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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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    • New York City, New York, USA
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    • Los Angeles, California, USA
  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. 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.

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    • 1953-01-02
    • Comedy
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  6. 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 ...

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  8. Dive into the remarkable world of William Bendix, the embodiment of Hollywood's Everyman, whose blundering brilliance left an indelible mark on classic cinem...

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