William "Billy" Benedict
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Born | Haskell, Oklahoma, U.S. |
April 16, 1917
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1935–1992 |
Spouse(s) | Dolly Benedict (1969-?) |
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.[1]
Selected filmography
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- Ten Dollar Raise (1935)
- The Doubting Thomas (1935)
- Ladies Love Danger (1935)
- College Scandal (1935)
- The Silk Hat Kid (1935)
- Show Them No Mercy (1935)
- Your Uncle Dudley (1935)
- Three Kids and a Queen (1935)
- Way Down East (1935)
- Libeled Lady (1936)
- The Country Doctor (1936)
- Ramona (1936)
- The Witness Chair (1936)
- They Wanted to Marry (1936)
- Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
- That I May Live (1937)
- Laughing at Trouble (1937)
- Walking down Broadway (1938)
- Hold that Co-Ed (1938)
- King of the Newsboys (1938)
- Young Fugitives (1938)
- Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)
- Newsboys Home (1939)
- Code of the Streets (1939)
- Call a Messenger (1939)
- Legion of the Lawless (1940)
- Melody Ranch (1940)
- Give us Wings (1940)
- My Little Chickadee (1940)
- Citadel of Crime (1941)
- The Mad Doctor (1941)
- The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)
- Tuxedo Junction (1941)
- Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)
- On the Sunny Side (1942)
- Rings on her Fingers (1942)
- Wildcat (1942)
- Aerial Gunner (1943)
- The Clancy Street Boys (1943)
- Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
- Moonlight in Vermont (1943)
- The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
- They Fear to Live (1944)
- Million Dollar Kid (1944)
- Follow the Leader (1944)
- Goodnight Sweetheart (1944)
- That's my Baby! (1944)
- Follow the Boys (1944)
- Whispering Footsteps (1944)
- Bowery Champs (1944)
- Block Busters (1944)
- Docks of New York (1945)
- Mr. Muggs Rides Again (1945)
- Come out Fighting (1945)
- Hollywood and Vine (1945)
- Live Wires (1946)
- In Fast Company (1946)
- Spook Busters (1946)
- Bowery Bombshell (1946)
- Do You Love Me? (1946)
- Mr. Hex (1946)
- Hard-Boiled Mahoney (1947)
- Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
- Fun on a Weekend (1947)
- News Hounds (1947)
- The Pilgrim Lady (1947)
- Angels' Alley (1948)
- Jinx Money (1948)
- Trouble Makers (1948)
- Secret Service Investigator (1948)
- Master Minds (1949)
- Hold that Baby! (1949)
- Fighting Fools (1949)
- Angels in Disguise (1949)
- Blonde Dynamite (1950)
- Blues Busters (1950)
- Triple Trouble (1950)
- Bowery Battalion (1951)
- Ghost Chasers (1951)
- Let's Go Navy! (1951)
- The Magnetic Monster (1953)
- Bride of the Monster (1955)
- The Killing (1956)
- Dear Heart (1964)
- The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
- What Am I Bid? (1967)
- Funny Girl (1968)
- Hello Dolly! (1969)
- The Sting (1973)
- Homebodies (1974)
- Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
- Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
- Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
- The Last Hurrah (1977)
- Born Again (1978)
Death
Benedict died at age 82 on November 25, 1999 at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Staff. "William Benedict Character Actor, 82", The New York Times, November 30, 1999. Accessed March 30, 2009.
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- 1917 births
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- American male film actors
- Male actors from Oklahoma
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