San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, Los Angeles
Occupation(s)
Film, radio, television actor
Years active
1936–1964
Political party
Republican
Spouse
Theresa Stefanotti
(m. 1927–1964)
Children
2
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.
WilliamBendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, who typically played rough, blue-collar characters...
would get his own series Blue Ribbon Town instead.) Brecher then saw WilliamBendix as taxicab company owner Tim McGuerin in Hal Roach's The McGuerins from...
Bendix Corporation is an American manufacturing and engineering company which, during various times in its existence, made automotive brake shoes and systems...
achievements, was fictionalized. Directed by Roy Del Ruth, the film stars WilliamBendix (New York Yankee batboy in the 1920s) as the ballplayer and Claire Trevor...
directed by George Marshall and starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and WilliamBendix. It was Chandler's first original screenplay. Three demobilized United...
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directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, WilliamBendix and Mark Stevens. The film was not a commercial success but has since...
"Spig" Wead and Arthur Sheekman and starred Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts and WilliamBendix. Early in the 1920s, the four McDonald brothers are...
television western series Overland Trail, in which he co-starred with WilliamBendix for 17 episodes As Jed Sills in the 1960-1962 CBS television series...
crime film directed by Lewis R. Foster and starring WilliamBendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman, Gene Evans, Marshall Thompson, and Beverly...
directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, WilliamBendix, Keith Andes, and Torin Thatcher. The film was made by RKO Radio Pictures...
its contributions to the genre. Ladd also appeared in ten films with WilliamBendix. His other notable credits include Two Years Before the Mast (1946)...
(Patric Knowles). When Halliday's superior, Captain Vincent Blake (WilliamBendix), suspects him of having taken part in the theft, Halliday pursues Fiske...
Story 1948 Biographical The life and career of Babe Ruth, starring WilliamBendix. It Happens Every Spring 1949 Comedy Ray Milland as a scientist whose...
1949 film, both starring WilliamBendix, a 1949 TV series starring Jackie Gleason and 1950s TV series starring WilliamBendix Life of Riley (British TV...
baseball comedy film starring WilliamBendix and Una Merkel, directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Frank Tashlin. Bendix two years earlier had portrayed...
Thirteen years after the end of World War II, a man named Peter Jenson (WilliamBendix) visits a psychoanalyst, Dr. Gillespie (Martin Balsam). Jenson tells...
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