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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.
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Filmography
all 109
Movies 97
TV Shows 12
Voice 10
Narrator 9
self 1
Gun Camera Footage WWII (2020)
Dr. Teller's Very Large Bomb (2006)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (2002)
The Many Faces of Zorro (2000)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995)
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971)
Brain of Blood (1971)
The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago (1969)
Hondo (1967)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
Green Acres (1965)
Curse of the Fly (1965)
Young Dillinger (1965)
Moro Witch Doctor (1964)
All in a Night's Work (1961)
Tightrope (1959)
Rawhide (1959)
Bat Masterson (1958)
The Texan (1958)
Sea Hunt (1958)
Perry Mason (1957)
Mobs, Inc. (1956)
Lincoln Speaks for Himself (1955)
Navy Log (1955)
Big House, U.S.A (1955)
Public Defender (1954)
Highway Dragnet (1954)
Hazard House (1954)
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
Kansas Pacific (1953)
Cavalcade of America (1952)
The Half-Breed (1952)
Operation Ivy (1952)
Little Big Horn (1951)
Racket Squad (1951)
Insurance Investigator (1951)
Dallas (1950)
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
The Return of Jesse James (1950)
A Modern Marriage (1950)
Motor Patrol (1950)
The Baron of Arizona (1950)
Riders of the Range (1950)
Red Desert (1949)
Grand Canyon (1949)
Rimfire (1949)
I Shot Jesse James (1949)
He Walked by Night (1949)
Last of the Wild Horses (1948)
Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Jungle Goddess (1948)
The Return of Wildfire (1948)
The Man from Texas (1948)
Panhandle (1948)
Captain from Castile (1947)
The Fabulous Texan (1947)
Boomerang! (1947)
The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
If I'm Lucky (1946)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)
The Dark Corner (1946)
Shock (1946)
Doll Face (1945)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures (1945)
The Last Bomb (1945)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
The Fight for the Sky (1945)
A Bell for Adano (1945)
The Caribbean Mystery (1945)
Circumstantial Evidence (1945)
Rainbow Island (1944)
Wilson (1944)
Home in Indiana (1944)
Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense (1944)
Happy Land (1943)
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
Wintertime (1943)
I Married a Witch (1942)
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
Jail House Blues (1942)
Arizona Terrors (1942)
Road Agent (1941)
Appointment for Love (1941)
Sea Raiders (1941)
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
I'll Wait for You (1941)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Sky Raiders (1941)
Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
Flight Command (1940)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Meet the Wildcat (1940)
Ski Patrol (1940)
I Take This Woman (1940)
Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)
The Man from Montreal (1939)
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Stronger Than Desire (1939)
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
Sergeant Madden (1939)
Sunset Murder Case (1938)
Female Fugitive (1938)
Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938)
God is in the Streets
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1911-06-25
Deathday1974-12-11 (63 years old)
Birth NameReed Bert Herring
Birth PlacePetrolia, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsReed Herring
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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