Acting
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25 June 1911
11 Dec 1974 (63)
Petrolia, Clay County, Texas, USA
Reed Hadley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Reed Hadley (June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974) was an American movie, television and radio actor. Reed Hadley was born Reed Herring in Petrolia in Clay County near Wichita Falls, Texas, to Bert Herring, an oil well driller, and his wife Minnie. Hadley had one sister, Bess Brenner. He was reared in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Bennett High School in Buffalo and was involved in local theater with the Studio Arena Theater. Hadley and his wife, Helen, had one son, Dale. Before moving to Hollywood, he acted in Hamlet on stage in New York City. Throughout his thirty-five-year career in film, Hadley was cast as both a villain and a hero of the law, in such movies as The Baron of Arizona (1950), The Half-Breed (1952), Highway Dragnet (1954) and Big House, USA (1955). With his bass voice, he narrated a number of documentaries. He starred in two television series, Racket Squad (1950–1953) as Captain Braddock, and The Public Defender (1954–1955) as Bart Matthews, a fictional attorney for the indigent. Hadley also worked on the Red Ryder radio show during the 1940s, being the first actor to portray the title character. In films, among other things, he starred as Zorro in the 1939 serial Zorro's Fighting Legion. He is immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his television work. He was the voice of cowboy hero Red Ryder on radio and the narrator of several Department of Defense films: "Operation Ivy", about the first hydrogen bomb test, Ivy Mike, "Military Participation on Tumbler/Snapper"; "Military Participation on Buster Jangle"; and "Operation Upshot-Knothole" all of which were produced by Lookout Mountain studios. The films were originally intended for internal military use, but have been "sanitized", edited, and de-classified, and are now available to the public. During the period he narrated these films, Hadley held a Top Secret security clearance. Hadley also served as the narrator on various Hollywood films, including House on 92nd Street (1945), Call Northside 777 (1947) and Boomerang (1947). He died at age 63 on December 11, 1974, in Los Angeles, California, of a heart attack. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reed Hadley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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2002 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Jesse James (archive footage) |
1995 | Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie | Self (archive footage) |
1971 | Brain of Blood | Amir |
1971 | Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story | Narrator |
1969 | The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago | Narrator (voice) |
1967 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Hymie Weiss |
1967 | Hondo | |
1965 | Curse of the Fly | Ike |
1965 | Green Acres | Pilot |
1965 | Young Dillinger | Federal Agent Parker |
1964 | Moro Witch Doctor | Robert Collins |
1961 | All in a Night's Work | General Pettiford (uncredited) |
1959 | Rawhide | Clement |
1959 | Tightrope | Raymond Braddock |
1958 | Sea Hunt | |
1958 | Bat Masterson | Raoul Cummings |
1958 | The Texan | |
1958 | The Texan | Wild Jack Tobin |
1957 | Perry Mason | Medical Examiner |
1957 | Wagon Train | Mort Galvin |
1956 | Mobs, Inc. | Capt. John Braddock |
1955 | Big House, U.S.A | Special FBI Agent James Madden |
1955 | Navy Log | |
1955 | Lincoln Speaks for Himself | Abraham Lincoln |
1954 | Highway Dragnet | Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle |
1954 | Public Defender | Bart Matthews |
1954 | Hazard House | Television Host |
1953 | Kansas Pacific | Bill Quantrill |
1953 | Woman They Almost Lynched | Bitterroot Bill Maris |
1952 | Cavalcade of America | |
1952 | Operation Ivy | Host / Narrator |
1952 | The Half-Breed | Frank Crawford |
1951 | Little Big Horn | Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson |
1951 | Racket Squad | |
1951 | Insurance Investigator | Chuck Malone |
1950 | The Baron of Arizona | John Griff |
1950 | Dallas | Wild Bill Hickok |
1950 | The Killer That Stalked New York | Narrator (uncredited) |
1950 | Motor Patrol | Detective Robert Flynn |
1950 | Riders of the Range | Clint Burrows |
1950 | The Return of Jesse James | Frank James |
1950 | A Modern Marriage | Dr. Donald Andrews |
1949 | He Walked by Night | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
1949 | I Shot Jesse James | Jesse James |
1949 | Rimfire | The Abilene Kid |
1949 | Red Desert | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
1949 | Bailing Out | Narrator |
1949 | Grand Canyon | Mitch Bennett |
1948 | Walk a Crooked Mile | Narrator (voice) |
1948 | Jungle Goddess | Radio Newscaster (uncredited) |
1948 | Last of the Wild Horses | Riley Morgan |
1948 | Panhandle | Matt Garson |
1948 | The Man from Texas | Marshall Gregg |
1948 | The Return of Wildfire | Marty Quinn |
1947 | Boomerang! | Narrator (voice) |
1947 | 13 Rue Madeleine | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
1947 | The Brasher Doubloon | Dr. Moss (uncredited) |
1947 | Captain from Castile | Juan Escudero (uncredited) |
1947 | The Fabulous Texan | Jessup |
1946 | The Razor's Edge | Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited) |
1946 | The Dark Corner | Lt. Frank Reeves |
1946 | Shock | District Attorney O'Neill |
1946 | It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog | Mike Valentine |
1946 | If I'm Lucky | Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager |
1945 | Leave Her to Heaven | Dr. Mason |
1945 | The House on 92nd Street | Narrator (voice) |
1945 | Doll Face | Flo Hartman |
1945 | A Bell for Adano | Cmdr. Robertson |
1945 | Circumstantial Evidence | Prosecutor |
1945 | The Last Bomb | Narrator |
1945 | The Caribbean Mystery | Dr. Rene Marcel |
1945 | Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures | Tactics Colonel |
1944 | Wilson | White House Usher (uncredited) |
1944 | Home in Indiana | Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited) |
1944 | Four Jills in a Jeep | Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited) |
1944 | Roger Touhy, Gangster | FBI Agent Boyden |
1944 | Rainbow Island | High Priest Kahuna |
1944 | Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense | First Dive-bomber Pilot |
1943 | Guadalcanal Diary | War Correspondent/ Narrator |
1943 | Happy Land | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
1943 | Wintertime | Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited) |
1942 | I Married a Witch | |
1942 | The Mystery of Marie Roget | Naval Officer |
1942 | Jail House Blues | Boston |
1942 | Arizona Terrors | Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo |
1941 | Ziegfeld Girl | Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (Uncredited) |
1941 | Adventures of Captain Marvel | Rahman Bar |
1941 | Whistling in the Dark | Beau Smith |
1941 | Appointment for Love | Ferguson (uncredited) |
1941 | Sky Raiders | Caddens |
1941 | I'll Wait for You | Tony Berolli |
1941 | Sea Raiders | Carl Tonjes |
1941 | Road Agent | Henchman Shayne |
1940 | The Bank Dick | Francois |
1940 | Flight Command | Admiral's Aide |
1940 | I Take This Woman | Bob Hampton |
1940 | Ski Patrol | Ivan Dubroski |
1940 | Meet the Wildcat | Basso--Henchman |
1939 | Bachelor Mother | Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited) |
1939 | Zorro's Fighting Legion | Don Diego Vega / Zorro |
1939 | Calling Dr. Kildare | Tom Crandell |
1939 | Stronger Than Desire | Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited) |
1939 | The Man from Montreal | Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins |
1939 | Sergeant Madden | Lawyer |
1938 | Sunset Murder Case | Oliver Helton |
1938 | Hollywood Stadium Mystery | Ralph Mortimer |
1938 | Female Fugitive | Bruce Dunning |