
Place of Birth:
New York City, New York, USA
Date of Birth:
1/14/1906
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).

The Movie Orgy

Detective Story

Woman of the Year

The Dark Corner

Macao

Calcutta

Crashout

Lifeboat

Boys' Night Out

The Web

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The Babe Ruth Story

Guadalcanal Diary

Wake Island

Cover Up

The Blue Dahlia

Gambling House

Where There's Life

The Glass Key

Who Done It?

The Big Steal

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Race Street

A Girl in Every Port

The Time of Your Life

Brooklyn Orchid

The Deep Six

Star Spangled Rhythm

Blackbeard, the Pirate

I'll Be Yours

White Tie and Tails

Submarine Command

Kill the Umpire

Dangerous Mission

The Hairy Ape

Variety Girl

Streets of Laredo

A Bell for Adano

China

The McGuerins from Brooklyn

Taxi, Mister

Johnny Holiday

Young Fury

Greenwich Village

The Crystal Ball

Abroad with Two Yanks

Law of the Lawless

Hostages

The Life of Riley

Don Juan Quilligan

Blaze of Noon

For Love or Money

Sentimental Journey

The Rough and the Smooth

Two Years Before the Mast

Idol on Parade

Skirmish on the Home Front

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

It's in the Bag!

The Young and the Brave

Battle Stations

10,000 Kids and a Cop

They Drive by Night

Johnny Nobody

The Ransom of Red Chief
High Air

The Time Element