Ben Hendricks Jr.
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 2, 1893
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Fast Life
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
The Public Enemy
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
The Mayor of Hell
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Stage Door
A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.
Blonde Crazy
The adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Born to Be Wild
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
Kid Galahad
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Little Caesar
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Skinner's Dress Suit
Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's going to ask for a raise, she knows he'll get it. He asks his boss just as their big client announces he's not renewing his contract. He doesn't get the raise, but he's too embarrassed to tell his wife the truth. She starts making plans to spend that extra $10 a week; the first thing is a new dress suit for him and a new outfit for her so they can fit in at a swanky party. They're the hit of the party, and Honey is embraced by the 'smart set.' Meanwhile, business is bad and Skinner loses his job. The tailor is after him for payment on the suit, and Honey is still spending the salary he doesn't have.
The Wild Party
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
Filmography
as François - Sergeant of the Guards
as Rivet Thrower (uncredited)
as National Guardsman (uncredited)
as Rodeo Judge on Horseback
as Policeman at Near Accident
as Second Policeman (uncredited)
as Deputy
as Neeley Bus Driver (uncredited)
as Cpl. Kane
as Sailor
as (uncredited)
as Dolan
as Stumpy
as Perez (uncredited)
as Handler Carrying Fighter (uncredited)
as Captain Harper
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
as Convict
as Grail
as Deputy Pete Nelson
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
as Sergeant (uncredited)
as Blake
as Rodeo Trickster
as Bum
as Mounted Police Sgt. Donlan (uncredited)
as Whitey
as Jake (motorcycle cop)
as Dam Worker (uncredited)
as Major Harris
as Sentry at Catlett's House
as Mack MacDonald
as (uncredited)
as Franz
as Gangster (Uncredited)
as Bart Slager
as Roughneck
as Sheriff Burke
as Sam Keene
as Undetermined Role
as Veal Cutlets and Coffee Diner
as Detective Regan
as Ben, First Ship's Officer (uncredited)
as Mate on Barge
as Ferris (uncredited)
as Spike
as Sgt. Probert
as Red Getchel
as Guard Taking Jimmy to Thompson (uncredited)
as Rafferty
as Sherman
as Griggs
as Tough Mill Worker in Fight (uncredited)
as Larry Larkin
as Chief Engineer
as Tough Guy on Dance Floor (uncredited)
as 'Bugs' Moran as a Boy (uncredited)
as Kid Bean (uncredited)
as Second Ship's Officer
as Handsome Charlie
as Flanagan
as Slattery
as Bedlow's Butler
as Murphy
as Stage doorman
as Dutch Romero
as Ed
as Frank
as Oilcan Olson
as Octavius Caesar
as Charles / Charlie
as Sergeant Caron
as Dr. Allen
as Rube Oldham
as Archie Crossley
as Dick
as Biff Wheeler
as Dan Mason
as Perkins
as First Crook
as Richard
as Tiger Bugg
as William Pennland
as Spangler
as Tim O'Day
as Jim Sawyer
as Cyclone Morgan
as John Brink
as Abraham Van Brunt ('Brom Bones')
as The Tramp
as Mortimer Totten
as Jan
as Mique Ladrigan
as Bill Carson
as Prince Kang/Ba-tu