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Wikipedia / Reed Hadley

Reed Hadley (born Reed Herring, June 25, 1911 December 11, 1974) was an American film, television, and radio actor.

Career

Hadley was born in Petrolia, Texas. Before moving to Hollywood, he acted in Hamlet on stage in New York City, a last-minute substitute for the scheduled actor who failed to appear to portray Fortinbras.

Radio

In the 1950s, Hadley played Chad Remington on Frontier Town. He also was one of the actors who portrayed cowboy hero Red Ryder on the Red Ryder series during the 1940s.

On September 16, 1950, Hadley was on Tales of the Texas Rangers episode "Candy Man".

Television

Hadley 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. He also was a guest star on such programs as the religion anthology series, Crossroads, and Rory Calhoun's CBS Western series, The Texan. In 1959, he played Sheriff Ben Tildy in The Texan episode "The Sheriff of Boot Hill" and was pitted against bad guys Denver Pyle cast as saloon keeper Joe Lufton and his gunslinging partner Charles Maxwell cast as Luke Stricker. He also guest-starred in Sea Hunt season four, episode four, "Vital Error". In 1958, he played the rapacious mining baron Mort Galvin in season one's "The Sacramento Story" on Wagon Train.

Film

Throughout his 35-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, U.S.A. (1955), and narrated a number of documentaries. In films, he starred as Zorro in the 1939 serial Zorro's Fighting Legion.

Hadley was 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; The B-47 (T.F. 1–4727); 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" and declassified, and are now available to the public.

In 1945, he narrated The Nazi Plan, a documentary film using captured propaganda and newsreel footage to dramatize the Nazis' rise to power and was used by the prosecution in the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. He served as the narrator on various Hollywood films, including House on 92nd Street (1945), Boomerang (1947), and The Iron Curtain (1948).

Personal life and death

Hadley and his wife, Helen, had one son, Dale. On December 11, 1974, Hadley died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. He was 63. He was survived by his wife and son.

Recognition

Hadley has a star at 6553 Hollywood Boulevard in the Television section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.

Filmography

Film

Television

Other works

Radio

See also

References