William Benedict

Known for ActingBorn 1917-04-16Died 1999-11-25Haskell, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Tuxedo Junction

Born Again

Night Wind

Brenda Starr, Reporter

$10 Raise

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Bowery Boys: Legends of Laughter

The Twilight Zone

Home in Wyomin'

The Sting

The Secret Sharer

Little House on the Prairie

Big Daddy

What Am I Bid?

Emergency!

Bonanza: The Next Generation

Matt Helm

Let's Go Navy!

Bowery Battalion

All in the Family

I Dream of Jeannie

The Gentleman Misbehaves

Gay Blades

Docks of New York

They Live in Fear

Block Busters

Hill Street Blues

Nobody's Darling

All by Myself

Mr. Muggs Steps Out

Perils of Nyoka

Cadet Girl

Newsboys' Home

Tramp Trouble

Laughing at Trouble

Highway to Heaven

Quincy, M.E.

Mission: Impossible

Ellery Queen

The Killing

The Ox-Bow Incident

The Immortal

Code of the Streets

The Incredible Hulk

Riders of the Pony Express

Secret Service Investigator

Come Out Fighting

The Red Skelton Show