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.[1]
Benedict was born in Haskell, Oklahoma,[2] After his father's death when Billy was three years old, his mother supported him and his two sisters.[3] He took part in school theatricals, and on leaving school he made his way to Hollywood.
Career
Benedict's first film was $10 Raise (1935) starring Edward Everett Horton, which launched the blond-haired young man on a busy career. He 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.
^ abLentz, Harris M. III (2000). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1999: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. p. 18. ISBN9780786452040. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
^Mayer, Geoff (2017). Encyclopedia of American Film Serials. McFarland. p. 49. ISBN9780786477623. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
^Keavy, Hubbard (May 3, 1935). "Screen Life In Hollywood". Altoona Tribune. PA, Altoona. p. 6. Retrieved May 28, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
^ abStaff. "William Benedict Character Actor, 82", The New York Times, November 30, 1999. Accessed March 30, 2009.
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For the American pilot see William Pershing Benedict 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 1 Billy BenedictBenedict in Adventures of Captain Marvel 1941 BornWilliam Benedict 1917 04 16 April 16 1917Haskell Oklahoma U S DiedNovember 25 1999 1999 11 25 aged 82 Los Angeles California U S OccupationActorYears active1935 1992Spouse s Dolly Benedict m 1969 div 19 Contents 1 Early years 2 Career 3 Death 4 Selected filmography 5 References 6 External linksEarly years EditBenedict was born in Haskell Oklahoma 2 After his father s death when Billy was three years old his mother supported him and his two sisters 3 He took part in school theatricals and on leaving school he made his way to Hollywood Career EditBenedict s first film was 10 Raise 1935 starring Edward Everett Horton which launched the blond haired young man on a busy career He 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 4 and in television series including The Andy Griffith Show All in the Family and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Death EditBenedict died at age 82 on November 25 1999 at Los Angeles Cedars Sinai Medical Center 4 following heart surgery 1 Selected filmography EditYear Film Role Director Notes1935 10 Raise Jimmy George Marshall1935 College Scandal Penny Parker Elliott Nugent1935 Silk Hat Kid Uncle Sam H Bruce Humberstone uncredited1935 Doubting Thomas Caddie David Butler1935 The Farmer Takes a Wife Boy Announcing Dan s Arrival Before Fight Victor Fleming uncredited1935 Welcome Home Bit James Tinling uncredited1935 Steamboat Round the Bend Breck John Ford uncredited1935 Ladies Love Danger Newsboy H Bruce Humberstone uncredited1935 Way Down East Amos D W Griffith1935 Three Kids and a Queen Flash Edward Ludwig1935 Bad Boy Grocery Clerk John G Blystone uncredited1935 Show Them No Mercy Willie George Marshall uncredited1935 Your Uncle Dudley Cyril Church Eugene Forde1936 The Country Doctor The Gawker Henry King1936 Captain January Telegram Delivery Boy David Butler uncredited1936 The Witness Chair Benny Ryan George Nicholls Jr 1936 Meet Nero Wolfe Barstow s Caddy Herbert Biberman1936 M Liss Archer Morpher George Nicholls Jr 1936 A Son Comes Home Cabin Boy E A Dupont uncredited1936 Ramona Joseph Hyar1936 Adventure in Manhattan Office Boy Edward Ludwig uncredited1936 Libeled Lady Johnny Jack Conway1936 Theodora Goes Wild Henry Richard Boleslawski uncredited1936 Can This Be Dixie Shenandoah Peachtree uncredited1936 Laughing at Trouble Wilbur Frank R Strayer1936 Crack Up Office Boy Malcolm St Clair uncredited1936 After the Thin Man Blond Young Man Who Approaches Car W S Van Dyke uncredited1937 They Wanted to Marry Freckles Lew Landers1937 Jim Hanvey Detective Copy Boy Phil Rosen uncredited1937 That I May Live Kurt Plivens Allan Dwan1937 The Road Back Boy Leader James Whale uncredited1937 Rhythm in the Clouds Clyde John H Auer uncredited1937 Love in a Bungalow Telegraph boy Ray McCarey1937 Flying Fists Monk Tall Kid Robert F Hill1937 A Dangerous Adventure Blister D Ross Lederman uncredited1937 The Last Gangster the Office Boy Edward Ludwig uncredited1937 Tim Tyler s Luck Spud Wyndham Gittens1938 I Met My Love Again Boy at Party George Cukor uncredited uncredited1938 No Time to Marry Farm Boy Harry Lachman uncredited1938 Bringing Up Baby David s Caddy Howard Hawks uncredited1938 Walking Down Broadway Eddie Norman Foster1938 King of the Newsboys Squimpy Bernard Vorhaus1938 There s Always a Woman Bellhop Alexander Hall uncredited1938 Hold That Kiss Boy Delivering Suit Edwin L Marin uncredited1938 Young Fugitives Jud John Rawlins1938 Hold That Co ed Sylvester George Marshall1938 Little Tough Guys in Society Trouble Erle C Kenton1938 Say It in French Red Haired Boy Andrew L Stone uncredited1938 Newsboys Home Trouble Harold Young1939 Code of the Streets Trouble Harold Young1939 Man of Conquest Tommy George Nicholls Jr uncredited1939 Timber Stampede Printer s Devil Kenneth Holmes assistant uncredited1939 Pack Up Your Troubles Office Boy H Bruce Humberstone uncredited1939 Call a Messenger Trouble Arthur Lubin1940 Legion of the Lawless Eddie David Howard1940 My Little Chickadee Lem Edward F Cline uncredited1940 And One Was Beautiful Delivery Man Robert B Sinclair uncredited1940 Prairie Law Teenage Voter David Howard uncredited1940 Grand Ole Opry Newsboy Frank McDonald uncredited1940 Adventures of Red Ryder Dan Withers Ch 1 John English Serial uncredited1940 The Great McGinty Farm Boy Preston Sturges uncredited1940 Stage to Chino Happy Kenneth Holmes assistant uncredited1940 Lucky Partners Delivery Boy Lewis Milestone uncredited1940 Young People Boy Allan Dwan uncredited1940 Rhythm on the River Elevator Boy Victor Schertzinger uncredited1940 The Mad Doctor Copy Boy Tim Whelan uncredited1940 Melody Ranch Slim Joseph Santley1940 Give Us Wings Link Charles Lamont1940 Second Chorus Ticket Taker H C Potter uncredited1940 Bowery Boy William Morgan1941 The Great Mr Nobody Jig Benjamin Stoloff1941 Scattergood Baines Lafe Hopper John E Burch assistant uncredited1941 The Man Who Lost Himself Messenger Boy Edward Ludwig uncredited1941 Mr District Attorney Office Boy Ed Byron uncredited1941 Adventures of Captain Marvel Whitey Murphy John English Serial1941 In Old Cheyenne Train Vendor Joseph Kane uncredited1941 She Knew All the Answers Singing Telegraph Boy Richard Wallace1941 Time Out for Rhythm Messenger Sidney Salkow uncredited1941 Citadel of Crime Wes Rankins George Sherman1941 The Richest Man in Town Young Man uncredited1941 Dressed to Kill Telegram Boy Eugene J Forde uncredited1941 Great Guns Recruit at Corral Monty Banks uncredited1941 Jesse James at Bay Young Davis Joseph Kane uncredited1941 Unholy Partners Copyboy Wanting Paper Mervyn LeRoy uncredited1941 Tuxedo Junction Thomas Piecrust Murphy1941 Cadet Girl Soldier at Camp Show Ray McCarey uncredited1941 Confessions of Boston Blackie Ice Cream Man Edward Dmytryk1942 A Tragedy at Midnight Newsboy Joseph Santley uncredited1942 On the Sunny Side Messenger Harold D Schuster1942 Rings on Her Fingers Newsboy Rouben Mamoulian1942 Two Yanks in Trinidad Messenger Gregory Ratoff uncredited1942 The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine Bellboy Bernard Vorhaus1942 Junior G Men of the Air Whitey Ch 11 Ray Taylor Serial uncredited1942 Home in Wyomin Usher William Morgan uncredited1942 I Live on Danger Nightclub Waiter Sam White uncredited1942 Lady in a Jam Barker Gregory La Cava uncredited1942 Perils of Nyoka Red Davis William Witney1942 The Talk of the Town Western Union Boy George Stevens uncredited1942 Wildcat Bud Smithers Frank McDonald1942 The Glass Key Farr s Receptionist Stuart Heisler uncredited1942 Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Usher in Opera House Ralph Murphy uncredited1942 Get Hep to Love Soda Jerk Charles Lamont uncredited1942 Valley of Hunted Men Ranch Boy John English uncredited1942 Heart of the Golden West Telegraph Messenger Joseph Kane uncredited1942 A Night to Remember Messenger Boy Richard Wallace uncredited1943 The Powers Girl Office Boy Norman Z McLeod uncredited1943 Aerial Gunner Pvt Jackson Sleepy Laswell William H Pine1943 Hangmen Also Die Kylar Fritz Lang uncredited1943 Clancy Street Boys Cherry Street Leader William Beaudine1943 The Ox Bow Incident Greene William A Wellman1943 All by Myself Telegraph Messenger uncredited1943 Ghosts on the Loose Benny William Beaudine1943 Nobody s Darling Sammy Anthony Mann uncredited1943 Adventures of the Flying Cadets Cadet Zombie Parker Ray Taylor1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars Busboy uncredited1943 Mr Muggs Steps Out Pinky William Beaudine1943 Minesweeper Inoculations Corpsman William Berke uncredited1943 Moonlight in Vermont Abel Edward C Lilley1943 Whispering Footsteps Jerry Murphy Howard Bretherton1944 Million Dollar Kid Skinny Wallace Fox1944 Cover Girl Florist Delivery Boy Charles Vidor uncredited1944 The Whistler The Deafmute William Castle uncredited1944 Follow the Boys Joe A Edward Sutherland uncredited1944 Follow the Leader Spider O Brien William Beaudine1944 Goodnight Sweetheart Bellboy Joseph Santley1944 Block Busters Butch Wallace Fox1944 Janie Soda Jerk Michael Curtiz uncredited1944 That s My Baby Office Boy William Berke1944 The Merry Monahans Messenger Charles Lamont uncredited1944 They Live in Fear Thomas Mack Knight uncredited1944 Bowery Champs Skinny William Beaudine1944 My Gal Loves Music Bellboy uncredited1945 Night Club Girl Winnebago boy uncredited1945 Youth on Trial Soda Jerk uncredited1945 Brenda Starr Reporter Pesky Ch 1 3 5 8 11 13 Wallace Fox Serial uncredited1945 Docks of New York Skinny Wallace Fox1945 Patrick the Great Joey Frank Ryan uncredited1945 Hollywood and Vine Newsboy uncredited1945 The Story of G I Joe Pvt Whitey William A Wellman uncredited1945 Mr Muggs Rides Again Skinny Wallace Fox1945 Come Out Fighting Skinny William Beaudine1945 Road to Utopia Second Newsboy Hal Walker uncredited1946 People Are Funny NBC Usher Sam White1946 Live Wires Whitey Phil Karlson1946 Gay Blades Newsboy George Blair uncredited1946 The Gentleman Misbehaves Bellboy uncredited1946 The Kid from Brooklyn Newsboy 2 Norman Z McLeod uncredited1946 Without Reservations Western Union Telegraph Boy Mervyn LeRoy uncredited1946 Do You Love Me Singing Western Union Boy Gregory Ratoff uncredited1946 One More Tomorrow Bantam Office Boy Peter Godfrey uncredited1946 In Fast Company Whitey Del Lord1946 A Boy a Girl and a Dog Messenger Boy uncredited1946 Bowery Bombshell Whitey Phil Karlson1946 Spook Busters Whitey William Beaudine1946 No Leave No Love Expectant Father on Hospital Phone Charles Martin uncredited1946 Never Say Goodbye Messenger Boy James V Kern uncredited1946 Mr Hex Whitey William Beaudine1947 The Pilgrim Lady Bellboy Lesley Selander1947 Hard Boiled Mahoney Whitey William Beaudine1947 Fun on a Weekend Hotel Bellboy Andrew L Stone uncredited1947 The Hucksters Bellboy at Blue Penguin Inn Jack Conway uncredited1947 News Hounds Whitey William Beaudine1947 Bowery Buckaroos Whitey William Beaudine1947 Merton of the Movies Von Strutt s Assistant Robert Alton uncredited1948 Angels Alley Whitey William Beaudine1948 Secret Service Investigator Counterman R G Springsteen1948 Jinx Money Whitey William Beaudine1948 Night Wind Irv Bennett uncredited1948 Smugglers Cove Whitey William Beaudine1948 Trouble Makers Whitey Reginald LeBorg1949 Fighting Fools Whitey Reginald LeBorg1949 Riders of the Pony Express Eddie Lund1949 Hold That Baby Whitey Reginald LeBorg1949 Angels in Disguise Whitey Jean Yarbrough1949 Master Minds Whitey Jean Yarbrough1950 Blonde Dynamite Whitey William Beaudine1950 Lucky Losers Whitey William Beaudine1950 Triple Trouble Whitey Jean Yarbrough1950 Blues Busters Whitey William Beaudine1951 Bowery Battalion Whitey William Beaudine1951 Ghost Chasers Whitey William Beaudine1951 Let s Go Navy Whitey William Beaudine1951 Crazy Over Horses Whitey William Beaudine1953 The Magnetic Monster Albert Herbert L Strock uncredited 1955 Bride of the Monster Newsboy Ed Wood1956 The Killing American Airlines Clerk Stanley Kubrick1958 Rally Round the Flag Boys Bellhop Leo McCarey uncredited1959 The Hanging Tree Trapper Delmer Daves uncredited1959 Last Train from Gun Hill Small Man in Horseshoe John Sturges uncredited1961 Lover Come Back Musician in Elevator Delbert Mann uncredited1964 Dear Heart Stu Delbert Mann uncredited1965 Zebra in the Kitchen Toy Shop Proprietor Ivan Tors uncredited1965 The Hallelujah Trail Miner John Sturges1965 Harlow Bespectacled Hero in Movie Gordon Douglas uncredited1967 What Am I Bid Clem1968 Funny Girl Western Union Boy William Wyler uncredited1968 Rogue s Gallery Jocko Leonard Horn1969 The Lottery Joe Summers Larry Yust short1969 Hello Dolly News Vendor Gene Kelly uncredited1972 The Dirt Gang Station Attendant Jerry Jameson1973 The Sting Jimmy Roulette dealer George Roy Hill1974 Homebodies Watchman Larry Yust1975 Farewell My Lovely Dick Richards1976 Won Ton Ton the Dog Who Saved Hollywood Man on Bus Michael Winner1976 Sherlock Holmes in New York Telegraph Office Manager Boris Sagal1977 The Last Hurrah Willie Degman Vincent Sherman1978 Born Again Leon Jaworski Irving RapperReferences Edit a b Lentz Harris M III 2000 Obituaries in the Performing Arts 1999 Film Television Radio Theatre Dance Music Cartoons and Pop Culture McFarland p 18 ISBN 9780786452040 Retrieved May 28 2017 Mayer Geoff 2017 Encyclopedia of American Film Serials McFarland p 49 ISBN 9780786477623 Retrieved May 29 2017 Keavy Hubbard May 3 1935 Screen Life In Hollywood Altoona Tribune PA Altoona p 6 Retrieved May 28 2017 via Newspapers com a b Staff William Benedict Character Actor 82 The New York Times November 30 1999 Accessed March 30 2009 Biography portalExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to William Billy Benedict William Benedict at IMDb William Benedict at Find a Grave Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title William Benedict amp oldid 1121330898, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
