William Benedict
Acting
🎂 1917-04-16
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.
Cast credits(232)
1954
1958
1974
Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
1957
1972
1976
Bill White
1968
1967
1951
1967
Denver
1966
1981
Conklin
1959
Cleaning Man
1965
Vic
1977
Willie
1963
1960
Gus
1955
1984
Deliveryman
1968
Jimmy McNab
1971
1959
1966
Old Man
1966
1972
Villager Peabody
1968
1966
1964
Uncle Whitmore
1968
Pet Shop Owner
1968
1956
1971
1975
Telegrapher
1967
1973
Prescott
1973
1969
1955
Joe
1960
1965
Farley
1965
Roulette Dealer
1973
1951
1967
Scavenger
1975
American Airlines Clerk
1956
Card Player
1969
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
1968
1970
David's Caddy (uncredited)
1938
News Vendor (uncredited)
1969
Bum Sleeping on Bench (uncredited)
1966
Trapper (uncredited)
1959
Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
1948
1953
Telegraph Office Manager
1976
Musician Exiting Elevator (uncredited)
1961
Theatre Usher
1942
Lafe Hopper (uncredited)
1941
Gus Morton
1988
Degnan
1951
Office Boy
1939
Greene (uncredited)
1943
Wilbur
1936
Simpson
1965
Trouble
1938
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1975
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
1942
Benny Ryan
1936
Old Man
1979
Whitey
1947
Farr's Receptionist (uncredited)
1942
Stu
1965
Whitey (as William Benedict)
1951
Whitey Murphy
1941
Florida
1944
Joe, the Telegrapher (as Bill Benedict)
1969
Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
1948
Ticket Taker (uncredited)
1941
Busboy (uncredited)
1943
Eddie
1940
Telegraph Messenger
1942
Jocko (as William Benedict)
1968
Man on Bus
1976
Ice Cream Man
1941
Henry - Copyboy (uncredited)
1936
Hotel Bellboy (Uncredited)
1947
Red Davis
1942
Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
1946
Soda Jerk (uncredited)
1944
Abel
1943
Jackson 'Sleepy' Laswell
1943
Lem (uncredited)
1940
Lennie
1975
Train Vendor
1941
Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
1946
Delivery Man
1940
Whitey
1948
Farm Boy (uncredited)
1940
Dan Withers
1940
Telegraph Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1946
Whitey
1951
Freckles
1937
Bud Smithers
1942
Whitey
1949
Messenger Boy (uncredited)
1946
Grocery Clerk
1935
Counterman
1948
Whitey
1951
'Penny' Parker
1935
1969
Benny
1943
Whitey
1951
Bellboy (uncredited)
1946
Boy (uncredited)
1940
Whitey
1949
Whitey, Bowery Boy
1950
Newsboy (uncredited)
1946
Bellboy at Blue Penguin Inn (uncredited)
1947
Irv Bennett
1948
Recruit at Corral
1941
Happy (uncredited)
1940
Messenger (uncredited)
1942
Whitey
1949
Breck
1935
Archer Morpher
1936
Eddie Lund
1949
Joseph Hyar
1936
Delivery Boy
1938
Telegram Delivery Boy
1941
Amos
1935
Boy Announcing Dan's Arrival Before Fight
1935
The Gawker
1936
Slim
1940
Singing Telegraph Boy
1941
Zombie Parker
1943
The Deafmute (Uncredited)
1944
Singing Telegram Boy
1941
Young Davis
1941
Eddie
1938
Jig
1941
Clem (as Bill Benedict)
1967
Sammy (uncredited)
1943
Tour Guide
1939
Second Newsboy (uncredited)
1946
Barker (uncredited)
1942
Telegraph Messenger
1943
Trouble
1938
Telegraph Boy
1956
Trouble
1939
Office Boy
1941
Whitey
1949
Newsboy
1955
Whitey (as William Benedict)
1950
Bellboy
1938
Newsboy (uncredited)
1936
Jerry Murphy
1943
Whitey
1947
Messenger (uncredited)
1941
Mickey Barnes (Uncredited)
1940
Soda Jerk
1942
Thomas 'Piecrust' Murphy (as Billy Benedict)
1941
Bellboy
1942
Joe
1936
Soldier at Camp Show (uncredited)
1941
Skinny
1945
Butch
1944
Newsboy
1972
Whitey
1950
Skinny
1945
NBC Usher
1946
Telegram Delivery Boy
1936
Flash
1935
Whitey
1948
Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
1946
Albert
1953
Pvt. Whitey (uncredited)
1945
Mr. Feigelbaum
1972
Office boy
1944
Joe Summers
1969
Whitey
1950
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1940
Squimpy
1938
Caddie
1935
Spud
1937
Bunky, Office Boy (uncredited)
1936
Usher (uncredited)
1942
Powers Agency Office Boy (uncredited)
1943
Newsboy (uncredited)
1946
Messenger Boy (uncredited)
1942
Whitey
1942
Thomas 'Mack' Knight (uncredited)
1944
Pinky
1943
Station Attendant
1972
Joe the Newsboy
1945
Willie (uncredited)
1935
Skinny
1945
Messenger
1942
Skinny
1944
Von Strutt's Assistant (uncredited)
1947
Leon Jaworski
1978
Sylvester
1938
Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
1947
Skinny
1944
1942
Bellboy
1937
Whitey
1946
Midget Car Driver
1938
Newsboy (uncredited)
1940
Jimmy
1935
Kurt Plivens
1937
Elevator Boy
1940
Link (as Billy Benedict)
1940
Elderly Man
1982
Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
1946
Bellboy (uncredited)
1942
Billy (uncredited)
1938
Butch
1943
Spider O'Brien
1944
Copy Boy (uncredited)
1937
Jud (as William 'Billy' Benedict)
1938
Himself
2020
(uncredited)
1940
Freddy the Office Boy
1937
Young Bindlestiff
1937
Cyril Church
1935
Singing Western Union Boy (uncredited)
1946
Pesky (uncredited)
1945
Monk, Tall Kid
1937
Shenandoah Peachtree (uncredited)
1936
Bellboy
1947
Stinky
1946