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William Bendix
Known for: ActingWilliam 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).
Filmography 39
The Life Of Riley
as Chester A. Riley 
Lifeboat
+3
as Gus Smith 
Macao
as Lawrence C. Trumble 
Detective Story
as Det. Lou Brody 
Boys' Night Out
+1
as Slattery 
Woman of the Year
+1
as Pinkie Peters 
The Blue Dahlia
+1
as Buzz Wanchek 
Two Years Before the Mast
as First Mate Amazeen 
The Crystal Ball
as Biff Carter 
They Drive by Night
+1
as Driver Watching Pinball Game (uncredited) 
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
as Sir Sagramore 
For Love or Money
as Joe Fogel 
The Glass Key
as Jeff 
Submarine Command
as CPO Boyer 
Law of the Lawless
+1
as Sheriff Ed Tanner 
Guadalcanal Diary
as Corp. Taxi Potts 
Cover Up
as Larry Best 
The Web
as Lt. Damico 
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self (archive footage) 
Who Done It?
as Detective Sgt. Brannigan 
The Big Steal
+1
as Capt. Vincent Blake 
A Girl in Every Port
as Timothy Aloysius 'Tim' Dunnovan 
Where There's Life
as Victor O'Brien 
The Dark Corner
as Fred Foss 
The Time of Your Life
as Nick 
Young Fury
as Blacksmith 
The Life of Riley
as Chester A. Riley 
Blackbeard, the Pirate
+1
as Ben Worley 
I'll Be Yours
as Wechsberg 
The Babe Ruth Story
as George Herman 'Babe' Ruth 
Greenwich Village
as Danny O'Mara 
The Rough and the Smooth
as Reg Barker 
Crashout
as Van Morgan Duff 
China
as Johnny Sparrow 
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
as Tim McGuerin 
Brooklyn Orchid
as Timothy McGuerin 
Dangerous Mission
as Chief Ranger Joe Parker 
The Hairy Ape
as Hank Smith 
Kill the Umpire
as Bill 'Two Call' Johnson