Ben Welden

Ben Welden

Benjamin Weinblatt

Born June 12, 1901· Toledo, Ohio, USA

† Died October 17, 1997

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Emerging from Toledo, Ohio, and having served in the U.S. Army during World II, Welden entered film with the British production The Man from Chicago (1930) before securing a contract with Warner Bros. in 1937. Recognized for portraying rotund, often comic gangsters, he appeared as a henchman in The Big Sleep (1946) and as a sharp-tongued tavern keeper in The Roaring Twenties (1939). Television wor…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

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