Reed Hadley
97 movies · 14 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 25, 1911
- Died
- Dec 11, 1974 (age 63)
- Place of birth
- Petrolia, Clay County, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- Reed Herring
Biography
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Reed Hadley (June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974) was an American movie, television and radio actor.
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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.
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Known for
Reed Hadley: movies and TV shows
Acting (111)
- 2002 The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Jesse James (archive footage)
- 1971 Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
as Narrator
- 1971 Brain of Blood
as Amir
- 1969 The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
as Narrator (voice)
- 1967
- 1967 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Hymie Weiss
- 1965
- 1965 Curse of the Fly
as Ike
- 1965 Young Dillinger
as Federal Agent Parker
- 1964 Moro Witch Doctor
as Robert Collins
- 1963
- 1961 All in a Night's Work
as General Pettiford (uncredited)
- 1959
- 1959
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1957
- 1957
- 1956 Mobs, Inc.
as Capt. John Braddock
- 1955 Lincoln Speaks for Himself
as Abraham Lincoln
- 1955
- 1955 Big House, U.S.A
as Special FBI Agent James Madden
- 1954 Return of the Dead
as Bart Matthews
- 1954
- 1954 Highway Dragnet
as Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle
- 1954 Hazard House
as Television Host
- 1953 Woman They Almost Lynched
as Bitterroot Bill Maris
- 1953 Kansas Pacific
as Bill Quantrill
- 1952
- 1952 The Half-Breed
as Frank Crawford
- 1952 Operation Ivy
as Host / Narrator
- 1951 Little Big Horn
as Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson
- 1951
- 1951 Insurance Investigator
as Chuck Malone
- 1950 Dallas
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1950 The Killer That Stalked New York
as Narrator (uncredited)
- 1950 The Return of Jesse James
as Frank James
- 1950 A Modern Marriage
as Dr. Donald Andrews
- 1950 Motor Patrol
as Detective Robert Flynn
- 1950 The Baron of Arizona
as John Griff
- 1950 Riders of the Range
as Clint Burrows
- 1949 Red Desert
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1949 Grand Canyon
as Mitch Bennett
- 1949 Rimfire
as The Abilene Kid
- 1949 I Shot Jesse James
as Jesse James
- 1949 He Walked by Night
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1949 Bailing Out
as Narrator
- 1948 Last of the Wild Horses
as Riley Morgan
- 1948 Walk a Crooked Mile
as Narrator (voice)
- 1948 Jungle Goddess
as Radio Newscaster (uncredited)
- 1948 The Return of Wildfire
as Marty Quinn
- 1948 The Iron Curtain
as Narrator (voice)
- 1948 The Man from Texas
as Marshall Gregg
- 1948 Panhandle
as Matt Garson
- 1947 Captain from Castile
as Juan Escudero (uncredited)
- 1947 The Fabulous Texan
as Jessup
- 1947 Boomerang!
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1947 The Brasher Doubloon
as Dr. Moss (uncredited)
- 1947 13 Rue Madeleine
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1946 The Razor's Edge
as Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited)
- 1946 If I'm Lucky
as Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager
- 1946 It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Mike Valentine
- 1946 The Dark Corner
as Frank Reeves
- 1946 Shock
as O'Neill
- 1945 Doll Face
as Flo Hartman
- 1945 Leave Her to Heaven
as Dr. Mason
- 1945 Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
as Tactics Colonel
- 1945 The Last Bomb
as Narrator
- 1945 The House on 92nd Street
as Narrator (voice)
- 1945 A Bell for Adano
as Commander Robertson
- 1945 The Caribbean Mystery
as Dr. Rene Marcel
- 1945 Circumstantial Evidence
as Prosecutor
- 1944 Rainbow Island
as High Priest Kahuna
- 1944 In the Meantime, Darling
as Maj. Phillips
- 1944 Wilson
as White House Usher (uncredited)
- 1944 Home in Indiana
as Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited)
- 1944 Roger Touhy, Gangster
as FBI Agent Boyden
- 1944 Four Jills in a Jeep
as Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited)
- 1944 Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
as First Dive-bomber Pilot
- 1943 Happy Land
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1943 Guadalcanal Diary
as War Correspondent/ Narrator
- 1943 Wintertime
as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- 1942
- 1942 Lady in a Jam
as Man at Auction (uncredited)
- 1942 The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Naval Officer
- 1942 Jail House Blues
as Boston
- 1942 Arizona Terrors
as Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo
- 1941 Road Agent
as Henchman Shayne
- 1941 Appointment for Love
as Ferguson (uncredited)
- 1941 Sea Raiders
as Carl Tonjes
- 1941 Whistling in the Dark
as Beau Smith
- 1941 I'll Wait for You
as Tony Berolli
- 1941 Ziegfeld Girl
as Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (uncredited)
- 1941 Sky Raiders
as Caddens
- 1941 Adventures of Captain Marvel
as Rahman Bar
- 1941
- 1940 Flight Command
as Admiral's Aide (uncredited)
- 1940 The Bank Dick
as Francois
- 1940 Meet the Wildcat
as Basso--Henchman
- 1940 Ski Patrol
as Ivan Dubroski
- 1940 I Take This Woman
as Bob Hampton
- 1939 Zorro's Fighting Legion
as Don Diego Vega / Zorro
- 1939 The Man from Montreal
as Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins
- 1939 Stronger Than Desire
as Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1939 Bachelor Mother
as Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited)
- 1939 Calling Dr. Kildare
as Tom Crandell
- 1939 Sergeant Madden
as Lawyer
- 1938 Sunset Murder Case
as Oliver Helton
- 1938 Female Fugitive
as Bruce Dunning
- 1938 Hollywood Stadium Mystery
as Ralph Mortimer
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 2000
- 1995