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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. He also portrayed the clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker ...
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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
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 ...
- January 1, 1
- New York City, New York, USA
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
WILLIAM BENDIX. Mr. William Bendix, for many years among the most familiar of Hollywood's character actors, died in hospital on Monday at the age of 58, as briefly reported in later editions of The Times yesterday. He was born in New York on January 14, 1906, and had initially no idea of becoming an actor, his ambitions centring rather on baseball.
William Bendix 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. He also portrayed the clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in both the radio and television versions of The Life of Riley, and baseball ...
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The Life of Riley: With William Bendix, Marjorie Reynolds, Wesley Morgan, Tom D'Andrea. Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems.
