Billy Benedict was a plumber's mate who hitch-hiked across the US to start a film career.
He was affectionately known as Whitey because of his fair hair and was always on the fringe of being in the Dead End Kids - but never quite made it.
He was cast as a telegram boy, complete with peaked cap and bicycle, or as a hotel bell-boy.
-Gordon Dean, St Lukes Road, Brighton
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