Reed Hadley
Known for Acting · 112 credits
- Born
- 1911-06-25
- Died
- 1974-12-11
- Place of birth
- Petrolia, Clay County, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- Reed Herring
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.
Known For
TV Shows (13)
Perry Mason
1957
as Medical Examiner
Wagon Train
1957
as Mort Galvin
Green Acres
1965
as Pilot
Rawhide
1959
as Clement
Bat Masterson
1958
as Raoul Cummings
Sea Hunt
1958
Navy Log
1955
Racket Squad
1951
The Texan
1958
as Wild Jack Tobin / Sheriff Ben Tildy
Public Defender
1954
as Bart Matthews
Cavalcade of America
1952
Tightrope
1959
as Raymond Braddock
Hondo
1967
Movies (99)
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
as War Correspondent/ Narrator
Dallas
1950
as Wild Bill Hickok
Jungle Goddess
1948
as Radio Newscaster (uncredited)
Female Fugitive
1938
as Bruce Dunning
Young Dillinger
1965
as Federal Agent Parker
I Married a Witch
1942
He Walked by Night
1949
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Razor's Edge
1946
as Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited)
Little Big Horn
1951
as Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson
Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944
as FBI Agent Boyden
Road Agent
1941
as Henchman Shayne
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
as Hymie Weiss
Captain from Castile
1947
as Juan Escudero (uncredited)
A Bell for Adano
1945
as Cmdr. Robertson
All in a Night's Work
1961
as General Pettiford (uncredited)
Appointment for Love
1941
as Ferguson (uncredited)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1995
as Self (archive footage)
Jail House Blues
1942
as Boston
The Dark Corner
1946
as Frank Reeves
Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939
as Don Diego Vega / Zorro
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
1938
as Ralph Mortimer
I Shot Jesse James
1949
as Jesse James
The Half-Breed
1952
as Frank Crawford
Hazard House
1954
as Television Host
The Baron of Arizona
1950
as John Griff
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941
as Rahman Bar
Curse of the Fly
1965
as Ike
The Bank Dick
1940
as Francois
Flight Command
1940
as Admiral's Aide (uncredited)
Shock
1946
as O'Neill
The Man from Texas
1948
as Marshall Gregg
The House on 92nd Street
1945
as Narrator (voice)
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
as Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (uncredited)
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
1944
as First Dive-bomber Pilot
Rimfire
1949
as The Abilene Kid
Operation Ivy
1952
as Host / Narrator
13 Rue Madeleine
1947
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Last Bomb
1945
as Narrator
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
as Prosecutor
Whistling in the Dark
1941
as Beau Smith
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
as Dr. Mason
Highway Dragnet
1954
as Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle
The Upper Chamber
1963
The Killer That Stalked New York
1950
as Narrator (uncredited)
Big House, U.S.A
1955
as Special FBI Agent James Madden
I'll Wait for You
1941
as Tony Berolli
Kansas Pacific
1953
as Bill Quantrill
The Caribbean Mystery
1945
as Dr. Rene Marcel
Sergeant Madden
1939
as Lawyer
Doll Face
1945
as Flo Hartman
Last of the Wild Horses
1948
as Riley Morgan
Bailing Out
1949
as Narrator
The Brasher Doubloon
1947
as Dr. Moss (uncredited)
The Iron Curtain
1948
as Narrator (voice)
Walk a Crooked Mile
1948
as Narrator (voice)
Wilson
1944
as White House Usher (uncredited)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
as Jesse James (archive footage)
Sunset Murder Case
1938
as Oliver Helton
Panhandle
1948
as Matt Garson
The Many Faces of Zorro
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Bachelor Mother
1939
as Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited)
Four Jills in a Jeep
1944
as Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited)
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
1971
as Narrator
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939
as Tom Crandell
The Return of Wildfire
1948
as Marty Quinn
The Return of Jesse James
1950
as Frank James
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1946
as Mike Valentine
Rainbow Island
1944
as High Priest Kahuna
Grand Canyon
1949
as Mitch Bennett
In the Meantime, Darling
1944
as Maj. Phillips
Happy Land
1943
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Red Desert
1949
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Return of the Dead
1954
as Bart Matthews
Insurance Investigator
1951
as Chuck Malone
If I'm Lucky
1946
as Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager
Sky Raiders
1941
as Caddens
Lady in a Jam
1942
as Man at Auction (uncredited)
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942
as Naval Officer
A Modern Marriage
1950
as Dr. Donald Andrews
Motor Patrol
1950
as Detective Robert Flynn
I Take This Woman
1940
as Bob Hampton
The Fabulous Texan
1947
as Jessup
Riders of the Range
1950
as Clint Burrows
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953
as Bitterroot Bill Maris
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
1945
as Tactics Colonel
Ski Patrol
1940
as Ivan Dubroski
Wintertime
1943
as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Boomerang!
1947
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Home in Indiana
1944
as Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited)
Sea Raiders
1941
as Carl Tonjes
The Man from Montreal
1939
as Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins
Brain of Blood
1971
as Amir
Mobs, Inc.
1956
as Capt. John Braddock
The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
1969
as Narrator (voice)
Meet the Wildcat
1940
as Basso--Henchman
Stronger Than Desire
1939
as Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited)
Arizona Terrors
1942
as Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo
Moro Witch Doctor
1964
as Robert Collins
Lincoln Speaks for Himself
1955
as Abraham Lincoln
About Reed Hadley
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… With 112 credits spanning from 1938 to 2002, Reed Hadley has appeared in 99 films and 13 TV shows.
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- Guadalcanal Diary (1943) — as War Correspondent/ Narrator
- Dallas (1950) — as Wild Bill Hickok
- Jungle Goddess (1948) — as Radio Newscaster (uncredited)
- Female Fugitive (1938) — as Bruce Dunning
- Young Dillinger (1965) — as Federal Agent Parker
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