Highest rated movie: The Sting (1973)
Lowest rated movie: Bride of the Monster (1955)
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Movies starring William Benedict have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.
The Sting - released in 1973 - is William Benedict's highest rated movie, with a score of 84% based on 651 reviews.
The lowest rated film from William Benedict is Bride of the Monster - released in 1955 - with a score of 37% based on 153 reviews.
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.
William Benedict has acted in films with George Chandler, Thurston Hall, Bert Moorhouse and Edgar Dearing.
William Benedict has worked with these film directors: David Butler, Joseph Kane, Jack Conway and Delbert Mann.
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