William Bendix

William Bendix

Born: January 14, 1906
Died: December 14, 1964
in New York City, New York, USA
William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, best remembered in movies for the title role in the movie The Babe Ruth Story and for portraying clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in radio and television's The Life of Riley. He also received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for Wake Island (1942).

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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Title: Los Angeles Plays Itself
Character: Buzz Wanchek in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)
Released: July 28, 2004
Type: Movie
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Title: Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 10, 1991
Type: Movie
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
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The Movie Orgy
Title: The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Young Fury
Title: Young Fury
Character: Blacksmith
Released: November 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the leader must take action. The leader's father is an infamous ex-gunfighter, and he straps his guns on one more time.
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Law of the Lawless
Title: Law of the Lawless
Character: Sheriff Ed Tanner
Released: May 13, 1964
Type: Movie
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Fred Hopke
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Harrison Weems
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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For Love or Money
Title: For Love or Money
Character: Joe Fogel
Released: August 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.
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The Young and the Brave
Title: The Young and the Brave
Character: Sgt. Peter L. Kane (escaped POW)
Released: August 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A drama of the Korean War. Four American Army POWs escape behind enemy lines and try to make their way back to their units in the South. Along the way they are aided by a young Korean boy and his adopted dog, a US trained German Shepherd named Lobo.
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Title: Vacation Playhouse
Released: July 22, 1963
Type: TV
The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was successful during its first few seasons due to the fact that the show's concept, airing unsold and unaired television pilots, was a popular concept in the 1960s. But during its last two seasons on the air, the series did find some trouble due to the fact that the series were running out of pilots to air and, in their 4th season, they began airing repeats from the three seasons prior. During its 1966 summer run, the series aired eights new pilots and two repeats and during its last year airing five new pilots and four repeats.
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Boys' Night Out
Title: Boys' Night Out
Character: Slattery
Released: June 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
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Johnny Nobody
Title: Johnny Nobody
Character: James Ronald Mulcahy
Released: October 1, 1961
Type: Movie
When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has dared God to strike him dead, a stranger appears and does so. The man, dubbed "Johnny Nobody" by the press, claims no knowledge of Mulcahy or even of himself. He asks the help of the village priest, Father Carey, in his upcoming trial for Mulcahy's murder. While the amnesiac Johnny goes to trial, Father Carey mulls questions of belief raised by the case. And then, the good father learns a little more about Johnny Nobody...
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Title: Mister Ed
Character: Bill Parker
Released: January 5, 1961
Type: TV
Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.
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Title: Overland Trail
Character: Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly
Released: February 7, 1960
Type: TV
Overland Trail was a short lived television western about the adventures of an earthy stage coach line superintendent and his young partner as they strive to keep the stage routes open and safe. William Bendix played Frederick Thomas "Fred" Kelly, the superintendent of the fictitious Overland Stage Company. Doug McClure appeared as Frank "Flip" Flippen, Kelly's associate in the business.
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Title: The Untouchables
Character: Wally Legenza
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: TV
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
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The Rough and the Smooth
Title: The Rough and the Smooth
Character: Reg Barker
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
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Title: Riverboat
Character: Vance Muldoon
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961. It was produced by Revue Studios.
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The Ransom of Red Chief
Title: The Ransom of Red Chief
Character: Bill Driscoll
Released: August 16, 1959
Type: Movie
Based upon a famous O. Henry short story, two crooks think they have an opportunity to make a quick buck by kidnapping a rich man's son. Ironically, the hostage takers become the hostages as they pay through the nose becoming the butts of the kid's stunts.
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Idol on Parade
Title: Idol on Parade
Character: Sergeant Major Lush
Released: March 24, 1959
Type: Movie
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
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Title: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: TV
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
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The Deep Six
Title: The Deep Six
Character: 'Frenchy' Shapiro
Released: January 15, 1958
Type: Movie
The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. When he refuses to fire upon an unidentified plane, the word spreads that Austin cannot be relied upon in battle (never mind that the plane turns out to be one of ours). To prove that he's worthy of command, Austin volunteers for a dangerous mission: the rescue of a group of US pilots on a Japanese-held island. The ubiquitous William Bendix costars as Frenchy Shapiro (!), Austin's Jewish petty officer and severest critic. If the film has a villain, it is Keenan Wynn as ambitious Lt. Commander Edge, who seems to despise anyone who isn't a mainline WASP.
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Title: The Lux Show
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: TV
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Title: Wagon Train
Character: Capt. Matthew Cobb
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: TV
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Battle Stations
Title: Battle Stations
Character: Buck Fitzpatrick
Released: February 1, 1956
Type: Movie
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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Title: Screen Director's Playhouse
Character: Joe Redman
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
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Crashout
Title: Crashout
Character: Van Morgan Duff
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of "regular folks," each has his own rendezvous with destiny.
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Dangerous Mission
Title: Dangerous Mission
Character: Chief Ranger Joe Parker
Released: March 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: George Harris
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: The Life Of Riley
Character: Chester A. Riley
Released: January 2, 1953
Type: TV
Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems.
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Blackbeard, the Pirate
Title: Blackbeard, the Pirate
Character: Ben Worley
Released: December 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Carl Ledbetter
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Macao
Title: Macao
Character: Lawrence C. Trumble
Released: April 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
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A Girl in Every Port
Title: A Girl in Every Port
Character: Timothy Aloysius 'Tim' Dunnovan
Released: February 13, 1952
Type: Movie
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.
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Detective Story
Title: Detective Story
Character: Det. Lou Brody
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
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Submarine Command
Title: Submarine Command
Character: CPO Boyer
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Bull Mitchell
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: USAF Crew Chief
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Gambling House
Title: Gambling House
Character: Joe Farrow
Released: December 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Window Washer
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Larry Beat
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Title: Truth or Consequences
Released: September 7, 1950
Type: TV
Truth or Consequences is an American television show originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards and later on television by Edwards, Jack Bailey, Bob Barker, Bob Hilton and Larry Anderson. The television show ran on CBS, NBC and also in syndication. The premise of the show was to mix the original quiz element of game shows with wacky stunts. The daily syndicated show was produced by Ralph Edwards Productions, in associated with and distributed by Metromedia Producers Corporation and Lorimar-Telepictures.
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Kill the Umpire
Title: Kill the Umpire
Character: Bill 'Two Call' Johnson
Released: April 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Panelist
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Character: Mr. Minihan - an unlucky man
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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Johnny Holiday
Title: Johnny Holiday
Character: Sgt. Walker
Released: November 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys School.
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Title: Lights Out
Released: July 19, 1949
Type: TV
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.
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The Big Steal
Title: The Big Steal
Character: Capt. Vincent Blake
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
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Streets of Laredo
Title: Streets of Laredo
Character: Wahoo Jones
Released: May 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lorn goes on to bigger and better robberies, while Jim and Wahoo are (at first reluctantly) maneuvered into joining the Texas Rangers. For friendship's sake, the three try to keep out of direct conflict, but a showdown begins to look inevitable. And Rannie, now grown into lovely young womanhood, must choose between Lorn and Jim
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Character: Sir Sagramore
Released: April 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
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The Life of Riley
Title: The Life of Riley
Character: Chester A. Riley
Released: April 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working husband-and-father with no shortage of family problems.
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Cover Up
Title: Cover Up
Character: Larry Best
Released: February 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Character: Genteman Suitor
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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10,000 Kids and a Cop
Title: 10,000 Kids and a Cop
Character: Cop
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, as a neighborhood policeman, visits the Foundation and discovers the juveniles who used to give him trouble now engaged in sports and activities, furnished them gratis, under self-supervision. Abbott and Costello furnish a couple of bits to liven it up some.
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The Babe Ruth Story
Title: The Babe Ruth Story
Character: George Herman 'Babe' Ruth
Released: September 16, 1948
Type: Movie
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
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Race Street
Title: Race Street
Character: Barney Runson
Released: September 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
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The Time of Your Life
Title: The Time of Your Life
Character: Nick
Released: September 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Where There's Life
Title: Where There's Life
Character: Victor O'Brien
Released: November 21, 1947
Type: Movie
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.
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Variety Girl
Title: Variety Girl
Character: William Bendix
Released: August 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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The Web
Title: The Web
Character: Lt. Damico
Released: June 4, 1947
Type: Movie
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
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Blaze of Noon
Title: Blaze of Noon
Character: Porkie Scott
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately, the woman dislikes his brothers and constantly worries that he will be killed during a flight. Her fears are not unfounded and much tragedy ensues as the story unfolds.
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I'll Be Yours
Title: I'll Be Yours
Character: Wechsberg
Released: February 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
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Calcutta
Title: Calcutta
Character: Pedro Blake
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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Two Years Before the Mast
Title: Two Years Before the Mast
Character: First Mate Amazeen
Released: November 22, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).
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White Tie and Tails
Title: White Tie and Tails
Character: Larry Lundie
Released: August 30, 1946
Type: Movie
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
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The Blue Dahlia
Title: The Blue Dahlia
Character: Buzz Wanchek
Released: April 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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The Dark Corner
Title: The Dark Corner
Character: Stauffer, a.k.a. Fred Foss
Released: April 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
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Sentimental Journey
Title: Sentimental Journey
Character: Donnelly - Uncle Don
Released: March 6, 1946
Type: Movie
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
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A Bell for Adano
Title: A Bell for Adano
Character: Sgt. Borth
Released: June 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
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Don Juan Quilligan
Title: Don Juan Quilligan
Character: Patrick Michael 'Don Juan' Quilligan
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
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It's in the Bag!
Title: It's in the Bag!
Character: William Bendix
Released: April 21, 1945
Type: Movie
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
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Greenwich Village
Title: Greenwich Village
Character: Danny O'Mara
Released: September 27, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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Abroad with Two Yanks
Title: Abroad with Two Yanks
Character: Biff Koraski
Released: August 4, 1944
Type: Movie
Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.
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The Hairy Ape
Title: The Hairy Ape
Character: Hank Smith
Released: July 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
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Skirmish on the Home Front
Title: Skirmish on the Home Front
Character: Herb Miller
Released: May 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.
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Lifeboat
Title: Lifeboat
Character: Gus Smith
Released: January 28, 1944
Type: Movie
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
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Guadalcanal Diary
Title: Guadalcanal Diary
Character: Corp. Taxi Potts
Released: October 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
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Hostages
Title: Hostages
Character: Underground leader
Released: August 11, 1943
Type: Movie
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.
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China
Title: China
Character: Johnny Sparrow
Released: April 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...
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Taxi, Mister
Title: Taxi, Mister
Character: Tim McGuerin
Released: April 16, 1943
Type: Movie
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
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The Crystal Ball
Title: The Crystal Ball
Character: Biff Carter
Released: January 22, 1943
Type: Movie
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
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The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Title: The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Character: Tim McGuerin
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an affair with his secretary, Ms. Lucy Gibbs. To annoy Tim, Sadie starts taking classes with a fitness instructor, Samson, and later going with him to his out-of-town health club. To sort out all the misunderstandings both Tim and Eddie go to the health club as well.
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Who Done It?
Title: Who Done It?
Character: Detective Sgt. Brannigan
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Jeff
Released: September 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Wake Island
Title: Wake Island
Character: Pvt. Aloysius K. "Smacksie" Randall
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Title: Star Spangled Rhythm
Character: Herman
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: Pinkie Peters
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
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Brooklyn Orchid
Title: Brooklyn Orchid
Character: Timothy McGuerin
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Driver Watching Pinball Game (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.