William Benedict
Acting
Born April 16, 1917 · Haskell, Oklahoma, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Films (186)
The Bowery Boys: Legends of Laughter
2020
Bonanza: The Next Generation
1988
Computercide
1982
Goldie and the Boxer
1979
Born Again
1978
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
Cop on the Beat
1975
The Dead Don't Die
1975
The Sting
1973
The Secret Sharer
1973
The Dirt Gang
1972
The Adventures of Nick Carter
1972
Call Her Mom
1972
Hello, Dolly!
1969
The Over the Hill Gang
1969
Big Daddy
1969
The Lottery
1969
Funny Girl
1968
Rogue's Gallery
1968
What Am I Bid?
1967
Frankie and Johnny
1966
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
Dear Heart
1965
Lover Come Back
1961
The Hanging Tree
1959
The Killing
1956
Mobs, Inc.
1956
Bride of the Monster
1955
The Magnetic Monster
1953
Crazy Over Horses
1951
Let's Go Navy!
1951
Ghost Chasers
1951
Bowery Battalion
1951
Blues Busters
1950
Triple Trouble
1950
Lucky Losers
1950
Blonde Dynamite
1950
Master Minds
1949
Angels in Disguise
1949
Hold That Baby!
1949
Riders of the Pony Express
1949
Fighting Fools
1949
Trouble Makers
1948
Smuggler's Cove
1948
Night Wind
1948
Jinx Money
1948
Secret Service Investigator
1948
Angels' Alley
1948
Bowery Buckaroos
1947
Merton of the Movies
1947
News Hounds
1947
The Hucksters
1947
Fun on a Weekend
1947
Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947
The Pilgrim Lady
1947
Mr. Hex
1946
Never Say Goodbye
1946
Spook Busters
1946
Bowery Bombshell
1946
In Fast Company
1946
One More Tomorrow
1946
Do You Love Me
1946
Without Reservations
1946
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946
The Gentleman Misbehaves
1946
Road to Utopia
1946
Gay Blades
1946
Live Wires
1946
People Are Funny
1946
Come Out Fighting
1945
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
1945
Story of G.I. Joe
1945
Hollywood and Vine
1945
Docks of New York
1945
Brenda Starr, Reporter
1945
Bowery Champs
1944
I Won't Play
1944
They Live in Fear
1944
That's My Baby!
1944
Janie
1944
Block Busters
1944
Follow the Leader
1944
Follow the Boys
1944
The Whistler
1944
Million Dollar Kid
1944
Whispering Footsteps
1943
Moonlight in Vermont
1943
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943
Nobody's Darling
1943
Ghosts on the Loose
1943
All by Myself
1943
Clancy Street Boys
1943
Aerial Gunner
1943
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
The Powers Girl
1943
A Night to Remember
1942
Heart of the Golden West
1942
Get Hep to Love
1942
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
The Glass Key
1942
Wildcat
1942
The Talk of the Town
1942
Junior G-Men of the Air
1942
Perils of Nyoka
1942
Lady in a Jam
1942
I Live on Danger
1942
Home in Wyomin'
1942
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
On the Sunny Side
1942
Confessions of Boston Blackie
1941
Cadet Girl
1941
Tuxedo Junction
1941
Jesse James at Bay
1941
Great Guns
1941
Dressed to Kill
1941
Time Out for Rhythm
1941
She Knew All the Answers
1941
In Old Cheyenne
1941
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941
Mr. District Attorney
1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
Scattergood Baines
1941
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
Second Chorus
1941
Bowery Boy
1940
The Mad Doctor
1940
Give Us Wings
1940
Melody Ranch
1940
Young People
1940
Rhythm on the River
1940
Lucky Partners
1940
The Great McGinty
1940
Stage to Chino
1940
Adventures of Red Ryder
1940
Grand Ole Opry
1940
And One Was Beautiful
1940
My Little Chickadee
1940
Legion of the Lawless
1940
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939
Hollywood Hobbies
1939
Code of the Streets
1939
Newsboys' Home
1938
Say It in French
1938
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938
Hold That Co-ed
1938
Young Fugitives
1938
Hold That Kiss
1938
There's Always a Woman
1938
King of the Newsboys
1938
Walking Down Broadway
1938
Bringing Up Baby
1938
I Met My Love Again
1938
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937
The Last Gangster
1937
That I May Live
1937
Tramp Trouble
1937
Flying Fists
1937
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937
Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937
They Wanted to Marry
1937
After the Thin Man
1936
Crack-Up
1936
Laughing at Trouble
1936
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
Libeled Lady
1936
Ramona
1936
M'Liss
1936
The Witness Chair
1936
Captain January
1936
The Country Doctor
1936
Your Uncle Dudley
1935
Show Them No Mercy!
1935
Way Down East
1935
Bad Boy
1935
3 Kids and a Queen
1935
Steamboat Round the Bend
1935
Doubting Thomas
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
College Scandal
1935
$10 Raise
1935