William Bendix
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).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.096 |
| Birthday | 1906-01-14 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Уильям Бендикс, ویلیام بندیکس, |
1968
The Movie Orgy
6.5/11
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...
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The Movie Orgy
1951
Detective Story
6.997/143
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a preci...
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Detective Story
1942
Woman of the Year
6.9/147
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hecti...
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Woman of the Year
1946
The Dark Corner
6.6/61
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunk...
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The Dark Corner
1952
Macao
6.2/37
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he misle...
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Macao
1946
Calcutta
6.2/18
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and...
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Calcutta
1955
Crashout
6.5/18
Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long,...
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Crashout
1944
Lifeboat
7.3/442
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-bo...
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Lifeboat
1962
Boys' Night Out
5.8/26
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different...
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Boys' Night Out
1947
The Web
7/41
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly real...
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The Web
1949
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
6.3/28
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains pow...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1948
The Babe Ruth Story
5.8/8
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
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The Babe Ruth Story
1943
Guadalcanal Diary
5.6/19
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalca...
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Guadalcanal Diary
1942
Wake Island
5.6/24
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island b...
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Wake Island
1949
Cover Up
6.7/21
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murde...
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Cover Up
1946
The Blue Dahlia
6.667/156
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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The Blue Dahlia
1950
Gambling House
6.1/15
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
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Gambling House
1947
Where There's Life
5.6/5
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael...
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Where There's Life
1942
The Glass Key
6.608/120
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Glass Key
1942
Who Done It?
6.944/36
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder wh...
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Who Done It?
1949
The Big Steal
6.5/96
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlf...
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The Big Steal
2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself
7.7/52
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
1948
Race Street
5.8/19
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
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Race Street
1952
A Girl in Every Port
4.8/4
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a p...
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A Girl in Every Port
1948
The Time of Your Life
5.8/13
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Jo...
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The Time of Your Life
1942
Brooklyn Orchid
6/2
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
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Brooklyn Orchid
1958
The Deep Six
5.4/11
The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker wh...
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The Deep Six
1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
5.9/8
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie...
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Star Spangled Rhythm
1952
Blackbeard, the Pirate
5.9/44
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
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Blackbeard, the Pirate
1947
I'll Be Yours
6/4
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
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I'll Be Yours
1946
White Tie and Tails
7/2
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.
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White Tie and Tails
1951
Submarine Command
5.6/16
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequ...
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Submarine Command
1950
Kill the Umpire
6.333/6
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Ev...
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Kill the Umpire
1954
Dangerous Mission
5.8/11
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
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Dangerous Mission
1944
The Hairy Ape
5.5/4
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
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The Hairy Ape
1947
Variety Girl
6.1/9
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful...
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Variety Girl
1949
Streets of Laredo
5.9/13
Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lor...
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Streets of Laredo
1945
A Bell for Adano
5.7/13
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without int...
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A Bell for Adano
1943
China
6.8/13
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the s...
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China
1942
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
5.5/2
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an af...
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The McGuerins from Brooklyn
1943
Taxi, Mister
4.25/4
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
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Taxi, Mister
1949
Johnny Holiday
7/1
A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys School.
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Johnny Holiday
1964
Young Fury
5.4/10
A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the lead...
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Young Fury
1944
Greenwich Village
6/4
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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Greenwich Village
1943
The Crystal Ball
5.8/14
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
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The Crystal Ball
1944
Abroad with Two Yanks
6/2
Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. Wh...
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Abroad with Two Yanks
1964
Law of the Lawless
6.111/9
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
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Law of the Lawless
1943
Hostages
6/2
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and...
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Hostages
1949
The Life of Riley
7/1
Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working husband-and-fa...
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The Life of Riley
1945
Don Juan Quilligan
6/1
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
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Don Juan Quilligan
1947
Blaze of Noon
4/2
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires...
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Blaze of Noon
1963
For Love or Money
5.3/6
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husband...
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For Love or Money
1946
Sentimental Journey
6.4/4
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She dec...
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Sentimental Journey
1959
The Rough and the Smooth
5.9/10
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
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The Rough and the Smooth
1946
Two Years Before the Mast
6.2/8
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ship...
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Two Years Before the Mast
1959
Idol on Parade
7/5
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
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Idol on Parade
1944
Skirmish on the Home Front
0/0
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.
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Skirmish on the Home Front
1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
7/1
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1945
It's in the Bag!
5/5
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
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It's in the Bag!
1963
The Young and the Brave
5.9/9
A drama of the Korean War. Four American Army POWs escape behind enemy lines and try to make their way back to their units in the South. Along the way...
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The Young and the Brave
1956
Battle Stations
5.6/7
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
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Battle Stations
1948
10,000 Kids and a Cop
6/1
A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquen...
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10,000 Kids and a Cop
1940
They Drive by Night
6.905/116
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distri...
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They Drive by Night
1961
Johnny Nobody
6.5/12
When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens...
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Johnny Nobody
1959
The Ransom of Red Chief
10/1
Based upon a famous O. Henry short story, two crooks think they have an opportunity to make a quick buck by kidnapping a rich man's son. Ironically, t...
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The Ransom of Red Chief
1956
High Air
0/0
A father and his estranged son, both tunnel workers in New York City, are forced to deal with each other during a dangerous collapse.
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