Reed Hadley

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

115

Movies

Born: June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974
From: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reed Hadley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

99 films

The Razor's Edge

19466.9

I Married a Witch

19426.9

Dallas

19506.4

Guadalcanal Diary

19435.6

He Walked by Night

19496.7

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

19676.3

Ziegfeld Girl

19416.7

Leave Her to Heaven

19457.4

The Bank Dick

19406.5

Road Agent

19417.0

Roger Touhy, Gangster

19447.0

Appointment for Love

19415.8

Boomerang!

19477.0

Rimfire

19495.3

The Dark Corner

19466.6

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story

19716.0

Adventures of Captain Marvel

19416.4

Flight Command

19405.9

All in a Night's Work

19616.0

The Baron of Arizona

19506.7

Bachelor Mother

19397.2

Jungle Goddess

19482.9

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

19957.2

Woman They Almost Lynched

19536.6

Curse of the Fly

19655.4

Little Big Horn

19516.1

Young Dillinger

19657.3

I Shot Jesse James

19496.2

The Killer That Stalked New York

19506.2

Captain from Castile

19477.2

Hazard House

1954

A Bell for Adano

19456.0

Wilson

19445.6

The Mystery of Marie Roget

19425.7

Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense

1944

13 Rue Madeleine

19476.1

The House on 92nd Street

19456.6

Panhandle

19485.8

The Half-Breed

19527.0

Female Fugitive

19387.0

Highway Dragnet

19545.7

Jail House Blues

19429.0

Hollywood Stadium Mystery

19386.3

Big House, U.S.A

19556.6

The Last Bomb

19456.2

Shock

19465.9

Sergeant Madden

19397.5

I Take This Woman

19405.8

Lady in a Jam

19425.6

Circumstantial Evidence

19455.2

Kansas Pacific

19535.0

Wintertime

19435.3

I'll Wait for You

19416.8

Calling Dr. Kildare

19396.6

Rainbow Island

19447.5

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

20025.8

Last of the Wild Horses

19483.3

Sea Raiders

19416.5

Home in Indiana

19445.9

Zorro's Fighting Legion

19395.4

The Brasher Doubloon

19476.0

The Many Faces of Zorro

20004.4

The Fabulous Texan

19476.5

Doll Face

19454.6

Bailing Out

1949

Meet the Wildcat

19409.0

Arizona Terrors

19427.0

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

19465.8

Happy Land

19437.1

In the Meantime, Darling

19446.8

The Iron Curtain

19486.0

Whistling in the Dark

19415.9

Walk a Crooked Mile

19486.2

The Return of Wildfire

19488.0

Operation Ivy

19523.5

Stronger Than Desire

19395.5

A Modern Marriage

19507.0

Brain of Blood

19712.9

Ski Patrol

19404.6

Four Jills in a Jeep

19446.8

The Man from Texas

19488.0

The Return of Jesse James

19506.0

Sunset Murder Case

19383.7

Riders of the Range

19506.3

Mobs, Inc.

19567.0

Red Desert

19497.0

Motor Patrol

19507.0

Grand Canyon

194910.0

The Upper Chamber

1963

If I'm Lucky

19466.7

The Man from Montreal

19394.9

Insurance Investigator

19515.7

Sky Raiders

19417.3

The Caribbean Mystery

19456.7

Moro Witch Doctor

19646.5

Return of the Dead

19545.0

The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago

19694.2

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures

1945

Lincoln Speaks for Himself

1955