Person Detail
William Bendix
Catalogued films 61Actor 60
William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, who typically played rough, blue-collar characters. He is best remembered for his role in Wake Island, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also portrayed the clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in both the radio and television versions of The Life of Riley, and baseball player Babe Ruth in The Babe Ruth Story. Bendix was a frequent co-star of Alan Ladd, the two appearing in ten films together; both actors coincidentally died in 1964.
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Young Fury
Law of the Lawless
For Love or Money
The Young and the Brave
Boys' Night Out
Johnny Nobody
The Rough and the Smooth
Idol on Parade
The Deep Six
High Air
Battle Stations
Crashout
Dangerous Mission
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Macao
A Girl in Every Port
Submarine Command
Detective Story
Gambling House
Kill the Umpire
The Big Steal
Streets of Laredo
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Life of Riley
Cover Up
Johnny Holiday
Race Street
The Time of Your Life
The Babe Ruth Story
Where There's Life
The Web
Blaze of Noon
I'll Be Yours
Calcutta
Two Years Before the Mast
White Tie and Tails
The Blue Dahlia
The Dark Corner
Sentimental Journey
A Bell for Adano
Don Juan Quilligan
It's in the Bag!
Abroad with Two Yanks- SKSkirmish on the Home Front
Lifeboat
Greenwich Village
The Hairy Ape
Guadalcanal Diary
China
Taxi, Mister
The Crystal Ball
Hostages
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Who Done It?
The Glass Key
Wake Island
Woman of the Year
Brooklyn Orchid
The Time Element
