To those for whom baseball is their only touchstone, William Bendix is known as the eponymous hero of The Babe Ruth Story, a not very good movie. Bendix also had a few good dramatic roles, particularly in Hitchcock’s Lifeboat. But he became famous on the radio, and later on television, for his role as Chester A. Riley in the long-running series The Life of Riley. Now I’m old, but I’m not old enough to have remembered when radio programs were a thing. I’m not even old enough to have remembered the original broadcasts of The Life of Riley, which ran (with Bendix after an aborted attempt with Jackie Gleason) from 1953 to 1958, so I was two when it was cancelled.
All Riled Up: ATL 4, STL 0
