Ben McCain (born 25 June 1955) is an American actor, broadcaster, producer and one half of The McCain Brothers, a singing-songwriting duo. McCain appeared as news anchor Aries West in MGM's comedy Bio-Dome, the character, Travis, in Roger Corman's remake Humanoids From The Deep, and the Mayor of Gold Lick in Bruce Campbell's My Name Is Bruce. Ben and his brother, Butch McCain, also wrote and performed the theme song in My Name is Bruce titled "The Legend of Guan Di". McCain had a recurring role as news anchor Brock Thompson in ABC's Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and another recurring role as newscaster Don MacDonald in SyFy's Black Scorpion.

Early life Born in Muleshoe, Texas, and raised on a farm near Bovina in Parmer County. McCain is a graduate of Bovina High School, South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, and West Texas State University now West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas.

Career Ben McCain and his brother, Butch McCain, co-hosted a morning television program in Oklahoma City from 1981 to 1987 at KTVY (NBC affiliate) and from 1987 to 1994 the brothers hosted "Good Morning Oklahoma" and anchored the noon newscast at KOCO-TV (ABC affiliate). Ben anchored the news and Butch served as the weather anchor.

While hosting their daily morning television program, the brothers appeared on the syndicated TV show Hee Haw twice in the 1980s as well as ABC soap operas General Hospital, All My Children and Loving. Ben and his brother, Butch, made 3 appearances on General Hospital.

The McCain Brothers did live segments on the KCBS-TV morning show in Los Angeles in 2000.

The McCain Brothers have recorded four CDs on Rise and Shine Records. The country single, "If Love Was a Crime I Couldn't Get Arrested" went number one on 50,000-watt KOMA radio in 1985. They also hosted a syndicated TV music show called "The McCain Brothers Show."

Ben and his brother, Butch, have appeared in numerous films together including MGM's comedy Bio-Dome, Roger Corman's Humanoids from the Deep and Bruce Campbell's My Name is Bruce, where they wrote and performed the theme song, "The Legend of Guan Di". In the movie, Ben plays the mayor and Butch has dual roles as the sheriff and a uni-browed farmer. In a 1997 Daily Variety article, columnist Andrew Hindes described the McCain Brothers as "multi-hyphenated".

McCain has been nominated twice for Los Angeles Area Emmy awards. The first time in 2010 as Producer and Host for the program "So-Cal's Best Iconic Movie Locations" and again in 2012 as Producer for the program "Leimert Park Today". McCain worked as a producer, host and reporter for Time Warner Cable from 2002 to 2012.

McCain narrated the audio book NICHOLAS: The Fantastic Origins of Santa Claus in 2013.

Ben McCain began co-anchoring a news show for Torrance CitiCable in 2000. On April 9, 2020, McCain began anchoring live COVID-19 updates for Torrance CitiCable. April 15, 2021 McCain announced that it would be his final time anchoring for Torrance CitiCable's "COVID-19 Today" stating that he was moving to Franklin, Tennessee, with his wife and son.

Filmography Year Film Role Other notes 1985–1988 Nashville Now 1988 Dark Before Dawn (News Reporter) 1993 General Hospital Medical Examiner 1996 Bio-Dome Anchor Aries West 1996 Humanoids From The Deep Travis 1997 Click (U.S. TV series) Tofu Man #2 1997 Midnight Blue (film) Second Executive 1995–1997 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Brock Thompson 9 episodes 1997 Two Came Back Coast Guard Official 1998 The Adventures of Pug and Zero Sheriff 1998 The Pretender Jordon Brock 1998 Outside Ozona Radio Furniture Salesman 1998 Under The Legs of Clouds Preacher1999 The Sex Monster Radio Shock Jock 1999Born Bad Deputy 2000Martial Law Airline Pilot 2000Arrest & Trial Narrator 2001 Skippy (2001 film)TV Anchor 2001 Accidents Don't Happen Film Critic 2001 Fire & Ice (2001 film) Commentator 2001 Black Scorpion Don MacDonald 16 episodes 2002 Don't Let Go Tex 2005 KatiBird *Certifiable Crazy Person Groundskeeper 2005 Blood Deep Officer Ben Lucas 2007 My Name Is Bruce Mayor 2007 Stall 60 on the Sunset Strip The Boss 2008Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight Elistan 2008 Killer Tumbleweeds Brock McDonald 2009 Breaking News: The Invasion Begins! Dack Tamblyn 2010 Leave It on the Court John Henderson 2010 Love Chronicles: Secrets Revealed Doctor 2010The Talking HeadPhil Rose 2011 Fresh Starts 4 Stale People Burt Kringle 2012 The Amazing Adventures of the Living Corpse Bruce 2013 In Vacuo Ron Shelby 2013 Julian Jack Cameron 2014 "Homecoming" Officer Ben Lucas 2016 "House of Cards" (Season 4) Radio Newscaster 2018 "Call for Fire" TV Newscaster Kevin Matney 2019 Dead EndCop # 2 2022 "Negative Thoughts" Radio Newscaster 2023 Women, Guns and Ammo Dr. Steel TBA Killer Tumbleweeds 2 Brock MacDonald

Music Ben and his brother, Butch form the singing-songwriting duo, The McCain Brothers. They have recorded 6 albums. Film legend Roger Corman was the first producer to use their songs in a movie. The single, "If Love Was a Crime I Couldn't Get Arrested", went number one on 50,000-watt KOMA radio in Oklahoma City. Ben and Butch also hosted a syndicated TV music program called The McCain Brothers Show. References

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McCain Brothers Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman McCain Brothers Multi-Hyphenated Emmy Nomination