William Benedict
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1917-04-16
Place of birth
Haskell, Oklahoma, USA
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Cast
Bringing Up Baby
1938
7.50
Tuxedo Junction
1941
0.00
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
6.50
Rogue's Gallery
1968
6.00
The Talk of the Town
1942
7.28
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942
6.00
Scattergood Baines
1941
6.00
Nobody's Darling
1943
0.00
The Gentleman Misbehaves
1946
0.00
Triple Trouble
1950
6.20
Bonanza: The Next Generation
1988
7.50
The Great McGinty
1940
6.90
What Am I Bid?
1967
0.00
Confessions of Boston Blackie
1941
6.10
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
4.00
Crazy Over Horses
1951
5.50
The Last Gangster
1937
6.30
Time Out for Rhythm
1941
6.20
Great Guns
1941
5.87
Clancy Street Boys
1943
5.75
Captain January
1936
6.70
Brenda Starr, Reporter
1945
0.00
Young People
1940
4.60
Do You Love Me
1946
4.80
Ghost Chasers
1951
6.70
Ramona
1936
5.10
That I May Live
1937
6.50
After the Thin Man
1936
7.34
Funny Girl
1968
7.20
Tramp Trouble
1937
0.00
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939
6.20
$10 Raise
1935
8.00
Way Down East
1935
3.00
Flying Fists
1937
5.00
Hold That Kiss
1938
6.50
College Scandal
1935
5.20
Hold That Co-ed
1938
6.30
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943
6.50
King of the Newsboys
1938
3.50
Newsboys' Home
1938
6.00
I Live on Danger
1942
5.70
Lover Come Back
1961
6.94
Crack-Up
1936
5.75
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
1945
5.00
Hollywood Hobbies
1939
5.60
Wildcat
1942
3.50
The Pilgrim Lady
1947
5.00
Young Fugitives
1938
1.00
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
0.00
They Wanted to Marry
1937
5.00
Born Again
1978
0.00
Computercide
1982
6.00
The Country Doctor
1936
6.00
The Adventures of Nick Carter
1972
3.50
M'Liss
1936
5.00
The Powers Girl
1943
6.50
Hello, Dolly!
1969
7.00
Lucky Losers
1950
6.10
Mr. Hex
1946
6.70
Frankie and Johnny
1966
5.70
Cop on the Beat
1975
4.10
I Met My Love Again
1938
5.40
Laughing at Trouble
1936
6.00
Docks of New York
1945
6.00
Stage to Chino
1940
5.38
The Witness Chair
1936
6.20
Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947
6.40
The Killing
1956
7.70
Goldie and the Boxer
1979
4.50
The Sting
1973
8.00
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
7.70
Without Reservations
1946
6.20
Doubting Thomas
1935
7.00
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937
5.00
Ghosts on the Loose
1943
4.20
Million Dollar Kid
1944
5.80
Follow the Leader
1944
3.50
That's My Baby!
1944
5.00
I Won't Play
1944
6.36
People Are Funny
1946
5.20
In Fast Company
1946
6.30
Bowery Bombshell
1946
6.00
Spook Busters
1946
4.80
Bowery Buckaroos
1947
6.50
Angels' Alley
1948
4.00
Let's Go Navy!
1951
7.00
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976
5.80
Show Them No Mercy!
1935
7.00
Libeled Lady
1936
7.28
Dressed to Kill
1941
6.33
Legion of the Lawless
1940
5.20
Merton of the Movies
1947
6.80
Smuggler's Cove
1948
4.70
Trouble Makers
1948
5.70
Bride of the Monster
1955
4.40
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938
6.00
They Live in Fear
1944
0.00
The Whistler
1944
5.96
Aerial Gunner
1943
4.40
Perils of Nyoka
1942
0.00
All by Myself
1943
0.00
My Little Chickadee
1940
6.39
Adventures of Red Ryder
1940
5.50
Junior G-Men of the Air
1942
6.00
Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937
5.90
The Hucksters
1947
6.90
Code of the Streets
1939
7.00
And One Was Beautiful
1940
6.20
Master Minds
1949
5.80
Blonde Dynamite
1950
5.00
Lucky Partners
1940
6.00
The Mad Doctor
1940
6.00
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943
0.00
Block Busters
1944
0.00
Bowery Champs
1944
7.00
Come Out Fighting
1945
7.00
Rhythm on the River
1940
6.00
Second Chorus
1941
5.80
Hold That Baby!
1949
5.00
Live Wires
1946
5.50
News Hounds
1947
6.30
Melody Ranch
1940
5.80
Fighting Fools
1949
5.00
Angels in Disguise
1949
5.33
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
6.15
Gay Blades
1946
0.00
Never Say Goodbye
1946
6.19
Give Us Wings
1940
6.00
Grand Ole Opry
1940
7.00
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937
0.00
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
6.10
Home in Wyomin'
1942
8.00
One More Tomorrow
1946
5.50
Steamboat Round the Bend
1935
7.50
Riders of the Pony Express
1949
6.00
In Old Cheyenne
1941
4.10
Jesse James at Bay
1941
4.22
Heart of the Golden West
1942
1.50
The Magnetic Monster
1953
5.60
Say It in French
1938
0.00
Your Uncle Dudley
1935
1.00
Walking Down Broadway
1938
5.70
Get Hep to Love
1942
4.00
Mr. District Attorney
1941
5.43
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
5.30
On the Sunny Side
1942
6.00
The Lottery
1969
6.77
She Knew All the Answers
1941
6.30
Janie
1944
5.50
Night Wind
1948
0.00
Jinx Money
1948
4.70
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941
6.30
Fun on a Weekend
1947
7.00
There's Always a Woman
1938
6.06
Whispering Footsteps
1943
5.30
A Night to Remember
1942
6.60
Big Daddy
1969
0.00
The Glass Key
1942
6.60
3 Kids and a Queen
1935
6.00
Story of G.I. Joe
1945
6.40
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
6.50
Road to Utopia
1946
6.64
Hollywood and Vine
1945
4.00
Bowery Battalion
1951
8.00
The Hanging Tree
1959
6.70
Cadet Girl
1941
0.00
The Dirt Gang
1972
2.83
Call Her Mom
1972
4.00
The Dead Don't Die
1975
5.80
Dear Heart
1965
6.60
Blues Busters
1950
5.50
Bowery Boy
1940
3.00
Secret Service Investigator
1948
6.00
Moonlight in Vermont
1943
6.00
The Over the Hill Gang
1969
5.60
Mobs, Inc.
1956
4.00
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946
6.20
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
0.00
Bad Boy
1935
5.00
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
6.10
Lady in a Jam
1942
5.50
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
2.00