Acting · Petrolia, Clay County, Texas, USA · Born June 25, 1911
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.
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2002
as Jesse James (archive footage)
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2000
as Self (archive footage)
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1995
as Self (archive footage)
MovieMen of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
1971
as Narrator
MovieBrain of Blood
1971
as Amir
MovieThe Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
1969
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1967
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1967
as Hymie Weiss
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1965
as Pilot
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1965
as Ike
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1965
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1964
as Robert Collins
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1963
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1961
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1959
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1959
as Clement
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1958
as Raoul Cummings
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1958
as Wild Jack Tobin
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1958
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1957
as Medical Examiner
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1957
as Mort Galvin
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1956
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1955
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1955
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1955
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1954
as Bart Matthews
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1953
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1951
as Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson
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1951
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1951
as Chuck Malone
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1950
as Wild Bill Hickok
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1950
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as Dr. Donald Andrews
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1950
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1950
as John Griff
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1950
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1949
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1949
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1949
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1949
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1949
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1949
as Narrator
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1948
as Riley Morgan
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1948
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1948
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as Marty Quinn
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1948
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as Marshall Gregg
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1948
as Matt Garson
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1947
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1947
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1947
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1946
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1946
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1946
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1945
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1945
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1945
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1945
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1945
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1945
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1944
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1944
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1944
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1944
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1944
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1944
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1944
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1943
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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1943
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1943
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1942
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1942
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1942
as Naval Officer
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1942
as Boston
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1942
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1941
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1941
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1941
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1941
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1939
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