben Blue Show," and was a regular on "The Frank Sinatra Show." In 1951 Blue began concentrating on managing and appearing in the nightclubs he owned in Hollywood and San Francisco. He made the cover of "TV Guide"'s June 11, 1954, Special Issue along with Alan Young (I), headlining an edition featuring that season's summer replacement shows. He made a handful of appearances on Ed Sullivan (III)'s "Toast of the Town" (1948) variety series in 1956 and 1957, and appeared sporadically on other shows, including "Jack Benny Program, The" (1950) in 1960. In 1958 he shot a pilot for a proposed CBS series, "Ben Blue's Brothers," but it was not picked up, although the pilot was later shown in 1965. Coming out of his self-imposed near-retirement with a bit part in Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Blue began making cameo appearances in movie comedies. He also had a regular role on Jerry Van Dyke's short-lived TV series "Accidental Family" (1967). He made his last appearance on film in the Doris Day (I) comedy Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) and his last TV appearance on "Land of the Giants" (1968) in 1969. He died in 1975, and his career papers covering the years 1935 to 1955 were deposited in the Special Collections at the UCLA Library.