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