Cast
Reed Hadley
Acting
Cast
Reed Hadley
Known for
Acting
Born
1911-06-25
From
Petrolia, Clay County, Texas, USA
Died
1974-12-11
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. 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.
★5.6
MOVIE1943
Guadalcanal Diary
as War Correspondent/ Narrator
★6.4
MOVIE1950
Dallas
as Wild Bill Hickok
★2.9
MOVIE1948
Jungle Goddess
as Radio Newscaster (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Female Fugitive
as Bruce Dunning
★7.3
MOVIE1965
Young Dillinger
as Federal Agent Parker
★6.9
MOVIE1942
I Married a Witch
★6.7
MOVIE1949
He Walked by Night
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1946
The Razor's Edge
as Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1951
Little Big Horn
as Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson
★7.0
MOVIE1944
Roger Touhy, Gangster
as FBI Agent Boyden
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Road Agent
as Henchman Shayne
★6.3
MOVIE1967
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Hymie Weiss
★7.2
MOVIE1947
Captain from Castile
as Juan Escudero (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1945
A Bell for Adano
as Cmdr. Robertson
★6.0
MOVIE1961
All in a Night's Work
as General Pettiford (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1941
Appointment for Love
as Ferguson (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1995
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
as Self (archive footage)
★9.0
MOVIE1942
Jail House Blues
as Boston
★6.6
MOVIE1946
The Dark Corner
as Frank Reeves
★5.4
MOVIE1939
Zorro's Fighting Legion
as Don Diego Vega / Zorro
★6.3
MOVIE1938
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
as Ralph Mortimer
★6.2
MOVIE1949
I Shot Jesse James
as Jesse James
★7.0
MOVIE1952
The Half-Breed
as Frank Crawford
MOVIE1954
Hazard House
as Television Host
★6.7
MOVIE1950
The Baron of Arizona
as John Griff
★6.4
MOVIE1941
Adventures of Captain Marvel
as Rahman Bar
★5.4
MOVIE1965
Curse of the Fly
as Ike
★6.5
MOVIE1940
The Bank Dick
as Francois
★5.9
MOVIE1940
Flight Command
as Admiral's Aide (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1946
Shock
as O'Neill
★8.0
MOVIE1948
The Man from Texas
as Marshall Gregg
★6.6
MOVIE1945
The House on 92nd Street
as Narrator (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1941
Ziegfeld Girl
as Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (uncredited)
MOVIE1944
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
as First Dive-bomber Pilot
★5.3
MOVIE1949
Rimfire
as The Abilene Kid
★3.5
MOVIE1952
Operation Ivy
as Host / Narrator
★6.1
MOVIE1947
13 Rue Madeleine
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1945
The Last Bomb
as Narrator
★5.2
MOVIE1945
Circumstantial Evidence
as Prosecutor
★5.9
MOVIE1941
Whistling in the Dark
as Beau Smith
★7.4
MOVIE1945
Leave Her to Heaven
as Dr. Mason
★5.7
MOVIE1954
Highway Dragnet
as Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle
MOVIE1963
The Upper Chamber
★6.2
MOVIE1950
The Killer That Stalked New York
as Narrator (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1955
Big House, U.S.A
as Special FBI Agent James Madden
★6.8
MOVIE1941
I'll Wait for You
as Tony Berolli
★5.0
MOVIE1953
Kansas Pacific
as Bill Quantrill
★6.7
MOVIE1945
The Caribbean Mystery
as Dr. Rene Marcel
★7.5
MOVIE1939
Sergeant Madden
as Lawyer
★4.6
MOVIE1945
Doll Face
as Flo Hartman
★3.3
MOVIE1948
Last of the Wild Horses
as Riley Morgan
MOVIE1949
Bailing Out
as Narrator
★6.0
MOVIE1947
The Brasher Doubloon
as Dr. Moss (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1948
The Iron Curtain
as Narrator (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE1948
Walk a Crooked Mile
as Narrator (voice)
★5.6
MOVIE1944
Wilson
as White House Usher (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE2002
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Jesse James (archive footage)
★3.7
MOVIE1938
Sunset Murder Case
as Oliver Helton
★5.8
MOVIE1948
Panhandle
as Matt Garson
★4.4
MOVIE2000
The Many Faces of Zorro
as Self (archive footage)
★7.2
MOVIE1939
Bachelor Mother
as Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1944
Four Jills in a Jeep
as Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1971
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
as Narrator
★6.6
MOVIE1939
Calling Dr. Kildare
as Tom Crandell
★8.0
MOVIE1948
The Return of Wildfire
as Marty Quinn
★6.0
MOVIE1950
The Return of Jesse James
as Frank James
★5.8
MOVIE1946
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Mike Valentine
★7.5
MOVIE1944
Rainbow Island
as High Priest Kahuna
★10.0
MOVIE1949
Grand Canyon
as Mitch Bennett
★6.8
MOVIE1944
In the Meantime, Darling
as Maj. Phillips
★7.1
MOVIE1943
Happy Land
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1949
Red Desert
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1954
Return of the Dead
as Bart Matthews
★5.7
MOVIE1951
Insurance Investigator
as Chuck Malone
★6.7
MOVIE1946
If I'm Lucky
as Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager
★7.3
MOVIE1941
Sky Raiders
as Caddens
★5.6
MOVIE1942
Lady in a Jam
as Man at Auction (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1942
The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Naval Officer
★7.0
MOVIE1950
A Modern Marriage
as Dr. Donald Andrews
★7.0
MOVIE1950
Motor Patrol
as Detective Robert Flynn
★5.8
MOVIE1940
I Take This Woman
as Bob Hampton
★6.5
MOVIE1947
The Fabulous Texan
as Jessup
★6.3
MOVIE1950
Riders of the Range
as Clint Burrows
★6.6
MOVIE1953
Woman They Almost Lynched
as Bitterroot Bill Maris
MOVIE1945
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
as Tactics Colonel
★4.6
MOVIE1940
Ski Patrol
as Ivan Dubroski
★5.3
MOVIE1943
Wintertime
as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1947
Boomerang!
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1944
Home in Indiana
as Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Sea Raiders
as Carl Tonjes
★4.9
MOVIE1939
The Man from Montreal
as Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins
★2.9
MOVIE1971
Brain of Blood
as Amir
★7.0
MOVIE1956
Mobs, Inc.
as Capt. John Braddock
★4.2
MOVIE1969
The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
as Narrator (voice)
★9.0
MOVIE1940
Meet the Wildcat
as Basso--Henchman
★5.5
MOVIE1939
Stronger Than Desire
as Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Arizona Terrors
as Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo
★6.5
MOVIE1964
Moro Witch Doctor
as Robert Collins
MOVIE1955
Lincoln Speaks for Himself
as Abraham Lincoln