William Benedict
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.
233 acting credits
Acting · 233
Mannix
1967
Ironside
1967
Hill Street Blues
1981
Charlie's Angels
1976
Dragnet
1951
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Lassie
1954
The Rifleman
1958
Mission: Impossible
1966
Wagon Train
1957
Adam-12
1968
Quincy, M.E.
1976
The Twilight Zone
1959
Emergency!
1972
Petticoat Junction
1963
The Incredible Hulk
1977
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
Highway to Heaven
1984
Route 66
1960
The Red Skelton Show
1951
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
All in the Family
1971
Here's Lucy
1968
Gunsmoke
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Land of the Giants
1968
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Brady Bunch
1969
Dennis the Menace
1959
Felony Squad
1966
Police Story
1973
Branded
1965
Mayberry R.F.D.
1968
Navy Log
1955
Ellery Queen
1975
Honey West
1965
The Monkees
1966
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Then Came Bronson
1969
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Hondo
1967
Matt Helm
1975
The Immortal
1970
The Sting
1973
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hello, Dolly!
1969
The Killing
1956
I'm the Law
1953
Bringing Up Baby
1938
The Glass Key
1942
Funny Girl
1968
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
Frankie and Johnny
1966
The Talk of the Town
1942
Without Reservations
1946
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
After the Thin Man
1936
Lover Come Back
1961
Second Chorus
1941
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
The Over the Hill Gang
1969
Melody Ranch
1940
The Hucksters
1947
Story of G.I. Joe
1945
The Hanging Tree
1959
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942
Road to Utopia
1946
My Little Chickadee
1940
The Lottery
1969
Young People
1940
Never Say Goodbye
1946
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Say It in French
1938
Rhythm on the River
1940
The Great McGinty
1940
Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
Libeled Lady
1936
Triple Trouble
1950
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
$10 Raise
1935
Bad Boy
1935
Wildcat
1942
The Whistler
1944
Aerial Gunner
1943
The Country Doctor
1936
Great Guns
1941
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938
Goldie and the Boxer
1979
Lady in a Jam
1942
M'Liss
1936
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941
Bonanza: The Next Generation
1988
Hold That Kiss
1938
Jesse James at Bay
1941
Gay Blades
1946
Heart of the Golden West
1942
Flying Fists
1937
There's Always a Woman
1938
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946
Adventures of Red Ryder
1940
Laughing at Trouble
1936
Captain January
1936
Way Down East
1935
Steamboat Round the Bend
1935
A Night to Remember
1942
Janie
1944
Fun on a Weekend
1947
Young Fugitives
1938
Code of the Streets
1939
The Adventures of Nick Carter
1972
Cadet Girl
1941
Born Again
1978
Show Them No Mercy!
1935
Ramona
1936
Doubting Thomas
1935
Bride of the Monster
1955
Lucky Partners
1940
The Witness Chair
1936
Follow the Boys
1944
Home in Wyomin'
1942
3 Kids and a Queen
1935
The Last Gangster
1937
Spook Busters
1946
College Scandal
1935
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
Scattergood Baines
1941
Dear Heart
1965
The Powers Girl
1943
Hold That Baby!
1949
Lucky Losers
1950
Cop on the Beat
1975
Fighting Fools
1949
Jinx Money
1948
Walking Down Broadway
1938
And One Was Beautiful
1940
Bowery Champs
1944
Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947
Mr. Hex
1946
The Magnetic Monster
1953
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
Dressed to Kill
1941
Crack-Up
1936
Secret Service Investigator
1948
Do You Love Me
1946
She Knew All the Answers
1941
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
1945
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
Perils of Nyoka
1942
Rogue's Gallery
1968
Bowery Buckaroos
1947
Mobs, Inc.
1956
The Pilgrim Lady
1947
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943
Whispering Footsteps
1943
Let's Go Navy!
1951
Bowery Bombshell
1946
Hollywood Hobbies
1939
Bowery Boy
1940
The Mad Doctor
1940
Stage to Chino
1940
I Live on Danger
1942
Hold That Co-ed
1938
Nobody's Darling
1943
The Dead Don't Die
1975
Call Her Mom
1972
Master Minds
1949
Follow the Leader
1944
Blonde Dynamite
1950
They Wanted to Marry
1937
Angels' Alley
1948
Ghosts on the Loose
1943
Smuggler's Cove
1948
Bowery Battalion
1951
King of the Newsboys
1938
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
Grand Ole Opry
1940
Junior G-Men of the Air
1942
Angels in Disguise
1949
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939
Million Dollar Kid
1944
On the Sunny Side
1942
Night Wind
1948
The Dirt Gang
1972
All by Myself
1943
Crazy Over Horses
1951
Riders of the Pony Express
1949
People Are Funny
1946
That's My Baby!
1944
Ghost Chasers
1951
Clancy Street Boys
1943
Newsboys' Home
1938
Tuxedo Junction
1941
Confessions of Boston Blackie
1941
The Bowery Boys: Legends of Laughter
2020
I Met My Love Again
1938
News Hounds
1947
Mr. District Attorney
1941
In Fast Company
1946
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937
Block Busters
1944
Trouble Makers
1948
Give Us Wings
1940
Live Wires
1946
Blues Busters
1950
Merton of the Movies
1947
One More Tomorrow
1946
Brenda Starr, Reporter
1945
I Won't Play
1944
The Gentleman Misbehaves
1946
In Old Cheyenne
1941
Get Hep to Love
1942
Time Out for Rhythm
1941
Docks of New York
1945
Big Daddy
1969
That I May Live
1937
Computercide
1982
Hollywood and Vine
1945
Your Uncle Dudley
1935
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937
Come Out Fighting
1945
Legion of the Lawless
1940
The Secret Sharer
1973
They Live in Fear
1944
What Am I Bid?
1967
Tramp Trouble
1937
Moonlight in Vermont
1943