Reed Hadley
Age: 63 | From: Petrolia, Clay County Texas, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1911-06-25 19:02:36
Death: 1974-12-11 19:02:36
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Petrolia, Clay County Texas, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 80
TV Involvements: 6
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Perry Mason
(1957) Medical Examiner
The Texan
(1958) Wild Jack Tobin
Rawhide
(1959) Clement
Bat Masterson
(1958) Raoul Cummings
Public Defender
(1954) Bart Matthews
Tightrope
(1959) Raymond Braddock
The Razor's Edge
(1946) Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited)
He Walked by Night
(1949) Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Jesse James (archive footage) | |
| 1995 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1971 | Narrator | |
| Amir | ||
| 1969 | Narrator (voice) | |
| 1967 | N/A | |
| Hymie Weiss | ||
| 1965 | Pilot | |
| Ike | ||
| Federal Agent Parker | ||
| 1964 | Robert Collins | |
| 1961 | General Pettiford (uncredited) | |
| 1959 | Raymond Braddock | |
| Clement | ||
| 1958 | Raoul Cummings | |
| N/A | ||
| Wild Jack Tobin | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1957 | Medical Examiner | |
| 1956 | Capt. John Braddock | |
| 1955 | Abraham Lincoln | |
| N/A | ||
| Special FBI Agent James Madden | ||
| 1954 | Bart Matthews | |
| Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle | ||
| Television Host | ||
| 1953 | Bitterroot Bill Maris | |
| Bill Quantrill | ||
| 1952 | N/A | |
| Frank Crawford | ||
| Host / Narrator | ||
| 1951 | Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson | |
| N/A | ||
| Chuck Malone | ||
| 1950 | Wild Bill Hickok | |
| Narrator (uncredited) | ||
| Frank James | ||
| Dr. Donald Andrews | ||
| Detective Robert Flynn | ||
| John Griff | ||
| Clint Burrows | ||
| 1949 | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Mitch Bennett | ||
| The Abilene Kid | ||
| Jesse James | ||
| Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1948 | Riley Morgan | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Radio Newscaster (uncredited) | ||
| Marty Quinn | ||
| Marshall Gregg | ||
| Matt Garson | ||
| 1947 | Juan Escudero (uncredited) | |
| Jessup | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Dr. Moss (uncredited) | ||
| Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | ||
| 1946 | Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager | ||
| Mike Valentine | ||
| Lt. Frank Reeves | ||
| District Attorney O'Neill | ||
| 1945 | Flo Hartman | |
| Dr. Mason | ||
| Tactics Colonel | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Cmdr. Robertson | ||
| Dr. Rene Marcel | ||
| Prosecutor | ||
| 1944 | High Priest Kahuna | |
| White House Usher (uncredited) | ||
| Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited) | ||
| FBI Agent Boyden | ||
| Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited) | ||
| First Dive-bomber Pilot | ||
| 1943 | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | |
| War Correspondent/ Narrator | ||
| Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited) | ||
| 1942 | N/A | |
| Naval Officer | ||
| Boston | ||
| Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo | ||
| 1941 | Henchman Shayne | |
| Ferguson (uncredited) | ||
| Carl Tonjes | ||
| Beau Smith | ||
| Tony Berolli | ||
| Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (Uncredited) | ||
| Caddens | ||
| Rahman Bar | ||
| 1940 | Admiral's Aide | |
| Francois | ||
| Basso--Henchman | ||
| Ivan Dubroski | ||
| Bob Hampton | ||
| 1939 | Don Diego Vega / Zorro | |
| Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins | ||
| Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited) | ||
| Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited) | ||
| Tom Crandell | ||
| Lawyer | ||
| 1938 | Oliver Helton | |
| Bruce Dunning | ||
| Ralph Mortimer | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
