
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.
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- 2002The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (Jesse James (archive footage))
- 2000The Many Faces of Zorro (Self (archive footage))
- 1995Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (Self (archive footage))
- 1971Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (Narrator)
- 1971Brain of Blood (Amir)
- 1969The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago (Narrator (voice))
- 1967Hondo
- 1967The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Hymie Weiss)
- 1965Green Acres (Pilot)
- 1965Curse of the Fly (Ike)
- 1965Young Dillinger (Federal Agent Parker)
- 1964Moro Witch Doctor (Robert Collins)
- 1963The Upper Chamber
- 1961All in a Night's Work (General Pettiford (uncredited))
- 1959Tightrope (Raymond Braddock)
- 1959Rawhide (Clement)
- 1958Bat Masterson (Raoul Cummings)
- 1958The Texan (Wild Jack Tobin)
- 1958The Texan (Sheriff Ben Tildy)
- 1958Sea Hunt
- 1957Perry Mason (Medical Examiner)
- 1957Wagon Train (Mort Galvin)
- 1956Mobs, Inc. (Capt. John Braddock)
- 1955Lincoln Speaks for Himself (Abraham Lincoln)
- 1955Navy Log
- 1955Big House, U.S.A (Special FBI Agent James Madden)
- 1954Return of the Dead (Bart Matthews)
- 1954Public Defender (Bart Matthews)
- 1954Highway Dragnet (Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle)
- 1954Hazard House (Television Host)
- 1953Woman They Almost Lynched (Bitterroot Bill Maris)
- 1953Kansas Pacific (Bill Quantrill)
- 1952Cavalcade of America
- 1952The Half-Breed (Frank Crawford)
- 1952Operation Ivy (Host / Narrator)
- 1951Little Big Horn (Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson)
- 1951Racket Squad
- 1951Insurance Investigator (Chuck Malone)
- 1950Dallas (Wild Bill Hickok)
- 1950The Killer That Stalked New York (Narrator (uncredited))
- 1950The Return of Jesse James (Frank James)
- 1950A Modern Marriage (Dr. Donald Andrews)
- 1950Motor Patrol (Detective Robert Flynn)
- 1950The Baron of Arizona (John Griff)
- 1950Riders of the Range (Clint Burrows)
- 1949Red Desert (Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
- 1949Grand Canyon (Mitch Bennett)
- 1949Rimfire (The Abilene Kid)
- 1949I Shot Jesse James (Jesse James)
- 1949He Walked by Night (Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
- 1949Bailing Out (Narrator)
- 1948Last of the Wild Horses (Riley Morgan)
- 1948Walk a Crooked Mile (Narrator (voice))
- 1948Jungle Goddess (Radio Newscaster (uncredited))
- 1948The Return of Wildfire (Marty Quinn)
- 1948The Iron Curtain (Narrator (voice))
- 1948The Man from Texas (Marshall Gregg)
- 1948Panhandle (Matt Garson)
- 1947Captain from Castile (Juan Escudero (uncredited))
- 1947The Fabulous Texan (Jessup)
- 1947Boomerang! (Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
- 1947The Brasher Doubloon (Dr. Moss (uncredited))
- 194713 Rue Madeleine (Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
- 1946The Razor's Edge (Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited))
- 1946If I'm Lucky (Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager)
- 1946It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (Mike Valentine)
- 1946The Dark Corner (Frank Reeves)
- 1946Shock (O'Neill)
- 1945Doll Face (Flo Hartman)
- 1945Leave Her to Heaven (Dr. Mason)
- 1945Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures (Tactics Colonel)
- 1945The Last Bomb (Narrator)
- 1945The House on 92nd Street (Narrator (voice))
- 1945A Bell for Adano (Cmdr. Robertson)
- 1945The Caribbean Mystery (Dr. Rene Marcel)
- 1945Circumstantial Evidence (Prosecutor)
- 1944Rainbow Island (High Priest Kahuna)
- 1944In the Meantime, Darling (Maj. Phillips)
- 1944Wilson (White House Usher (uncredited))
- 1944Home in Indiana (Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited))
- 1944Roger Touhy, Gangster (FBI Agent Boyden)
- 1944Four Jills in a Jeep (Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited))
- 1944Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense (First Dive-bomber Pilot)
- 1943Happy Land (Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
- 1943Guadalcanal Diary (War Correspondent/ Narrator)
- 1943Wintertime (Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited))
- 1942I Married a Witch
- 1942Lady in a Jam (Man at Auction (uncredited))
- 1942The Mystery of Marie Roget (Naval Officer)
- 1942Jail House Blues (Boston)
- 1942Arizona Terrors (Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo)
- 1941Road Agent (Henchman Shayne)
- 1941Appointment for Love (Ferguson (uncredited))
- 1941Sea Raiders (Carl Tonjes)
- 1941Whistling in the Dark (Beau Smith)
- 1941I'll Wait for You (Tony Berolli)
- 1941Ziegfeld Girl (Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (uncredited))
- 1941Sky Raiders (Caddens)
- 1941Adventures of Captain Marvel (Rahman Bar)
- 1940Flight Command (Admiral's Aide (uncredited))
- 1940The Bank Dick (Francois)
- 1940Meet the Wildcat (Basso--Henchman)
- 1940Ski Patrol (Ivan Dubroski)
- 1940I Take This Woman (Bob Hampton)
- 1939Zorro's Fighting Legion (Don Diego Vega / Zorro)
- 1939The Man from Montreal (Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins)
- 1939Stronger Than Desire (Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited))
- 1939Bachelor Mother (Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited))
- 1939Calling Dr. Kildare (Tom Crandell)
- 1939Sergeant Madden (Lawyer)
- 1938Sunset Murder Case (Oliver Helton)
- 1938Female Fugitive (Bruce Dunning)
- 1938Hollywood Stadium Mystery (Ralph Mortimer)