Reed Hadley
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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.
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Movies (99)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002 · Jesse James (archive footage)
The Many Faces of Zorro
2000 · Self (archive footage)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1995 · Self (archive footage)
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
1971 · Narrator
Brain of Blood
1971 · Amir
The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
1969 · Narrator (voice)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967 · Hymie Weiss
The Curse of the Fly
1965 · Ike
Young Dillinger
1965 · Federal Agent Parker
Moro Witch Doctor
1964 · Robert Collins
The Upper Chamber
1963
All in a Night's Work
1961 · General Pettiford (uncredited)
Mobs, Inc.
1956 · Capt. John Braddock
Lincoln Speaks for Himself
1955 · Abraham Lincoln
Big House, U.S.A
1955 · Special FBI Agent James Madden
Return of the Dead
1954 · Bart Matthews
Highway Dragnet
1954 · Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle
Hazard House
1954 · Television Host
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953 · Bitterroot Bill Maris
Kansas Pacific
1953 · Bill Quantrill
The Half-Breed
1952 · Frank Crawford
Operation Ivy
1952 · Host / Narrator
Little Big Horn
1951 · Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson
Insurance Investigator
1951 · Chuck Malone
Dallas
1950 · Wild Bill Hickok
The Killer That Stalked New York
1950 · Narrator (uncredited)
The Return of Jesse James
1950 · Frank James
A Modern Marriage
1950 · Dr. Donald Andrews
Motor Patrol
1950 · Detective Robert Flynn
The Baron of Arizona
1950 · John Griff
Riders of the Range
1950 · Clint Burrows
Red Desert
1949 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Grand Canyon
1949 · Mitch Bennett
Rimfire
1949 · The Abilene Kid
I Shot Jesse James
1949 · Jesse James
He Walked by Night
1949 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Bailing Out
1949 · Narrator
Last of the Wild Horses
1948 · Riley Morgan
Walk a Crooked Mile
1948 · Narrator (voice)
Jungle Goddess
1948 · Radio Newscaster (uncredited)
The Return of Wildfire
1948 · Marty Quinn
The Iron Curtain
1948 · Narrator (voice)
The Man from Texas
1948 · Marshall Gregg
Panhandle
1948 · Matt Garson
Captain from Castile
1947 · Juan Escudero (uncredited)
The Fabulous Texan
1947 · Jessup
Boomerang!
1947 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Brasher Doubloon
1947 · Dr. Moss (uncredited)
13 Rue Madeleine
1947 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Razor's Edge
1946 · Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited)
If I'm Lucky
1946 · Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1946 · Mike Valentine
The Dark Corner
1946 · Frank Reeves
Shock
1946 · O'Neill
Doll Face
1945 · Flo Hartman
Leave Her to Heaven
1945 · Dr. Mason
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
1945 · Tactics Colonel
The Last Bomb
1945 · Narrator
The House on 92nd Street
1945 · Narrator (voice)
A Bell for Adano
1945 · Commander Robertson
The Caribbean Mystery
1945 · Dr. Rene Marcel
Circumstantial Evidence
1945 · Prosecutor
Rainbow Island
1944 · High Priest Kahuna
In the Meantime, Darling
1944 · Maj. Phillips
Wilson
1944 · White House Usher (uncredited)
Home in Indiana
1944 · Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited)
Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944 · FBI Agent Boyden
Four Jills in a Jeep
1944 · Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited)
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
1944 · First Dive-bomber Pilot
Happy Land
1943 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Guadalcanal Diary
1943 · War Correspondent/ Narrator
Wintertime
1943 · Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
1942 · Young Man (uncredited)
Lady in a Jam
1942 · Man at Auction (uncredited)
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942 · Naval Officer
Jail House Blues
1942 · Boston
Arizona Terrors
1942 · Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo
Road Agent
1941 · Henchman Shayne
Appointment for Love
1941 · Ferguson (uncredited)
Sea Raiders
1941 · Carl Tonjes
Whistling in the Dark
1941 · Beau Smith
I'll Wait for You
1941 · Tony Berolli
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (uncredited)
Sky Raiders
1941 · Caddens
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941 · Rahman Bar
Flight Command
1940 · Admiral's Aide (uncredited)
The Bank Dick
1940 · Francois
Meet the Wildcat
1940 · Basso--Henchman
Ski Patrol
1940 · Ivan Dubroski
I Take This Woman
1940 · Bob Hampton
Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939 · Don Diego Vega / Zorro
The Man from Montreal
1939 · Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins
Stronger Than Desire
1939 · Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited)
Bachelor Mother
1939 · Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited)
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939 · Tom Crandell
Sergeant Madden
1939 · Lawyer
Sunset Murder Case
1938 · Oliver Helton
Female Fugitive
1938 · Bruce Dunning
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
1938 · Ralph Mortimer
TV shows (14)
Hondo
1967
Green Acres
1965 · Pilot
Tightrope
1959 · Raymond Braddock
Rawhide
1959 · Clement
Bat Masterson
1958 · Raoul Cummings
The Texan
1958 · Wild Jack Tobin, Sheriff Ben Tildy
Sea Hunt
1958
Perry Mason
1957 · Medical Examiner
Wagon Train
1957 · Mort Galvin
Navy Log
1955
Public Defender
1954 · Bart Matthews
Cavalcade of America
1952
Racket Squad
1951
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941 · Rahman Bar