Reed Hadley

Reed Hadley

Birthday: 1911-06-25

Deathday: 1974-12-11

Place of birth: Petrolia, Clay County, Texas, USA

Also known as: Reed Herring

imdb_id: nm0352914

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.​

Played in movies:

Leave Her to Heaven

Score: 7.4

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

Score: 7.2

Bachelor Mother

Score: 7.1

Captain from Castile

Score: 7.1

Boomerang!

Score: 7.0

The Razor's Edge

Score: 6.9

I Married a Witch

Score: 6.8

I'll Wait for You

Score: 6.8

The Baron of Arizona

Score: 6.7

The Dark Corner

Score: 6.6

He Walked by Night

Score: 6.6

Dallas

Score: 6.5

Ziegfeld Girl

Score: 6.5

If I'm Lucky

Score: 6.5

Young Dillinger

Score: 6.5

Big House, U.S.A

Score: 6.5

The House on 92nd Street

Score: 6.5

The Bank Dick

Score: 6.5

Woman They Almost Lynched

Score: 6.3

Adventures of Captain Marvel

Score: 6.3

Sky Raiders

Score: 6.3

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Score: 6.3

I Shot Jesse James

Score: 6.2

Happy Land

Score: 6.2

Little Big Horn

Score: 6.2

I Take This Woman

Score: 6.2

Calling Dr. Kildare

Score: 6.1

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story

Score: 6.1

The Killer That Stalked New York

Score: 6.1

Walk a Crooked Mile

Score: 6.0

The Brasher Doubloon

Score: 6.0

Sergeant Madden

Score: 6.0

Sea Raiders

Score: 6.0

Rainbow Island

Score: 6.0

Riders of the Range

Score: 6.0

Roger Touhy, Gangster

Score: 6.0

The Man from Texas

Score: 6.0

13 Rue Madeleine

Score: 6.0

Motor Patrol

Score: 6.0

Shock

Score: 6.0

All in a Night's Work

Score: 5.9

The Last Bomb

Score: 5.8

Stronger Than Desire

Score: 5.8

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Score: 5.8

Whistling in the Dark

Score: 5.8

Highway Dragnet

Score: 5.8

Appointment for Love

Score: 5.7

A Bell for Adano

Score: 5.7

Hollywood Stadium Mystery

Score: 5.7

Panhandle

Score: 5.7

Four Jills in a Jeep

Score: 5.7

Flight Command

Score: 5.6

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

Score: 5.6

Guadalcanal Diary

Score: 5.6

Home in Indiana

Score: 5.6

Lady in a Jam

Score: 5.5

The Mystery of Marie Roget

Score: 5.5

Wilson

Score: 5.5

Curse of the Fly

Score: 5.4

Zorro's Fighting Legion

Score: 5.2

In the Meantime, Darling

Score: 5.0

The Half-Breed

Score: 5.0

The Return of Jesse James

Score: 5.0

The Caribbean Mystery

Score: 5.0

Insurance Investigator

Score: 5.0

Kansas Pacific

Score: 4.8

Circumstantial Evidence

Score: 4.8

Rimfire

Score: 4.5

Doll Face

Score: 4.2

Mobs, Inc.

Score: 4.0

Moro Witch Doctor

Score: 4.0

The Fabulous Texan

Score: 4.0

The Man from Montreal

Score: 3.8

Ski Patrol

Score: 3.7

Wintertime

Score: 3.5

Operation Ivy

Score: 3.5

Sunset Murder Case

Score: 3.5

The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago

Score: 3.0

Brain of Blood

Score: 2.7

Jungle Goddess

Score: 2.6

Last of the Wild Horses

Score: 2.6

Return of the Dead

Score: 0.0

Road Agent

Score: 0.0

Grand Canyon

Score: 0.0

A Modern Marriage

Score: 0.0

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures

Score: 0.0

Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense

Score: 0.0

Meet the Wildcat

Score: 0.0

Bailing Out

Score: 0.0

The Return of Wildfire

Score: 0.0

Red Desert

Score: 0.0

Arizona Terrors

Score: 0.0

Hazard House

Score: 0.0

Lincoln Speaks for Himself

Score: 0.0

Female Fugitive

Score: 0.0

Jail House Blues

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Sea Hunt

Score: 6.6

Hondo

Score: 6.5

Wagon Train

Score: 6.3

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

Public Defender

Score: 6.0

Racket Squad

Score: 6.0

Tightrope

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

Navy Log

Score: 4.5

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5