 Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bennet first entered show business as a stunt man, when he answered a newspaper ad to jump from the Palisades of the Hudson River while wearing a suit for the serial film "Hurricane Hutch" (1921).The gig at that time paid $1 per foot he had to fall.He made his directorial debut in 1921's "Behold the Man" but made his serial directorial debut in 1925 with "Sunken Silver".