Other films included My Little Chickadee (1940) starring W. C. Fields and Mae West, The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster (1955), The Sting (1973) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Benedict never shook his juvenile image completely, and continued to play messengers and news vendors well into his sixties. He also worked often in television commercials,Staff. "William Benedict Character Actor, 82", The New York Times, November 30, 1999. Accessed March 30, 2009. and in television series, including The Andy Griffith Show, All in the Family, and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
