William Bendix
Acting
Born 1906-01-14 · New York City, New York, USA
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).
Known for
The Blue Dahlia
1946 · Movie
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004 · Movie
Skirmish on the Home Front
1944 · Movie
Lifeboat
1944 · Movie
The Ransom of Red Chief
1959 · Movie
Detective Story
1951 · Movie
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Movie
Woman of the Year
1942 · Movie
The Dark Corner
1946 · Movie
The Glass Key
1942 · Movie
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991 · Movie
Variety Girl
1947 · Movie
The Life of Riley
1949 · Movie
The Web
1947 · Movie
Boys' Night Out
1962 · Movie
They Drive by Night
1940 · Movie
Who Done It?
1942 · Movie
White Tie and Tails
1946 · Movie
Macao
1952 · Movie
China
1943 · Movie
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949 · Movie
The Big Steal
1949 · Movie
Law of the Lawless
1964 · Movie
Crashout
1955 · Movie
Brooklyn Orchid
1942 · Movie
Cover Up
1949 · Movie
Hostages
1943 · Movie
Johnny Holiday
1949 · Movie
Don Juan Quilligan
1945 · Movie
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942 · Movie
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
1942 · Movie
Kill the Umpire
1950 · Movie
Sentimental Journey
1946 · Movie
It's in the Bag!
1945 · Movie
Abroad with Two Yanks
1944 · Movie
Greenwich Village
1944 · Movie
Calcutta
1946 · Movie
Two Years Before the Mast
1946 · Movie
Streets of Laredo
1949 · Movie
Submarine Command
1951 · Movie
Race Street
1948 · Movie
Where There's Life
1947 · Movie
Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952 · Movie
Dangerous Mission
1954 · Movie
Wake Island
1942 · Movie
Johnny Nobody
1961 · Movie
A Bell for Adano
1945 · Movie
Guadalcanal Diary
1943 · Movie
Idol on Parade
1959 · Movie
For Love or Money
1963 · Movie
Blaze of Noon
1947 · Movie
The Crystal Ball
1943 · Movie
10,000 Kids and a Cop
1948 · Movie
The Young and the Brave
1963 · Movie
The Deep Six
1958 · Movie
The Rough and the Smooth
1959 · Movie
Gambling House
1950 · Movie
The Babe Ruth Story
1948 · Movie
The Hairy Ape
1944 · Movie
The Time of Your Life
1948 · Movie