William Bendix

Acting

William Bendix

Born 1906-01-14 New York City, New York, USA 66 films

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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Filmography

66 films
The Movie Orgy poster

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloo…

The Movie Orgy

★ 6.8 1968

Young Fury poster

A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is…

Young Fury

★ 5.6 1964

Johnny Nobody poster

When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Iri…

Johnny Nobody

★ 6.6 1961

The Deep Six poster

The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd star…

The Deep Six

★ 5.7 1958