Reed Hadley

Known for ActingBorn 1911-06-25Died 1974-12-11Petrolia, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Grand Canyon

Jail House Blues

Meet the Wildcat

The Man from Texas

The Return of Wildfire

Perry Mason

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

Young Dillinger

Green Acres

Rainbow Island

Sergeant Madden

Leave Her to Heaven

Rawhide

Captain from Castile

Sky Raiders

Bachelor Mother

Mobs, Inc.

Happy Land

Hondo

Boomerang!

The Half-Breed

Motor Patrol

A Modern Marriage

Red Desert

Roger Touhy, Gangster

Arizona Terrors

Road Agent

Female Fugitive

The Razor's Edge

I Married a Witch

I'll Wait for You

Four Jills in a Jeep

Sea Hunt

The Baron of Arizona

He Walked by Night

In the Meantime, Darling

Wagon Train

Moro Witch Doctor

Woman They Almost Lynched

Big House, U.S.A

The Dark Corner

If I'm Lucky

The Caribbean Mystery

Ziegfeld Girl

The House on 92nd Street

Dallas

Racket Squad

Riders of the Range