Cast: William Bendix

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring William Bendix. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Time Element (TV)

1958 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction Allen Reisner

Cast William Bendix · Martin Balsam · Darryl Hickman · Jesse White

Plot Though not the pilot episode of Rod Serling's series, "The Twilight Zone," it was Rod Serling's production that lead to "The Twilight Zone" TV series. Because TV viewers at the...

7.6

64 votes

7.6

64 votes

Lifeboat

1944 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · John Hodiak · William Bendix · Hume Cronyn

Plot In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the...

7.3

5K votes

7.3

5K votes

Detective Story

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Kirk Douglas · Eleanor Parker · Lee Grant · William Bendix

Plot On a day in the life of the 21st Precinct detective squad, we meet a batty old lady; petty embezzler Arthur, and the wonderful girl whose unrequited love may redeem...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

The Web

1947 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Ella Raines · Edmond O'Brien · William Bendix · Vincent Price

Plot Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret...

7.1

145 votes

7.1

145 votes

Woman of the Year

1942 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Fay Bainter · Reginald Owen

Plot Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first time, because they eventually fall in love and get married. But,...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

The Dark Corner

1946 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Lucille Ball · Clifton Webb · William Bendix · Mark Stevens

Plot Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved to New York from San Fransisco after serving a jail term on account of his lawyer partner Tony Jardine. When he finds someone is...

6.9

656 votes

6.9

656 votes

Crashout

1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast William Bendix · Arthur Kennedy · Luther Adler · William Talman

Plot The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.

6.8

58 votes

6.8

58 votes

Macao

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jane Russell · William Bendix · Thomas Gomez

Plot In the anything-goes Macao, Nick Cochran is mistaken for a U.S. agent who is trying to arrest mobster Halloran, so Halloran makes the first move against him. A pretty nightclub...

6.6

628 votes

6.6

628 votes

The Blue Dahlia

1946 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · William Bendix · Howard Da Silva

Plot When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their...

6.5

797 votes

6.5

797 votes

The Glass Key

1942 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Brian Donlevy · Veronica Lake · Alan Ladd · Bonita Granville

Plot Dashiel Hammett's The Glass Key, a tale of big-city political corruption, was first filmed in 1935, with Edward Arnold as a duplicitous political boss and George Raft as his loyal...

6.4

618 votes

6.4

618 votes

Cover Up

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast William Bendix · Dennis O'Keefe · Barbara Britton · Art Baker

Plot An insurance company investigator goes to a small town to probe into a case of supposed suicide. The natives are not very cooperative and some turn hostile, leading to suspicion...

6.4

21 votes

6.4

21 votes

Race Street

1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast George Raft · William Bendix · Marilyn Maxwell · Frank Faylen

Plot Nice-guy bookie Dan Gannin plans to quit the racket; he's opening a new night club with his torch-singing sister as main attraction. But Dan's best friend Hal runs afoul of...

6.4

54 votes

6.4

54 votes

The Big Steal

1949 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jane Greer · William Bendix · Ramon Novarro

Plot Accused of robbing the army payroll, Lt. Duke Halliday heads to Mexico to clear his name with the police on his tail. He pursues Jim Fiske, the man who actually...

6.3

709 votes

6.3

709 votes

Blackbeard the Pirate

1952 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Robert Newton · Linda Darnell · Keith Andes · William Bendix

Plot Set in 1674 reformed pirate Sir Henry Morgan is a government official in Jamaica. A man posing as a ship's surgeon is out to prove that Morgan is still a...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Two Years Before the Mast

1946 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Alan Ladd · Brian Donlevy · William Bendix · Barry Fitzgerald

Plot The playboy son of a wealthy shipping magnate discovers at first hand the desperate privations suffered by the crew of one of his fathers ships when he is unwillingly pressganged...

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

Wake Island

1942 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Brian Donlevy · Macdonald Carey · Robert Preston · William Bendix

Plot In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes...

6.0

53 votes

6.0

53 votes

Calcutta

1946 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Alan Ladd · Gail Russell · William Bendix · June Duprez

Plot 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...

6.0

40 votes

6.0

40 votes

Guadalcanal Diary

1943 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Preston Foster · Lloyd Nolan · William Bendix · Richard Conte

Plot Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

6.0

295 votes

6.0

295 votes

6.0

77 votes

The Crystal Ball

1943 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Ray Milland · Paulette Goddard · Gladys George · Virginia Field

Plot Toni Gerard lands in New York with 38 cents to her name and is befriended by fortune teller Madame Zenobia and a neighboring shooting gallery owner. Toni is smitten with...

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes