Name
Reed Hadley
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1911-06-25
Deathday
1974-12-11 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Petrolia, Clay County, Texas, USA
Biography
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.
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Known For
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- 1947 The Brasher Doubloon as Dr. Moss (uncredited)
- 1946 The Dark Corner as Frank Reeves
- 1949 He Walked by Night as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1939 Zorro's Fighting Legion as Don Diego Vega / Zorro
- 1965 Curse of the Fly as Ike
- 1950 The Killer That Stalked New York as Narrator (uncredited)
- 1948 Walk a Crooked Mile as Narrator (voice)
- 1949 I Shot Jesse James as Jesse James
- 1946 Shock as O'Neill
- 1945 The House on 92nd Street as Narrator (voice)
- 1945 Circumstantial Evidence as Prosecutor
- 1971 Brain of Blood as Amir
- 1942 Jail House Blues as Boston
- 1967 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre as Hymie Weiss
- 1950 The Baron of Arizona as John Griff
- 1943 Guadalcanal Diary as War Correspondent/ Narrator
- 1955 Big House, U.S.A as Special FBI Agent James Madden
- 1954 Highway Dragnet as Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle
- 1945 Leave Her to Heaven as Dr. Mason
- 1947 Boomerang! as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1941 Whistling in the Dark as Beau Smith
- 1944 Wilson as White House Usher (uncredited)
- 1947 Captain from Castile as Juan Escudero (uncredited)
- 1944 Four Jills in a Jeep as Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited)
- 1995 Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie as Self (archive footage)
- 1950 Motor Patrol as Detective Robert Flynn
- 1947 13 Rue Madeleine as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1948 The Man from Texas as Marshall Gregg
- 1951 Little Big Horn as Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson
- 1949 Rimfire as The Abilene Kid
- 1938 Female Fugitive as Bruce Dunning
- 1938 Sunset Murder Case as Oliver Helton
- 1944 Roger Touhy, Gangster as FBI Agent Boyden
- 1945 The Caribbean Mystery as Dr. Rene Marcel
- 1951 Insurance Investigator as Chuck Malone
- 1965 Young Dillinger as Federal Agent Parker
- 1945 Doll Face as Flo Hartman
- 1946 It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog as Mike Valentine
- 1952 Operation Ivy as Host / Narrator
- 1948 Last of the Wild Horses as Riley Morgan
- 1948 Panhandle as Matt Garson
- 1941 I'll Wait for You as Tony Berolli
- 1947 The Fabulous Texan as Jessup
- 1939 The Man from Montreal as Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins
- 1950 Riders of the Range as Clint Burrows
- 1964 Moro Witch Doctor as Robert Collins
- 1944 Rainbow Island as High Priest Kahuna
- 1941 Sky Raiders as Caddens
- 1941 Sea Raiders as Carl Tonjes
- 1946 If I'm Lucky as Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager
- 2002 The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller as Jesse James (archive footage)
- 1955 Lincoln Speaks for Himself as Abraham Lincoln
- 1961 All in a Night's Work as General Pettiford (uncredited)
- 1938 Hollywood Stadium Mystery as Ralph Mortimer
- 1954 Hazard House as Television Host
- 1950 The Return of Jesse James as Frank James
- 1941 Ziegfeld Girl as Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (uncredited)
- 1971 Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story as Narrator
- 1940 The Bank Dick as Francois
- 1942 The Mystery of Marie Roget as Naval Officer
- 1939 Stronger Than Desire as Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1953 Woman They Almost Lynched as Bitterroot Bill Maris
- 1944 Home in Indiana as Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited)
- 1946 The Razor's Edge as Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited)
- 1939 Calling Dr. Kildare as Tom Crandell
- 1939 Bachelor Mother as Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited)
- 1953 Kansas Pacific as Bill Quantrill
- 1942 Arizona Terrors as Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo
- 1939 Sergeant Madden as Lawyer
- 1942 I Married a Witch
- 1943 Wintertime as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- 1949 Red Desert as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1940 I Take This Woman as Bob Hampton
- 1948 Jungle Goddess as Radio Newscaster (uncredited)
- 1943 Happy Land as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1948 The Return of Wildfire as Marty Quinn
- 1949 Bailing Out as Narrator
- 1940 Flight Command as Admiral's Aide (uncredited)
- 1952 The Half-Breed as Frank Crawford
- 1945 The Last Bomb as Narrator
- 1969 The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago as Narrator (voice)
- 1940 Meet the Wildcat as Basso--Henchman
- 1950 Dallas as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1941 Adventures of Captain Marvel as Rahman Bar
- 1944 Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense as First Dive-bomber Pilot
- 1945 Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures as Tactics Colonel
- 1945 A Bell for Adano as Cmdr. Robertson
- 1950 A Modern Marriage as Dr. Donald Andrews
- 1941 Appointment for Love as Ferguson (uncredited)
- 1949 Grand Canyon as Mitch Bennett
- 1940 Ski Patrol as Ivan Dubroski
- 1941 Road Agent as Henchman Shayne
- 1956 Mobs, Inc. as Capt. John Braddock
- 1954 Return of the Dead as Bart Matthews
- 1942 Lady in a Jam as Man at Auction (uncredited)
- 1944 In the Meantime, Darling as Maj. Phillips
- 2000 The Many Faces of Zorro as Self (archive footage)
- 1948 The Iron Curtain as Narrator (voice)
- 1963 The Upper Chamber
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Medical Examiner
- 1958 Sea Hunt ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Rawhide ( 1 episode ) as Clement
- 1967 Hondo ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Navy Log ( 1 episode )
- 1958 Bat Masterson ( 1 episode ) as Raoul Cummings
- 1951 Racket Squad ( 98 episodes )
- 1954 Public Defender ( 69 episodes ) as Bart Matthews
- 1952 Cavalcade of America ( 1 episode )
- 1958 The Texan ( 3 episodes ) as Wild Jack Tobin
- 1965 Green Acres ( 1 episode ) as Pilot
- 1959 Tightrope ( 1 episode ) as Raymond Braddock
- 1957 Wagon Train ( 1 episode ) as Mort Galvin
- 1958 The Texan ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff Ben Tildy
- 1941 Adventures of Captain Marvel ( 12 episodes ) as Rahman Bar
