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William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, who typically played rough, blue-collar characters. He is best remembered for his role in Wake Island, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Bendix trabajó como tendero hasta la Gran Depresión, y su debut en el cine tuvo lugar en 1942. Fue actor de reparto en docenas de filmes de Hollywood , usualmente como soldado, gánster o detective.
William Bendix. Actor: Lifeboat. William Bendix was not a son of Brooklyn, New York, although because of his stereotypical "Brooklyn accent" it has been widely supposed that he was. Bendix was actually born in the Borough of Manhattan (New York City proper), in a midtown flat hard by the tracks of the long-since defunct Third-Avenue Elevated ...
Bendix was born in midtown Manhattan, the son of musician Oscar Bendix (not violinist/conductor Max Bendix, as is often reported). He made his film debut in 1911, at the age of five, when his father got him a small role in a Lillian Walker film being made at Vitagraph Studios, where the elder Bendix was working as a handyman.
A Retrospective of the Hollywood Everyman - YouTube. Dive into the remarkable world of William Bendix, the embodiment of Hollywood's Everyman, whose blundering brilliance left an indelible mark...
14 de ene. de 2016 · Un 14 de eero nacía William Bendix, actor de carácter que intervino en 62 películas. Pasó de cuidar los bates de béisbol de los Yanquees de New York a actor. Tras su debut en 'La pasión ciega' ('They Drive By Night', Raoul Walsh, 1940), desempeñó trabajos en la radio, y como muchos también hizo bastante televisión.
Mr. William Bendix, for many years among the most familiar of Hollywood's character actors, died in hospital on Monday at the age of 58, as briefly reported in later editions of The Times yesterday.
