William Bendix
Acting
Biography
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).
As actor 92
Wagon Train
1957
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
The Untouchables
1959
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
What's My Line?
1950
Burke's Law
1963
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Mister Ed
1961
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Lights Out
1949
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
The Steve Allen Show
1956
The Life Of Riley
1953
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Riverboat
1959
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
Vacation Playhouse
1963
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Truth or Consequences
1950
Detective Story
1951
Greenwich Village
1944
Lifeboat
1944
The Movie Orgy
1968
The Lux Show
1957
General Electric Theater
1953
Who Done It?
1942
Overland Trail
1960
The Glass Key
1942
Woman of the Year
1942
The Blue Dahlia
1946
Macao
1952
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
Boys' Night Out
1962
The Dark Corner
1946
Streets of Laredo
1949
Gambling House
1950
They Drive by Night
1940
The Deep Six
1958
Variety Girl
1947
For Love or Money
1963
Young Fury
1964
Wake Island
1942
The Big Steal
1949
Where There's Life
1947
Law of the Lawless
1964
Dangerous Mission
1954
Cover Up
1949
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952
The Time Element
Submarine Command
1951
Battle Stations
1956
A Bell for Adano
1945
The Young and the Brave
1963
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
Sentimental Journey
1946
The Rough and the Smooth
1959
Johnny Holiday
1949
China
1943
Brooklyn Orchid
1942
The Crystal Ball
1943
Don Juan Quilligan
1945
It's in the Bag!
1945
A Girl in Every Port
1952
Calcutta
1946
10,000 Kids and a Cop
1948
The Time of Your Life
1948
The Web
1947
Crashout
1955
Kill the Umpire
1950
Race Street
1948
Skirmish on the Home Front
1944
White Tie and Tails
1946
I'll Be Yours
1947
Johnny Nobody
1961
Abroad with Two Yanks
1944
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
The Ransom of Red Chief
1959
The Babe Ruth Story
1948
The Life of Riley
1949
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
1942
Blaze of Noon
1947
The Hairy Ape
1944
Idol on Parade
1959
Hostages
1943
High Air
1956
Taxi, Mister
1943
