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.

Known For: Acting

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

Died: 1999-11-25

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1935	$10 Raise	Jimmy	80
2	1935	College Scandal	'Penny' Parker	52
3	1935	The Farmer Takes a Wife	Boy Announcing Dan's Arrival Before Fight	61
4	1935	Doubting Thomas	Caddie	70
5	1935	Steamboat Round the Bend	Breck	76
6	1935	3 Kids and a Queen	Flash	60
7	1935	Way Down East	Amos	30
8	1935	Bad Boy	Grocery Clerk	50
9	1935	Show Them No Mercy!	Willie (uncredited)	70
10	1935	Your Uncle Dudley	Cyril Church	10
11	1936	The Country Doctor	The Gawker	60
12	1936	Captain January	Telegram Delivery Boy	67
13	1936	The Witness Chair	Benny Ryan	62
14	1936	M'Liss	Archer Morpher	50
15	1936	Ramona	Joseph Hyar	51
16	1936	Libeled Lady	Joe	73
17	1936	Theodora Goes Wild	Henry - Copyboy (uncredited)	66
18	1936	Can This Be Dixie?	Shenandoah Peachtree (uncredited)	0
19	1936	Laughing at Trouble	Wilbur	60
20	1936	Crack-Up	Bunky, Office Boy (uncredited)	57
21	1936	After the Thin Man	Newsboy (uncredited)	73
22	1937	They Wanted to Marry	Freckles	50
23	1937	Jim Hanvey, Detective	Copy Boy (uncredited)	59
24	1937	Rhythm in the Clouds	Bellboy	50
25	1937	Flying Fists	Monk, Tall Kid	50
26	1937	Tramp Trouble		0
27	1937	That I May Live	Kurt Plivens	65
28	1937	The Last Gangster	Freddy the Office Boy	63
29	1937	Tim Tyler's Luck	Spud	0
30	1938	I Met My Love Again	Billy (uncredited)	55
31	1938	Bringing Up Baby	David's Caddy (uncredited)	75
32	1938	Walking Down Broadway	Eddie	57
33	1938	King of the Newsboys	Squimpy	60
34	1938	There's Always a Woman	Bellboy	58
35	1938	Hold That Kiss	Delivery Boy	65
36	1938	Young Fugitives	Jud (as William 'Billy' Benedict)	10
37	1938	Hold That Co-ed	Sylvester	63
38	1938	Little Tough Guys in Society	Trouble	60
39	1938	Say It in French	Midget Car Driver	0
40	1938	Newsboys' Home	Trouble	60
41	1939	Code of the Streets	Trouble	70
42	1939	Hollywood Hobbies	Tour Guide	56
43	1939	Pack Up Your Troubles	Office Boy	62
44	1940	Legion of the Lawless	Eddie	52
45	1940	My Little Chickadee	Lem (uncredited)	65
46	1940	And One Was Beautiful	Delivery Man	62
47	1940	Grand Ole Opry	Newsboy (uncredited)	70
48	1940	Adventures of Red Ryder	Dan Withers	55
49	1940	Stage to Chino	Happy (uncredited)	48
50	1940	The Great McGinty	Farm Boy (uncredited)	69
51	1940	Lucky Partners	Delivery Boy (uncredited)	59
52	1940	Rhythm on the River	Elevator Boy	70
53	1940	Young People	Boy (uncredited)	46
54	1940	Melody Ranch	Slim	55
55	1940	The Mad Doctor	Mickey Barnes (Uncredited)	60
56	1940	Give Us Wings	Link (as Billy Benedict)	60
57	1940	Bowery Boy	(uncredited)	30
58	1941	Second Chorus	Ticket Taker (uncredited)	58
59	1941	The Great Mr. Nobody	Jig	53
60	1941	Scattergood Baines	Lafe Hopper (uncredited)	60
61	1941	The Man Who Lost Himself	Telegram Delivery Boy	40
62	1941	Mr. District Attorney	Office Boy	62
63	1941	Adventures of Captain Marvel	Whitey Murphy	62
64	1941	In Old Cheyenne	Train Vendor	41
65	1941	She Knew All the Answers	Singing Telegraph Boy	63
66	1941	Time Out for Rhythm	Messenger (uncredited)	62
67	1941	Dressed to Kill	Singing Telegram Boy	64
68	1941	Great Guns	Recruit at Corral	58
69	1941	Jesse James at Bay	Young Davis	50
70	1941	Tuxedo Junction	Thomas 'Piecrust' Murphy (as Billy Benedict)	0
71	1941	Cadet Girl	Soldier at Camp Show (uncredited)	0
72	1941	Confessions of Boston Blackie	Ice Cream Man	61
73	1942	On the Sunny Side	Messenger	60
74	1942	Rings on Her Fingers		65
75	1942	The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine	Bellboy	60
76	1942	Home in Wyomin'	Usher (uncredited)	80
77	1942	I Live on Danger	Bellboy (uncredited)	57
78	1942	Lady in a Jam	Barker (uncredited)	55
79	1942	Perils of Nyoka	Red Davis	0
80	1942	Junior G-Men of the Air	Whitey	60
81	1942	The Talk of the Town	Western Union Boy (uncredited)	73
82	1942	Wildcat	Bud Smithers	60
83	1942	The Glass Key	Farr's Receptionist (uncredited)	66
84	1942	Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch	Theatre Usher	0
85	1942	Get Hep to Love	Soda Jerk	40
86	1942	Heart of the Golden West	Telegraph Messenger	20
87	1942	The Ox-Bow Incident	Greene (uncredited)	77
88	1942	A Night to Remember	Messenger Boy (uncredited)	65
89	1943	The Powers Girl	Powers Agency Office Boy (uncredited)	65
90	1943	Aerial Gunner	Jackson 'Sleepy' Laswell	44
91	1943	Clancy Street Boys	Butch	73
92	1943	All by Myself	Telegraph Messenger	0
93	1943	Ghosts on the Loose	Benny	42
94	1943	Nobody's Darling	Sammy (uncredited)	0
95	1943	Adventures of the Flying Cadets	Zombie Parker	65
96	1943	Thank Your Lucky Stars	Busboy (uncredited)	61
97	1943	Mr. Muggs Steps Out	Pinky	0
98	1943	Moonlight in Vermont	Abel	60
99	1943	Whispering Footsteps	Jerry Murphy	53
100	1944	Million Dollar Kid	Skinny	64
101	1944	The Whistler	The Deafmute (Uncredited)	59
102	1944	Follow the Leader	Spider O'Brien	35
103	1944	Block Busters	Butch	0
104	1944	Janie	Soda Jerk (uncredited)	55
105	1944	That's My Baby!	Office boy	50
106	1944	They Live in Fear	Thomas 'Mack' Knight (uncredited)	0
107	1944	I Won't Play	Florida	61
108	1944	Bowery Champs	Skinny	70
109	1945	Brenda Starr, Reporter	Pesky (uncredited)	0
110	1945	Docks of New York	Skinny	60
111	1945	Hollywood and Vine	Joe the Newsboy	44
112	1945	Story of G.I. Joe	Pvt. Whitey (uncredited)	64
113	1945	Mr. Muggs Rides Again	Skinny	50
114	1945	Come Out Fighting	Skinny	70
115	1946	People Are Funny	NBC Usher	52
116	1946	Live Wires	Whitey (as Billy Benedict)	55
117	1946	Gay Blades	Newsboy (uncredited)	0
118	1946	Road to Utopia	Second Newsboy (uncredited)	66
119	1946	The Gentleman Misbehaves	Bellboy (uncredited)	0
120	1946	The Kid from Brooklyn	Newsboy (uncredited)	62
121	1946	Without Reservations	Telegraph Delivery Boy (uncredited)	63
122	1946	Do You Love Me	Singing Western Union Boy (uncredited)	43
123	1946	One More Tomorrow	Stinky	55
124	1946	In Fast Company	Whitey (as Billy Benedict)	63
125	1946	Bowery Bombshell	Whitey	60
126	1946	Spook Busters	Whitey (as Billy Benedict)	47
127	1946	Mr. Hex	Whitey (as Billy Benedict)	67
128	1946	Never Say Goodbye	Messenger Boy (uncredited)	63
129	1947	The Pilgrim Lady	Bellboy	50
130	1947	Hard Boiled Mahoney	Whitey	64
131	1947	Fun on a Weekend	Hotel Bellboy (Uncredited)	70
132	1947	The Hucksters	Bellboy at Blue Penguin Inn (uncredited)	69
133	1947	News Hounds	Whitey (as Billy Benedict)	63
134	1947	Merton of the Movies	Von Strutt's Assistant (uncredited)	68
135	1947	Bowery Buckaroos	Whitey	65
136	1948	Angels' Alley	Whitey	40
137	1948	Secret Service Investigator	Counterman	60
138	1948	Jinx Money	Whitey (as Billy Benedict)	47
139	1948	Night Wind	Irv Bennett	0
140	1948	Smuggler's Cove	Whitey	47
141	1948	Trouble Makers	Whitey (as Billy Benedict)	57
142	1949	Fighting Fools	Whitey	50
143	1949	Riders of the Pony Express	Eddie Lund	60
144	1949	Hold That Baby!	Whitey	50
145	1949	Angels in Disguise	Whitey	58
146	1949	Master Minds	Whitey	58
147	1950	Blonde Dynamite	Whitey	50
148	1950	Lucky Losers	Whitey	58
149	1950	Triple Trouble	Whitey, Bowery Boy	62
150	1950	Blues Busters	Whitey (as William Benedict)	55
151	1951	Bowery Battalion	Whitey	80
152	1951	Ghost Chasers	Whitey	67
153	1951	Let's Go Navy!	Whitey	70
154	1951	Crazy Over Horses	Whitey (as William Benedict)	55
155	1953	The Magnetic Monster	Albert	56
156	1955	Bride of the Monster	Newsboy	43
157	1956	Mobs, Inc.	Telegraph Boy	40
158	1956	The Killing	American Airlines Clerk	76
159	1959	The Hanging Tree	Trapper (uncredited)	67
160	1961	Lover Come Back	Musician Exiting Elevator (uncredited)	70
161	1965	Dear Heart	Stu	66
162	1965	The Hallelujah Trail	Simpson	60
163	1966	Frankie and Johnny	Bum Sleeping on Bench (uncredited)	57
164	1967	What Am I Bid?	Clem (as Bill Benedict)	0
165	1968	Rogue's Gallery	Jocko (as William Benedict)	60
166	1968	Funny Girl	Western Union Boy (uncredited)	72
167	1969	The Lottery	Joe Summers	67
168	1969	Big Daddy		0
169	1969	The Over the Hill Gang	Joe, the Telegrapher (as Bill Benedict)	56
170	1969	Hello, Dolly!	News Vendor (uncredited)	70
171	1972	Call Her Mom	Mr. Feigelbaum	40
172	1972	The Adventures of Nick Carter	Newsboy	10
173	1972	The Dirt Gang	Station Attendant	30
174	1973	The Sting	Roulette Dealer	80
175	1975	The Dead Don't Die	Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)	58
176	1975	Cop on the Beat	Lennie	41
177	1976	Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood	Man on Bus	41
178	1976	Sherlock Holmes in New York	Telegraph Office Manager	58
179	1978	Born Again	Leon Jaworski	0
180	1979	Goldie and the Boxer	Old Man	45
181	1982	Computercide	Elderly Man	60
182	1988	Bonanza: The Next Generation	Gus Morton	75
183	2020	The Bowery Boys: Legends of Laughter	Himself	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok		45
2	1951	Dragnet		65
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Degnan	87
4	1953	I'm the Law		50
5	1954	Lassie		61
6	1955	Gunsmoke	Gus	66
7	1955	Navy Log		45
8	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie		37
9	1957	Wagon Train	Wagon Train Member	64
10	1958	The Rifleman		71
11	1959	The Twilight Zone	Conklin	84
12	1959	Dennis the Menace		67
13	1960	The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Joe	62
14	1960	Route 66		64
15	1963	Petticoat Junction	Willie	59
16	1964	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.		71
17	1965	Branded		64
18	1965	Honey West	Farley	70
19	1965	I Dream of Jeannie	Cleaning Man	78
20	1966	The Monkees		65
21	1966	Felony Squad		70
22	1967	Ironside		69
23	1967	Hondo		65
24	1967	The Guns of Will Sonnett		63
25	1967	Mannix		67
26	1968	Mission: Impossible	Denver	76
27	1968	Adam-12	Bill White	71
28	1968	Land of the Giants	Villager Peabody	67
29	1968	Here's Lucy	Deliveryman	69
30	1968	Mayberry R.F.D.	Uncle Whitmore	57
31	1968	Mayberry R.F.D.	Pet Shop Owner	57
32	1969	The Brady Bunch		67
33	1970	The Immortal		74
34	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
35	1971	All in the Family	Jimmy McNab	78
36	1972	Emergency!		78
37	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		70
38	1973	Police Story		71
39	1973	Police Story	Prescott	71
40	1974	Little House on the Prairie		80
41	1975	Ellery Queen		74
42	1975	Matt Helm	Scavenger	74
43	1976	Quincy, M.E.		75
44	1977	The Incredible Hulk	Vic	72
45	1981	Hill Street Blues		76
46	1984	Highway to Heaven		74