William Bendix
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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).
Known for
Credits
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
as Corp. Taxi Potts
Woman of the Year (1942)
as Pinkie Peters
The Movie Orgy (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
Greenwich Village (1944)
as Danny O'Mara
Lifeboat (1944)
as Gus Smith
Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
as Ben Worley
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
as Buzz Wanchek
Detective Story (1951)
as Det. Lou Brody
Boys' Night Out (1962)
as Slattery
A Bell for Adano (1945)
as Sgt. Borth
Variety Girl (1947)
as William Bendix
They Drive by Night (1940)
as Driver Watching Pinball Game (uncredited)
Battle Stations (1956)
as Buck Fitzpatrick
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
as Sir Sagramore
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
as Herman
Macao (1952)
as Lawrence C. Trumble
Streets of Laredo (1949)
as Wahoo Jones
The Dark Corner (1946)
as Fred Foss
Young Fury (1964)
as Blacksmith
10,000 Kids and a Cop (1948)
as Cop
Cover Up (1949)
as Larry Best
Wake Island (1942)
as Pvt. Aloysius K. "Smacksie" Randall
Idol on Parade (1959)
as Sergeant Major Lush
The Glass Key (1942)
as Jeff
For Love or Money (1963)
as Joe Fogel
Dangerous Mission (1954)
as Chief Ranger Joe Parker
The Time Element (—)
as Peter Jenson
Gambling House (1950)
as Joe Farrow
A Girl in Every Port (1952)
as Timothy Aloysius 'Tim' Dunnovan
It's in the Bag! (1945)
as William Bendix
The Time of Your Life (1948)
as Nick
The Web (1947)
as Lt. Damico
Where There's Life (1947)
as Victor O'Brien
Submarine Command (1951)
as CPO Boyer
The Big Steal (1949)
as Capt. Vincent Blake
The Deep Six (1958)
as 'Frenchy' Shapiro
Who Done It? (1942)
as Detective Sgt. Brannigan
Law of the Lawless (1964)
as Sheriff Ed Tanner
Calcutta (1946)
as Pedro Blake
Johnny Nobody (1961)
as James Ronald Mulcahy
Kill the Umpire (1950)
as Bill 'Two Call' Johnson
The Crystal Ball (1943)
as Biff Carter
The Hairy Ape (1944)
as Hank Smith
The Ransom of Red Chief (1959)
as Bill Driscoll
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
as George Herman 'Babe' Ruth
Brooklyn Orchid (1942)
as Timothy McGuerin
Don Juan Quilligan (1945)
as Patrick Michael 'Don Juan' Quilligan
Blaze of Noon (1947)
as Porkie Scott
Race Street (1948)
as Barney Runson
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
as First Mate Amazeen
Sentimental Journey (1946)
as Donnelly - Uncle Don
The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
as Reg Barker
Crashout (1955)
as Van Morgan Duff
Johnny Holiday (1949)
as Sgt. Walker
White Tie and Tails (1946)
as Larry Lundie
Abroad with Two Yanks (1944)
as Biff Koraski
China (1943)
as Johnny Sparrow
Skirmish on the Home Front (1944)
as Herb Miller
I'll Be Yours (1947)
as Wechsberg
The Young and the Brave (1963)
as Sgt. Peter L. Kane (escaped POW)
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
High Air (1956)
as Joe Redman
Hostages (1943)
as Underground leader
Taxi, Mister (1943)
as Tim McGuerin
The Life of Riley (1949)
as Chester A. Riley
The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942)
as Tim McGuerin