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William Bendix

Actor

William Bendix

14 January 1906† 14 December 1964 (aged 58) New York City, New York, USA
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Movies
66
Shows
24

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).

IMDb

Known For

Lifeboat

7.41944

The Blue Dahlia

6.71946

Detective Story

7.01951

Woman of the Year

7.01942

The Untouchables

8.01959

They Drive by Night

6.91940

The Glass Key

6.71942

The Big Steal

6.61949

The Dark Corner

6.61946

Mister Ed

6.81961

Macao

6.31952

Blackbeard, the Pirate

5.91952

The Web

7.11947

Who Done It?

7.01942

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

6.21949

Wagon Train

6.61957

Boys' Night Out

5.71962

Wake Island

5.81942

What's My Line?

7.01950

Cover Up

6.41949

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

7.01991

The Movie Orgy

6.81968

Young Fury

5.61964

Law of the Lawless

6.51964

For Love or Money

6.11963

The Young and the Brave

6.31963

Boys' Night Out

5.71962

Johnny Nobody

6.61961

The Rough and the Smooth

6.31959

The Ransom of Red Chief

9.01959

Idol on Parade

7.01959

The Deep Six

5.71958

High Air

1956

Battle Stations

6.11956

Crashout

6.71955

Dangerous Mission

6.01954

Blackbeard, the Pirate

5.91952

Macao

6.31952

A Girl in Every Port

4.81952

Submarine Command

5.81951

Detective Story

7.01951

Gambling House

6.21950

Kill the Umpire

6.91950

Johnny Holiday

7.51949

The Big Steal

6.61949

Streets of Laredo

6.01949

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

6.21949

The Life of Riley

8.01949

Cover Up

6.41949

10,000 Kids and a Cop

7.01948

The Babe Ruth Story

6.11948

Race Street

6.01948

The Time of Your Life

6.11948

Where There's Life

6.41947

Variety Girl

6.51947

The Web

7.11947

Blaze of Noon

5.71947

I'll Be Yours

6.21947

Calcutta

6.41946

Two Years Before the Mast

6.51946

White Tie and Tails

7.81946

The Blue Dahlia

6.71946

The Dark Corner

6.61946

Sentimental Journey

6.41946

A Bell for Adano

6.01945

Don Juan Quilligan

7.01945

It's in the Bag!

6.31945

Greenwich Village

6.71944

Abroad with Two Yanks

6.71944

The Hairy Ape

6.31944

Skirmish on the Home Front

10.01944

Lifeboat

7.41944

Guadalcanal Diary

5.61943

Hostages

7.01943

China

6.91943

Taxi, Mister

4.21943

The Crystal Ball

6.11943

The McGuerins from Brooklyn

6.71942

Who Done It?

7.01942

The Glass Key

6.71942