Reed Hadley
Acting • Born 1911-06-25 – Died 1974-12-11
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.
Filmography
111 credits
The Brasher Doubloon
Movie • 1947
Dr. Moss (uncredited)
The Dark Corner
Movie • 1946
Lt. Frank Reeves
He Walked by Night
Movie • 1949
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Zorro's Fighting Legion
Movie • 1939
Don Diego Vega / Zorro
Curse of the Fly
Movie • 1965
Ike
The Killer That Stalked New York
Movie • 1950
Narrator (uncredited)
Walk a Crooked Mile
Movie • 1948
Narrator (voice)
I Shot Jesse James
Movie • 1949
Jesse James
Shock
Movie • 1946
District Attorney O'Neill
The House on 92nd Street
Movie • 1945
Narrator (voice)
Circumstantial Evidence
Movie • 1945
Prosecutor
Brain of Blood
Movie • 1971
Amir
Jail House Blues
Movie • 1942
Boston
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Movie • 1967
Hymie Weiss
The Baron of Arizona
Movie • 1950
John Griff
Guadalcanal Diary
Movie • 1943
War Correspondent/ Narrator
Big House, U.S.A
Movie • 1955
Special FBI Agent James Madden
Highway Dragnet
Movie • 1954
Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle
Leave Her to Heaven
Movie • 1945
Dr. Mason
Boomerang!
Movie • 1947
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Whistling in the Dark
Movie • 1941
Beau Smith
Wilson
Movie • 1944
White House Usher (uncredited)
Captain from Castile
Movie • 1947
Juan Escudero (uncredited)
Four Jills in a Jeep
Movie • 1944
Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Movie • 1995
Self (archive footage)
Motor Patrol
Movie • 1950
Detective Robert Flynn
13 Rue Madeleine
Movie • 1947
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Man from Texas
Movie • 1948
Marshall Gregg
Little Big Horn
Movie • 1951
Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson
Rimfire
Movie • 1949
The Abilene Kid
Female Fugitive
Movie • 1938
Bruce Dunning
Sunset Murder Case
Movie • 1938
Oliver Helton
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Movie • 1944
FBI Agent Boyden
Insurance Investigator
Movie • 1951
Chuck Malone
The Caribbean Mystery
Movie • 1945
Dr. Rene Marcel
Young Dillinger
Movie • 1965
Federal Agent Parker
Doll Face
Movie • 1945
Flo Hartman
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Movie • 1946
Mike Valentine
Operation Ivy
Movie • 1952
Host / Narrator
Last of the Wild Horses
Movie • 1948
Riley Morgan
Panhandle
Movie • 1948
Matt Garson
I'll Wait for You
Movie • 1941
Tony Berolli
The Fabulous Texan
Movie • 1947
Jessup
The Man from Montreal
Movie • 1939
Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins
Riders of the Range
Movie • 1950
Clint Burrows
Moro Witch Doctor
Movie • 1964
Robert Collins
Sky Raiders
Movie • 1941
Caddens
Rainbow Island
Movie • 1944
High Priest Kahuna
Sea Raiders
Movie • 1941
Carl Tonjes
If I'm Lucky
Movie • 1946
Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Movie • 2002
Jesse James (archive footage)
Lincoln Speaks for Himself
Movie • 1955
Abraham Lincoln
All in a Night's Work
Movie • 1961
General Pettiford (uncredited)
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Movie • 1938
Ralph Mortimer
Hazard House
Movie • 1954
Television Host
The Return of Jesse James
Movie • 1950
Frank James
Ziegfeld Girl
Movie • 1941
Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (uncredited)
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
Movie • 1971
Narrator
The Bank Dick
Movie • 1940
Francois
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Movie • 1942
Naval Officer
Stronger Than Desire
Movie • 1939
Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited)
Woman They Almost Lynched
Movie • 1953
Bitterroot Bill Maris
Home in Indiana
Movie • 1944
Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited)
The Razor's Edge
Movie • 1946
Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited)
Calling Dr. Kildare
Movie • 1939
Tom Crandell
Bachelor Mother
Movie • 1939
Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited)
Kansas Pacific
Movie • 1953
Bill Quantrill
Arizona Terrors
Movie • 1942
Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo
Sergeant Madden
Movie • 1939
Lawyer
I Married a Witch
Movie • 1942
Wintertime
Movie • 1943
Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Red Desert
Movie • 1949
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
I Take This Woman
Movie • 1940
Bob Hampton
Jungle Goddess
Movie • 1948
Radio Newscaster (uncredited)
Happy Land
Movie • 1943
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Return of Wildfire
Movie • 1948
Marty Quinn
Bailing Out
Movie • 1949
Narrator
Flight Command
Movie • 1940
Admiral's Aide (uncredited)
The Half-Breed
Movie • 1952
Frank Crawford
The Last Bomb
Movie • 1945
Narrator
The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
Movie • 1969
Narrator (voice)
Meet the Wildcat
Movie • 1940
Basso--Henchman
Dallas
Movie • 1950
Wild Bill Hickok
Adventures of Captain Marvel
Movie • 1941
Rahman Bar
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
Movie • 1944
First Dive-bomber Pilot
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
Movie • 1945
Tactics Colonel
A Bell for Adano
Movie • 1945
Cmdr. Robertson
A Modern Marriage
Movie • 1950
Dr. Donald Andrews
Appointment for Love
Movie • 1941
Ferguson (uncredited)
Grand Canyon
Movie • 1949
Mitch Bennett
Road Agent
Movie • 1941
Henchman Shayne
Ski Patrol
Movie • 1940
Ivan Dubroski
Mobs, Inc.
Movie • 1956
Capt. John Braddock
Return of the Dead
Movie • 1954
Bart Matthews
Lady in a Jam
Movie • 1942
Man at Auction (uncredited)
In the Meantime, Darling
Movie • 1944
Maj. Phillips
The Many Faces of Zorro
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Medical Examiner
Sea Hunt
TV • 1958
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Clement
Hondo
TV • 1967
Navy Log
TV • 1955
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Raoul Cummings
Racket Squad
TV • 1951
The Texan
TV • 1958
Public Defender
TV • 1954
Bart Matthews
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
The Texan
TV • 1958
Wild Jack Tobin
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Pilot
Tightrope
TV • 1959
Raymond Braddock
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Mort Galvin