William Bendix

DOB: 1906-01-14

DOD: 1964-12-14

William Bendix 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).

Starred In

1968
Movie

The Movie Orgy

1951
Movie

Detective Story

1942
Movie

Woman of the Year

1946
Movie

The Dark Corner

1952
Movie

Macao

1946
Movie

Calcutta

1955
Movie

Crashout

1944
Movie

Lifeboat

1962
Movie

Boys' Night Out

1947
Movie

The Web

1943
Movie

Guadalcanal Diary

1942
Movie

Wake Island

1949
Movie

Cover Up

1946
Movie

The Blue Dahlia

1950
Movie

Gambling House

1947
Movie

Where There's Life

1942
Movie

The Glass Key

1942
Movie

Who Done It?

1949
Movie

The Big Steal

1948
Movie

Race Street

1942
Movie

Brooklyn Orchid

1958
Movie

The Deep Six

1947
Movie

I'll Be Yours

1951
Movie

Submarine Command

1950
Movie

Kill the Umpire

1954
Movie

Dangerous Mission

1944
Movie

The Hairy Ape

1947
Movie

Variety Girl

1949
Movie

Streets of Laredo

1945
Movie

A Bell for Adano

1943
Movie

China

1943
Movie

Taxi, Mister

1949
Movie

Johnny Holiday

1964
Movie

Young Fury

1944
Movie

Greenwich Village

1943
Movie

The Crystal Ball

1964
Movie

Law of the Lawless

1943
Movie

Hostages

1949
Movie

The Life of Riley

1945
Movie

Don Juan Quilligan

1947
Movie

Blaze of Noon

1963
Movie

For Love or Money

1959
Movie

Idol on Parade

1945
Movie

It's in the Bag!

1956
Movie

Battle Stations

1961
Movie

Johnny Nobody

1956
Movie

High Air

NaN
Movie

The Time Element

1963
Tv

Burke's Law

1959
Tv

Riverboat

1949
Tv

Lights Out

1957
Tv

Wagon Train

1963
Tv

Burke's Law

1957
Tv

The Lux Show

1961
Tv

Mister Ed