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.
Acting (183 movies)
Bringing Up Baby
1938
Tuxedo Junction
1941
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
Rogue's Gallery
1968
The Talk of the Town
1942
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942
Scattergood Baines
1941
Nobody's Darling
1943
The Gentleman Misbehaves
1946
Triple Trouble
1950
Bonanza: The Next Generation
1988
The Great McGinty
1940
What Am I Bid?
1967
Confessions of Boston Blackie
1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
Crazy Over Horses
1951
The Last Gangster
1937
Time Out for Rhythm
1941
Great Guns
1941
Clancy Street Boys
1943
Captain January
1936
Brenda Starr, Reporter
1945
Young People
1940
Do You Love Me
1946
Ghost Chasers
1951
Ramona
1936
That I May Live
1937
After the Thin Man
1936
Funny Girl
1968
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939
$10 Raise
1935
Way Down East
1935
Flying Fists
1937
Hold That Kiss
1938
College Scandal
1935
Hold That Co-ed
1938
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943
King of the Newsboys
1938
Newsboys' Home
1938
I Live on Danger
1942
Lover Come Back
1961
Crack-Up
1936
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
1945
Hollywood Hobbies
1939
Wildcat
1942
The Pilgrim Lady
1947
Young Fugitives
1938
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
They Wanted to Marry
1937
Born Again
1978
Computercide
1982
The Country Doctor
1936
The Adventures of Nick Carter
1972
M'Liss
1936
The Powers Girl
1943
Hello, Dolly!
1969
Lucky Losers
1950
Mr. Hex
1946
Frankie and Johnny
1966
Cop on the Beat
1975
I Met My Love Again
1938
Laughing at Trouble
1936
Docks of New York
1945
Stage to Chino
1940
The Witness Chair
1936
Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947
The Killing
1956
Goldie and the Boxer
1979
The Sting
1973
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
Without Reservations
1946
Doubting Thomas
1935
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937
Ghosts on the Loose
1943
Million Dollar Kid
1944
Follow the Leader
1944
That's My Baby!
1944
I Won't Play
1944
People Are Funny
1946
In Fast Company
1946
Bowery Bombshell
1946
Spook Busters
1946
Bowery Buckaroos
1947
Angels' Alley
1948
Let's Go Navy!
1951
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976
Show Them No Mercy!
1935
Libeled Lady
1936
Dressed to Kill
1941
Legion of the Lawless
1940
Merton of the Movies
1947
Smuggler's Cove
1948
Trouble Makers
1948
Bride of the Monster
1955
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938
They Live in Fear
1944
The Whistler
1944
Aerial Gunner
1943
Perils of Nyoka
1942
All by Myself
1943
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