Richard Benedict
Born: 1920-01-08 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Died: 1984-04-25
Known For: Acting
Biography
Richard "Pepe" Benedict (born Riccardo Benedetto, January 8, 1920 – April 29, 1984) was an Italian-American television and film actor and director. He was born in Palermo, Italy. He appeared in dozens of television programs and movies from the 1940s to the 1960s, most notably Ace in the Hole (1951), directed by Billy Wilder. Benedict appeared with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack in the 1960 movie Ocean's 11 as one of the 11 men who rob five Las Vegas casinos on the same night. He also played the commander of the Mars rescue ship in the 1958 B sci-fi movie It! The Terror from Beyond Space. Benedict's television appearances included Adventures of Superman, The Lone Ranger, Perry Mason, Zorro, Dragnet, Peter Gunn and Hawaii Five-O. His directing credits included Impasse, an adventure film starring Burt Reynolds. He died of a heart attack at Studio City, Los Angeles, on April 29, 1984, and was interred in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery, in the Churchyard section. He was the father of three children, including actor Nick Benedict.
Filmography
1984
- Disconnected as Store Customer (Uncredited)
1980
- Mark, I Love You as Mr. Powell
1979
- Doctors' Private Lives ... (Director)
1977
- The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries ... (Director)
- Man from Atlantis ... (Director)
- The Oregon Trail ... (Director)
- Code R ... (Director)
1976
- Quincy, M.E. ... (Director)
- Charlie's Angels ... (Director)
- Flannery and Quilt as Milt Lesser
1975
- Joe Forrester ... (Director)
- S.W.A.T. ... (Director)
- Matt Helm ... (Director)
1974
- Police Woman ... (Director)
- Born Free ... (Director)
1973
- Police Story ... (Director)
- Big John Morrison ... (Director)
1972
- The Rookies
- Ghost Story as Mr. Parker
1971
- Alias Smith and Jones ... (Director)
- The Partners ... (Director)
1970
- Night Gallery ... (Director)
- Dan August ... (Director)
- Move as Prescott
1969
- Hawaii Five-O as Sol the Bartender
- Marcus Welby, M.D. ... (Director)
- Medical Center ... (Director)
- Impasse
1968
- The Outsider ... (Director)
1967
- Ironside
- Mannix ... (Director)
- The High Chaparral ... (Director)
- The Invaders ... (Director)
- N.Y.P.D. ... (Director)
1966
- Mission: Impossible ... (Director)
- Hawk ... (Director)
1965
- Get Smart ... (Director)
- Run for Your Life ... (Director)
- Laredo ... (Director)
- I Spy ... (Director)
- Winter A-Go-Go ... (Director)
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ... (Director)
- 12 O'Clock High ... (Director)
1963
- The Fugitive ... (Director)
1962
- The Virginian ... (Director)
- Combat! ... (Director)
1960
- Surfside 6
- The Roaring 20's
- Ocean's Eleven as "Curly" Steffans
- I'll Give My Life
1959
- Hawaiian Eye as Eddie Coyle
1958
- Lawman ... (Director)
- Peter Gunn
- Bronco ... (Director)
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Fur Sammons
- Man with a Camera
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space as Bob Finelli
- Josette of New Orleans as Vic
1957
- Perry Mason as Steve Daniels
- The Walter Winchell File as Keeger
- Harbor Command as Arnold Freeman
- The Midnight Story as Pool Player (uncredited)
- Spring Reunion as Jim (uncredited)
- Beginning of the End as Cpl. Mathias
1956
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- The Man Is Armed as Lew 'Mitch' Mitchell
1955
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Briscoe
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mike
- Highway Patrol
- Navy Log
- Wiretapper as Romato
- The Shrike as Gregory
- Spy Chasers as Boris
1954
- The Lone Wolf as Babe Janno
- The Whistler
- Superman's Peril as Cappy
1953
- I Led Three Lives
- General Electric Theater
- Act of Love as Pete
- Jalopy as Tony, the driver
- The Juggler as Police Officer Kogan
- Run for the Hills as Horace 'Happy' Day
- Murder Without Tears as Joe 'Candy Markwell' Martola
1952
- Adventures of Superman as Tony Gambini
- Cavalcade of America
- Okinawa as Delgado
- Woman in the Dark as Gino Morello
- Hoodlum Empire as Silky Tanner
- Breakdown as Harry 'Punchy' Adams
1951
- Dragnet
- Racket Squad
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Ace
- Ace in the Hole as Leo Minosa
- Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
- Let's Go Navy! as Red
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Al
- Triple Trouble as Skeets O'Neil
- State Penitentiary as Mike Gavin
- Rookie Fireman as Al Greco
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Bert Ronson
- Scene of the Crime as Turk Kingby
- The Window as Murdered Seaman (Uncredited)
- Post Office Investigator as Louis Reese
- Shockproof as 'Kid', Knife Wielder (Uncredited)
- Streets of San Francisco as Henry Walker
- City Across the River as Gaggsy Steens
- Omoo-Omoo the Shark God as Mate Richards
- Homicide as Nick Foster
- Angels in Disguise as Henchman Miami
1948
- Smart Girls Don't Talk as Cliff Saunders
- Race Street as Sam
- The Arizona Ranger as Ranger Gills
1947
- Crossfire as Bill
- The Guilt of Janet Ames as Joe Burton
- Backlash as Detective Sergeant Tom Carey
1946
- Somewhere in the Night as Marine Desk Sergeant
- Till the End of Time as Soldier with "the shakes"
- O.S.S. as Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. / Albert Bernardi
1945
- A Walk in the Sun as Pvt. Tranella
- See My Lawyer as Joe Wilson