William Benedict

Born: 1917-04-16 in Haskell, Oklahoma, USA

Died: 1999-11-25

Known For: Acting

Biography

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.

Filmography

1982

Computercide as Elderly Man

1981

Hill Street Blues

1979

Goldie and the Boxer as Old Man

1978

Born Again as Leon Jaworski

1977

The Incredible Hulk as Vic

1976

Quincy, M.E.
Charlie's Angels as Emmett Winston, Esq.
Sherlock Holmes in New York as Telegraph Office Manager
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood as Man on Bus

1975

Ellery Queen
Matt Helm as Scavenger
The Dead Don't Die as Hotel Desk Clerk
Cop on the Beat as Lennie

1974

Little House on the Prairie as Reverend Lyman

1973

Police Story as Prescott
The Sting as Roulette Dealer
The Secret Sharer as Mr. Burns

1972

Emergency! as Hyperventilating Victim
The Streets of San Francisco
Call Her Mom as Mr. Feigelbaum
The Dirt Gang as Station Attendant
The Adventures of Nick Carter as Newsboy

1971

All in the Family as Jimmy McNab
Alias Smith and Jones

1970

The Immortal

1969

The Brady Bunch
Then Came Bronson as Card Player
Hello, Dolly! as News Vendor (uncredited)
Big Daddy
The Over the Hill Gang as Joe, the Telegrapher (as Bill Benedict)
The Lottery as Joe Summers

1968

Adam-12 as Bill White
Here's Lucy as Deliveryman
Mayberry R.F.D. as Uncle Whitmore
Land of the Giants as Villager Peabody
Funny Girl as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Rogue's Gallery as Jocko (as William Benedict)

1967

Ironside
Mannix
The Guns of Will Sonnett as Telegrapher
Hondo
What Am I Bid? as Clem (as Bill Benedict)

1966

Mission: Impossible as Denver
The Monkees as Skywriter
Felony Squad
Frankie and Johnny as Bum Sleeping on Bench (uncredited)

1965

I Dream of Jeannie as Cleaning Man
Branded
Honey West as Farley
The Hallelujah Trail as Simpson
Dear Heart as Stu

1964

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

1963

Petticoat Junction as Willie

1961

Lover Come Back as Musician Exiting Elevator (uncredited)

1960

Route 66
The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Joe

1959

The Twilight Zone as Conklin
Dennis the Menace
The Hanging Tree as Trapper (uncredited)

1958

The Rifleman

1957

Wagon Train as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)

1956

The Adventures of Jim Bowie
The Killing as American Airlines Clerk
Mobs, Inc. as Telegraph Boy

1955

Gunsmoke as Gus
Navy Log
Bride of the Monster as Newsboy

1954

Lassie

1953

I'm the Law
The Magnetic Monster as Albert

1951

The Red Skelton Show
Dragnet
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Degnan
Let's Go Navy! as Whitey
Ghost Chasers as Whitey
Bowery Battalion as Whitey
Crazy Over Horses as Whitey (as William Benedict)

1950

Triple Trouble as Whitey, Bowery Boy
Blonde Dynamite as Whitey
Lucky Losers as Whitey
Blues Busters as Whitey (as William Benedict)

1949

Riders of the Pony Express as Eddie Lund
Hold That Baby! as Whitey
Fighting Fools as Whitey
Angels in Disguise as Whitey
Master Minds as Whitey

1948

Smuggler's Cove as Whitey
Jinx Money as Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
Trouble Makers as Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
Secret Service Investigator as Counterman
Night Wind as Irv Bennett
Angels' Alley as Whitey

1947

The Pilgrim Lady as Bellboy
Fun on a Weekend as Hotel Bellboy (uncredited)
The Hucksters as Bellboy at Blue Penguin Inn (uncredited)
Merton of the Movies as Von Strutt's Assistant (uncredited)
News Hounds as Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
Bowery Buckaroos as Whitey
Hard Boiled Mahoney as Whitey

1946

Live Wires as Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
Gay Blades as Newsboy (uncredited)
Without Reservations as Telegraph Delivery Boy (uncredited)
One More Tomorrow as Stinky
People Are Funny as NBC Usher
In Fast Company as Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
The Kid from Brooklyn as Newsboy (uncredited)
Road to Utopia as Newsboy #2 (uncredited)
The Gentleman Misbehaves as Bellboy (uncredited)
Do You Love Me as Singing Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Never Say Goodbye as Messenger Boy (uncredited)
Spook Busters as Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
Bowery Bombshell as Whitey
Mr. Hex as Whitey (as Billy Benedict)

1945

Story of G.I. Joe as Pvt. Whitey (uncredited)
Docks of New York as Skinny
Brenda Starr, Reporter as Pesky (uncredited)
Mr. Muggs Rides Again as Skinny
Hollywood and Vine as Joe the Newsboy
Come Out Fighting as Skinny

1944

The Whistler as The Deafmute (Uncredited)
That's My Baby! as Office boy
Follow the Boys as Joe (uncredited)
Janie as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
I Won't Play as Florida
Follow the Leader as Spider O'Brien
Block Busters as Butch
Million Dollar Kid as Skinny
Bowery Champs as Skinny
They Live in Fear as Thomas 'Mack' Knight (uncredited)

1943

The Ox-Bow Incident as Greene (uncredited)
The Powers Girl as Powers Agency Office Boy (uncredited)
Ghosts on the Loose as Benny
Thank Your Lucky Stars as Busboy (uncredited)
Mr. Muggs Steps Out as Pinky
Adventures of the Flying Cadets as Zombie Parker
Aerial Gunner as Jackson 'Sleepy' Laswell
All by Myself as Telegraph Messenger
Nobody's Darling as Sammy (uncredited)
Clancy Street Boys as Butch
Moonlight in Vermont as Abel
Whispering Footsteps as Jerry Murphy

1942

Rings on Her Fingers
The Talk of the Town as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
On the Sunny Side as Messenger
Junior G-Men of the Air as Whitey
The Glass Key as Farr's Receptionist (uncredited)
A Night to Remember as Messenger Boy (uncredited)
Two Yanks in Trinidad as Messenger (uncredited)
Lady in a Jam as Barker (uncredited)
I Live on Danger as Bellboy (uncredited)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as Theatre Usher
Heart of the Golden West as Telegraph Messenger
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Bellboy
Perils of Nyoka as Red Davis
Wildcat as Bud Smithers
Get Hep to Love as Soda Jerk
Home in Wyomin' as Usher (uncredited)

1941

Adventures of Captain Marvel as Whitey Murphy
Adventures of Captain Marvel as Whitey Murphy
Mr. District Attorney as Office Boy
Dressed to Kill as Singing Telegram Boy
She Knew All the Answers as Singing Telegraph Boy
Second Chorus as Ticket Taker (uncredited)
The Great Mr. Nobody as Jig
Jesse James at Bay as Young Davis
Tuxedo Junction as Thomas 'Piecrust' Murphy (as Billy Benedict)
Great Guns as Recruit at Corral
The Man Who Lost Himself as Telegram Delivery Boy
Time Out for Rhythm as Messenger (uncredited)
Scattergood Baines as Lafe Hopper (uncredited)
In Old Cheyenne as Train Vendor
Confessions of Boston Blackie as Ice Cream Man
Cadet Girl as Soldier at Camp Show (uncredited)

1940

Young People as Boy (uncredited)
Bowery Boy as (uncredited)
Give Us Wings as Link (as Billy Benedict)
Adventures of Red Ryder as Dan Withers
Rhythm on the River as Elevator Boy
And One Was Beautiful as Delivery Man
My Little Chickadee as Lem (uncredited)
The Great McGinty as Farm Boy (uncredited)
Legion of the Lawless as Eddie
Melody Ranch as Slim
Lucky Partners as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
The Mad Doctor as Mickey Barnes (Uncredited)
Stage to Chino as Happy (uncredited)
Grand Ole Opry as Newsboy (uncredited)

1939

Code of the Streets as Trouble
Pack Up Your Troubles as Office Boy
Hollywood Hobbies as Tour Guide

1938

Bringing Up Baby as David's Caddy (uncredited)
I Met My Love Again as Billy (uncredited)
There's Always a Woman as Bellboy
Little Tough Guys in Society as Trouble
Say It in French as Midget Car Driver
Hold That Co-ed as Sylvester
King of the Newsboys as Squimpy
Young Fugitives as Jud
Hold That Kiss as Delivery Boy
Newsboys' Home as Trouble
Walking Down Broadway as Eddie

1937

Tramp Trouble as Young Bindlestiff
Flying Fists as Monk, Tall Kid
The Last Gangster as Freddy the Office Boy
Jim Hanvey, Detective as Copy Boy (uncredited)
They Wanted to Marry as Freckles
Tim Tyler's Luck as Spud
That I May Live as Kurt Plivens
Rhythm in the Clouds as Bellboy

1936

Libeled Lady as Johnny
Crack-Up as Bunky, Office Boy (uncredited)
After the Thin Man as Newsboy (uncredited)
Theodora Goes Wild as Henry - Copyboy (uncredited)
Captain January as Telegram Delivery Boy (uncredited)
The Country Doctor as The Gawker
Laughing at Trouble as Wilbur
Can This Be Dixie? as Shenandoah Peachtree (uncredited)
The Witness Chair as Benny Ryan
Ramona as Joseph Hyar
M'Liss as Archer Morpher

1935

Your Uncle Dudley as Cyril Church
Way Down East as Amos
College Scandal as 'Penny' Parker
The Farmer Takes a Wife as Boy Announcing Dan's Arrival Before Fight
3 Kids and a Queen as Flash
Steamboat Round the Bend as Breck
Show Them No Mercy! as Willie (uncredited)
Bad Boy as Grocery Clerk
Doubting Thomas as Caddie
$10 Raise as Jimmy