William Benedict
Acting
1917-04-16 · 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.
Filmography
The Bowery Boys: Legends of Laughter
2020 · Movie
Bonanza: The Next Generation
1988 · Movie
Highway to Heaven
1984 · Series
Computercide
1982 · Movie
Hill Street Blues
1981 · Series
Goldie and the Boxer
1979 · Movie
Born Again
1978 · Movie
The Incredible Hulk
1977 · Series
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976 · Movie
Quincy, M.E.
1976 · Series
Charlie's Angels
1976 · Series
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976 · Movie
Matt Helm
1975 · Series
Ellery Queen
1975 · Series
Cop on the Beat
1975 · Movie
The Dead Don't Die
1975 · Movie
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · Series
The Sting
1973 · Movie
Police Story
1973 · Series
The Secret Sharer
1973 · Movie
The Dirt Gang
1972 · Movie
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · Series
The Adventures of Nick Carter
1972 · Movie
Call Her Mom
1972 · Movie
Emergency!
1972 · Series
All in the Family
1971 · Series
Alias Smith and Jones
1971 · Series
The Immortal
1970 · Series
Hello, Dolly!
1969 · Movie
The Brady Bunch
1969 · Series
Then Came Bronson
1969 · Series
The Over the Hill Gang
1969 · Movie
Big Daddy
1969 · Movie
The Lottery
1969 · Movie
Here's Lucy
1968 · Series
Mayberry R.F.D.
1968 · Series
Land of the Giants
1968 · Series
Adam-12
1968 · Series
Funny Girl
1968 · Movie
Rogue's Gallery
1968 · Movie
Mannix
1967 · Series
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 · Series
Hondo
1967 · Series
Ironside
1967 · Series
What Am I Bid?
1967 · Movie
Mission: Impossible
1966 · Series
The Monkees
1966 · Series
Felony Squad
1966 · Series
Frankie and Johnny
1966 · Movie
I Dream of Jeannie
1965 · Series
Honey West
1965 · Series
The Hallelujah Trail
1965 · Movie
Dear Heart
1965 · Movie
Branded
1965 · Series
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964 · Series
Petticoat Junction
1963 · Series
Lover Come Back
1961 · Movie
Route 66
1960 · Series
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 · Series
Dennis the Menace
1959 · Series
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Series
The Hanging Tree
1959 · Movie
The Rifleman
1958 · Series
Wagon Train
1957 · Series
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956 · Series
The Killing
1956 · Movie
Mobs, Inc.
1956 · Movie
Navy Log
1955 · Series
Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
Bride of the Monster
1955 · Movie
Lassie
1954 · Series
The Magnetic Monster
1953 · Movie
I'm the Law
1953 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Dragnet
1951 · Series
The Red Skelton Show
1951 · Series
Crazy Over Horses
1951 · Movie
Let's Go Navy!
1951 · Movie
Ghost Chasers
1951 · Movie
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · Series
Bowery Battalion
1951 · Movie
Blues Busters
1950 · Movie
Triple Trouble
1950 · Movie
Lucky Losers
1950 · Movie
Blonde Dynamite
1950 · Movie
Master Minds
1949 · Movie
Angels in Disguise
1949 · Movie
Hold That Baby!
1949 · Movie
Riders of the Pony Express
1949 · Movie
Fighting Fools
1949 · Movie
Trouble Makers
1948 · Movie
Smuggler's Cove
1948 · Movie
Night Wind
1948 · Movie
Jinx Money
1948 · Movie
Secret Service Investigator
1948 · Movie
Angels' Alley
1948 · Movie
Bowery Buckaroos
1947 · Movie
Merton of the Movies
1947 · Movie
News Hounds
1947 · Movie
The Hucksters
1947 · Movie
Fun on a Weekend
1947 · Movie
Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947 · Movie
The Pilgrim Lady
1947 · Movie
Never Say Goodbye
1946 · Movie
Mr. Hex
1946 · Movie
Spook Busters
1946 · Movie
Bowery Bombshell
1946 · Movie
In Fast Company
1946 · Movie
One More Tomorrow
1946 · Movie
Do You Love Me
1946 · Movie
Without Reservations
1946 · Movie
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946 · Movie
The Gentleman Misbehaves
1946 · Movie
Road to Utopia
1946 · Movie
Gay Blades
1946 · Movie
Live Wires
1946 · Movie
People Are Funny
1946 · Movie
Come Out Fighting
1945 · Movie
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
1945 · Movie
Story of G.I. Joe
1945 · Movie
Hollywood and Vine
1945 · Movie
Docks of New York
1945 · Movie
Brenda Starr, Reporter
1945 · Movie
Bowery Champs
1944 · Movie
I Won't Play
1944 · Movie
They Live in Fear
1944 · Movie
That's My Baby!
1944 · Movie
Janie
1944 · Movie
Block Busters
1944 · Movie
Follow the Leader
1944 · Movie
Follow the Boys
1944 · Movie
The Whistler
1944 · Movie
Million Dollar Kid
1944 · Movie
Whispering Footsteps
1943 · Movie
Moonlight in Vermont
1943 · Movie
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943 · Movie
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943 · Movie
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943 · Movie
Nobody's Darling
1943 · Movie
Ghosts on the Loose
1943 · Movie
All by Myself
1943 · Movie
Clancy Street Boys
1943 · Movie
Aerial Gunner
1943 · Movie
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 · Movie
The Powers Girl
1943 · Movie
A Night to Remember
1942 · Movie
Heart of the Golden West
1942 · Movie
Get Hep to Love
1942 · Movie
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942 · Movie
The Glass Key
1942 · Movie
Wildcat
1942 · Movie
The Talk of the Town
1942 · Movie
Junior G-Men of the Air
1942 · Movie
Perils of Nyoka
1942 · Movie
Lady in a Jam
1942 · Movie
I Live on Danger
1942 · Movie
Home in Wyomin'
1942 · Movie
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942 · Movie
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942 · Movie
Rings on Her Fingers
1942 · Movie
On the Sunny Side
1942 · Movie
Confessions of Boston Blackie
1941 · Movie
Cadet Girl
1941 · Movie
Tuxedo Junction
1941 · Movie
Jesse James at Bay
1941 · Movie
Great Guns
1941 · Movie
Dressed to Kill
1941 · Movie
Time Out for Rhythm
1941 · Movie
She Knew All the Answers
1941 · Movie
In Old Cheyenne
1941 · Movie
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941 · Movie
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941 · Series
Mr. District Attorney
1941 · Movie
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941 · Movie
Scattergood Baines
1941 · Movie
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941 · Movie
Second Chorus
1941 · Movie
Bowery Boy
1940 · Movie
The Mad Doctor
1940 · Movie
Give Us Wings
1940 · Movie
Melody Ranch
1940 · Movie
Young People
1940 · Movie
Rhythm on the River
1940 · Movie
Lucky Partners
1940 · Movie
The Great McGinty
1940 · Movie
Stage to Chino
1940 · Movie
Adventures of Red Ryder
1940 · Movie
Grand Ole Opry
1940 · Movie
And One Was Beautiful
1940 · Movie
My Little Chickadee
1940 · Movie
Legion of the Lawless
1940 · Movie
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939 · Movie
Hollywood Hobbies
1939 · Movie
Code of the Streets
1939 · Movie
Newsboys' Home
1938 · Movie
Say It in French
1938 · Movie
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938 · Movie
Hold That Co-ed
1938 · Movie
Young Fugitives
1938 · Movie
Hold That Kiss
1938 · Movie
There's Always a Woman
1938 · Movie
King of the Newsboys
1938 · Movie
Walking Down Broadway
1938 · Movie
Bringing Up Baby
1938 · Movie
I Met My Love Again
1938 · Movie
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937 · Movie
The Last Gangster
1937 · Movie
That I May Live
1937 · Movie
Tramp Trouble
1937 · Movie
Flying Fists
1937 · Movie
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937 · Movie
Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937 · Movie
They Wanted to Marry
1937 · Movie
After the Thin Man
1936 · Movie
Crack-Up
1936 · Movie
Laughing at Trouble
1936 · Movie
Can This Be Dixie?
1936 · Movie
Theodora Goes Wild
1936 · Movie
Libeled Lady
1936 · Movie
Ramona
1936 · Movie
M'Liss
1936 · Movie
The Witness Chair
1936 · Movie
Captain January
1936 · Movie
The Country Doctor
1936 · Movie
Your Uncle Dudley
1935 · Movie
Show Them No Mercy!
1935 · Movie
Way Down East
1935 · Movie
Bad Boy
1935 · Movie
3 Kids and a Queen
1935 · Movie
Steamboat Round the Bend
1935 · Movie
Doubting Thomas
1935 · Movie
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935 · Movie
College Scandal
1935 · Movie
$10 Raise
1935 · Movie