William Bendix
Date of birth: 1906-01-14
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Уильям Бендикс, ویلیام بندیکس
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).
Movie Credits
The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop
Detective Story
1951-10-24
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad.
Woman of the Year
1942-02-05
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relation
The Dark Corner
1946-04-09
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even tr
Macao
1952-04-11
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an
Calcutta
1946-12-20
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they inv
Crashout
1955-03-01
Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten min
Lifeboat
1944-01-28
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship th
Boys' Night Out
1962-06-21
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred i
The Web
1947-06-04
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec bein
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949-04-18
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he i
The Babe Ruth Story
1948-09-16
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run h
Guadalcanal Diary
1943-10-27
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the prep
Wake Island
1942-08-11
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to ke
Cover Up
1949-02-25
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midweste
The Blue Dahlia
1946-04-16
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attem
Gambling House
1950-12-27
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Where There's Life
1947-11-21
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only h
The Glass Key
1942-09-08
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help d
Who Done It?
1942-10-30
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio stat
The Big Steal
1949-07-01
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004-07-28
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to
Race Street
1948-09-11
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
A Girl in Every Port
1952-02-13
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem,
The Time of Your Life
1948-09-03
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving
Brooklyn Orchid
1942-01-31
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
The Deep Six
1958-01-15
The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942-03-05
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son a
Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952-12-24
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
I'll Be Yours
1947-02-02
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
White Tie and Tails
1946-08-30
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involv
Submarine Command
1951-11-01
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew m
Dangerous Mission
1954-03-06
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessi
Kill the Umpire
1950-04-27
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctant
The Hairy Ape
1944-07-02
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watch
Variety Girl
1947-08-29
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char
Streets of Laredo
1949-05-27
Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rus
A Bell for Adano
1945-06-21
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He ha
China
1943-04-21
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil
Taxi, Mister
1943-04-16
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
1942-12-31
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunders
Johnny Holiday
1949-11-18
A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys Schoo
Young Fury
1964-11-01
A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is
Greenwich Village
1944-09-27
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
The Crystal Ball
1943-01-22
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
Abroad with Two Yanks
1944-08-04
Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoyin
Law of the Lawless
1964-05-13
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War
Hostages
1943-08-11
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers a
The Life of Riley
1949-04-16
Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy sta
Don Juan Quilligan
1945-06-01
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he find
Blaze of Noon
1947-05-02
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs
For Love or Money
1963-08-07
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke
Sentimental Journey
1946-03-06
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she
The Rough and the Smooth
1959-10-02
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
Two Years Before the Mast
1946-11-22
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaie
Idol on Parade
1959-03-24
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
Skirmish on the Home Front
1944-05-11
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991-03-10
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scen
It's in the Bag!
1945-04-21
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
The Young and the Brave
1963-08-01
A drama of the Korean War. Four American Army POWs escape behind enemy lines and try to make their w
Battle Stations
1956-02-01
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
10,000 Kids and a Cop
1948-10-01
A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in L
They Drive by Night
1940-07-26
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b
Johnny Nobody
1961-10-01
When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Iris
The Ransom of Red Chief
1959-08-16
Based upon a famous O. Henry short story, two crooks think they have an opportunity to make a quick
High Air
1956-09-12
A father and his estranged son, both tunnel workers in New York City, are forced to deal with each o
The Time Element
A man is sent back in time to December 6, 1941 and tries to warn people about the upcoming Japanese