Ben Welden was an American character actor who played a wide variety of Damon Runyon-type gangsters in various movies and television shows.
Welden in The Missing Corpse (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946 film)
The Big Sleep is a 1946 American film noir directed by Howard Hawks. William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay, which adapts Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story that begins with blackmail and leads to multiple murders.
Theatrical release lobby card
Philip Marlowe (Bogart) and Vivian Rutledge (Bacall) eye to eye
Cast of The Big Sleep between scenes, director Howard Hawks far left
Bogart and Bacall on the set during filming