William Bendix

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-01-14 (58 years old)

Deathday

1964-12-14

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

William Bendix

Biography

William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, best remembered in movies for the title role in the movie The Babe Ruth Story and for portraying clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in radio and television's The Life of Riley. He also received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for Wake Island (1942). Description above from the Wikipedia article William Bendix, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1968

The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)

1951

Detective Story

as Det. Lou Brody

1942

Woman of the Year

as Pinkie Peters

1946

The Dark Corner

as Stauffer, a.k.a. Fred Foss

1952

Macao

as Lawrence C. Trumble

1946

Calcutta

as Pedro Blake

1955

Crashout

as Van Morgan Duff

1944

Lifeboat

as Gus Smith

1962

Boys' Night Out

as Slattery

1947

The Web

as Lt. Damico

1948

The Babe Ruth Story

as George Herman 'Babe' Ruth

1943

Guadalcanal Diary

as Corp. Taxi Potts

1942

Wake Island

as Pvt. Aloysius K. "Smacksie" Randall

1949

Cover Up

as Larry Best

1946

The Blue Dahlia

as Buzz Wanchek

1950

Gambling House

as Joe Farrow

1947

Where There's Life

as Victor O'Brien

1942

1942

Who Done It?

as Detective Sgt. Brannigan

1949

The Big Steal

as Capt. Vincent Blake

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Buzz Wanchek in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

1948

Race Street

as Barney Runson

1952

A Girl in Every Port

as Timothy Aloysius 'Tim' Dunnovan

1942

Brooklyn Orchid

as Timothy McGuerin

1958

The Deep Six

as 'Frenchy' Shapiro

1952

1947

I'll Be Yours

as Wechsberg

1946

White Tie and Tails

as Larry Lundie

1951

Submarine Command

as CPO Boyer

1954

Dangerous Mission

as Chief Ranger Joe Parker

1950

Kill the Umpire

as Bill 'Two Call' Johnson

1944

The Hairy Ape

as Hank Smith

1947

Variety Girl

as William Bendix

1949

Streets of Laredo

as Wahoo Jones

1945

A Bell for Adano

as Sgt. Borth

1943

China

as Johnny Sparrow

1943

Taxi, Mister

as Tim McGuerin

1942

1949

Johnny Holiday

as Sgt. Walker

1964

Young Fury

as Blacksmith

1944

Greenwich Village

as Danny O'Mara

1943

The Crystal Ball

as Biff Carter

1944

Abroad with Two Yanks

as Biff Koraski

1964

Law of the Lawless

as Sheriff Ed Tanner

1943

Hostages

as Underground leader

1949

The Life of Riley

as Chester A. Riley

1945

Don Juan Quilligan

as Patrick Michael 'Don Juan' Quilligan

1947

Blaze of Noon

as Porkie Scott

1963

For Love or Money

as Joe Fogel

1946

Sentimental Journey

as Donnelly - Uncle Don

1959

1946

Two Years Before the Mast

as First Mate Amazeen

1959

Idol on Parade

as Sergeant Major Lush

1944

1991

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

as Self (archive footage)

1945

It's in the Bag!

as William Bendix

1963

The Young and the Brave

as Sgt. Peter L. Kane (escaped POW)

1956

Battle Stations

as Buck Fitzpatrick

1940

They Drive by Night

as Driver Watching Pinball Game (uncredited)

1961

Johnny Nobody

as James Ronald Mulcahy

1959

The Ransom of Red Chief

as Bill Driscoll

1956

High Air

as Joe Redman

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The Time Element

as Peter Jenson

Production

1959

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