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