William Benedict
- Recitazione
- 16 aprile 1917 · Haskell, Oklahoma, USA
- 25 novembre 1999
Biografia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Benedict (April 16, 1917 – November 25, 1999) was an American actor, perhaps best known for playing "Whitey" in Monogram Pictures' The Bowery Boys series. Born in Haskell, Oklahoma, he took part in school theatricals, and on leaving school he made his way to Hollywood. His first film was $10 Raise (1935) starring Edward Everett Horton, which launched Benedict on a busy career. The blond-haired Benedict almost always played juvenile roles, such as newsboys, messengers, office boys, and farmhands. In 1939, when Universal Pictures began its Little Tough Guys series to compete with the popular Dead End Kids features, Billy Benedict was recruited into the cast. These films led him into the similar East Side Kids movies (usually playing a member of the East Side gang, but occasionally in villainous roles). The East Side Kids became The Bowery Boys in 1946, and Benedict stayed with the series (as "Whitey") through the end of 1951. Other films included My Little Chickadee (1940) starring W. C. Fields and Mae West, The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster (1955), The Sting (1973) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Benedict never shook his juvenile image completely, and continued to play messengers and news vendors well into his sixties. He also worked often in television commercials.
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Filmografia
- The Bowery Boys: Legends of Laughter · In persona
- Bonanza: The Next Generation · Gus Morton
- Autostop per il cielo · Bobby Joe
- Computercide · Elderly Man
- Hill Street giorno e notte
- Goldie and the Boxer · Old Man
- Born Again · Leon Jaworski
- L'incredibile Hulk · Vic
- Sherlock Holmes a New York · Telegraph Office Manager
- Quincy
- Charlie's Angels · Emmett Winston, Esq.
- Won Ton Ton - Il cane che salvò Hollywood · Man on Bus
- Matt Helm · Scavenger
- Ellery Queen
- Cop on the Beat · Lennie
- La morte non esiste · Hotel Desk Clerk
- La casa nella prateria · Reverend Lyman
- La stangata · Roulette Dealer
- Sulle strade della California · Prescott, Bellman
- The Secret Sharer · Mr. Burns
- The Dirt Gang · Station Attendant
- Le strade di San Francisco
- Le avventure di Nick Carter · Newsboy
- Call Her Mom · Mr. Feigelbaum
- Emergency! · Hyperventilating Victim
- Arcibaldo · Jimmy McNab
- Due onesti fuorilegge · Telegrapher (uncredited)
- The Immortal
- Hello, Dolly! · News Vendor (uncredited)
- La famiglia Brady
- Dove vai Bronson? · Card Player
- The Over the Hill Gang · Joe, the Telegrapher (as Bill Benedict)
- Big Daddy
- The Lottery · Joe Summers
- Here's Lucy · Deliveryman
- Mayberry R.F.D. · Uncle Whitmore, Pet Shop Owner
- La terra dei giganti · Villager Peabody
- Adam-12 · Bill White
- Funny Girl · Western Union Boy (uncredited)
- Rogue's Gallery · Jocko (as William Benedict)
- Mannix
- Hondo
- The Guns of Will Sonnett · Telegrapher
- Ironside
- What Am I Bid? · Clem (as Bill Benedict)
- Missione Impossibile · Denver
- I Monkees · Skywriter, Old Man
- Squadra speciale anticrimine
- Frankie e Johnny · Bum Sleeping on Bench (uncredited)
- Strega per amore · Cleaning Man
- Honey West · Farley
- La carovana dell'alleluia · Simpson
- Tre donne per uno scapolo · Stu
- Branded
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- Petticoat Junction · Willie
- Amore, ritorna! · Musician Exiting Elevator (uncredited)
- Route 66
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show · Joe
- Dennis the Menace
- Ai confini della realtà · Conklin
- L'albero degli impiccati · Trapper (uncredited)
- The Rifleman
- Carovane verso il west · Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Rapina a mano armata · American Airlines Clerk
- Mobs, Inc. · Telegraph Boy
- Navy Log
- Gunsmoke · Gus
- La sposa del mostro · Newsboy
- Lassie
- Il mostro magnetico · Albert
- I'm the Law
- Hallmark Hall of Fame · Degnan
- Dragnet
- The Red Skelton Show
- Crazy Over Horses · Whitey (as William Benedict)
- Let's Go Navy! · Whitey
- Ghost Chasers · Whitey
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok