The Sting1973
As Roulette Dealer
TMDb 8.0 / 10
William Benedict
Born
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 (186)
The Killing1956
As American Airlines Clerk
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Hello, Dolly!1969
As News Vendor (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Bringing Up Baby1938
As David's Caddy (uncredited)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Funny Girl1968
As Western Union Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Ox-Bow Incident1943
As Greene (uncredited)
TMDb 7.7 / 10
After the Thin Man1936
As Newsboy (uncredited)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Frankie and Johnny1966
As Bum Sleeping on Bench (uncredited)
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Hallelujah Trail1965
As Simpson
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Talk of the Town1942
As Western Union Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Libeled Lady1936
As Johnny
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Story of G.I. Joe1945
As Pvt. Whitey (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Glass Key1942
As Farr's Receptionist (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood1976
As Man on Bus
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Lover Come Back1961
As Musician Exiting Elevator (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Young People1940
As Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Second Chorus1941
As Ticket Taker (uncredited)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Without Reservations1946
As Telegraph Delivery Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Adventures of Captain Marvel1941
As Whitey Murphy
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Thank Your Lucky Stars1943
As Busboy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Sherlock Holmes in New York1976
As Telegraph Office Manager
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Captain January1936
As Telegram Delivery Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Farmer Takes a Wife1935
As Boy Announcing Dan's Arrival Before Fight
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Live Wires1946
As Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Triple Trouble1950
As Whitey, Bowery Boy
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Over the Hill Gang1969
As Joe, the Telegrapher (as Bill Benedict)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Hanging Tree1959
As Trapper (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Road to Utopia1946
As Newsboy #2 (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Rings on Her Fingers1942
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Dead Don't Die1975
As Hotel Desk Clerk
TMDb 6.0 / 10
A Night to Remember1942
As Messenger Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Adventures of Nick Carter1972
As Newsboy
TMDb 3.8 / 10
The Whistler1944
As The Deafmute (Uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Kid from Brooklyn1946
As Newsboy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Crack-Up1936
As Bunky, Office Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Great Mr. Nobody1941
As Jig
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Let's Go Navy!1951
As Whitey
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Magnetic Monster1953
As Albert
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Great Guns1941
As Recruit at Corral
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Hucksters1947
As Bellboy at Blue Penguin Inn (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Big Daddy1969
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Great McGinty1940
As Farm Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Adventures of the Flying Cadets1943
As Zombie Parker
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Bride of the Monster1955
As Newsboy
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Heart of the Golden West1942
As Telegraph Messenger
TMDb 4.2 / 10
Goldie and the Boxer1979
As Old Man
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Fun on a Weekend1947
As Hotel Bellboy (uncredited)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Ghosts on the Loose1943
As Benny
TMDb 4.2 / 10
Flying Fists1937
As Monk, Tall Kid
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Junior G-Men of the Air1942
As Whitey
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Follow the Boys1944
As Joe (uncredited)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Steamboat Round the Bend1935
As Breck
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Dirt Gang1972
As Station Attendant
TMDb 3.4 / 10
Lady in a Jam1942
As Barker (uncredited)
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Rhythm on the River1940
As Elevator Boy
TMDb 6.9 / 10
3 Kids and a Queen1935
As Flash
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Bonanza: The Next Generation1988
As Gus Morton
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Cop on the Beat1975
As Lennie
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Say It in French1938
As Midget Car Driver
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Bowery Boy1940
As (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Dear Heart1965
As Stu
TMDb 6.5 / 10
On the Sunny Side1942
As Messenger
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Bowery Bombshell1946
As Whitey
TMDb 6.5 / 10
She Knew All the Answers1941
As Singing Telegraph Boy
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Do You Love Me1946
As Singing Western Union Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Never Say Goodbye1946
As Messenger Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Merton of the Movies1947
As Von Strutt's Assistant (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Last Gangster1937
As Freddy the Office Boy
TMDb 6.4 / 10
And One Was Beautiful1940
As Delivery Man
TMDb 6.7 / 10
There's Always a Woman1938
As Bellboy
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Adventures of Red Ryder1940
As Dan Withers
TMDb 6.7 / 10
I Met My Love Again1938
As Billy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Gay Blades1946
As Newsboy (uncredited)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Confessions of Boston Blackie1941
As Ice Cream Man
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Man Who Lost Himself1941
As Telegram Delivery Boy
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Computercide1982
As Elderly Man
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Code of the Streets1939
As Trouble
TMDb 7.7 / 10
I Live on Danger1942
As Bellboy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine1942
As Bellboy
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Time Out for Rhythm1941
As Messenger (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch1942
As Theatre Usher
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Janie1944
As Soda Jerk (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Show Them No Mercy!1935
As Willie (uncredited)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Docks of New York1945
As Skinny
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Theodora Goes Wild1936
As Henry - Copyboy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Way Down East1935
As Amos
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Get Hep to Love1942
As Soda Jerk
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Hold That Co-ed1938
As Sylvester
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Two Yanks in Trinidad1942
As Messenger (uncredited)
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Master Minds1949
As Whitey
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Jesse James at Bay1941
As Young Davis
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Blonde Dynamite1950
As Whitey
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Melody Ranch1940
As Slim
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Bad Boy1935
As Grocery Clerk
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Brenda Starr, Reporter1945
As Pesky (uncredited)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Aerial Gunner1943
As Jackson 'Sleepy' Laswell
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Dressed to Kill1941
As Singing Telegram Boy
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Lottery1969
As Joe Summers
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Lucky Partners1940
As Delivery Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Tim Tyler's Luck1937
As Spud
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Tramp Trouble
Tramp Trouble1937
As Young Bindlestiff
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Ramona1936
As Joseph Hyar
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Cadet Girl1941
As Soldier at Camp Show (uncredited)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Can This Be Dixie?1936
As Shenandoah Peachtree (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
They Wanted to Marry1937
As Freckles
TMDb 5.8 / 10
My Little Chickadee1940
As Lem (uncredited)
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Mr. Muggs Steps Out1943
As Pinky
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Call Her Mom1972
As Mr. Feigelbaum
TMDb 6.0 / 10
One More Tomorrow1946
As Stinky
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Pilgrim Lady1947
As Bellboy
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Legion of the Lawless1940
As Eddie
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Clancy Street Boys1943
As Butch
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Mr. District Attorney1941
As Office Boy
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Angels' Alley1948
As Whitey
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Little Tough Guys in Society1938
As Trouble
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Pack Up Your Troubles1939
As Office Boy
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Fighting Fools1949
As Whitey
TMDb 6.0 / 10
People Are Funny1946
As NBC Usher
TMDb 5.7 / 10
College Scandal1935
As 'Penny' Parker
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Jim Hanvey, Detective1937
As Copy Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Born Again1978
As Leon Jaworski
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Lucky Losers1950
As Whitey
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Witness Chair1936
As Benny Ryan
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Riders of the Pony Express1949
As Eddie Lund
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Bowery Buckaroos1947
As Whitey
TMDb 6.6 / 10
What Am I Bid?1967
As Clem (as Bill Benedict)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Blues Busters1950
As Whitey (as William Benedict)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
King of the Newsboys1938
As Squimpy
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Home in Wyomin'1942
As Usher (uncredited)
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Hold That Kiss1938
As Delivery Boy
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Perils of Nyoka1942
As Red Davis
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Walking Down Broadway1938
As Eddie
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Country Doctor1936
As The Gawker
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Jinx Money1948
As Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Hollywood Hobbies1939
As Tour Guide
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Give Us Wings1940
As Link (as Billy Benedict)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
I Won't Play1944
As Florida
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Night Wind1948
As Irv Bennett
TMDb 9.0 / 10
That's My Baby!1944
As Office boy
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Grand Ole Opry1940
As Newsboy (uncredited)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Powers Girl1943
As Powers Agency Office Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Laughing at Trouble1936
As Wilbur
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Ghost Chasers1951
As Whitey
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Whispering Footsteps1943
As Jerry Murphy
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Nobody's Darling1943
As Sammy (uncredited)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Your Uncle Dudley1935
As Cyril Church
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Secret Service Investigator1948
As Counterman
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Bowery Boys: Legends of Laughter2020
As Himself
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Rhythm in the Clouds1937
As Bellboy
TMDb 7.5 / 10
That I May Live1937
As Kurt Plivens
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Stage to Chino1940
As Happy (uncredited)
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Scattergood Baines1941
As Lafe Hopper (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Mr. Hex1946
As Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
All by Myself1943
As Telegraph Messenger
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Rogue's Gallery1968
As Jocko (as William Benedict)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Hard Boiled Mahoney1947
As Whitey
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Mr. Muggs Rides Again1945
As Skinny
TMDb 7.0 / 10
$10 Raise1935
As Jimmy
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Block Busters1944
As Butch
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Doubting Thomas1935
As Caddie
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Wildcat1942
As Bud Smithers
TMDb 5.7 / 10
In Fast Company1946
As Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Angels in Disguise1949
As Whitey
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Spook Busters1946
As Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Trouble Makers1948
As Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Young Fugitives1938
As Jud (as William 'Billy' Benedict)
TMDb 3.7 / 10
Bowery Battalion1951
As Whitey
TMDb 8.0 / 10
M'Liss1936
As Archer Morpher
TMDb 6.0 / 10
In Old Cheyenne1941
As Train Vendor
TMDb 4.6 / 10
They Live in Fear1944
As Thomas 'Mack' Knight (uncredited)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Mad Doctor1940
As Mickey Barnes (Uncredited)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Mobs, Inc.1956
As Telegraph Boy
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Smuggler's Cove1948
As Whitey
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Newsboys' Home1938
As Trouble
TMDb 8.0 / 10
News Hounds1947
As Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Tuxedo Junction1941
As Thomas 'Piecrust' Murphy (as Billy Benedict)
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Come Out Fighting1945
As Skinny
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Moonlight in Vermont1943
As Abel
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Gentleman Misbehaves1946
As Bellboy (uncredited)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Follow the Leader1944
As Spider O'Brien
TMDb 3.8 / 10
Crazy Over Horses1951
As Whitey (as William Benedict)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Million Dollar Kid1944
As Skinny
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Bowery Champs1944
As Skinny
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Hollywood and Vine1945
As Joe the Newsboy
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Hold That Baby!1949
As Whitey
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Secret Sharer
The Secret Sharer1973
As Mr. Burns
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb