Benjamin "Ben" Gardner, played by Craig Kingsbury, is a character in the 1975 film Jaws.
Ben was a fisherman who took it upon himself to collect the bounty and put an end to the killings by the great white shark that was terrorizing Amity. He took his boat out but failed to return.
When Martin Brody and Matt Hooper went out to investigate, they found his boat with a massive hole in its hull. Hooper found a large shark tooth embedded into it but dropped it when he found Ben's body.