William Bendix
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as Gus Smith Lifeboat 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).
Filmography
Lifeboat
as Gus Smith
The Blue Dahlia
as Buzz Wanchek
Woman of the Year
as Pinkie Peters
Detective Story
as Det. Lou Brody
They Drive by Night
as Driver Watching Pinball Game (uncredited)
The Glass Key
as Jeff
The Big Steal
as Capt. Vincent Blake
The Dark Corner
as Stauffer, a.k.a. Fred Foss
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Buzz Wanchek in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)
Blackbeard, the Pirate
as Ben Worley
Macao
as Lawrence C. Trumble
The Web
as Lt. Damico
Who Done It?
as Detective Sgt. Brannigan
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
as Sir Sagramore
Boys' Night Out
as Slattery
Wake Island
as Pvt. Aloysius K. "Smacksie" Randall
Cover Up
as Larry Best
Crashout
as Van Morgan Duff
Guadalcanal Diary
as Corp. Taxi Potts
Calcutta
as Pedro Blake