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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 25, 1911
Died
December 11, 1974
Place of Birth
Petrolia, Clay County, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- Reed Herring
Reed Hadley
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.8
Jesse James (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
3.7
Self (archive footage)
The Many Faces of Zorro
2000
7.2
Self (archive footage)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1995
5.9
Narrator
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
1971
2.7
Amir
Brain of Blood
1971
2.8
Narrator (voice)
The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
1969
6.5
Hondo
1967
6.3
Hymie Weiss
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
7.3
Pilot
Green Acres
1965
5.4
Ike
Curse of the Fly
1965
Credits
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Jesse James (archive footage)
2002
5.8
The Many Faces of Zorro
as Self (archive footage)
2000
3.7
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
as Self (archive footage)
1995
7.2
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
as Narrator
1971
5.9
Brain of Blood
as Amir
1971
2.7
The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
as Narrator (voice)
1969
2.8
Hondo
1967
6.5
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Hymie Weiss
1967
6.3
Green Acres
as Pilot
1965
7.3
Curse of the Fly
as Ike
1965
5.4
Young Dillinger
as Federal Agent Parker
1965
6.5
Moro Witch Doctor
as Robert Collins
1964
4.0
All in a Night's Work
as General Pettiford (uncredited)
1961
5.9
Tightrope
as Raymond Braddock
1959
5.5
Rawhide
as Clement
1959
7.2
Bat Masterson
as Raoul Cummings
1958
6.1
The Texan
1958
5.5
The Texan
as Wild Jack Tobin
1958
5.5
Sea Hunt
1958
6.6
Perry Mason
as Medical Examiner
1957
7.7
Wagon Train
as Mort Galvin
1957
6.6
Mobs, Inc.
as Capt. John Braddock
1956
4.0
🎬
Lincoln Speaks for Himself
as Abraham Lincoln
1955
0.0
🎬
Navy Log
1955
4.5
Big House, U.S.A
as Special FBI Agent James Madden
1955
6.6
Return of the Dead
as Bart Matthews
1954
5.0
Public Defender
as Bart Matthews
1954
5.7
Highway Dragnet
as Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle
1954
5.7
🎬
Hazard House
as Television Host
1954
0.0
Woman They Almost Lynched
as Bitterroot Bill Maris
1953
6.3
Kansas Pacific
as Bill Quantrill
1953
4.8
Cavalcade of America
1952
3.5
The Half-Breed
as Frank Crawford
1952
5.0
🎬
Operation Ivy
as Host / Narrator
1952
3.5
Little Big Horn
as Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson
1951
6.2
Racket Squad
1951
6.0
Insurance Investigator
as Chuck Malone
1951
5.0
Dallas
as Wild Bill Hickok
1950
6.5
The Killer That Stalked New York
as Narrator (uncredited)
1950
6.2
The Return of Jesse James
as Frank James
1950
5.0
A Modern Marriage
as Dr. Donald Andrews
1950
0.0
Motor Patrol
as Detective Robert Flynn
1950
6.0
The Baron of Arizona
as John Griff
1950
6.6
Riders of the Range
as Clint Burrows
1950
6.0
Red Desert
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1949
0.0
Grand Canyon
as Mitch Bennett
1949
0.0
Rimfire
as The Abilene Kid
1949
4.5
I Shot Jesse James
as Jesse James
1949
6.3
He Walked by Night
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1949
6.7
Bailing Out
as Narrator
1949
0.0
Last of the Wild Horses
as Riley Morgan
1948
2.6
Walk a Crooked Mile
as Narrator (voice)
1948
6.0
Jungle Goddess
as Radio Newscaster (uncredited)
1948
2.6
The Return of Wildfire
as Marty Quinn
1948
0.0
The Man from Texas
as Marshall Gregg
1948
6.0
Panhandle
as Matt Garson
1948
5.7
Captain from Castile
as Juan Escudero (uncredited)
1947
7.2
The Fabulous Texan
as Jessup
1947
4.0
Boomerang!
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1947
7.0
The Brasher Doubloon
as Dr. Moss (uncredited)
1947
5.9
13 Rue Madeleine
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1947
6.0
The Razor's Edge
as Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited)
1946
6.9
If I'm Lucky
as Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager
1946
6.5
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Mike Valentine
1946
5.6
The Dark Corner
as Lt. Frank Reeves
1946
6.5
Shock
as District Attorney O'Neill
1946
5.9
Doll Face
as Flo Hartman
1945
4.0
Leave Her to Heaven
as Dr. Mason
1945
7.4
🎬
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
as Tactics Colonel
1945
0.0
🎬
The Last Bomb
as Narrator
1945
5.8
The House on 92nd Street
as Narrator (voice)
1945
6.5
A Bell for Adano
as Cmdr. Robertson
1945
5.7
The Caribbean Mystery
as Dr. Rene Marcel
1945
5.0
Circumstantial Evidence
as Prosecutor
1945
4.8
Rainbow Island
as High Priest Kahuna
1944
6.0
In the Meantime, Darling
as Maj. Phillips
1944
5.7
Wilson
as White House Usher (uncredited)
1944
5.5
Home in Indiana
as Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited)
1944
5.5
Roger Touhy, Gangster
as FBI Agent Boyden
1944
6.0
Four Jills in a Jeep
as Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited)
1944
5.7
🎬
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
as First Dive-bomber Pilot
1944
0.0
Happy Land
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1943
6.2
Guadalcanal Diary
as War Correspondent/ Narrator
1943
5.6
Wintertime
as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
1943
3.5
I Married a Witch
1942
6.8
Lady in a Jam
as Man at Auction (uncredited)
1942
5.3
The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Naval Officer
1942
5.5
Jail House Blues
as Boston
1942
0.0
Arizona Terrors
as Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo
1942
0.0
Road Agent
as Henchman Shayne
1941
0.0
Appointment for Love
as Ferguson (uncredited)
1941
5.4
Sea Raiders
as Carl Tonjes
1941
6.0
Whistling in the Dark
as Beau Smith
1941
5.8
I'll Wait for You
as Tony Berolli
1941
6.8
Ziegfeld Girl
as Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (uncredited)
1941
6.5
Sky Raiders
as Caddens
1941
6.3
Adventures of Captain Marvel
as Rahman Bar
1941
6.3
Flight Command
as Admiral's Aide (uncredited)
1940
5.6
The Bank Dick
as Francois
1940
6.5
Meet the Wildcat
as Basso--Henchman
1940
0.0
Ski Patrol
as Ivan Dubroski
1940
3.7
I Take This Woman
as Bob Hampton
1940
5.6
Zorro's Fighting Legion
as Don Diego Vega / Zorro
1939
5.2
The Man from Montreal
as Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins
1939
3.8
Bachelor Mother
as Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited)
1939
7.1
Stronger Than Desire
as Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited)
1939
5.1
Calling Dr. Kildare
as Tom Crandell
1939
6.1
Sergeant Madden
as Lawyer
1939
6.0
Sunset Murder Case
as Oliver Helton
1938
3.2
Female Fugitive
as Bruce Dunning
1938
0.0
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
as Ralph Mortimer
1938
5.7