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William Bendix

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).

On screen

  • Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
  • The Movie Orgy
  • Young Fury
  • Law of the Lawless
  • For Love or Money
  • The Young and the Brave
  • Boys' Night Out
  • Johnny Nobody
  • The Rough and the Smooth
  • Idol on Parade
  • The Ransom of Red Chief
  • The Deep Six
  • Battle Stations
  • Crashout
  • Dangerous Mission
  • Macao
  • A Girl in Every Port
  • Blackbeard, the Pirate
  • Detective Story
  • Submarine Command
  • Gambling House
  • Kill the Umpire
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • Cover Up
  • The Big Steal
  • Streets of Laredo
  • Johnny Holiday
  • The Life of Riley
  • The Babe Ruth Story
  • Race Street
  • The Time of Your Life
  • 10,000 Kids and a Cop
  • The Web
  • Where There's Life
  • I'll Be Yours
  • Variety Girl
  • Blaze of Noon
  • The Dark Corner
  • Calcutta
  • The Blue Dahlia
  • White Tie and Tails
  • Sentimental Journey
  • Two Years Before the Mast
  • A Bell for Adano
  • Don Juan Quilligan
  • It's in the Bag!
  • Lifeboat
  • The Hairy Ape
  • Greenwich Village
  • Abroad with Two Yanks
  • Guadalcanal Diary
  • China
  • Taxi, Mister
  • The Crystal Ball
  • Hostages
  • Woman of the Year
  • Wake Island
  • The Glass Key
  • Who Done It?
  • Brooklyn Orchid
  • Star Spangled Rhythm
  • The McGuerins from Brooklyn
  • They Drive by Night
  • The Time Element

Behind the camera

  • A Luz vem do Alto

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