Reed Hadley
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: June 25, 1911
Day of Death: December 11, 1974 (64 years old)
Place of Birth: Petrolia, Clay County, Texas, USA
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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Actor Narrator (voice)
The House on 92nd Street
Actor Prosecutor
Circumstantial Evidence
Actor Dr. Mason
Leave Her to Heaven
Actor Dr. Rene Marcel
The Caribbean Mystery
Actor Flo Hartman
Doll Face
Actor Narrator
The Last Bomb
Actor Tactics Colonel
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
Actor Cmdr. Robertson
A Bell for Adano
1944
Actor White House Usher (uncredited)
Wilson
Actor Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited)
Four Jills in a Jeep
Actor FBI Agent Boyden
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Actor High Priest Kahuna
Rainbow Island
Actor Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited)
Home in Indiana
Actor First Dive-bomber Pilot
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
1943
1942
1941
Actor Beau Smith
Whistling in the Dark
Actor Tony Berolli
I'll Wait for You
Actor Caddens
Sky Raiders
Actor Carl Tonjes
Sea Raiders
Actor Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (uncredited)
Ziegfeld Girl
Actor Rahman Bar
Adventures of Captain Marvel
Actor Ferguson (uncredited)
Appointment for Love
Actor Henchman Shayne
Road Agent
