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
- Charlie's Angels ... (Director)
- Quincy, M.E. ... (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
- Marcus Welby, M.D. ... (Director)
- Medical Center ... (Director)
- Impasse
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Sol the Bartender
- The Outsider ... (Director)
1967
- Mannix ... (Director)
- Ironside
- 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)
- I Spy ... (Director)
- Laredo ... (Director)
- Winter A-Go-Go ... (Director)
1964
- 12 O'Clock High ... (Director)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ... (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
- Peter Gunn
- Lawman ... (Director)
- 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
- Highway Patrol
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Briscoe
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mike
- Navy Log
- The Shrike as Gregory
- Wiretapper as Romato
- 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
- The Juggler as Police Officer Kogan
- Jalopy as Tony, the driver
- Act of Love as Pete
- Murder Without Tears as Joe 'Candy Markwell' Martola
- Run for the Hills as Horace 'Happy' Day
1952
- Adventures of Superman as Tony Gambini
- Cavalcade of America
- Okinawa as Delgado
- Hoodlum Empire as Silky Tanner
- Woman in the Dark as Gino Morello
- Breakdown as Harry 'Punchy' Adams
1951
- Dragnet
- Racket Squad
- Ace in the Hole as Leo Minosa
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Ace
- 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
- Shockproof as 'Kid', Knife Wielder (Uncredited)
- The Window as Murdered Seaman (Uncredited)
- Scene of the Crime as Turk Kingby
- City Across the River as Gaggsy Steens
- Streets of San Francisco as Henry Walker
- Homicide as Nick Foster
- Post Office Investigator as Louis Reese
- Angels in Disguise as Henchman Miami
- Omoo-Omoo the Shark God as Mate Richards
1948
- Smart Girls Don't Talk as Cliff Saunders
- Race Street as Sam
- The Arizona Ranger as Ranger Gills
1947
- Crossfire as Bill
- Backlash as Detective Sergeant Tom Carey
- The Guilt of Janet Ames as Joe Burton
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