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  1. William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, who typically played rough, blue-collar characters. He is best remembered for his role in Wake Island , which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

  2. William Bendix. Actor: Lifeboat. William Bendix was not a son of Brooklyn, New York, although because of his stereotypical "Brooklyn accent" it has been widely supposed that he was. Bendix was actually born in the Borough of Manhattan (New York City proper), in a midtown flat hard by the tracks of the long-since defunct Third-Avenue Elevated ...

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  3. Detective Story. 10,000 Kids and a Cop. A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Serenata Bohemia. The Phony American. Johnny Holiday. Crashout. Blackbeard, the Pirate. See William ...

  4. William Bendix. Actor: Lifeboat. William Bendix was not a son of Brooklyn, New York, although because of his stereotypical "Brooklyn accent" it has been widely supposed that he was. Bendix was actually born in the Borough of Manhattan (New York City proper), in a midtown flat hard by the tracks of the long-since defunct Third-Avenue Elevated Railway. (Manhattan sections of the "El," as New ...

    • January 14, 1906
    • December 14, 1964
  5. 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 ...

  6. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 (AP) William Bendix, the actor, who played the father in “The Life of Riley” radio and television series, died today in Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 58 years old.

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  8. Apr 12, 1992 · When he was 15 in 1922, William Bendix was a batboy for the New York Giants, who shared the Polo Grounds with Ruth’s Yankees. Ruth took to Bendix, who became his hero’s gofer.

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