William Benedict
Acting
Born 1917-04-16
Died 1999-11-25
Haskell, Oklahoma, USA
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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.
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37 credits
Little House on the Prairie
Wagon Train
The Twilight Zone
Adam-12
Charlie's Angels
Mission: Impossible
I Dream of Jeannie
All in the Family
Petticoat Junction
Gunsmoke
The Incredible Hulk
Highway to Heaven
Here's Lucy
Police Story
The Monkees
Mayberry R.F.D.
Alias Smith and Jones
Land of the Giants
The Sting
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Honey West
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Then Came Bronson
Matt Helm
Hello, Dolly!
The Killing
Bringing Up Baby
Funny Girl
Frankie and Johnny
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Ox-Bow Incident
Libeled Lady
The Hallelujah Trail
Lover Come Back
The Hanging Tree
After the Thin Man
The Glass Key
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Lassie
Ironside
The Rifleman
Dragnet
Hill Street Blues
Emergency!
Quincy, M.E.
Mannix
The Red Skelton Show
Route 66
Navy Log
The Streets of San Francisco
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
The Brady Bunch
Felony Squad
Ellery Queen
Branded
Dennis the Menace
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
The Immortal
Hondo
I'm the Law
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