Born January 14, 1906· New York City, New York, USA
† Died December 14, 1964
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A Manhattan native who entered the performing arts through the Federal Theatre Project at age thirty, Bendix transitioned from a stint as a grocer and a brief tenure as a Yankees batboy to a film career that began in 1942. He quickly became a character actor, appearing in noir titles such as The Glass Key and gaining wider notice as the wounded sailor Gus in Hitchcock’s Lifeboat, before headlining…
